Menu For Hope III: Some Simple Math
If you're one of the few people who read this food blog and no others, then you may have missed the announcement for this year's edition of Menu For Hope, an annual raffle organized by Pim in which bloggers and other notables contribute prizes to a giant raffle. People around the world buy "tickets" for the prizes they want in the form of donations. Each ticket costs $10, and all the proceeds go straight to a charitable organization, this year the UN World Food Programme.
You should see the phenomenal list of prizes that bloggers have donated. If I called out the best ones, this would turn into a post that's long even for me. Just go look and admire and buy a ticket or 40. (My donation is all the prizes, sort of, since I'm writing the program that will parse out the tickets and do the actual raffle. And no, I don't take bribes, unless they're really nice.)
Most of the bloggers mentioning the event have appealed to the kind and charitable streak in all our readers. I will appeal to your greed.
Consider this: Menu For Hope has raised twice as much money as it did last year. But because the ticket price has doubled, that means that there have been just as many tickets sold. Fine.
But there are many more prizes this year. That means your odds of winning something are better than they were last year. Many of the prizes have low ticket counts, so you can increase your odds even more. You just have to go buy a ticket. Or 40.
You have until Friday to place your bids. Go look at the prizes and make your donations.
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