Up Datation

I have found an amazing piece of information that really needs to be shared with anyone and everyone that cares to read this blog. So, for those lucky three of you, here we go.

I was at work checking out my region of the store. As anyone that has read any of my previous posts would know, I work in a grocery store's salad bar. The work doesn't only consist of making salads though, we also make little containers of disturbingly overpriced foods. We make containers of watermelon, strawberries, 6-Mix (pineapple, honeydew, cantaloupe, watermelon, strawberries, and grapes), pineapple, honeydew, cantaloupe, and watermelon. Then there are the less unhealthy things. Such as, taco haystack dip (amazing), vegetable pizzas (not amazing), fruit pizzas (fantastic), ranch wheels (who knows), and fruit and vegetable trays. These all cost about five times what it costs us to make them. The strawberries are priced at $4.49 / lb. Seriously. You can get a container of strawberries for like three bucks and it'll weigh two pounds. To make matters even more ridiculous, we sell brownies with whipped cream and sprinkles on top. One dollar. For a tiny little brownie with whipped cream smashed to the top from the plastic wrap. Disturbing!

I checked to make sure our juice bar (as the place where we put all the aforementioned goods is called) was well stocked and while facing it (making everything look good and full) I noticed some super juice drinks that were, of course, overpriced. Three dollars a bottle can get you a bottle filled with acai, vanilla bean, pineapple, coconut, and all sorts of other apparently really good-for-you things. The best one by far was... drum roll please... purple carrot! Purple carrot! I repeat. Purple carrot! Remember that post I just wrote about purple carrots? Well one week after that I found this amazing bottle! Pretty soon I'll buy it and then I'll write up a post exclusively about the amazing tasting purple carrot juice drink. Try not to die from over excitement.

P.S. That plastic wrap machine I mentioned is pretty fantastic though. Its like a massive double wide roll of it hanging on this little bar. It has a little table that you put the to-be-wrapped goods on in preparation for their big moment. The wrap slides out from underneath the table ready to go. Once you have liberally smothered whatever is being wrapped you need to detach your wrap from the roll, right? Well how do you do that if there is no sharp little blade thing to cut it for you? You melt it! Yep. That's how we do it. There is a 200 degree metal bar and you just stick the wrap and there and kapow! It melts cleanly off and you are left with a neat little package that has more wrap on it now than it did when it was sold to you. Wonderful!