7-11 Holds 2nd 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' Celebrating Frozen Drink's 50th Birthday
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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.
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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.
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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.
Nah. I don't need 32 oz of frozen sugar water.
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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.

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