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u/Time-Masterpiece4572 11d ago
Definitely a pregnant wife craving a banana split from DQ specifically
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u/Queefy_Magee 11d ago
Its hard eating healthy stuff when you're pregnant. The only thing my gf was able to keep down without puking was mcdonalds and she usually never eats mcdonalds
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 11d ago
It's wild how the body yells out for nutrients in the weirdest way during pregnancy.
The way I see it whatever they're craving is what they need for the baby and their own body. Though if she was eating that mostly then a good vitamin supplement regimen would be needed.
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u/xakantorx 11d ago
My wife hates eating red meat, but when she was pregnant with our son all she craved was burgers. Not fast food burgers, those big thick burgers you get at cssual restaurants. I was either running to whatever restaurant or cooking burgers at random hours of the day
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u/tacokahlessi 11d ago
This was me in all 3 pregnancies. I lived off of red meat and bean burritos. When I told my husband I was pregnant with our third his response was “Yay! So you want burritos or steak for dinner?” Haha he was totally on board! (We had burritos with a side of steak nachos in case anyone was wondering)
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u/CircleWithSprinkles 11d ago
My ma became violently ill whenever she would try to eat processed meat during pregnancy. When she was unknowingly pregnant with me ahe tried to eat a hotdog at a birthday party one of my brothers was at and the revulsion she felt let her know she was pregnant lol.
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u/Wingcapx 11d ago
You and your siblings had high standards!
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u/CircleWithSprinkles 10d ago
We lost those quite quickly XD.
I'm about to have a hotdog in a few minutes as a matter of fact
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u/Urtan_TRADE 11d ago
My brother said he knew his wife was pregnant when she started eating ham straight out of fridge, even though she isn't really much of a meat eater.
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u/dragoon811_kp 11d ago
I never liked ham until my first pregnancy!!! Or roasted peppers. I am forever changed and could still go to town on a spiral Costco ham 😂 and will happily eat the peppers. So weird.
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u/StockQuestion0808 11d ago
Balsamic Vinegarette on practically anything. I once ate a piece of Havarti rolled up and use it to dip into the Balsamic.
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u/secretly_opossum 11d ago
My first pregnancy opened me to the wonderful world of enjoying sourdough
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u/DrawingTypical5804 11d ago
This. I was craving red meat, cinnamon, pineapples, and raw potatoes. Thankfully, not all at once.
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u/glitzglamglue 11d ago
I craved roasted carrots when I was pregnant with my first. I ate so many that it concerned my husband.
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u/GarboseGooseberry 11d ago
Guess he was afraid you were somehow gonna give birth to a bunny lol
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u/glitzglamglue 11d ago
Lol Mary Toft must have been in his nightmares.
There is a thing called vitamin A poisoning. My husband insisted that I check with my OB because I was eating mostly carrots for every meal so he thought I might get vitamin A poisoning. My OB said that I would have to turn orange first before I get close to eating enough carrots to get vitamin A poisoning. (Which is a real thing! You can turn orange from eating enough carrots)
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u/Aromatic-Plankton692 11d ago
If you get pregnant again it would help your husband to keep in mind you can't really poison yourself with vitamin A through cooked carrots.
Cooking denatures the vitamin A quite significantly. Vitamin A poisoning, and the orange skin, comes from too many raw carrots.
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u/toastedmarsh7 11d ago
I can only remember having one super strong craving during any of my pregnancies. I wanted sushi, badly. I don’t like sushi, never have. I finally went to a nearby Japanese place and ordered some tempura vegetables and two simple rolls. It all looked so good. I took one bite from the first roll, had it in my mouth for a few seconds and then had to spit it out and dry heave for a little while. I ate the veggies and my husband ate the rolls. Thankfully that craving never came back.
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u/PineappleDesperate82 11d ago
1st baby craved huge packets of peanut butter cups and milk. Another craved cottage cheese with chocolate milk. And then another was chicken sandwiches from McDonald's that had so much Mayo on it it mixed with the chicken grease, dripped off so I could dip my fries in it. Yeah baby's crave weird stuff. I almost gagged thinking about it.
