Thought this was HILARIOUS!!
The First Cockroach I Ever Ate, or Why I'll Never Go to Dairy Queen Again Meet Fred, the Dairy Queen Cockroach! I went to Dairy Queen today. My wife and I like to stop by for a Blizzard occasionally, and today was one of those occasions. This time she got a small Blizzard and I got a medium chocolate malt. The malt came with a lid on it, so I never opened the lid but just poked the straw through the little X-cut in the center and started in.When I was about 3/4 done with it, I felt somethink kind of dry come out of the straw into my mouth. At first I thought it might be some dry malt powder or something, but when it didn't seem to dissolve I picked up a napkin and .... There he was!!!!I took the malt, the napkin and Fred up to the counter and asked to speak with the manager - who, it turns out, was the person who had actually made my malt. Here is as near as I can come to a verbatim account of the exchange that followed after I showed her the cockroach on the napkin:me: "This just came out of my straw when I was drinking this malt."her: "Well, I don't know what that is."me: "It's a cockroach."her: "Well, that straw was sealed in a paper wrapper."me: "Yes, I know that, I expect that the cockroach was in the malt."her: "Well, I didn't put it in there on purpose."me: "I didn't think you put it there on purpose, but you fed me a cockroach!"her: "Well, I don't know how he got in there. I didn't put him there."me: "I don't think there's much question that he was in there."her: "I made that malt myself, I just put in the ice cream, and the malt...."me: "Do you feed everybody cockroaches?"her: "No, you're the first one. This is a clean restaurant."me: "Well, I think maybe it's not clean enough."her: "Well, I don't know what to do about it."me: "Do you suppose you could at least give me my money back?"She did give me my money back (though she had never voluntarily offered it, nor an apology), and I left the remainder of my malt and any entomological civilizations that may have still been in there on the counter and left.I don't think I'll be having any more Blizzards or Dairy Queen malts for a very long time.(This occurred at the Dairy Queen on Virgina Avenue in Lexington KY, November 17, 2007)