A Pic-i-nic Basket, BooBoo?

Friends, let me posit this: If one were, say, mired in a deadline and had not, you know, planned ahead, then one might feel compelled to eat an apple danish out of the vending machine.

I recommend against it.

This is a poor substitute for supper. In fact, it's a poor substitute for food. My deadline-addled mind saw the word "apple" and thought that there might be fruit in such an offering.

Not so much.

As for the preservatives, best not to think about it. Had I been in my right mind and not suffering from dementia brought on by low blood sugar, I could've done the responsible thing. 

Like use the danish to prop up our listing bookshelves.

Friends, plan ahead! Don't let this happen to you. [Now back to our regularly scheduled deadline programming.]

Comments

[David]

Eating complex carbs, long carbon chains, prolongs glucose levels. Whole wheat and oatmeal come to mind.

[Pacian]

"Plan ahead."

This is an oxymoron, correct? Like Microsoft Works and military intelligence?

I always do my planning after the fact, usually in the form: What I should have done was...

[Congogirl]

Good point. I have never had much luck with vending machines myself. Although I also haven't had much luck with planning ahead when it comes to food...

[MH]

On a prepackaged apple pie, I once read in the ingredients list: "May contain beef." My question, Shouldn't you know if there is beef in my apple pie? I mean, I can see no reason for beef to be there. But if it is, you should no for sure.

Uggh.

[ae]

David, oooh, oatmeal would have been perfect just then. I like mine w/ raisins. When my office moves into our new home, we'll have a proper kitchen, and this sort of foraging for terrible holdovers will be a thing of the past!

Pacian, yes! Who the heck plans ahead? Certainly, we Murkans take a page out of our "leaders'" book on this one. They obviously have never planned ahead (for positive goals) in their lives. Planning to steal an election; now, that's another story altogether.

MH, reminds of the story of the vegetarians who sued McDonald's because McD's falsely claimed that their fries were vegetarian! Turns out, not so much. (Maybe they should've tested McD's apple pies, too!)