i am not simon metz. i am not moe berg. however, i am probably tired as you read this.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Moe Berg's Low Self-Esteem Breakfast Tips #1 - The First In A Series

let's face facts.

1) the economy is bad

2) you love bacon

"so?" you ask with great interest, "what does the fact that the economic ground is cracking beneath my old, shredded, wonderbread bag shoes have to do with the fact that i'm down with the pig?"

"listen up, shithead," i say with off-putting contempt, "i'm getting to that. and try to take a shower once in a while. you should be ashamed of yourself."


what if i told you that you could have a satisfying, delicious, stomach-warming, artery-packing Bacon Breakfast for mere pennies? and you would only have to deal with one or two hippies at the most?

you'd tell me that you were breaking out your finest bib.

here's how it works.

1) go to whole foods before 9 am or so


yeah, i know, i know.

"moe, i can't go to whole foods! that place is very expensive! the hand picked organic peruvian albino avocados are, like, four bucks each! and don't get me started on the luxuriousness of having both an olive and a cheese bar! plus, i drank all that cough syrup. i'll never get up before noon!"

are you done?

seriously. are you done? are you finished yet? do you want bacon or do you want to complain?

ahem.

where were we?

1) go to whole foods before 9 am or so


2) enter the establishment

3) walk towards the serve yourself hot food bar

4) try not to get caught staring at the hot moms and fresh-faced co-ed cashiers

(step 4 is applicable only to men and lesbians.)

5) find the little cardboard boxes

6) find the bacon

7) put 7 or 8 strips of bacon in the box. this should be more than enough to satisfy even the most pork grease-addicted lardass


8) look for the most alluring cashier

9) have this cashier weigh the box and ring you up


10) pick your jaw up off the floor as your Grand Bacon Total is calculated at...


...less than 20 cents!

11) get in your car, take off your shoes, loosen your belt, turn up the radio, and munch that bacon as you drive to the unemployment office to apply for benefits

economical, atkins-friendly and tasty.


those are three terms we don't throw around here at the Metz very often. but i'm willing to bet you a can of soup that after you set my plan in action, you're going to get those three words tattooed somewhere between your navel and your knees.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Metz you've done it AGAIN!
i might start eating bacon...TKO

Eggs McManus said...

thank you
thank you
thank you
i love bacon yes i do
i love bacon how 'bout you

Anonymous said...

Thank you for destroying my sunday morning routine by publishing this fact. There will now be fistfights until the mostly free bacon is removed from the hotbar at all wholefoods.

Anonymous said...

wow, wow, wow. mat, you've outdone yourself. i'm quite sure that no one else could have conjured up such a clever story based on the bacon at WF.

signed,
mumble's wife

Memória said...

Thank you for acknowledging the lesbians in the world!! Woot! However, not all men are attracted to women, and you forgot about the bisexuals hehe.

I love the trick! Now I have a reason to return to "Whole Paycheck"!

Anonymous said...

Sammy Badass says...

Metz, pat yourself on your back. this couldve been a Seinfeld episode. best work yet...

economical, atkins-friendly and tasty.

economical, atkins-friendly and tasty.

economical, atkins-friendly and tasty.

brandi said...

Holy shit, this is the best idea EVER. Tomorrow I am so having bacon. Shit, I am going to have bacon everyday! <3s for your inspiring bacon epiphany.

LegalMist said...

I arrived via a link from Green Yogurt, and I love your blog. You are seriously hilarious. You should add the "followers" widget to your blog so I can follow you and lazily click on the link from my dashboard to read your stuff, instead of having to work for it.

And I'll be visiting whole paycheck for my 20-cent bacon very soon!

LegalMist said...

Hey, thought I'd let you know I gave you a "shout-out" on my blog today. Now all 9 of the people who actually read my blog will hopefully check out your blog. So look for that huge spike in readership sometime in the next day or two. =)

I'm also going to put a link to your blog on my blog, I hope you don't mind.

Bella@That damn expat said...

I'm one of those 9 people!
This is some funny shit, I'll be back.

Anonymous said...

Ditto!!

Dr Zibbs said...

Oink

ACCESSive said...

Metzy... Pass this along to Congress. Maybe it'll help those fat cats in Washington figure out how the hell they can cut the pork.

c said...

i can't wait for part 2 in this series.

Anonymous said...

Was that Louie Anderson at Whole Foods? LOL. Probably in line at the bacon bar and not ashamed to admit it.

Funny story! I tweeted it to about 250 of my peeps in Twitter.

Love your blog. Ca-raazy, man!

-beej

Anonymous said...

I have done this so many times!!! You can also get shrimp relatively cheap on their seafood bar later on in the day. ;)

Dr.E. said...

But does it cost extra to get your bacon to HOVER??????? Cause, if not, we could all ride on ham around the nation and save a lot on gas money at the same time!

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