onight we will begin our Economics discussion with the Law of Diminishing Returns. This pithy little Law was indubitably written by a woman doing a deep dive into her chest freezer.
To explain this solid piece of Economic thinking, it is important to conjure up your image of a freezer. That top layer is the most recent voyage to Costco and is immediately recognizable - not what you are looking for, of course, but visible to the naked eye and not in the least threatening. It will be used forthwith because it is A) visible B) current C) visible D) seasonal E) visible - you get my drift. However, it does not include the cranberries necessary to Our Ken's enjoyment of life, and in particular any poultry dish at any time in any venue, so layer one must be peeled away.
This takes us to layer two - still identifiable, this layer is less critical to weekly sustenance and includes the odd item that may not be critical to monthly gastronomy - think puffed pastry, for example. Still no cranberries.
We are now well into the diminishing returns stage and also well into the freezer and it is at this stage that things become unhinged. Attacks begin to occur from all sides - those benign looking hot dogs fly at the side of your head, missing the left eye by a cm. and landing in layer four or five - to remain languishing for the foreseeable future - take that, weiners! Not to be outdone, that precariously teetering bag of fiddleheads zips past your nose coming to rest on a wizened bag of cooked squash from the prehistoric era. By this time, the cave in is well underway and had my neck not been properly attached to a spine that had been through this previously and knew enough to retreat with alacrity, there is little doubt layer five would have claimed a victim! As it was, the cranberries that are lurking in some corner yet to be excavated are safe for another day and the law of diminishing returns has once again proven itself.
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