Papa John’s Pizza just sent me an e-mail offering a “Columbus Day Special: Free Chickenstrips!”
So clearly there’s a part of that legend I do not know. Is there a logical tie-in there? Are strips of meat part of the normal festivities? I don’t celebrate Columbus Day; I’m Catholic. Was Columbus the one who decided “chickenstrip” was one word?
October 9th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
The reason for free chickenstrips be damned! Accept your delicious marketing with thanks, and be honored they chose to share with you.
However… Wikipedia does not believe in this chickenstrip concept, so it must not exist, which may be how it can be freely distributed.
October 10th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
I want to know why pizza places have started to sell everything from buffalo wings, to chicken strips, to more friends and family minutes on my cell phone. Note to dominoes: if your pizza sucks, why would your brownies be better?
October 10th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
You know, that raises an interesting issue: as a pizza place, Papa John’s is essentially a maker of Italian cuisine, so why choose America’s only real Italian holiday to offer me frickin’ chicken strips? I feel like I’ve gotten a little closer to unravelling this mystery. Follow the money.
Every time I see a commercial for any pizza deliverer’s dessert offering, it puts me off my dinner altogether. Nothing about those “dessert pizzas” is getting it done, and the less said about the brownie that Dominos depicts as furry, the better. I always imagine that the desserts and pizzas are made out of the same basic dough ingredients, which makes my mouth water just long enough for me to realize that that’s not water, that’s vomit, and swallow.