We’ve come to the time of year when I start to crave iced coffee. I usually just cold brew my own since coffee shops charge a lot more for the cold variety than they do the hot. But McDonald’s is having a promotion right now for any size of cold beverage at $1, including their oh-so-delicious iced coffee.<\/p>\n
Regardless of which McDonald’s I go to and where, the following conversation, almost verbatim, ensues every single time<\/em>. This wouldn’t be worth a post if it didn’t always happen!<\/p>\n Me: Hi, I’d like a (size) plain iced coffee, no syrup, half the cream.<\/p>\n McDonalds: What kind of iced coffee?<\/p>\n Me: Plain. No syrup, half the cream.<\/p>\n McDonalds: You just want cold coffee and cream?<\/p>\n Me: Yes. Cold coffee and half the cream.<\/p>\n McDonalds: Sugar?<\/p>\n Me: No, thank you. Just cold coffee and half the cream.<\/p>\n The cashier then takes my order, still looking puzzled, and goes to the person who makes the iced coffee.<\/p>\n Cashier: Can you make me an iced coffee, no syrup, half the cream?<\/p>\n Coffee maker: No syrup, half the cream? Just cold coffee with cream?<\/p>\n Cashier: That’s what she wants.<\/p>\n Coffee maker (to me): What kind of iced coffee do you want?<\/p>\n Me: Plain. No syrup. Just cold coffee and half the cream.<\/p>\n Coffee maker: (makes my drink at last!) Sugar?<\/p>\n Me: No, thank you, that’s perfect!<\/p>\n It boggles me, really, since they have no problem with my order for hot coffee with half a cream. I think the cold coffee is seen as being a dessert more than a beverage. There’s no other way to explain it!<\/p>\n I’ll be making my own again soon enough, with skim milk instead of cream, and lots of cinnamon, but in the mean time, it’s fun to confound people. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve come to the time of year when I start to crave iced coffee. I usually just cold brew my own since coffee shops charge a lot more for the cold variety than they do the hot. But McDonald’s is having a promotion right now for any size of cold beverage at $1, including their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[794],"class_list":["post-22293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-travel","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}