As good as a holiday

[active_apathy]

The change? A daily entry before I write something. Oh no! Teh horrorz.

Except that it seems to me I have a solid plan for what I'm going to write. Yay me!

So, my news today is limited.

One item is that my bathroom has now officially relocated itself to Greenwich, for the battery is near-death and the clock is now eleven hours behind. My clocks, apparently, adjust their slowness for amusement and for daylight saving.

The other is that I've noticed a startling trend in TV ads involving food - they never pay for it. Not once. Not ever. They never pay the pizza deliveryman or the cashier or the greengrocer or whoever else is involved in the procurement of food. Has anyone else noticed this? More importantly, could I be wrong? Has there been an ad somewhere, where someone actually does pay for food?

Is it a reflection on me that financial transactions pertaining to food in television advertisements manages to arouse this level of curiosity?

Comments

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Your code has gone wonky, it seems.

We have a pizza commercial here in Michigan where the guy pays for the pizza - but the point of the commercial is that the pizza is only $5, so they make a big deal of him reaching into his wallet, finding a $5 bill and handing it to the smiling cashier, who hands him his Hot N Ready pizza. He does not, however, appear to pay tax on this item. When I buy my Hot N Ready pizza, it is $5.30, not simply $5.

Anyway. That's the first commercial I've ever seen that does so.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Fixed now.

You have to pay sales taxes seperately? Here, they're already in the prices for stuff; you pay for it, and they sort out the rest.

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

The only things I've noticed that happen for here are cigarettes and gasoline. But! We don't pay tax on food here, unless it's prepared, so that's something... right?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

We pay a 10% tax on pretty much everything but fresh food, but it's paid as part of the price. So, if you buy a $32.84 copy of the BDM, then there's $2.99 of tax already in the price.

There's extra taxes on things like fuel, alcohol, tobacco and the like.

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

10%! Yipes! The highest here is 8% (it varies by state). In Michigan it's 6%, and in one state, I can't remember which, there isn't any sales tax.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

*sigh* We pay 8.25% in Texas. Why the extra quarter, no on knows. However! Texas doesn't have a state income tax, which makes up for the sales tax. There's county tax and federal tax, but no state tax. And Oregon is the state with no sales tax.

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Oh, snap. 8.25%. Foiled again. ;)

It was beginning to bother me about which state didn't have sales tax. Thanks!

[exit-chrysalis.livejournal.com]

Delaware too! No sales tax there! Also, in Nashville, TN, the sales tax is over 9%. And, there's no income tax in FL, and we still have only 6.5% tax.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

I think our pizza commercials have people paying for pizza - or at least, they have them going on and on about how they're only paying X amount. Usually they're more likely to show them eating the food. I'm not sure what this actually means.