A four dollar fountain drink at the movie theater? Ridiculous. Ask for yours without ice, because it's already cold. You'll dramatically increase your soda's value, making the $4 coke a mere $3.75 rip-off.
Pete is right. It's all about an air of confidence. When we first noticed you could do this, I was literally just finishing a Coke from an eating establishment and unknowingly walked in. Pete said to me, "Whoa, dude, you brought your drink in." I was like, "Whoa dude? Since when do you say 'whoa dude?' But then we realized it worked because we weren't trying to hide it. Since then, I've been successful with every attempt to bring foreign fountain beverages into a theater. I hear that some gas station is proud to purvey 59-cent Big-A Polar Pops? Anyone know who?
OK, I know this is totally random (talk of Polar Pops made me think of it), but do you all remember the orange push ups from grade school? The sherbert like treat with the cardboard sleeve? We had a big discussion about this at work and decided you were a deprived child if you did not experience one of those. So yummy!
Yes, Jen, they were SO good! OMG! I remember in grade school how "ice cream day" was almost to DIE for. Oh to be young again when your biggest worry was whether or not you'd get ice cream!
I totally loved Push-Ups! They were so yummy. But they never seemed big enough. Last time I was home to visit my family I had a push-up! But remember how when you first got them they were too cold and you kind of had to rub them in your hands so you could actually do some pushing. Talk about a long time for the attention span of a kid. I think that is just about the best part of summer. Playing outside with your friends, and then coming into a nice air-conditioned house and getting ice cream stickyness on your face.
Um, it's a milk shake without the milk. However, I mistakenly labeled the Triple Thick Shake from McDonalds I was drinking. It indeed has milk in it. As does the Frosty and Burger King's Shakes. I had heard nasty rumors that there is no dairy is most fast food companies shakes, but that does indeed appear to be wrong.
The free Frosty's were good! I'm not sure what percentage of the frosty is dairy, but it is the first thing on the ingredient list: "Milk, Sugar, Cream, Corn Syrup, Whey, Nonfat Milk, Cocoa, Dextrose, Guar Gum (thickener), Mono and Diglycerides (emulsifiers), Carrageenan, Calcium Sulfate, Disodium Phosphate (emulsifier), Vitamin A Palmitate, Artificial and Natural Flavors." Even the little Jr. size does contain 15% of your daily recommended calcium!
I know that nobody is coming back to read these comments anymore, since this post is like SO last week. I'm always behind on my tip of the day reading. For me it's more like, "7 tips for the week," but I don't expect you to rename it for me or anything. However, it really is more efficient. ANYWHO, I just had to comment that this stream was v. funny, and I l-o-v-e-d, loved, the link to "Big A." Nobody mentioned it, but it was inspired to be sure.
Oh, and Jen... "what the hang?" I think you may have made that up, but it's great. I'm gonna start using it.
Julie, you'd be surprised at how much we like keeping up with ALL the comments posted. Thanks for contributing to the most commented tip to date! You know Jason and his Crazy-A links.
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Guys, I know we have a hard time deciding on things. Whether it's between sausage or canadian bacon, Ford or Chevy, holy matrimony or lifelong bachelorhood , Arsenal or Manchester United, Legos or Lincoln Logs. I admit, sometimes we get stuck, astounded by the vast array of options in front of us, afraid to commit to any one of them, for fear of offending the pepperoni. But gentlemen, it's time we committed! Or as Shakespeare said, in a completely unrelated context , "Once more unto the breach, dear friends!" So without further ado, I'd like to present you with the solutions to the quandaries introduced above: 1) Canadian bacon does have an exotic reputation going for it. After all, it's international! You can almost envision those stoic bacon miners, the wild and free men of the great white north, delving deep into the earth in pursuit of that elusive vein of canadian bacon ore! Sadly, and I don't mean to disillusion anyone, but it's reall
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Oh, and Jen... "what the hang?" I think you may have made that up, but it's great. I'm gonna start using it.