Silly picture of the Week: Big Croissants
by Jim on Mar.07, 2008, under Pictures, Random, university
Remember this blog does have a lighter side!
This is what the Spar on the University of Birmingham’s campus think a ‘large croissant’ is, and would like to charge us poor students 45p ($1) for:
Maybe for an insect that’s a large croissant… another example of rip-off Britain, or just rip-off campus. Everywhere on campus is really expensive; for example, a cruddy (pretty much stale) sandwich costs around £2 ($4) when you could go to subway for just £3 (or £1.99 for the sub of the day.) Sometimes I wonder why my credit card isn’t maxed out yet.
For reference, the milk carton next to the croissants is a 500ml carton (just under a pint,) for you Americans it’s just a tiny bit bigger than your ordinary can of Pepsi.
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March 7th, 2008 on 6:38 pm
Are they even any good? My experience suggests all unis rip students off because some of them have never done the shopping themselves and don’t know how much things are meant to cost…
March 11th, 2008 on 12:33 am
At that price I ain’t touching them, especially when Tesco do a nice big Croissant for less…
March 12th, 2008 on 5:01 pm
One pint of milk is TINY! If that is scale… then those croissants must be even smaller… I would guess about 3 bites? There is no way that would be considered a large!
March 12th, 2008 on 7:59 pm
Seriously that is to scale! All I did to the photograph was resize the image to a suitable size.