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Well maybe it's deserted because people have wised up to the fact that Baskin Robbins has been gypping you out of an average of 4 ounces of Quarterback Cookies and Pralines in the hand packed pints! The State investigated in San Diego CA, and slapped the ice cream company with a lawsuit. Baskin Robbins is paying almost $500,000 in fines.
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5-19-2007 @4:36PM Silver_Potato said... There's about a million other places I'd rather goto than Baskin's while I'm LA.
First one on that list is Scoops!
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5-19-2007 @4:07PM DJ said... What??? You didn't eat Blue Bell ice cream when you were in Texas??? What's wrong with you? ...just kidding. I used to like Baskin-Robbins. It was my first job ever. The Super Heater was my absolute favorite. I think they just priced themselves out of the market and you didn't get a good return for your buck--as you stated above!
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5-19-2007 @9:47PM malren said... Just to let you know, "gyp" is a racist term. It's literally the same as saying "Baskin Robbins has been Jewing you out of an average of 4 ounces of..."
It's derived from the racist stereotype that all gypsies are thieves and cheats.
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5-20-2007 @2:02AM k said... Thanks for adding that, Malren. I learned that last season on "House" when he said "what a gyp" to a family of gypsies, as a very derisive term, in order to fire them up. I appreciated learning that it was a slur. People don't often understand the origin of slang in the common domain -- "jerry rigged" being another one.
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5-20-2007 @11:28PM beanspants said... blue bells is way overrated. gandys is much better.
and i've always found baskin robbins to be the most fair-priced of the ice cream establishments. i went to some place a year ago, unfortunately i forgot the name, but i think i paid almost $10 for a dinky banana split in a cone.
and if you think regular neopolitan is the devil, check your supermarket for the unholy combination of neopolitan sherbet - orange, lime, and raspberry all in one gallon bucket...ahhhh..
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5-21-2007 @11:39AM Karen said... I'm on the east coast. Baskin-Robbins was my first job as well, and I remember all too clearly having to scoop exactly 2.5 ounce single cone, and weigh those pints and quarts on the scale, not by whether the container was packed full.
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5-21-2007 @5:26PM Boudreaux said... I only eat B&R when I eat ice cream when I'm out (vanilla if I'm at home). A few years ago I noticed my mint chip wasn't the same and I couldn't figure it out. No one believed me when I told them it tasted different. I think it was the chips, but not sure. Mint Chip and Chocolate Chip in a cup, and never anything else. I should probably as my therapist what that means.
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5-23-2007 @12:38PM MadKat said... "Jerry-rigged" is in fact not a slur. It is a variation of "jury-rig," which is a nautical term meaning to make a temporary fix in the ship's rigging and probably derives from Old French "ajurer," to aid. Possibly the term became confused with "jerry-build," which means "build unsoundly," but again, this term has no obvious ethnic or racial connotations. There is a variant of jerry-rig that begins with the letter "n" which I heard growing up in the south. Perhaps that is the slur to which you are referring.
As for Baskin-Robbins business practices, they have always been intent on selling product based on weight. They are obviously guilty of sloppy semantics---putting something in a pint-sized container doesn't necessarily make it a pint. Lesson learned. I still go to B-R on occasion. There are other specialty ice cream stores that perhaps have a fresher, better product, but the prices are commensurate with that increase in quality, and the portion sizes are often much larger than I need. A 2.5 oz scoop of B-R ice cream is still pretty tasty and satisfying and doesn't put a dent in my wallet or pounds on my scale.
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5-26-2007 @1:46PM darkroux6 said... malren may be a little sensitive. Do you have mommy or daddy issues we need to talk about?
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