A Box of LU
Last night we ended our meal with a couple of LU cookies. They are brand of cookies made in France which my family has always indulged in. These were nice biscuits covered with a thick coating of dark chocolate. Yum. Cost....about $4 for twelve cookies or 33 cents per.
On the side of the box are printed the production and best before dates - 4 September 2008 and 30 September 2009 respectively. So my mind wandered to a scene that would be unlikely to occur at a bakery.
Imagine a sign at the bakery:
Fresh cookies - $1.25 per
Day-olds - $0.70 per
Six-month-olds - $0.33 per
Which would you buy?
At our local bakery we wouldn't dare by, nor ever expect to see, six-month-old cookies for sale. Yet, we walk into a grocery store and we all do, regularly, purchase some.
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