"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> My middle brother gave me a couple of All-Clad pans a few years ago at
> Christmas. That was nice of him and they are nice pans. Except the pans
> don't have lids. If I want to simmer something (like rice) which requires
> covering, I have to use heavy duty aluminium foil to cover the pan. I
> looked on the All-Clad website and they have an entire section devoted to
> buying lids to fit the pans. HUH?! You have to buy the lids separately?!
> And at over $20 each? Is it just me or is this really crazy?

The price of the pan remains the same, but the pans no longer gets lids -
thus making the pan-and-lid set you used to buy 25% more than the past one
for the same package.

Kind of like buying electronic equipment and finding out that old one-year
warranty has been replaced by a 30 day warranty - and you can buy the old
one-year warranty as a service contract - making the old electronic gizmo
25% more than the past one for the same package.

Or buying the 2.25 lb can of coffee in the 3 lb can -.

Or the new candy bars that are 2/3 the size of the old ones.

Or the 5 lb bags of sugar that are 4 lbs.

(It must really fake out any true inflation numbers and make economic
forecasting kind of "iffy".
Reminds me of the Reagan administrations changing of the definition of
"Unemployment" to "Unemployment Claims plus 'those in the BLS listed phone
survey looking for work' which cut "unemployment" by 3-5 % by cutting out
lower strata people who don't have listed phones, or how the government's
change from GNP to GDP suddenly increased productivity and lowered trade
imbalance, all in a swoop of the pen.)



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> Jill
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