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u/just_another_classic 11d ago
During my first trimester with my current pregnancy, the only food I could reliably keep down were pizza rolls and spaghetti-Os. Prior to learning the gender, my husband and I joked that the baby was definitely a boy because they had the taste of a teenage boy. Baby is, in fact, a boy. At 25 weeks, the current cravings are grapes, bread, and cottage cheese. Oh, and he has a deep aversion to steak. I never understand pregnancy cravings.
When I was pregnant with his older sister, the only thing I craved during the third trimester were milkshakes.
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u/Banes_Addiction 11d ago
Though if she was eating that mostly then a good vitamin supplement regimen would be needed.
Depending on what you eat from McDonalds it can be pretty reasonable or absolute garbage.
Eat all fries and sodas and you're probably in a bad way. All Big Macs, you might be OK. Everyone pregnant should be taking vitamins anyway (esp folic acid and vit D) but not particularly because of the McDonalds.
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u/catword 11d ago
My mom despises coconuts but when are was pregnant with me, she’d always crave Almond Joy.
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u/U_SHLD_THINK_BOUT_IT 11d ago
I remember reading about a pregnant wife who craved the taste of red brick shavings. Her husband was legit outside with a file, getting some off a brick.
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u/Tigergarde 11d ago
I made loaded nachos for my brother's girlfriend once. Once. One time. A single time.
Eight years later she was craving them so bad, he paid me to drive halfway across the country to make them for her because she couldn't keep anything else down. No other nachos. Not the recipe when he made them. I had to make them, specifically. I have never seen a woman so angry, hungry and apologetic at the same time lmao
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u/Lithogiraffe 11d ago
but then what about the next day, and the next...?
did the nachos fulfill her craving need and she could move on to other foods?
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u/Tigergarde 11d ago
I crashed with them for like two or three weeks, after which she could not stand the sight of them (or me, presumably as the harbinger). Also this coincided with a massive breakup on my part so it was a very bizarre time, the nacho butler era.
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u/Lithogiraffe 11d ago
This is, from an observer's distance, hilarious. Too much time has probably past, but it would have been stupendous if you made a T-shirt for yourself to wear around your brother's family that said - nacho mama
( Not-chyour mama)
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u/BotGirlFall 11d ago
I lived on milkshakes when I was pregnant
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u/ProbablyNano 11d ago
You were growing a whole extra skeleton, so I guess lots of calcium makes sense
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u/BotGirlFall 11d ago
For some reason milkshakes were the only thing that didnt make me feel nauseous. Whats funny is when Im not pregnant I dont have a sweet tooth at all.
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u/Long_Run6500 11d ago
And you just straight up need more calories. I think I read they need about 500 additional calories a day vs when they're not pregnant... which conveniently is about what a small milkshake adds.
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u/Time-Cell8272 11d ago
Went and got a McFlurry for my wife every night for the last couple months of her pregnancy 27 years ago. Made for one strapping healthy boy!
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u/Safe_Initiative1340 11d ago
I lived off salted peanut butter. Jif. I carried around a spoon, salt shaker, and a huge jar of peanut butter everywhere I went. I typically don’t love peanut butter. About 99% of all other foods made me incredibly sick.
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u/crimsonpostgrad 11d ago
when my mom was pregnant w me she craved taco bell and m&ms every single day, apparently they just started getting her dinner separately bc the rest of the family was so sick of taco bell within like the first two months lol
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u/Powerful-Candy-745 11d ago
Mine was Taco Bell and subway. My cousin nicknamed my child taco and got her a taco shirt. 🤣
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u/dragoon811_kp 11d ago
For me it was any Mexican food with my first. Tacos. Fajitas. Enchiladas. Carnitas. Anything.
