Silly picture of the Week: Big Croissants

Posted by Jim on March 7th, 2008 filed in 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:

Big Croissants

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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4 Responses to “Silly picture of the Week: Big Croissants”

  1. miracle fruit Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 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…

  2. admin Says:
    March 11th, 2008 at 12:33 am

    At that price I ain’t touching them, especially when Tesco do a nice big Croissant for less…

  3. Herb Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 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!

  4. admin Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    Seriously that is to scale! All I did to the photograph was resize the image to a suitable size.

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