[andyt]

Minimum wage, we don't need no minimum wage. Just pay people with the cheapest meal and a cardboard box every day and it's all good:

$1:

Times are tough in Canada, but is the economy bad enough to eat a toast sandwich?
Scientists from the Royal Society of Chemistry in the U.K. are calling the sandwich (which costs the equivalent of 12 cents Canadian), the cheapest meal.
It is a slice of toast between two pieces of buttered bread with salt and pepper. Although according to the Guardian, it can also be one untoasted piece between two toasted pieces.
"I've tried it and it's surprisingly nice to eat and quite filling," says Dr. John Emsley of the RSC in a statement. "I would emphasize that toast sandwiches are also good at saving you calories as well as money, provided you only have one toast sandwich for lunch and nothing else."
According to the RSC this sandwich has 330 calories, 9.5g of protein, 12g of fat, 55g of carbohydrate and contains vitamins A, B1, B3, B3 and D. To cut calories even more, people can opt for margarine instead of butter.
The meal may sound strange, but it has appeared in British culture before. It first showed up in the best-selling book, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, 150 years ago.
The scientists chose this meal because they want to help the country through the harder times, which they say are to come.
"Given the stern days we are yet to experience, we decided to go for an unknown dish that requires little money and little time," Emsley says in a statement.
Melissa Little of the British Dietetic Association tells the BBC, for not much extra money people can add an egg, sardines or vegetables to the sandwich.
If anyone knows of a cheaper meal, the RSC is offering $320 (200 pounds) to anyone who can come up with a meal for less.

Reminds me of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and his tea and two slices and the effects of it on his body.

[Regina]

They didn`t need to do a study. They could have just asked a couple school teachers.
That`s how copper wire was invented..................two teachers fighting over a penny.

[andyt]

Regina Regina:

They didn`t need to do a study. They could have just asked a couple school teachers.
That`s how copper wire was invented..................two teachers fighting over a penny.

I don't get it. Never heard teachers being associated with cheapness before.

[Regina]

andyt andyt:

Regina Regina:

They didn`t need to do a study. They could have just asked a couple school teachers.
That`s how copper wire was invented..................two teachers fighting over a penny.

I don't get it. Never heard teachers being associated with cheapness before.

Visit Ontario............

[Wada]

They got their Canadian costs wrong. $3.19 for a 15 slice loaf of bread = $ .21 a slice for a total of $ .63 + the price of fat`.

[Public_Domain]

[BartSimpson]

It's not as cheap as the meals the Japanese served to their Allied 'guests' during World War Two.

[Tricks]

Regina Regina:

Visit Ontario............

BAHAHAHAHA

Also, apparently these "researchers" have never heard of oats. 2.25 kg bag for like 3.50. 40g per serving. Add in a little brown sugar, or maple syrup, or even cinnamon and you might be talking about 10 cents a serving. And it's better for you.

Noobs.

[Bruce_E_T]

Tricks Tricks:

Also, apparently these "researchers" have never heard of oats. 2.25 kg bag for like 3.50. 40g per serving. Add in a little brown sugar, or maple syrup, or even cinnamon and you might be talking about 10 cents a serving. And it's better for you.

Noobs.

You are right on that one. More of everything and probably tastier as well.

Problem is you would have to cook it.

[Tricks]

Bruce_E_T Bruce_E_T:

Tricks Tricks:

Also, apparently these "researchers" have never heard of oats. 2.25 kg bag for like 3.50. 40g per serving. Add in a little brown sugar, or maple syrup, or even cinnamon and you might be talking about 10 cents a serving. And it's better for you.

Noobs.

You are right on that one. More of everything and probably tastier as well.

Problem is you would have to cook it.

Get some steel cut, throw it in a crock pot with maple syrup, cinnamon, and an chopped apple. Make a weeks worth and you just gotta heat it up. Don't even have to be there while it cooks.

[Lemmy]

Regina Regina:

andyt andyt:

I don't get it. Never heard teachers being associated with cheapness before.

Visit Ontario............

An insurance/RRSP salesman I know asked me a couple of years back if I'd help him make some contacts in education. He had ideas of designing a teacher-specific investment/life insurance plan to peddle around to teachers. I just said "Good luck with that", and as soon as he walked out the door I was .

[Freakinoldguy]

Why is it that when I read the headline the first thing that popped into my mind was the image of a big clown in a red and yellow jumpsuit with Lucille Ball red hair and biiiiiig red nose, trying to pick up kids?

[DrCaleb]

Tricks Tricks:

Bruce_E_T Bruce_E_T:

Tricks Tricks:

Also, apparently these "researchers" have never heard of oats. 2.25 kg bag for like 3.50. 40g per serving. Add in a little brown sugar, or maple syrup, or even cinnamon and you might be talking about 10 cents a serving. And it's better for you.

Noobs.

You are right on that one. More of everything and probably tastier as well.

Problem is you would have to cook it.

Get some steel cut, throw it in a crock pot with maple syrup, cinnamon, and an chopped apple. Make a weeks worth and you just gotta heat it up. Don't even have to be there while it cooks.

Fk me that sounds good! I have instant oatmeal (maple and brown sugar) every morning. But I have fresh cinnamon, and some #3 dark maple syryp I use for curing meat. And probabally some steel cut oats too . . .

[Tricks]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Fk me that sounds good! I have instant oatmeal (maple and brown sugar) every morning. But I have fresh cinnamon, and some #3 dark maple syryp I use for curing meat. And probabally some steel cut oats too . . .

Hahahaha, it's amazing.

[Bruce_E_T]

Tricks Tricks:

Get some steel cut, throw it in a crock pot with maple syrup, cinnamon, and an chopped apple. Make a weeks worth and you just gotta heat it up. Don't even have to be there while it cooks.

Some like it hot
Some like it cold
Some like it in the pot
Nine days old

Old rhyme.