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What's the worst food promotion you've ever seen?

Posted by on Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Would you drink these three if the fourth was free?
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  • Would you drink these three if the fourth was free?
Free food does something to a person. It switches off the reasoning portion of our brain and replaces it with sweet and fat. It's why people wait two hours for a free custard from Sheridan's or go for the vasectomy that gets you a free pizza.

There's an ice-cream shop and grill in Rhode Island, the Newport Creamery, that has one of the all-time misguided promotions (which to their credit, I still remember) for its signature Awful Awful (Awful Big, Awful Good) — a flavored syrup, milk and ice-milk drink. If you drink three of the milkshake-like concoctions, your fourth one is free. Bear in mind, that's all in one sitting and that ... only ... the ... fourth ... is ... free.

What's the worst food promotion you've ever seen or redeemed?

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