A Christmas Story
My mother set out some small candy dishes on Christmas Eve, containing those red and green M&Ms they sell this time of year. I took a couple of them and they tasted sort of chalky. I told my mother about this, and she said, “Well, maybe it’s because they were in the freezer.”
“In the freezer?” I said. “Why did you put them in the freezer? They have a candy shell, after all.”
“Well, they’re from two years ago,” she said, with a straight face.
So my mother had purchased this $3 bag of holiday M&Ms in 1999 (!) and stretched them out for the following three (!) Christmases. She probably spent more on electricity to keep them frozen than she would have if she had bought a fresh bag. Live and learn.
::laugh:: Sounds like something my grandma would do.
I love refrigerated M&Ms, but they’ve gotta be fresh.
Actually, she spent very little on electricity to keep them frozen, assuming that she keeps other things in the freezer all the time(like meat, ice cream and such delights). Then the cost of keeping them in the freezer would only be measurable by opportunity cost: the space they occupied in the freezer could have been used for something else, after all. But that cost must be close to zero, given tha size of a bag of M&Ms and the size of your average freezer. 🙂