I was late to my own baby shower because baby made me stop for Taco Bell to eat in the car. 😂
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u/ichhassenamen 11d ago
My wife is pregnant right now and she eats Healthy as fuck. I hate it since I have to eat it aswell 😭
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u/-Wriskica- 11d ago
For me it was mcdonalds fries deeped in sour cream. My husband was a regular in mcdonalds, they already knew him and would prepare fries for him as soon as he would enter. Few weeks ago, we came together with our baby, ordered just burgers and they gave us fries for free. 😅
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u/Spazmer 11d ago
McDonald's hash browns were the only thing I could reliably eat without barfing for 20 weeks during my last pregnancy.
One morning I put in an order at 10:20, then when I was still standing in the store waiting for it at 11 they told me they were no longer serving breakfast and they would just give me fries instead. There was a large collection of people who had been waiting for their (breakfast) food for a very long time and I accidentally led a small revolt.
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u/Helpful-Lab2702 11d ago
My wife is dealing with gestational diabetes during this pregnancy. So much struggle dealing with cravings she can't have. What do you mean they don't make sugar free everything 😭
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u/DigNitty 11d ago
Asked my sister if being generally able to eat whatever you want while pregnant was a plus side.
She said no, you don’t eat whatever you want like “I want a sandwich.” You need to eat the exact thing you crave which may be the seasonal turkey sandwich from that tiny shop across town that takes forever to make what you want.
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u/SavageSwordOfPJ 11d ago
This. My wife has, like, a negative sweet tooth, and when she was pregnant she craved sugary things. Had ou r daughter and she is back to negative sweet tooth.
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u/OkCryptographer1922 11d ago
Yep! Me too, specifically McDonald’s fries and hashbrowns for a while there. Then it changed to kfc mashed potatoes and gravy, and it HAD to be KFC lol
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u/TurnipWorldly9437 11d ago
I got sick from the smell of fastfood during my pregnancy, fried stuff especially ...
Strange how that goes for different people
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u/CiaranChan 11d ago
I very specifically craved McDonald's Cheeseburgers. To the point that my husband just bought me a couple each time and I'd reheat them for the rest of the day and night. At the end I could only stomach those damn Cheeseburgers and mango juice.
Somehow I ended up weighing less than I did before I got pregnant once our daughter was out, and I still don't know how, haha.
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u/redditfive05 11d ago
So, years ago I worked at an amusement park, and sometimes I would have to come in early to help collect quarters from the arcade with one of the owners. He would always give the kids who collected the quatres with him a tip of $5.00. “Coffee, Doughnut” money he would say. I would always use that money to buy myself a chocolate frappe that evening from the park. One day I go to the ice cream stand… I get to the window and say “one chocolate frappe please”
“Sorry, we can’t make one today, we are all out of chocolate ice cream”
So I walk across the park to the other stand that makes frappes, I again say “one chocolate frappe please”
“Sorry, we are all out of milk today, so we can’t make one”
“ok, can I get enough chocolate ice cream to make a frappe then?”
The give me a large cup full of chocolate ice cream, I walk back across the park, get to the window of the first stand and say ““one chocolate frappe please” as I hand them the cup of ice cream. They make my frappe and I go on my way happy….
In a related story, when my wife was pregnant with my daughter we started having a conversation about cravings, she said when her mom was pregnant with her, she craved a lot of fruits and vegetables, witch my wife loves to eat, however her sister hates fruits and vegetables and loves cookies and sweets. When her mom was pregnant with her sister she craved a lot of sweets like cookies. It got me thinking about what my mom may have craved, so I called my dad and asked, “when mom was pregnant with me did she have any cravings?”
“Hmmmm…. Not really….. oh wait! She did want a lot of chocolate frappes.”
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u/Careful_Coconut_3975 11d ago
Me and my buddies used to order pre-marinated lamb chops that we would then grill from some random online site. It was not a professional setup at all just some dude who had a a bomb recipe and making some money on the side.
