INFLATION

Ode to a $27 Salad ($41 with Delivery)

Photo by Anh Nguyen on Unsplash

There are certain moments when you just hit your limits. For lunch today, I collided with a limit. Smack! A salad — no larger than a cereal bowl, no heavier than a book — filled with nothing more than lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, chickpeas, and salmon the size of a minnow, a guppy, plankton — arrived at my door. While I was answering the ring, and as I greeted a man fresh to his…