Who likes free stuff? I like free stuff. I am sure you like free stuff. Today is our day then.
Stop by any Dunkin’ Donuts today and get a free iced coffee. To me, the only real iced coffee is from Dunkins. I could not be happier that more and more are cropping up in DC. I drank vats of the French Vanilla in high school…Hopefully today’s free cup does not come with a side of teenage angst, crippling self doubt and an outfit consisting solely of plaid flannel. (Thanks to Food Network Addict for the reminder to go get my free coffee).
I step foot in McDonald’s once a year: to get an eggnog shake. Those shakes are a god damned Christmas miracle, delicious holiday merriment. Now, I don’t often think of McDonald’s when I think of southern style chicken, but apparently, they are thinking of more ways to clog our arteries by the day: today they will give away 2 million Southern Style chicken biscuits and 6 million Southern Style chicken sandwiches. I am more of a Big Mac girl myself, but I am pretty sure any kind of fried chicken on a biscuit cannot be bad.
Now go get your free stuff, you cheap bastards.
9:40 am on May 15th, 2008
After I threw away a ton of stuff in our pantry/fridge last night, Jason was asking what he was going to eat for the next few days. I told him that I didn’t know about the rest of the week, but that the 15th was covered, courtesy of Dunkin’ Donuts and McDonalds. Too bad Ben & Jerry’s free scoop day didn’t overlap, too–that would be the holy trinity of comps.
And, to all of you CC readers who don’t know the magic of Chick-fil-a, just know that McDonald’s “Southern” chicken, whether in biscuit or sandwich form, simply cannot compare.
Oh and the waffle fries at Chick-fil-a!! I love them. LOVE.
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9:47 am on May 15th, 2008
In the interest of truth in advertising, it’s worth pointing out that for McD’s, “southern style” essentially means, “ripped off from Chick-fil-A.”
Now, if they could somehow hybridize their fries with the waffle cut, that would be something. It might be worth the heart attack…
But it is on a biscuit!!
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9:48 am on May 15th, 2008
What a surprise, beaten to a food reference by bettyjoan.
Haha, and I amde the waffle cut reference before even reading your comment. Great minds, WiB…
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9:56 am on May 15th, 2008
first, because i’m catching up, i wanted to say i’ve been to central w/ my moms and it was sogood. i look forward to your review of the food. they had these puff pastry things for appetizers we vowed to try next time b/c everyone was ordering them and we didn’t see them til AFTER dessert…
and i wish every day were free food day. but apparently that approach would contribute to the world food crisis:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/business/worldbusiness/14food.htm
Um, we should totally do a girl date there! Sit at the bar and have a few apps… And I saw this article. Freaking Americans and our wasteful ways…ugh.
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12:22 pm on May 15th, 2008
I beg to differ with being called a cheap bastard. I am not cheap!
…wait a sec…
You know it comes from a place of love.
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12:45 pm on May 15th, 2008
@ WiB ~ In the interest of truth in advertising, it’s worth pointing out that for McD’s, “southern style” essentially means, “ripped off from Chick-fil-A.”
Couldn’t agree more. My first thought when I saw those biscuits being advertised was “So, this is McDonald’s trying to be to Chick-Fill-a…”
Tricia
(Lemmonex – Stumbled on your food blog a while ago via JJD, and love it, love it , love it!
Yep, I’m still working @ Gelman. Now in Grad School @ Maryland, in addition. Free stuff is a good thing then you’re a working stiff-slash-grad student…)
Hi there, Tricia…wow, Gelman Library. So much snark was cultivated there for me. “No, I will not waive your overdue fees, you rich entitled bitch!” And hooray on grad school!
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2:57 pm on May 15th, 2008
already got mine, i wish i remembered about free cone day before it past…hopefully next year i will
If you read here, you would have remembered.
Way to make this about me, eh?
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3:27 pm on May 15th, 2008
I wandered into a DD this morning after my yoga class because the line at Starbucks was insane, only to discover the aforementioned free coffee special. Glorious.
