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Friday, September 7, 2007

(t)errible, (t)errible, (t)errible

At first I thought this was a joke. And as a joke, I admit, it would be kind of funny. I laughed. But now I'm pretty sure it's for real. And I've stopped laughing. I first saw it on the Dig's blogging section of their website. Then saw that it was in Boston magazine's blog. Then I realized that there are actual advertisements for it on the T. It is no joke, my friends. Cold Stone Creamery is coming out with a T inspired ice cream called, ready for this?, the (T)errific Charlie. I agree with everyone who is saying "WTF" right now. There are so many WTF's about this situation, it's not even funny. Like:

a) WTF are they thinking?

b)WTF is this going to taste like? Personally, all I can think of is the dirty T with obnoxious and gross people. I want to eat nothing that is actually inspired by this disgusting but necessary mode of transportation.

c) WTF makes them think that people are going to eat this? Even if the ice cream combination sounded unbelievable, I'd probably order it as my own combination ("I'll have the cake batter ice cream with M&Ms, Snickers, and Kit Kats...What? The (T)errific Charlie? No, no, just cake batter ice cream with M&Ms, Snickers, and Kit Kats, please.")

d) WTF do the candies in this ice cream have to do with the T? Allegedly, the M&Ms correspond to the different colors of the T lines. How cute..red, green, blue, orange. Oh, and yellow. The Dig's blogger was smart enough to ask about the yellow and, but of course, they represent the T buses, which have yellow stripes on them. Clever. Kit Kats and Snickers? No idea.

I can say with absolute certainty that I will NOT be ordering the (T)errific Charlie at Cold Stone Creamery, ever. The best line in Boston's blog is "And while rumors abound, there’s no word yet on whether Cold Stone plans to double the price of a (T)eriffic Charlie cone every two years, without doing anything to make it better." Not funny, because it's true!





It "stops you in your tracks!" And makes you throw up in your mouth a little.

4 comments:

Sara said...

that is absolutly disguisting.

jason said...

Well, here's the thing: Cold Stone Creamery is pretty awful anyway. So let this be a much-needed reminder to buy ice cream elsewhere.

the george said...

Your posts are too funny. I'm cracking up reading some of them.

Anyway, I'm sure the T inspired flavors will probably be not so good, but as a self described ice cream connoisseur I think it would be a bit hypocritical for me to not at least try them.

"Mmm, tastes like a gaggle of drunken freshmen!"

Phantom Hater said...

A "gaggle of drunken freshmen"? Now there's a flavor that has some appeal. Jaegermeister and lost innocence.

I hope the "T" flavor is a little better than CSC's other failed big-city concept flavors--New York City Sewer Rat, Jersey Turnpike, and Deroit Burning Tires.