Trapped in the Drive-Thru!

MarsBar · Post by **MarsBar** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:52 am

Orthography Enthusiast @ Oct 11 2006, 08:09 PM wrote: I'll get back to you later with the price of this order.

Show me $5.82!

SmileyGirl87 · Post by **SmileyGirl87** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:53 am

Orthography Enthusiast @ Oct 11 2006, 07:09 PM wrote: Actually, California does have ONE Ruby Tuesday's, someplace in the Bay Area. We also have, to make up for the lack, quite a few Ruby's Diners and Rubio's Baja Grills.

Upon further Web-searching, I think the Drive Thru in question must be a Jack In The Box after all. The corporate website lists root beer, so some of the locations must sell it. Therefore, for your further edumacation, I provide the following menu items and calorie counts. I'll get back to you later with the price of this order.

Hamburger with Cheese 350 (don't know yet whether it comes with onions)
Chicken Sandwich 400
Seasoned Curly Fries 400
Barq's® Root Beer 20 oz 180

Somehow, I think that's going to exceed $5.82...

~*Cat*~

ducttapeearth · Post by **ducttapeearth** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:00 am

I think it's safe to say this place is fictional. No reason to do all this work

Post by **Miss Janine** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:01 am

If the person "super-sized it at no charge", it was probably rung up as a combo-type deal. After 4 years of slingin' Hardees food, I remember well that if a customer orders individual items that would make up a combo (sandwich, fries and drink), we're supposed to ring it up as a combo. And since Al was about a dollar short, the order he ended up with was around 4.82, a reasonable price for what he got. Remember, he cancelled the chicken sandwich.

And we had a few JitB here in Maryland years ago, until McD and BK drove 'em out.

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:41 am

ducttapeearth @ Oct 11 2006, 09:00 PM wrote:

I think it's safe to say this place is fictional. No reason to do all this work

But we like over-analyzing everything to death. It's more fun that way. I agree with Miss Janine that it was a combo, so prices would be lower. In all fairness though, Al might not have done price research for this. He might have just made up the $5.82.

SmileyGirl87 · Post by **SmileyGirl87** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:47 am

Kevbo1987 @ Oct 11 2006, 09:41 PM wrote: But we like over-analyzing everything to death. It's more fun that way. I agree with Miss Janine that it was a combo, so prices would be lower. In all fairness though, Al might not have done price research for this. He might have just made up the $5.82.

Combo meal? Now, why didn't *I* think of that??? (former fast food employee of two months here..

)

Our over-analyzing is all in fun, ducttapeearth. I really don't lie awake at night thinking about this sort of thing.

I save all my over-analyzation for my waking hours.

~*Cat*~

Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:42 am

I want you all to know that in the interests of Accuracy In Annotation of Weird Al, I have bravely screwed up my blood cholesterol levels for the foreseeable future and actually placed Al's order at a local Jack In The Box.

The results of my experiment* (your mileage may vary)

1 Big Cheeseburger: $1.29
1 Small Seasoned Curly Fries: $1.39
1 Chicken Sandwich: $0.99
1 Medium Rootbeer: $1.59
Tax: $0.43
__________________________________
Total: $5.69

Things I noticed:
1. Removing the Chicken Sandwich would indeed solve the problem of being about a dollar short.
2. The Big Cheeseburger does not come with onions.
3. These items are listed individually on my receipt, not as a combo.
4. Mr. Bunny Slippers is a selfish so-and-so. If he'd taken the fries off his order, his wife could have had her sandwich.
5. Jack In The Box takes Visa or MasterCard, but not American Express.
6. Jack In The Box also does not run specials or upgrade the size at no charge. I think the girl working the Drive Thru window just liked Not-Paul's voice.

*In the end, I ate the whole burger, drank only drank half the soda, didn't finish the fries, and just ate the chicken patty and tossed the bun on that sandwich. I'm willing to suffer in the cause of Annotation, but not that much. :

Post by **Well, Well, Well** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:49 am

They don't put onions on their hamburgers at all? Because if they did (and you just didn't want any), that may up the price a little bit, which I believe was...$5.82 in the song?

Post by **Cinnamon** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:56 am

Orthography Enthusiast Posted on Oct 12 2006, 04:42 AM
...The Big Cheeseburger does not come with onions.

Unless you specifically ask for them...

and even then sometimes you still don't get them

Thanks for your sacrifice, Helen!

Post by **Akrovak** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:00 am

Thanks for all that you do, OE (even if it does involve clogging your arteries a little bit!

) .... awesome research, and it's pretty incredible how close the bottom line comes to what is actually in the song!

(did you get a small rubbery, bendable Jack? I'm sorry, but I have to ask cause that is one of my really fond memories of living in Long Beach ... that darn Jack toy ... of course, that was a LONG time ago, so probably not ... but just wondering anyway)