Friday, March 18, 2011
SALAD BAR ADVICE EVEN RON SWANSON WOULD LOVE: Having already figured out who's getting elected, in what neighborhood of New York you should live, and whether, statistically, trading for Carmelo was the right call for the Knicks, Nate Silver finally turns his attention to a real issue--how can I maximize the value I'm getting out of a pay-per-pound salad bar?
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Screw advanced electorate polling, Silver needs to find a way to revolutionize the Chinese Buffet. It's always seemed to me that the "go in and eat only king crab legs" strategy can't be as effective as it looks.
ReplyDeleteSo what would happen if you went up to the register with nothing in your container but a pound of walnuts (assuming the containers are clear so the cashier can see what you've got)? They sell for $9.32/pound on the shelf but you'd be getting them for $7.99. Would they refuse to sell it to you? On one hand, no reasonable definition of "salad" would include a pound of walnuts and nothing else. On the other, I assume there are no rules posted on the salad bar regarding how much of any particular item one may take, or whether each "salad" must include a minimum number of items. After all, if you went up there with nothing but a pound of carrots, they wouldn't say a word, right? I'm of the opinion that they'd have to sell it to you, but if enough people started doing it, they would change the rules somehow.
ReplyDeletewell, at Whole Foods the containers aren't clear, so just get them there. :)
ReplyDeleteI should note that had I watched Parks & Rec before making the post, the headline would have been "SOME PEOPLE DON'T EVEN CONSIDER SALAD FOOD:"
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