Posts Tagged ‘ranch’
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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Tags: acceptable, baked, chips, crisps, Flat Earth, Frito-Lay, Get Smart, potato, promotion, ranch, review, rice, sauce, Subway, tangy, tomato, unique, vegetable, veggie
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Price: $2.05 for 1 Dipping Dog regularly; paid - $3.00 for 3
Promotion: National Corndog Day deal; buy more, save more
Location: 802 Dempster St., Evanston, IL 60202 (map); phone: (847) 869-0100
Rating: 4 out of 5 - good
Status: independent
If you noticed that new last line up there, this is the first time I’ve reviewed something from a non-chain restaurant here on the site. Not that I have anything against the more independent establishments out there; it’s just that I’ve tried to keep to items people can easily find outside of northern Illinois (and, particularly, the City of Chicago). I’ll make exceptions for the offerings I really enjoy, however, and the Dipping Dogs at Wiener and Still Champion certainly fit the bill with regards to my personal tastes.
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Tags: affordable, aioli, all-beef, Argentine, batter, buying, cheddar, Chicago, combo, corn meal, corndogs, curry, dipped, dipping, Dipping Dogs, Easter, Easter Eve, Evanston, garlic, good, honey, hot dogs, Illinois, independent, juiciness, ketchup, made-to-order, mayo, menu, mustard, National Corndog Day, non-chain, ranch, review, sauce, specialty, spicy, Texas, The Wiener and Still Champion, WASC, Wiener and Still Champion
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Price: $4.79
Location: 3700 W. Touhy Ave., Skokie, IL 60076 (map); phone: (847) 673-1991
Rating: 4 out of 5 - good
Wendy’s Spicy Baconator: “…six delicious bacon strips piled on two 1/4 lb. fresh, never frozen, burger patties, topped with Pepper Jack cheese, Chipotle Ranch sauce and jalapenos for an added kick.” 40 cents more than the non-spicy version, this 40-calories heftier model swaps Pepper Jack cheese for American, drops mayo and ketchup for Chipotle Ranch, and adds strips of jalapeno peppers to jumpstart the bacon. The only single Wendy’s menu item to surpass it in calories is the 3/4 lb. Triple with Cheese (weighing in at 980), and you know I’ve gotta try that soon. But the Spicy Baconator? It’s actually a pretty good sandwich.
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Tags: bacon, Baconator, balance, caloric, calories, carbs, cheese, cheeseburgers, chipotle ranch, extra-tasty, fat, flavor, good, grease, intake, jalapeno, meat, pepper jack, peppers, protein, ranch, review, sauce, slices, spice, spicy, texture, veggie, Wendy's
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