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VHS? 08-19-16 03:16 PM
7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
On Friday and Saturday (8/19-8/20), customers can pay $1.50 to use their own container to hold the beverage. Receptacles must be leak-proof, food-safe and fit upright into a 10-inch-diameter store display.
Last year, my kids filled up 2 large pickle jars (I keep them for bacon grease and such) and we are having the perfect weather here for this.

Bring on the brain freeze!

SuperJim88 08-19-16 03:57 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
Huh? I thought slurpee is regularly $1.50 a piece.

cpgator 08-19-16 03:59 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
Originally Posted by SuperJim88 (Post 12878384)
Huh? I thought slurpee is regularly $1.50 a piece.
You can't normally fill up pickle jars for $1.50

Dan 08-19-16 04:02 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
I can make my own slurpees for 1/5 the cost!

Deftones 08-19-16 04:36 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
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Kurt D 08-19-16 06:10 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
Originally Posted by VHS? (Post 12878370)
Last year, my kids filled up 2 large pickle jars (I keep them for bacon grease and such) and we are having the perfect weather here for this.

Bring on the brain freeze!
MMMM nothin' like a bacon grease and pickle juice slurpee ...

Trevor 08-19-16 06:20 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
I got the text about this earlier today, and had a slurpee craving as I drove by a 7-11. I felt silly just using a 32 oz cup when everyone else in the store was filling up big Tupperware containers and the like.

Nick Danger 08-19-16 07:52 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
I have a cup that I got from 7-11 more than 20 years ago. Maybe I should bring that.

Nah. I don't need 32 oz of frozen sugar water.

Vibiana 08-19-16 09:42 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
I'm old enough to remember when 7-11 sold Icees, not Slurpees. Icees (the cup had red and turquoise stripes and a cartoon bear) only came in cola and cherry flavor, but they were infinitely better than Slurpees. Sometimes being an old woman is better. :lol:

Trevor 08-19-16 10:10 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
Originally Posted by Vibiana (Post 12878606)
I'm old enough to remember when 7-11 sold Icees, not Slurpees. Icees (the cup had red and turquoise stripes and a cartoon bear) only came in cola and cherry flavor, but they were infinitely better than Slurpees. Sometimes being an old woman is better. :lol:
You sure you're not remembering the chain of convenience stores called Highs? They had icees, and 7-11s only had icees for a brief time in 1965 at limited locations. I didn't think that you're that old.

Vibiana 08-20-16 05:29 AM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
I was born in 1965. :lol: I definitely remember Icees from 7-11.

Trevor 08-20-16 09:29 AM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
Originally Posted by Vibiana (Post 12878718)
I was born in 1965. :lol: I definitely remember Icees from 7-11.
I wish I had your memory skills. 7-11 has not had icees since 1965.

Chrisedge 08-20-16 09:47 AM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
Originally Posted by Trevor (Post 12878762)
I wish I had your memory skills. 7-11 has not had icees since 1965.
Looks like 7/11 never had "Icees" as the agreement was they would call them something else, and the Icee company was founded in 1965...(per wiki)

Mabuse 08-20-16 12:52 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
Icee is the Go Bots of frozen beverages.

Vibiana 08-20-16 03:05 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
In my memory they had them. I know they sold Icees at K-mart too, but we never shopped there much. Maybe I'm thinking of a different convenience store, but in the Kansas City area in the late 60s/early 70s, the two main ones were QuikTrip, U-Totem, and 7-Eleven.

Trevor 08-20-16 05:24 PM
Re: 7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
 
Originally Posted by Chrisedge (Post 12878776)
Looks like 7/11 never had "Icees" as the agreement was they would call them something else, and the Icee company was founded in 1965...(per wiki)
From another source, 7-11 did briefly sell Icees in 100 stores in 1965, but then quickly worked the deal and "invented" Slurpees.
Originally Posted by Vibiana (Post 12878924)
In my memory they had them. I know they sold Icees at K-mart too, but we never shopped there much. Maybe I'm thinking of a different convenience store, but in the Kansas City area in the late 60s/early 70s, the two main ones were QuikTrip, U-Totem, and 7-Eleven.
For me it was Highs and 7-11, and they were almost literally on every corner.

I remember the debates in elementary school about the merits of our two choices, and they all centered around Icee versus Slurpee.


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