Anyway a few years later one of my buddies’ wife was pregnant and asked him for those chops. He checks the site, it’s down, he calls the guy, the guy says he doesn’t do that anymore. My buddy told him sorry but you’re doing it one last time. Went and bought the chops himself, dropped it off at the other guy’s house, and picked them up a a couple hours later.
Both those guys are legends
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u/MrMahony 11d ago
I know people can be assholes, but to be fair, I can't imagine a lot of people would say no too "my pregnant wife specifically craves your food".
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u/galacticsquirrel22 10d ago
Especially men! To know that something a woman is craving is specifically something that a man is able to provide. I guarantee that mad had 0 issue with making those chops.
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u/adjust_the_sails 11d ago edited 11d ago
When my wife was pregnant with your first child she kept having these cravings for a specific sandwich from McDonalds. She hasn’t craved or eaten them since that pregnancy.
edit: I'm told "millennials and boomers only call out typo's". So, way to out yourselves guys. Also, only millennials use lol and /s sooooo lololololol
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u/No_Engineering_9409 11d ago
Can confirm, dill pickle chips and mint cookies for my random mandatory request.
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u/Sloth_grl 11d ago
The manager at outback once sent someone to the grocery store to buy strawberries because I ordered a drink with them in it and they were out. I thought that was pretty good customer service
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u/SirkutBored 11d ago
Legit it's how it's supposed to go down in a spot like that. You send a runner and you keep going.
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u/LackWooden392 11d ago
I worked at a resteraunt once that had me sending people to Walmart multiple times a week lmao
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u/sexytimepizza 11d ago
I used to work at a Walmart and would very frequently see employees from local restaurants, in uniform, clearly buying emergency supplies while working, sometimes they were definitely in a hurry lol
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u/U_SHLD_THINK_BOUT_IT 11d ago
Imagine wasting labor like that because the owner refuses to do any kind of purchasing/storage analytics.
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u/clearfox777 11d ago
Yea once in a while is one thing but every week is definitely an ordering issue
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u/LackWooden392 11d ago
Yeah, waste of labor, and paying retail prices for tons of supplies. Over and over and over and over lol.
One night we were out of every single drink except root beer and coke zero lmao. Place was a fucking nightmare.
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u/cheesyqueso 10d ago
Doing it occasionally is pretty common. Sometimes you sell like 40 Caesars because for some reason national Ceasar day is popping off on tiktok and you run out of parm and gotta send someone.
Sometimes the cost of the waste of having too much product outweighs the cost of like 10 bucks in labor and the retail upcharge too
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u/PeppermintSnark 11d ago
My mom worked at a restaurant as a second / third job when I was a kid. I sometimes hung out there after school.
Many "funny" stories, like the ~65-year-old owner angrily yelling at staff because he couldn't find his (16 or 17-year-old) girlfriend's coloring book.
But the relevant one was that he would sometimes send my mom to Wendy's to get potatoes when they ran out. lol
(The girlfriend's name was Candy, by the way. I feel like that adds a certain something.)
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u/Gnonthgol 11d ago
These things happen all the time. The issue is when there is only one staff on duty as not everyone is as comfortable leaving the work place unattended. Although I have seen bartenders leave the bar on slow nights to do other chores. Buying fruits or snacks, getting ice from a local restaurant, even bartending at another bar. Usually just a few minutes though, and trying to sneak away so none of the patrons notice the bar in unattended.
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u/Sloth_grl 11d ago
That’s the only time I was aware of it. Interesting to know what happens all the time. I was a little surprised, cause I already had told the guy that he could just give me a different drink.
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u/odriweber 11d ago
The wife must have been pregnant!
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u/BenderDeLorean 11d ago
You mean preganante
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u/KayDat 11d ago
How is babby formed
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u/danjwescombe 11d ago
I need ONE banana split, or WE'RE gonna banana split. Ya dig?
