Slurpees....

[daredevil]

Originally Posted by ken0042

That sounds high. 1.3 litres of Coke would have about 640 calories; which would mean a slurpie would have to have twice as much syrop as a the regular pop.

Somehow I just don't see that.

Edit- just found a link: http://www.myslurpeecup.com/nutrition.html

While that's great news, all it does is enable me to drink more of them with less guilt. My wife will be very displeased to hear about this.

[OilersBaby]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

haha I remember being in Vegas and getting one, I thought something was wrong with it. How can people actually LIKE that down there?? Its just cold tea with ice cubes!

EDIT: Just re-read your post, I thought you said Iced Tea :s

Yeah, in the US (except for in the Southern States like Georgia, Florida, Kentucky etc where they have the same iced tea that Canada does), you have to ask for "Sweetened Iced Tea" or else you'll get COLD tea with ice cubes and have to put sugar or splenda in it yourself. It's pretty yucky.

And I have no idea what you guys are talking about when you say slurpees are carbonated. I haven't had one in a while, so after reading this thread yesterday, I went to the 7-11 and got a Coke slurpee. It tasted the same as the ones I used to get at the Mac's (Max?) in Edmonton by University when I lived there.

[@theCBE]

Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

I know that they have Newspaper shops but they don't really have the big chain convenience stores which I think would be needed for something like this to take root in England... summer months seem to be getting hotter in England/Scotland and the main slushee type beverage is a Frapichino, which if you think are expensive here, are the same price over there just in pounds (9 dollar drinks!)

Its not just their slushee drinks that are expensive... it costs me less to buy a 6 pack of beer than it does to buy a 6 pack of Coke, and the beer comes in Tall cans! I went to tesco yesterday and a 6-pack of coke was 3.23 pounds.. thats like 7 bucks.

I thought I was coping with the lack of slurpees pretty well.. but since I read this thread yesterday my cravings have gotten so bad I considered throwing a bunch of ice in a blender and pouring a can of coke over it.
Damn you kermitology !!

[kermitology]

WTF.. I just asked a question.. Be happy with your overflowing taps of Tennents there CBE.. I'll FedEx you a Slurpee for a beer!

And OilersBaby. You've now confirmed that the San Jose area is like Canada.. Probably from all the transplanted electrical/computer/software engineers from up North :P