Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Price: $0.99; paid – $0.00
Promotion: Subway Get Smart sweepstakes, instant-win game
Location: 6843 N. Lincoln Ave., Lincolnwood, IL 60712 (map); phone: (847) 329-8134
Rating: 3 out of 5 – acceptable
I like entering online contests, but some sweepstakes are clearly more giving than others. I was lucky to win more bags of these Flat Earth Baked Veggie Crisps from Frito-Lay than I knew what to do with (thanks, CAG), and the winning e-mails just began to form daily in my inbox like the evening dew. It had been a while since I’d stepped foot in a local Subway sandwich shop, but I knew I was in for trouble when the person working there had never seen my winning redemption e-mail before. Fortunately, the deeper inspections, personal-information taking, and management consultations would come after this initial trip, freeing me to enjoy some free veggie crisps after a brief and relatively pleasant round of counter confusion.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Price: $1.00
Location: 7003 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60626 (map); phone: (773) 465-8307
Rating: 5 out of 5 – great
Eaten: while parked in my car
Ah, Crazy Bread… the butter-baked stuff of dreams from my youth. If you really need to be told what’s in the bag, Little Caesars would have you know that there’s “Eight warm sticks of freshly baked bread topped with the flavors of butter and garlic, then sprinkled with Parmesan cheese” snugly wrapped inside. If you’re in the market for a meal but have only got a dollar, these are the greasy-good breadsticks for you. Just remember to ask for them soft because the HOT-N-READY default Bread might be cooked a little too long and not go down quite as easy.
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