I attributed my lucky, free find to the good karma I created in the yoga studio. Forget the fact that I’m now in Boston, and I can find a DD within a block of wherever I’m standing at any given point in the city…
God, I miss having DD on every corner. That was one of the best things about RI. When you said you were going to the DD on Park Ave, you could have been talking about one of three DD’s in a 1.5 mile radius.
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4:03 pm on May 15th, 2008
Here in BFE Mcdonald’s is the only one of the mentioned eateries that we have. No Starbuck’s, no Dunkin’ Donuts, no Chick-fil-A……*sigh*
Hi Lemmonex! I believe we crossed paths at 2blowhards…..hmmm, that seems a bit off-color.
No Starbucks! Where the hell are you?! And we like off color here…welcome.
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4:14 pm on May 15th, 2008
Just a reminder that those plaid flannel pictures are long overdue.
“No, I will not waive your overdue fees, you rich entitled bitch!”
Ha, you worked at the circulation desk in college too? Isn’t it great giving those pricks what they deserve? A pickup artist might say that’s when girls started paying attention to me, since I had to politely yet coldheartedly reject their requests. Toughened me up for all those “care to buy me a drink?” girls.
At GW, did you have a small group of really old patrons who have determined to enjoy their golden years by watching you toil to create computer records, on the fly, for the 74 books they’re checking out that are too old and obscure to even have bar codes?
I mean, old people are cute and all, but didn’t the guy get the memo that old men are supposed to have fun by feeding the ducks in the morning, drinking till dusk, and then sleeping with call girls at night? Sheesh.
Those pics will never see the light of day. They are not me at my most fabulous.
I was a circulation desk supervisor, which means I got to drop the bitch hammer on a daily basis. And creating records on the fly was my hell, though I must say it didn’t happen that often.
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8:46 pm on May 15th, 2008
Suddenly my librarian fantasy meter kicks in. Hmmmm…were there glasses? Perhaps a tight sweater?
None the less, that McD Southern Style Chicken Sandwich is the poorest imitation of CF. They should pay people to eat them.
I will need some help find some obscure books in the way back, if you would be so kind. Probably something on a top shelf.
Yes, I wear glasses sometimes. Ahem. That is all.
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10:07 pm on May 15th, 2008
Dunkies?????????
I am CRUSHED
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I’m sorry, but I know deep down in there, you still love it there. You will never admit it, but I know the truth.
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10:32 pm on May 15th, 2008
@Lemmonex: re: “And creating records on the fly was my hell, though I must say it didn’t happen that often”.
I still wonder why they require us to fill in the date part of it so often, but eh… you do what you gotta do…
Trying to decipher messy overdue fine records is still the bane of my existence. Having lots to check in at the end of each semester is number two, but that’s mitigated by lots of chatting with fellow supes and assistants.
~T~
Man alive, those bins upon bins of books. I blocked that out.
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12:18 am on May 25th, 2008
(Just reading through back ‘issues’ of CC, and came across this post …)
Oh man – yes. This was a very pleasant surprise. What made it even better was getting it in New England (DDs per mi^2: 2.7), rather than at home (DDpsM: .18). I was driving west through North Kingstown, on my way from Newport back to Rt. 95, when I stopped to get some caffeine to take me through the rest of the drive to the Metro North. We went inside and were apparently oblivious to all of the signage: “Umm, yeah, can we have two medium iced hazelnuts please?” “Sorry, you can only get the smalls for free.” “Excuse me? I said medium.” “You can only get smalls.” “I’m sorry, what are you talking about?” “The free coffee – it has to be a small.” “Free cof –” (I look at a sign.) “Ohhhh … okay, yes, great, one medium, and one small.” A, who usually drinks iced with just one Splenda (no creamer!?) couldn’t drink it the way I like it (1 half-and-half, 1 sugar, which became 2 of each, I think, because we were in New England), so I got a medium-and-a-half out of it, all to myself. I had to pee on the train.
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