Eggo Waffle Calculations

It's 2:30am here in Boston; I've just returned from a long day with morning clinic and gazing at zebrafish embryos. It seems like a natural time to calculate just how many Eggo waffles I have eaten during the course of my life thus far.

I was introduced to Eggos during a visit to my Grandma Grace when I was in 5th grade--probably about 11 years old. I am now 34 (35 in a couple of months) so that's 23 years of Eggo waffle eating goodness. Since that time I have included Eggo waffles as a staple of my breakfast menu, from an East High Greyhound to a Yalie to a medical student to a budding nephrologist. For the vast majority of these years, I ate 2 Eggos per day. In recent years however this number has dropped to 1 a day, and because I suffered an Eggo withdrawal during my year in France and because Eggos were a rare treat during my four years of college dining hall experiences, let's be conservative and say that through the years my average has really been one a day.

So: 23 years x (365 days/year) x 1 waffle/day = 8,395 Eggo waffles. Kinda puts things in perspective, huh?