Friday, April 15, 2011

A Moral Dilemma


Once upon a time I did a stupid thing. 

I am hungry, you see, and lunch is still a ways off.  A good amount of milk will usually keep me full for another couple of hours so I hit up the vending machine at work.  The only milk in stock is "Cookies 'n Cream."  Sounds good, right?  Chocolate creamy milk?  I figured it couldn't be that bad so I forked over thirteen dimes only to discover that my pint of protein came with FIVE HUNDRED CALORIES!!!!!  Can you even believe that?  A five hundred calorie bottle of milk?!?!  That should be illegal.

So now I am faced with a real problem.

On one hand, I am too cheap to waste thirteen dimes and toss the pint of caloric tragedy. I mean, this is $1.30 we're talking about here!!  $1.30 can go a long way in my book.  And, as you may know, I am pretty cheap.

But also, I am too afraid (and disgusted) to ingest 500 calories of whole milk fat and sugar.  Like there must be some kind of terrible cosmic repercussions for such a careless act.

But it does have 14 grams of protein...  is there even possibly an upside to all this?

To drink the chocolate milk, or not to drink the chocolate milk.
This is a serious problem.

6 comments:

Suzi Q said...

Just drink it. This is a good time in your life to have an excuse to drink things like this...

vickyj said...

The protein will balance it out. Drink and Enjoy!

Rich and Brianne said...

Oh that milk is good. I promise. You will like it. And I justified drinking it only once every six months. So just this once will probably be okay ;)

It Started With a Wink said...

I say enjoy it! Pretend you never read the ingredients and next time only purchase it when you need 500 calories of milk fat and sugar!

Kourtney said...

For the record, I drank it over the course of three days :) I figured that was a good compromise!

Ben & Traci said...

Oh that stuff is so good! When I ws pregnant I would get off of trax a stop early to "walk" the rest of the way to work, but in all honesty I got off a stop early so I could stop at Rite Aid to buy the cookies and cream milk. Not only would I drink it in one day, I'm pretty sure i drank it in one hour AND I would sometimes have one daily. I was so bummed when they stopped carrying it. Please, drink one for me