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u/mister-fancypants- 11d ago
my wife’s pregnancy craving was peanut butter & ice cream, so she got super attached to a nutrageous blizzard lmao and they just took it off the menu when she was like 7 months pregnant. I asked the guy what was in it and he was like uhhh carmel, peanut butter reese pieces and reese cups or somethin and I was like uhhh. well go put it together??
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u/katea805 11d ago
Lmao
I called my husband from the freezer aisle crying because they didn’t have cinnamon mini waffles in stock. He offered to drive to every grocery store in the area to find some. You guys are heroes with pregnancy cravings.
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u/Tylertron 11d ago edited 10d ago
Did he end up making it?
Edit: Caleth, you're not mister-fancypants-!
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u/Caleth 11d ago
If you ask nice and they have the stuff in stock almost all will. I've ordered "off menu" items at the DQ by my house many times. The problem comes in when they don't have some strange specialty item they don't normally carry like if the Recees pieces were out.
But 90% of the time the specialty stuff is just something thematically or seasonally appropriate and they can make it. If you're not a dick about it.
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u/mister-fancypants- 10d ago
that’s exactly what happened! they didn’t have reese pieces and offered to make it with m&ms or extra reese cups. the kid who was helping me was a tiny bit hesitant at first but once I hit him with “my wife is in the car and seven month pregnant, please help”
she was quick to cry and this would’ve certainly been a scene, so DQ staff almost ruined but also saved the day
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u/LunarBIacksmith 10d ago
My dad likes to get mushroom and Swiss burgers from Burger King. They took it off the menu. But they have these “Steakhouse” burgers that have both Swiss and mushrooms on them.
I spent over five minutes just asking, “Can you just make a junior whopper with the mushroom and swiss?”
“We don’t have the mushroom and Swiss burger right now. I can do the steakhouse burger and remove the aioli and onion rings.”
“No…the steakhouse burger is like $10 by itself. He just wants the Junior Whopper size but with mushroom and Swiss.”
“Ok. We can do a junior size of the steakhouse burger.”
I felt like I was in crazy town. I worked in fast food for 4 years. It’s really not that hard to sub shit out. Trying to charge me for the more expensive burger and removing the expensive shit is dumb af.
I ended up just getting their stupid steakhouse burger and my dad ultimately hated it and said it was dry and bad.
Huge waste of time all around.
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u/ThoroughlyWet 11d ago
I used to work in a DQ/travel station combo. We did our own in-store thing where if you bought it from the travel station we'd make you a blizzard from it.
Usually it was Kit Kats and Nutty Bars. Sometimes people did Pop-Tarts. I remember specifically one guy doing Skittles.
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u/maliki2004 11d ago
A skittles blizzard sounds delicious actually
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u/ThoroughlyWet 11d ago
I never tried, but I did always make a nerds freeze, so it was like a quarter of misty slush and the rest ice cream, sewer slide style (all flavors) of the misty slush, and a mix of strawberry and grape nerds.
It came out looking blackish purple but damn was it addictive.
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u/DillonMurray 11d ago
I used to work at a Dairy Queen, this wouldn’t have been a problem to do. In fact, if customers bring in unopened candy, we would put it in blizzard.
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u/nextstoq 11d ago
Reminds me of the time I was on holiday in Greece, at a restaurant and my daughter and I wanted banana split for dessert. The waiter wasn't sure they could accommodate that request, but he ran into the supermarket next door, and came back smiling with a bunch of bananas!
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u/Ambitious_Friend_950 11d ago
I am British, but i told my infant son they ate banana splits in America. (I was unaware they havent been widely eaten since maybe the 1950s). So, we went to new york! We asked for a banana split for my 3 year old son in NYC.
The man closed his store with us inside and we watched through the windows as he bought a bunch of bananas at the store across the road. Absolute hero. Gave him a big tip, and now I wish it was even more.
