With 8 days left of (actual) Summer, I am down to the last five posts on The Book of Awesome!
I am hoping to get them all wrapped up a few days before the 22nd as I have some things going on right before that, so with further ado, let’s get to it…
(174) Ordering off the menu at fast food restaurants (pg 314)
I only learned secret menus were a thing when I started seeing posts about all the different drinks you could ask Starbucks baristas to make for you that aren’t actually listed. (And was only really intrigued because of the idea for a Butterbeer drink, which I wasn’t able to get in the end because of nuts being an ingredient).
Then I found out there are ways you can order secret things from all sorts of places!
Of all the ones Neil Pasricha lists out in this entry, I think these are the ones I’d be most inclined to try:
- McDonald’s – Fries with Big Mac Sauce: This might be THE most brilliant thing anyone has ever come up with. I first had fries with mayo in Montreal and thought that was the most brilliant, but this has just blown that idea out of the water for me
- Subway – the old cut: I remember this fondly from my childhood! I don’t know that the “old cut” served any real purpose and was probably just more tedious to do, but he’s right about how the little bits of your sandwich meat that came out the sides always seemed to taste better somehow. I wonder how many people who work at Subway restaurants these days even know about this…
- Starbucks – the short cup: I figured this one out on my own by looking at the lids and noticing a “short” version. I am really glad I did discover this too because occasionally I want to try their fancy new lattes and so forth, but don’t know if I can handle all the sugar they throw into them. One time they had a drink (ON the menu) that was touted as the closest thing you could get to a “Butterbeer” and it ended up tasting like PURE LIQUID SUGAR. I love sugar…but I love it in cookies and cake, I don’t need to drink it straight up! Even though I got the Short, I only drank half. I felt a little better about the fact that it was smaller and I hadn’t spent as much on it as I would for a Tall when I checked it out. (I actually made a smiley face in the snow with it and kind of hoped it tricked people into thinking it was pee… I’m sophisticated like that.
