Imagine this: getting back home and you wonder what shall I have for dinner tonight? Actually, I can't be bothered to cook, I'll get a ready meal. When you reach the checkout the cashier thoughtfully informs you 'this product is on buy one get one free' (supermarkets always seem to have an endless supply of slightly overpriced taste the finest microwaveable lasagne) and you see no reason to turn down a half price dinner, and take up the offer.
Now you're settled down on the couch, in front of your TV with a plastic tray of barely-beef bolognese, interspersed in sheets of pasta and now you're thinking when I was a student this was a real luxury compared to baked beans. Therefore the other pack is then left in the fridge, after you decide that it's best to cook dinner in future.
Ready meals only make sense if you're a student, and BOGOF deals makes them even more pointless because everyone loses out. You still end up paying the full price for your serves-not-quite-one ready meal, you end up throwing out the other when it's gone mouldy, in the fridge and the supermarket is halving its profit...oh and also you'll probably end up getting one cancer, or a heart attack from it. And by the next week you've forgotten how bad it is, and go out an buy another two ready meals.
Now you're settled down on the couch, in front of your TV with a plastic tray of barely-beef bolognese, interspersed in sheets of pasta and now you're thinking when I was a student this was a real luxury compared to baked beans. Therefore the other pack is then left in the fridge, after you decide that it's best to cook dinner in future.
Ready meals only make sense if you're a student, and BOGOF deals makes them even more pointless because everyone loses out. You still end up paying the full price for your serves-not-quite-one ready meal, you end up throwing out the other when it's gone mouldy, in the fridge and the supermarket is halving its profit...oh and also you'll probably end up getting one cancer, or a heart attack from it. And by the next week you've forgotten how bad it is, and go out an buy another two ready meals.
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