(Snacked 9/03/12 M @ 7:30pm): And the Slurpee quest continues!
My friend and I had just finished an early dinner at nearly Gobi Mongolian BBQ House with other friends, when we both had a dessert craving for a Slurpee. Luckily, there was a 7-Eleven Food Store within walking distance from our new pad, so we decided to get to know our new hood and walked the 10 minutes max.
Neither of us had been to this location before, but it didn't matter. One thing we knew was that all 7-Elevens had Slurpees; it's just a matter of which flavors they had! Once we arrived, we headed to the back of the store where the Slurpee machine was located. Before us were six flavors: Fanta Wild Cherry, Coca Cola, Fanta Lemon Crème, Fanta Orange Xplosion, Fanta Sugar Free Mango, and Mountain Dew. I decided to go "suicide" and mix all available flavors, while my friend opted for only three flavors. Armed with a large size cup and dome lid in hand ($1.79 ea.), I simply went down the line from left to right (why complicate things!?). A slide of the white ball knob for each flavor produced the "sheesh" sound, and before we knew it, our drinkable masterpieces were complete! I didn't care for the color my turned out (kind of a brownish-red). Because we had just moved into our new crib in the 'hood, we also bought a few snacks for work the next morning: a 32 oz. can each of Arizona Green Tea and Mucho Mango ($0.99 + $0.05 CRV ea.), and a monster-sized Starbursts ($1.89). FYI...the store also had all the usual snack and drink items, along with travel size toiletries, and you can't forget the hot dogs as they rotated on the steel grill. Oh thank heaven...
The weather was still warm on our walk back, but as I alluded earlier, not only was I not impressed with the color of my mixture, the resulted tasted wasn't very pleasant either. I felt the lemon crème threw everything off and the Mountain Dew had an unusual tart taste. Of course I slurped it all down once we got home, but this concoction needed some tinkering. Obviously, this was no reflection on this store in any way.
Since we served ourselves, the only service to speak of was the cashier, and it was good. Nothing really more to say.
Parking was decent as they had their own lot. I couldn't get over the amount of people who were lined up in front of the RedBox in front of the store. What was the hot seller!? Otherwise, you could've parked on the street, which I'm sure was metered (most streets in the area are).
Overall, 7-Eleven location was a wonderful memory from my childhood, but adulthood has taken me away from this experience, except for such spur-of-the-moment instances like this was (actually, twice within a week's time). I found completely value (although probably not nutritional) as noted by the prices I quoted above (total bill was under $8.00; no tip required). The atmosphere was your standard convenient store with all of the drinks along the walls, food snack and such on the various aisles, magazines at the pay counter; you get the idea; maximized space in order to make a sale. The attire was completely casual, so I was in a t-shirt, boardshorts, and flip-flops. Come on, it's a convenient store! And, they accepted my credit card of choice...AMEX! read more