Impossible Comparisons

by Little Miss Attila on May 21, 2010

The chicken I roasted tonight was of the sort that makes cost-comparison very difficult, because the brand makes a point of not adding any water to the package. This means that the per-pound cost is high, but the value is still good—and yet it’s very, very difficult to gauge whether the price is fair.

It’s like trying to calculate toilet paper costs when they are different ply-levels. But worse, of course, since I suppose one could crunch the numbers on toilet paper. I suppose it’s more equivalent to the liquid laundry detergent vs. dry problem, when one isn’t really sure how many loads of laundry each type makes.

But you know how my brain gets: “numerical data? Again?”

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jerry whittemore May 22, 2010 at 1:02 pm

always interview staffmembers before hire

when interviewing our man Edward I asked:

how do you use toilet paper?

haow bag a gob?

how do you actually use liquid/powder detergent/
(always use your gram scale to measure toilet paper rolls)

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