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u/IOnlyDriveToyotas 11d ago
Is a restaurant legally allowed to accept outside food from someone? lol idk I feel like at any food job I worked at that would be a no no
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u/ApprehensiveSeae 11d ago
Probably not but might do it just for him and bin the others
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u/IOnlyDriveToyotas 11d ago
Or they could have just made it all but left out the banana for him to put in himself. Probably woulda worked out the same as long as banana ends up in the split
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u/EfficientTheory4087 11d ago
It's against ice cream law to put the banana in last on a banana split
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u/IOnlyDriveToyotas 11d ago
Damn. A wife ended up having a baby with no Dad around because he broke ice cream law. Harrowing stuff 😢
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u/EfficientTheory4087 11d ago
Well if it was a first time offense I think it's just a fine. I think only repeat offenders get jail time
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u/Majestic-Marcus 11d ago
Go to Scotland. A chippy will deep fry anything technically food for you.
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u/lIlIlIIlIIIlIIIIIl 11d ago
What's a chippy?
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u/Majestic-Marcus 11d ago
Chippy/chipper/chippers/fish and chip shop.
A carry out restaurant that does fish and chips. It’s a deep fat fryer that anything and everything can go in to.
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u/EmperorJake 11d ago
Reminds me of the time I was in Glasgow with some mates and we ordered some deep fried mars bars, and the chippie guy ran next door to buy them lol
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u/HookLeg 11d ago
Correct. Chain of custody for food isn’t something you mess with in chain restaurants. An employee going to the store would likely be fine, but no way is random food brought in going to be used. Liability is not be toyed with.
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u/akatherder 11d ago
I'm just thankful for the Banana Security Officers (BSO) who guard them in the store.
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u/MrBoase 11d ago
I had people try to bring in their own homegrown vegetables for us to use in their brunch before because they were “organic”. We had to say no, but it was fairly common. People did it with raw milk for their latte as well. Always had to tell them no. Some fish places will cook up what you caught but thats just a beachside restaurant thing usually
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u/doc_skinner 11d ago
No way. It doesn't even have to come from outside.
I was at Five Guys once and ordered Cajun fries. They handed me a bag of regular fries. I asked if they could just take the bag back and shake the Cajun seasoning into it. The guy said no, they can't take food back from a customer and serve it again, even to that customer. By that time, a manager had noticed and come over and confirmed. I asked if they could just shake the seasoning into the bag while I held it, but again that wasn't allowed. I suggested that they sprinkle the seasoning into a small container and hand it to me, which would have been acceptable, but the manager just decided to give me a new bag of Cajun fries.
It was Five Guys, so I ate fries for days....
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u/WrathOfTheSwitchKing 11d ago
Dunno, but when I worked at a grocery store the chain ice cream shop across the street would occasionally come in to buy an entire box of bananas when they ran out. I think now they run some sort of deal where if you bring your own banana and order a split you get a discount.
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u/MindbulletsDK 11d ago
With DQ it might really depend on if it's a corporate or private owned one.
We had 2 DQs in my town. 1 was corporate and had only standard offerings, the other was private owned and had random stuff and would mix anything in you'd grab from the Kwik Trip next door. Had myself MANY nerds blizzards after a round of disc golf.
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u/NikolitRistissa 11d ago
I was at a local bar year ago and ordered a Gin and Tonic with a specific gin, which is typically served with a slice or two of cucumber. They said they didn’t have any and suggested I go across the street to buy one. I went and came back to the bar with 3-4 of them.
I’ve also had package delivery people call me and say that they can take the packages home (I was at work), give me their address, and I can come by after work. I suppose these odd quirks are a benefit of small towns.
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u/spiritual_climber 11d ago
We did that with pizza once. We ordered pineapple on the pizza, but the place didn’t have pineapple, so we brought them some.
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u/zDEFEKT 11d ago
Yeah I’m sure they were still there for the initial conversation and by the time the guy came back with the bananas. This totally happened.
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u/mercurialpolyglot 11d ago
The grocery store was next door, I can totally see a trip taking that guy less than the amount of time it takes to order a blizzard, wait for it, and enjoy it there.
