I recently walked past the Empire Diner on 10th Avenue in Manhattan, and a memory came floating back from many years ago. When I was in my twenties, my colleagues and I once went there after a long day working on computer graphics.<\/p>\n
We had never been there before, and back then their menu was more, um, eccentric than it is now. We noticed that “Soup of the day” was listed for $3.00. And right below that, “Soup du jour” was listed for $3.50.<\/p>\n
When the waitress came over, we asked her what the difference was. “Well,” she said, “here’s the difference. If you order the soup of the day, we charge you $3.00. If you order the soup du jour, we charge you $3.50.”<\/p>\n
I ordered the soup of the day. And to this day, I have no regrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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