The World's Worst Baskin-Robbins...

[Syndrome]

...is the one by the Publix on 192, sorta across from Old Town. It's the special hell where all SGs should be consigned for eternity so they could suffer with the stupid employees. I avoided the place for a year because my last experience was so bloody surreal, but I was on a chocolate jones today so I stopped in. It's a Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts combo. Employee waits on the two parties ahead of me in the ice cream line...ice cream people then have to go to donut line to pay. So ice cream employee goes over there and starts waiting on donut customers even though there is already a donut employee over there and quite crowd behind me waiting for ice cream. I stand at the counter along with the rest of the now-abandoned ice cream customers.

Finally the donut employee comes over to the counter. I say, "Do you have rocky road? I didn't see any."

"No, we only have what you see."

"Okay, I will have a two scoop sundae with jamoca almond fudge."

"We don't have that."

"Yes, you do. I saw it."

Employee glances at ice cream case..."No, we don't."

I said, "Yes, you do," but I was not in a position to point it out because there was a solid line of people against the case by now. Finally another person pointed it out to her (if it was any more in front of her face, it would have bitten her nose).

"What kind of sauce?"

"Marshmallow."

"We don't have that."

"Yes, you do. It's right there, the white stuff."

"No, we don't."

"It's in that bottle I can see on the counter."

"Oh."

Then, as she is finishing the sundae: "Do you want whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry?"

"Yes, I want everything."

"So you want whipped cream?"

"Yes, I want EVERYTHING."

After squirting on whipped cream: "Do you want nuts?"

"Yes, I said I want EVERYTHING."

Sprinkles nuts: "Do you want a cherry?"

"Yes, everything!" (aparently "everything" has way too many syllables to be properly understood).

Mr. Syndrome and I left that place shaking our heads. I literally have never, ever gotten ice cream there without a fiasco. It will definitely be at least another year before I dare try it again.

[Ms. Matterhorn]

I would be surprised if the place is still there in a year!

[Syndrome]

Sadly, it's been there for years already. Their primary customers are tourists (it's right on the tourist strip), so they don't have to worry too much about building up repeat business. Us locals aren't worth dog vomit to them.

[drcorey]

...is the one by the Publix on 192, sorta across from Old Town. It's the special hell where all SGs should be consigned for eternity so they could suffer with the stupid employees. I avoided the place for a year because my last experience was so bloody surreal, but I was on a chocolate jones today so I stopped in. It's a Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts combo. Employee waits on the two parties ahead of me in the ice cream line...ice cream people then have to go to donut line to pay. So ice cream employee goes over there and starts waiting on donut customers even though there is already a donut employee over there and quite crowd behind me waiting for ice cream. I stand at the counter along with the rest of the now-abandoned ice cream customers.

Finally the donut employee comes over to the counter. I say, "Do you have rocky road? I didn't see any."

"No, we only have what you see."

"Okay, I will have a two scoop sundae with jamoca almond fudge."

"We don't have that."

"Yes, you do. I saw it."

Employee glances at ice cream case..."No, we don't."

I said, "Yes, you do," but I was not in a position to point it out because there was a solid line of people against the case by now. Finally another person pointed it out to her (if it was any more in front of her face, it would have bitten her nose).

"What kind of sauce?"

"Marshmallow."

"We don't have that."

"Yes, you do. It's right there, the white stuff."

"No, we don't."

"It's in that bottle I can see on the counter."

"Oh."

Then, as she is finishing the sundae: "Do you want whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry?"

"Yes, I want everything."

"So you want whipped cream?"

"Yes, I want EVERYTHING."

After squirting on whipped cream: "Do you want nuts?"

"Yes, I said I want EVERYTHING."

Sprinkles nuts: "Do you want a cherry?"

"Yes, everything!" (aparently "everything" has way too many syllables to be properly understood).

Mr. Syndrome and I left that place shaking our heads. I literally have never, ever gotten ice cream there without a fiasco. It will definitely be at least another year before I dare try it again.

lazy high school grads prolly.

my cat likes baskin robbins, if he sees them thru the windows he will howl and cry untill he is let out for some baskin robbibs....

[felinefan]

I used to let Tripod lick my bowl after I'd had ice cream in it; she actually got kind of addicted. But then she came down with pancreatitis, and since the vet said the ice cream treat was likely the cause (high in fat), my kitty hasn't had ice cream in five years. And it was hard telling her no, vet's orders, whenever I had ice cream and she'd cry for the empty dish. But she's over it now.

Maybe you should just buy your own ice cream, etc., and make your sundae at home. I sure would, if I had to deal with obviously illiterate kids like that.

[Syndrome]

My old horse Cochise, who went to that Great Pasture in the Sky earlier this year, was extremely addicted to ice cream. There was another barn down the road from the place where I kept him, and the owner had cows so he'd make homemade ice cream and sell it to the locals. He sold unpasteurized milk too...probably dangerous but way too darned good. I would ride down there, get a cone, eat all but the bottom (with a little ice cream left in it), feed the bottom to Cochise, then climb on and head home. One day I forgot to save him his bit. I went to climb on him and he was like "No way!" Would not stand for me to mount. Finally I realized that he wasn't about to carry my fat butt without his part of the treat.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

hehehe

We got some gift cards from our kids for cold stone creamery! after that experience, everything else is common! Just watching them mix your flavors and additions is great, but make sure you put something in the tip jar to hear the WooHooooo!! from all the employees!


Another treat for us is going to the ben and jerrys ice cream store! Mmmmm.

okay, after dinner.........

[hobie16]

...is the one by the Publix...

How do you like Publix? The kid up the street is the grandson of the founder.

[hhsrat]

Was this the BR/DD combo on 192 between Formosa Gardens and Sherberth?

(and I still don't understand why all the BR or DD around here are combo, BR/DD ... Ice Cream and Donuts don't seem like a logical combination to me)

[BriDon51]

Was this the BR/DD combo on 192 between Formosa Gardens and Sherberth?

(and I still don't understand why all the BR or DD around here are combo, BR/DD ... Ice Cream and Donuts don't seem like a logical combination to me)

The one thing they have in common is that Dunkin Donuts owns Baskin Robbins