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DC2NY
round-trip ticket to NYC – $46.00
Starbucks
medium coffee – $2.04
Le Pain Quotidien
vegan* quiche – $12.05, including tax
*About a half hour after eating it, I had some mild stomach pains. I looked on their website for details, and what I thought was surprisingly stretchy soy cheese was not surprisingly stretchy soy cheese. I was given the vegetarian rather than the vegan quiche by mistake. Unfortunately, I didn’t look at the menu to know the ingredients and how to discern between the different quiches; I just went in the store and said, “I hear you have vegan quiche.” Fortunately, after returning a couple days later to tell them, they were extremely apologetic and resolved to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. They offered my money back, but I opted to instead try the vegan version.
On the bright side, at the time, I thought the real cheese both tasted like soy cheese and wasn’t the best soy cheese I’ve had, so I guess I don’t miss real cheese that much. The rest of it (the egg/milk/flour part) wasn’t that different in texture or taste from the tofu-based vegan quiche that I make. Also, representing the largest quantity (by far) of non-vegan ingredients that I have accidentally ingested in the last 5.9 years, it was an interesting experiment; I guess I have gotten somewhat lactose intolerant.
Day’s Total – $60.09