An employee for a McDonald's in Perry, Georgia, said she was first skeptical when someone called to order 1,600 McChicken sandwiches, 1,600 McDoubles and 3,200 cookies in four hours.
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Reminds me of when we came back from Germany in 1976 and drove from the east coast where we picked up the truck, arriving in Modesto about 10 or 11 PM. None of our relatives had seen us in 4 years, so they were all waiting at my grandparent's house. There must've been 75 people there from both sides of the family, most of them in the yard enjoying the summer evening. It wasn't anything planned, they all just showed up.
We got there, got all of our hellos said and then about 1 in the morning, everybody started getting hungry. This was long before places stayed open real late or all night long and the only place anybody knew was open for sure was fucking Taco Bell. Me and my uncle were volunteered to make a munchies run and a collection was taken up.
We pulled up to the the drive thru and ordered something like 150 tacos, 50 or so Burrito Supremes and a couple three dozen orders of nachos.
They flat out refused to fill the order. It probably didn't help matters that me and my uncle smoked a fattie on the way and was having giggling fits as we were trying to order.
We ended up raiding a couple truck stops on the outskirts of town, showing up at the house an hour later with cases of gas station food - Slim Jims, those little bags of chips, candy bars, shit like that - stacked into the back of Gary's truck.
We've been to Perry, GA, many times, never remember the fast food places, cause we don't do that, but there is a popular southern style restaurant, on a corner, in an old house that is well known...I wish I could remember the name of it, but, worth a vist...
ReplyDeleteAt a family gathering in Lebanon, Indiana, some time back, I was dispatched to get 4 buckets of chicken, a dozen large pots of taters, gravy, whatever the side veggie was, and 16 of those desert sundae things they used to have.
ReplyDeleteNow, this was a rainy Sunday, and other than my Camaro, there was only one other car in the parking lot, which I assumed was either the cook's or the counter girl's.
So the girl took my order and without even looking up, said . . . . wait for it . . . .
"Will that be for here or to go?"
When I used to work for Evergreen Energy in Gillette Wy, there was a rule there that if any employee that wanted to leave work early had to leave earlier then they wanted so they could then go to McDs and buy enough food for the whole coal plant, once they returned with food they could leave. I only did it once,cost me a hundred mcdoubles and a hundred fries to go to that concert
ReplyDeleteBack in the day micyd's ran a retro special for their burgers with a price of them being a nickel. Being from a large family my brothers and I ordered 50 burgers (for the entire family) at the drive thru. They actually filled the order and we were in bliss the rest of the day.
ReplyDeleteHad a similar situation when stationed in Guantanamo Bay Marine Barracks. If a "tuna" boat came in no other ships would release for liberty. The Mc D's night shift got phone in orders from 3 different ships in one night, one being the Iwo Jima. Walked over $8000 to Navy Fed that night and that was in 1989.
ReplyDeleteThere was a 24 hour Krystals that was running a 25 cent special on the Krystal burger. We were setting up a radio relay sight on a training exercise where we had driven 7 hours and then spent another 8 hours setting up the equipment. I was volentold to make a Krystals run for 200 postage stamp burgers.
ReplyDeleteLordy. I haven't had a Krystal boger since my first wife worked one in Jacksonville FL over 50 years ago. They would sell those things in large shopping bags.
DeleteBe glad you had a chance to 'enjoy' Krystal burgers.
DeleteKrystals declared bankruptcy a few years ago, then came out of it, and was the bought-out by some 'investors'. In central 'Bama, there are only 3 Krystals restaurants left (Hoover, Jackson State, and Pell City).
It's a shame that White Castle never expanded to The South.
They closed the one here in Lafayette 3-4 years ago.
DeleteHilarious 1972 clip from the Don Imus show, "1200 Hamburgers to Go"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY60M5l4o2M
Guy I knew worked a Jack Inna Box in the '70s told me how they dealt with smart-ass drive thru orders: mashed the meat patty to make a "well", and overfilled it with Secret Sauce and designed to ooze copiously. They called it a Wellburger.
ReplyDeleteAlso, no napkins in the bag.
RIP, Jay.
l know this one.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPg0q2HIc5A
if you order enough "burger minus everything but the bun" suddenly they owe YOU money.
I worked at Taco Bell on Geer Road in Turlock in the late 1970's. We had someone try to phone in an order like that the night before Thanksgiving. The lead chick refused it, and then the guy walked in the door and laid down cash. His order doubled our business that day.
ReplyDeleteDon Imus in NYC did a routine where he would call McDonalds as a prank and put in some crazy-ass order like 10,000 Big Macs to go, 1 w/o cheese. It was funny back in more innocent times.
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