I was in Meijer’s (regional grocery chain) the other day, having been tasked with purchasing a large jar of great northern beans. When I picked up the jar, I noticed that the label said “premium” beans.

Now, any time I see an adjective like “premium”, I think of it as special, a cut above the rest. So, seeing “premium” beans made me wonder what makes them premium? Are they bigger than regular beans? Maybe the difference is like whole cashews verses regular cashews?

Since I didn’t have any immediate answers to my questions, I decided that I needed to find a jar of regular beans for comparison. So, I scanned the shelves in search of regular beans. But, there were no jars of regular beans to be found, only the premium.

Maybe the regular beans are put into cans and not jars. If that is the case, then I would also have to buy a can of beans in order to compare the two. But, I knew that if I came home with both, I would have to answer to my wife, so I scrapped that idea.

Maybe Meijer’s only carries the premium beans. Well, what ever the case, I purchased the “premium” beans and completed my task.

Don’t even get me started on Saltines.