Another Dog Blog
a.brain has given me the kind of incentive I need. Write some more blogs like over-acheiver Mr. Oi has been doing lately (who I guess was on some kind of leave-of-absence relating to a lodged bagel accident or something like that), and I can have a PSP. That’s what a.brain said to me today. Of course I don’t have it in writing. [ed note - WHATEVER!!]
Anyway, for a long time now, I’ve been telling any manager at Panera who dares to disturb me in the morning to see how everything is, that they’ve been leaving money on the table for several years now by serving only big, sugary, carbo-loaded baked goods in the mornings without offering some items that have some protein in them, like an egg sandwich or something. Panera has the coffee I want at 7 am, but that’s about it, until recently.
While I can’t say honestly that I’ve given up carbs altogether, I’m always looking to balance my carbohydrate-protein consumption, which is hardest to do at breakfast time when you’re in a hurry. So I’ve been telling the managers at Panera for quite some time that they HAVE to talk to headquarters about catching up with the egg sandwich deal which practically every fast-food place offers these days (but their coffee stinks).
Of course, I shouldn’t just pick on Panera. Starbucks has had the same problem until recently, when it introduced a peanut-butter Penza bar that has 14 grams of protein in it – practically a Balance Bar. Apparently a lot of other protein-carbohydrate balancers have figured that out, because I found out a couple of weeks ago that those peanut-butter Penza bars WON’T BE BACK IN STORES UNTIL AFTER SEPTEMBER 30! What’s the dealeo here, guys? How do you expect us to live off the abundance of Mocha bars and cranberry bars that only have about 2g of protein in them?
And I’m not the only person who sees something lacking at Starbucks (and Panera) in the morning. In Chicago, on the corner of Clark and Deming in Lincoln Park, I was up in the neighborhood a day before the Chicago Marathon last October, and I saw many people (in addition to myself and A.Brain) going to Einstein’s Bagels on the northwest corner to get a breakfast sandwich (no beverage) and then crossing over to the southeast corner and going into the Starbucks to buy coffee. So tell me there isn’t a gaping hole here.