Did anybody else go to the Baskin Robbins 31-cent Scoop event on Wednesday? GC and I went with a comprehensive plan. We mapped out all the Baskin Robbins stores in Ottawa, and planned our route. Our intention was to hit all of them except the one in Orleans.
We started on Richmond Road, where we each got a double-header. Mine was Gold Medal Ribbon and Chocolate Mousse Royal. GC went with a minty theme.
Lineup
GC made a recognizance mission to the front of the line to see why it wasn’t moving.
“They’re only letting four people in the store at a time,” he said. “And there’s a firefighter working the till.”
We decided to head on over to the Bank Street store, and come back to Meadowlands later. It was a good move. There was no lineup on Bank Street. I had a double Gold Medal Ribbon, and GC had a double Peanut Butter Chocolate. We ate them while wandering around Farm Boy.
I tried to ask the produce man where the artichokes were, but my mouth was frozen from all the ice cream.
“Whe ah d ahchoz?” I said.
“Excuse me?” he asked, and stared intently at my mouth as I repeated myself.
After we finished those ice cream cones, it occurred to us that maybe we didn’t really need to go to the other Baskin Robbins stores. After all, we were expecting single scoops at each store, not doubles, so we reached capacity sooner than expected. Next year we’ll pace ourselves.
By the way, remember when I complained to Baskin Robbins about the tub of Gold Medal Ribbon? I ended up taking Tom Sawyer’s advice and phoning the 1-800 number listed on their website, since they were ignoring my emails. A nice lady told me that the reason nobody had responded to my emails was because I was Canadian.
Eh??
Anyway, she said she would send me some coupons in the mail. They never arrived.
In other news, if you’re looking for something interesting to do in Ottawa this weekend, you might want to check out Jane’s Walk. We plan to go on a few of the walks, but we’re having a hard time choosing among them.
Oh the Jane’s walk events look great! I’d do the How Ottawa helps the homeless one and the urban artists at the old Central Tech wall one.
I hope you don’t mind if I do a tiny gentle rant here, but I just wonder how hard it would really be for ice cream stores like this to offer a segregated peanut-free option. We just can’t go for ice cream like other families. I see a separate area with separate scoops and proper training for employees on how not to cross-contaminate the ice creams. I understand there would be a liability factor here, but I still think it is possible, even if there were just a few basic flavours available.
It could be a good business decision by companies. This allergy is so common that they are losing a LOT of business.
Finola, what if instead of scoops they offered single serving cups that were sealed? So you could buy a cone and a cup and use a spoon to fill your own cone.
I imagine it’s the only way they could eliminate human error based risk.
mudmama, I love that idea! It is much better than risking a human factor mistake. Maybe I will write to Baskin Robbins to suggest it…oh, right.
And what will you be doing with those ahchoz?