An ice-cream conundrum. This weekend the MSG and I were in Oxford and wanted an ice-cream, so we popped into Sainsbury. Sadly it was only selling ice-creams in the freezer section, not individually. So here’s the dilemma: we wanted a Magnum each and buying a supermarket box of three would be cheaper than finding an ice-cream seller to get one each. Yet as we were miles from home, we’d need to throw away the other Magnum, wasting the food and the packaging – which doesn’t really seem right. What d’ya do?
Should I buy three Magnums and throw one away?
16 April 2007
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