Dunkin' Donuts emailed me and asked me to call them so they could get more information. I did, and also told them about the DD kiosk at Ruggles that gave me food poisoning twice.

They're going to contact the franchisees and pass my comments along. For what that's worth.

Now I'm going to go get some ice cream.

I'm still pissed off. I made the mistake of getting a coffee Coolatta and bagel at the only Dunkin Donuts near my work.

As always, they simply tossed the bagel in the bag with some butter. If I wanted to butter a cold bagel myself, I would have bought one much cheaper at the Shaws next door. Is it that fucking hard to butter a goddamned bagel ( Read more... )

Not too long ago we bought a medium-sized jar of local wildflower honey. As I think I've mentioned here before, I'd heard somewhere in the news that many nationally-distributed and supermarket brand honeys originate in China, and despite claiming to be pure honey they're actually heavily adulterated with high-fructose corn syrup and other nasty ( Read more... )

As you might remember, at the height of the recent gas price surge there was a strange event. All sorts of products started shrinking. Ice cream in particular went from 2 quarts (the standard half-gallon) to 1.5 quarts; a 25% reduction in product with no corresponding reduction in price ( Read more... )

So I went down to get coffee and a cinnamon swirl from the Fresh City in the lobby this morning. I answered the trivia question (it was an easy one) so my coffee was free. As always when I get coffee, I also grabbed some of the free cinnamon pita chips that they have out.

Now, the containers they put out for the pitas are tiny. They're little ( Read more... )

Someone posted a "question" Askville urging a boycott of Amazon.com as a protest of bad Askville policies. My comment wasn't particularly brilliant, but since there's a good chance that the question will be deleted (and I hate it when that happens) I'm saving a copy here:

It's a good idea, and frankly I'd like to see a lot

more boycotting going on - ( Read more... )

About six weeks ago I emailed Pur about some bad water filters we'd bought from them. It took them a while to respond, but when they did it was pretty annoying ( Read more... )

I noticed this a while ago. Apparently lots of people have missed it. But some time in the last several months, groceries started shrinking - a lot.

All sorts of groceries. But I guess it's not surprising that I first noticed that ice cream had shrunk. Maybe you remember: when you buy ice cream in the supermarket, the usual sizes are a half gallon ( Read more... )

Just emailed this to PUR:
We bought a PUR faucet water filtration system several months ago. The first two filters worked well, so we bought a six-pack of replacement filters from BJ's ( Read more... )

I was going to buy a copy of the Hogfather DVD for my birthday today. I have a gift certificate, and I was really looking forward to buying it and watching it with Teri; she hadn't been able to stay past the first hour or so at Arisia because she was too tired ( Read more... )