Free Fry Day at Chick-Fil-A
Chick-fil-A has chosen Oklahoma City to be among the first in the nation to sample its new Sweet Potato Waffle Fries, a side item that the chain is considering adding to the menu. And today, you can get them for free.
Oklahoma City is one of only four markets nationwide where the Atlanta-based restaurant chain is conducting a limited-time trial to evaluate the new Sweet Potato version of its signature Waffle Potato Fries.
The new Sweet Potato Waffle Fries will be offered for sale at 14 Oklahoma City-area locations, as well as the chain’s restaurants in Philadelphia, Memphis, Tenn., and Athens, Ga. The market test will continue through August 31.
Today you can sample the sweet frites for free from 3 to 6 p.m. To get your free order of medium sweet potato fries, drop by a Chick-fil-A and ask for them either at the counter or by drive-through.
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Meanwhile, if you make it out or have already tried them, let me know what you thought.
Of Sonic, T-shirts & Dogs with More Bow than Wow
Sonic has taken a lot of heat this week for supplying Memphis Grizzlies fans with the means to “white-out” their arena as they hosted the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round of the NBA playoffs.
That’s right, despite having its corporate headquarters a stroll from Thunder central, Sonic backed the bad guys. Maybe the company is still angry about the franchise changing its name from the Sonics to the Thunder?
So much for keeping it local.
And now Sonic wants Thundertown to try their premium hot dogs?
Why not? Turns out those Sonic-backed T-shirts were treated with Thunder mojo. The team came back from Memphis with the victory they needed to regain the home-court advantage — nearly came back with two!
Thanks to Sonic’s reverse-jinx methodology, it’s now easier to take an objective look at those aforementioned hot dogs.
Matt Clayton, Greg Elwell and I tried the dogs before the playoffs began, so we’d already made our assessment before T-shirtgate.
We made our way over to the Sonic on NE 23, just west of the Capitol complex, and ordered one of each of Sonic’s premium dogs, which come in Chicago, Coney, New York and All-American versions.
First, we tried the Chicago Dog, and Sonic seemed to get all the pieces right but maybe not the proportions. The Chicago Dog is a simple homage to excess: frank, tomato slices, onions, toxic-avenger green relish, mustard (never ketchup), sport peppers and celery salt on a poppy-seed bun. In Chicago, it’s impossible to eat without a legion of napkins. At Sonic, it wasn’t really a problem — which is the problem. If there was celery salt on the dog, I didn’t really catch a lot of it. The bun was excellent, the frank was fine and all the accouterments were solid, but overall this dog would not hunt in Chicago. I would discourage Sonic from attempting any T-shirt promotions for the Bulls.
Then we headed for New York, where we found a dog topped with brown mustard, grilled onions and a smattering of sauerkraut. Again, the result was solid but unspectacular. Brown mustard and grilled onions are most likely accepted as delicious by most eaters, but sauerkraut is polarizing. There are those that love it and those that hate it with very few in between. By the amount of sauerkraut Sonic put on its dog, it made me wonder whether they were trying to sneak it past those that hate it. Somehow, they’ve made the least subtle of dog toppings subtle. As a sauerkraut lover, I found it lacking. Most sauerkraut haters would probably find it annoying. So, nobody really wins.
As for the All-American Dog: ketchup, mustard relish and onions. I suppose that’s all-American because it’s served at Fourth of July picnics nationwide. Fair enough. It’s well-named, but that’s about it. There’s nothing offensive about this dog, nor is there anything about it I can’t throw together at home in half the time it takes me to drive to the nearest Sonic. However, if you’re at Sonic to get a delicious limeade over equally delicious pellet ice and want a snack, this might be your dog.
Finally, there’s the Chili-Cheese Coney, which is essentially a less lengthy version of the footlong. If you like the footlong, you’ll like the premium version but for fewer bites. On the other hand, if you like the footlong but find it too lengthy, this is the coney for you.
Do these new additions create compelling new reasons to stop by your local Sonic Drive-In? No. But they also won’t stop me from my twice-a-week minimum stops for a Route 44 diet limeade over what Bongo impresario Matthew McConaughey calls the world’s most perfect ice.
But now that Sonic has gone to such great lengths via such morally perilous means on behalf of our hometown Thunderers, perhaps it’s time to go by Sonic before the next playoff game. Whichever you choose, be sure to ask them to pile on the ingredients.
Be sure to check out Greg Elwell‘s take on the 4 dogs of Sonic, and if you’ve tried them, let us know what you thought.
