TBA

In the cafeteria at the TBA workplace, they hit you for $.50 to add cheese to your sandwich. We are bad at math, but we will try to work with these numbers. Seems like an awful lot to pay for cheese.
Let us say a slice of cheese is 2/3 of an ounce. We will use this as a given because the deli lady refused to weigh a slice of cheese for this investigation. Two-thirds of an ounce is the size of a Kraft Single* . In the cheese world, and especially in the Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product world, Kraft Singles are about as standardized as you can get.
Just as an aside, and please excuse us for it, but, what if they had Kraft Fives, or Kraft Fifties? Imagine a Kraft Single 50 times its normal size. Or what about Kraft 100's? Kraft Benjamins. They would be these huge sheets of oily orange blubber the size of infield tarps.
Anyways, we actually think the slices at the the cafeteria are bigger than 2/3 oz. (for all cheese types)--they are pretty hefty--but we will use the Kraft data for the sake of scientific advancement.
You get two slices of cheese when you elect to add cheese to your sandwich at the cafeteria. No more, no less. That is 1.33 oz. of cheese for $.50. So, 16 oz. in a pound, carry the 1, divisor times the quotient is the dividend, etc.....$6 per pound.
Ah, crap. This is actually not a lot to pay for cheese, as the reader may have already deduced. At least, not at our grocery store. It is as much of a surprise to us as it is to you. Sometimes, we here at TBA do not end up where we set out to go. It does not matter. We are still entitled to our outrage.
Because, is cheese really that much more expensive than such freebies as tomatoes or olives or roasted red peppers or alfalfa sprouts? In unlimited quantities, now! To say nothing of your mayonnaise or mustard. And what about bread? Without bread we have no sandwich, yet, it does not cost extra. Some may argue that these items are built into the cost of the sandwich, like how the "free" delivery service offered by some furniture stores is part of the price you pay for a new sofa. But, by this logic, can they not also build the cheese-cost into the sandwich?
Furthermore, serious difficulty arises in the case of the cheese sandwich. Bread, toppings, and cheese. What should be the pricing scheme of this sandwich? Under the above system, it should cost $.50; however, a cheese sandwich is listed on the deli counter menu for $2.75! Are we therefore to understand that toppings and bread have their own cost after all, independent of the main sandwich ingredient?
Cannot the deli counters of the world stop charging extra for cheese on sandwiches, and thus simplify what has become cause for, at best, bewilderment and, at worst, indigestion?
We think they must. Because until then, TBA will just keep having the deli lady pile on the free toppings until the cheese is obscured so the cashier lady cannot see it. Cheese? No. No cheese.
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*TBA does not endorse and/or recommend the film Fantastic Four. Or Kraft products, for that matter. We had to rely on the link above because we could not find the size of a Kraft single at the main Kraft website. We have not yet seen Fantastic Four. It is in our Netflix** queue, though (Short Wait).
**TBA recommends Netflix.