[LASS Soaring] Drela's Streamlined Deli

[Brian Kopke]

Another prescription from the good doctor...cures your ills!  A little
insight into how engineering can affect the most mundane tasks.  Hmmm.

Brian

On 8/8/07, Ben Wilson <ben at thelocust.org> wrote:
>
> What with our contest coming up soon, I just saw this on the ESL mailing
> list.  It's Dr. Drela's food checklist for his CRRC contest.  As you might
> expect, it's fairly detailed and well-reasoned with some efficiencies
> capitalized. :)
>
>
> """
>
> FWIW, below is my food checklist I used for the CRRC contest.
>
> My rules of thumb are
> 1/4 lb lunchmeat/person,
> 3 slices bread/person,
> on average.
>
> One time-saving trick when shopping is to give the grocery-deli guy a list
> with the meat and cheese order, which he cuts up while you can gather
> all the other stuff.  Saves about 1/2 hour of standing at the deli
> counter.
>
> Or you can just order a 5 ft sub like the they do at Poway.
>
> Saturday -- 18 fliers
>
> 2 lb  smoked turkey
> 1 lb  pastrami
> 1 lb  roast beef
> 1 lb  ham
>
> 30 thin slices  Swiss
> 20 thin slices  Provolone
>
> 4  large tomatoes
> 1/2  large head of lettuce
>
> 1 big tub potato salad (~3 lb)
> 1 big tub cole slaw
>
> 2  large bags  potato chips
>
> 2  jars pickles
>
> 1/2  squeeze bottle dark mustard
> 1/2  squeeze bottle mayonnaise
>
> 3   2l bottles soda (Sprite, Coke, Diet Coke)
> 24  bottles water
>
> paper plates
> plastic forks
> cups
> napkins
>
> 2  Arnold's Jewish Rye bread
> 2  split wheat bread
>
> Sunday -- 15 fliers
>
> 1.5 lb  smoked turkey
> 1 lb  pastrami
> 1 lb  ham
>
> 25 thin slices  Swiss
> 15 thin slices  Provolone
>
> 3 large tomatoes
> 1/2  large head of lettuce
>
> 1 big tub potato salad
>
> 1 large bag potato chips
> 1 medium bag potato chips
>
> 1 jar pickles
>
> 1/2  squeeze bottle dark mustard
> 1/2  squeeze bottle mayonnaise
>
> 3   2l bottles soda (Sprite, Coke, Diet Coke)
> 24  bottles water
>
> paper plates
> plastic forks
> cups
> napkins
>
> 2  Arnold's Jewish Rye bread
> 1  split wheat bread
>
> """
>
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