Can I just have some sauce??
April 30th 2010 23:15
The reason for this reversal of fortune is that when people were faced with the choice to take only what was needed, or supply their car and house with emergency sauces (just in case) they chose to be greedy.
So now, returning the favour to us for our avarice, the take-away joints are so tight fisted that nothing less than a pitiful “do you think I could bother you for some BBQ sauce and salt” said with puppy dog eyes and a self-defeated look, will get you anything.
And let me tell you that I am not kidding when I relay the following story.
I was in town visiting some rellies when I decided to pull into Macca’s to pick up some lunch for everyone. I ordered four adult meals and two Happy Meals for the girls. Now, because chicken nuggets obviously need BBQ sauce, they voluntarily give you one sauce per kid’s meal.
You would think four large orders of chips with burgers might persuade the condiments gods to throw us a few charity packs of sauce, but once again, I had to bow down to the drive-thru window guy holding all the sauce-distributing power.
So in my sweetest southern accent, I asked the young lad if he might put in a good word for me and see if it would be possible for me to get some sauce and salt to go along with my almost fifty dollar order of food.
He said: “Not a problem ma’am”, and walked away – I’m supposing to write the proposal to the head of the sauce department to petition on my behalf.
A few moments later he came back to the window with a smile on his dial that said, “You’ve been approved” and handed me my...wait for it... one tiny tub of BBQ sauce, with one, yes, one packet of salt (or 20 grains of salty goodness as I like to think of it) sitting on top.
Oh, my! What’s a girl supposed to do with all that?
And the worst part of all of this, is during their last quarter, according to Forbes, McDonald’s boasted $1.1 billion dollars in sales. You would think they’d be throwing the condiments at us just to say thanks.
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