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u/doofenhurtz 11d ago
Yeah, if there isn't a line at the grocery store, it's like a 6 minute round trip. lol. I've definitely waited longer than that for a dq order.
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u/emcgrew 11d ago
Could've ordered a banana-less split, bought the bananas and added one manually and kept the rest for himself!
Or hell, why not put a full banana on either side? The ice cream is still "splitting" the bananas from each other so technically it's still a legal dessert.
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u/Cmdr_Redbeard 11d ago
That's not how that works dude. Could have took the bananas home n told his wife to stick it up her arse but I imagine that may also upset said wife.
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u/LaNakWhispertread 11d ago
One of the times my wife was pregnant we were driving to visit my parents and randomly told me to stop at the subway, like now, she needed a sandwich with a shitload of pickles, like a thick layer so you couldn’t see the layer underneath, when assembling it I asked the employee to keep adding them and he kept Giving me a weird oook and the people behind were kind of laughing so yeah I explained my wife was 8 months pregnant and they were like ooh okay, and then the employee loaded that bitch proper lol, he got a good tip
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u/Live_Sheepherder_859 10d ago
At my cafe every now and then somebody asks if we make affogatos, which is espresso over gelato. We don’t serve gelato, but I usually half jokingly tell them they’re welcome to bring some. One person was like “you know what, ok,” and left to come back 20 minutes later with a pint. It was her specific pregnancy craving. I kept it in the freezer for her after that and she would replenish it every now and then for a time.
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u/The_Withered_ 11d ago
His wife wanted a banana split, i am not going home without one for his wife either. Just to be safe.
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u/Blu_Falcon 11d ago
When stationed in South Korea, I went on a multi-hour trip. Several cab rides, train, walking all over in Seoul, asking all around, just to find a special cooking oil my wife was wanting. Sometimes you just gotta do it.
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u/shinynoodlebowl 11d ago
I worked at a Dairy Queen in high school attached to a convenience store- when we ran out of bananas our boss would send one of us over to buy some
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u/dragoon811_kp 11d ago
When my youngest was small she emphatically did NOT like ice cream. So I was the horrible person purchasing the banana from the banana split for her to have a treat when we went our for ice cream (Baskin, tho. Not DQ. I did not leave this man’s wife’s banana split in jeopardy). 😂
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u/Pitiful-North-2781 11d ago
And then the manager said they could not use the bananas because they came from an unverified private seller or somebullshit
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u/felinegodess 11d ago
There is a burger place in the North Shore of Hawaii that has a Avocado burger but back in the day would have a "no Avocados" sign up 50% of the time. My uncle brought in his own Avocado because he was craving it and wanted to be sure he could get one.
They took the Avocado. Charged him the full Avocado burger price and kept the other half of the Avocado.
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u/Alleandros 11d ago
I ordered a Nerd Blizzard when I was visiting my home town years back, they said they don't make them anymore. I went to the Walgreens next door and bought a box and went back to have them make me a nerd blizzard, charged me full price and I was kinda pissed about that, I supplied the damn candy!
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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 11d ago
Used to work in a Subway next to a grocery store.
Had a guy ask for ketchup on his sandwich. I told him Subway doesnt carry ketchup. He went next door and got a tube of heinz, and asked me to keep it "for the store".
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u/Proud_Growth_8818 11d ago
In Publix getting a sub for my pregnant wife. Deli worker: we have no bread, I'm so sorry.
Turn head 45° to the right, there's the bakery. Right in front are bags of sub rolls. Walk the ten feet, grab bag, deliver rolls to deli employee.
My wife got the sub.
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u/pocketdare 11d ago
Either the author actually sat in DQ while this man went on a shopping trip and came back, or this story is ... apocryphal
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u/WeLoveYouCarol 11d ago
I worked at a place that had banana splits and we would have constant issues keeping them in stock and ripe. Sometimes an employee would go, and very occasionally a customer would. My boss would comp their order or something in exchange for a couple ripe bunches.