Friday, July 20, 2007

 

Just Chillin'

It is good to know that the Krystal Lovin' goes both ways. We all know there's millions of Krystal Lovers out there, and currently 60 are in the Hall of Fame. Because the folks at Krystal know what's what, they are taking advantage of their most valuable resource when it comes to new ideas.
Last week they put up on the Krystal Lovers' Lounge a poll about thier new MilkQuakes. You'll recall that there are currently 3 flavors of MilkQuakes: Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry. Within a week of their being released chain wide, I had already discovered the beauty of dunking a hot apple pie in the vanilla MilkQuake. Yummy!
It seems Krystal is looking to expand and get creative as well. The poll they put up was asking the Krystal Lovers what should be the next flavor MilkQuake. You can use the link above, then go to the Krystal Lovers' Lounge and register your vote. I believe you also get a coupon for a free MilkQuake for voting.
Here's how things stand right now:
  • Coffee-13% ( 22 votes)
  • Peach-13% ( 22 votes)
  • Raspberry-6% ( 10 votes)
  • Reeses Peanut Butter-40% ( 66 votes)
  • Banana Pudding-21% ( 35 votes)
  • Mango-4% ( 7 votes)
Obviously, the Reeses is kicking the snot out of the rest of the field. Personally none of the rest are even close to appealing to me. But being the "out of the box" thinker I am, I have come up with a different idea: Krystal Coke Floats.
The MilkQuakes use real ice cream. The cups (that you get to keep!) come to the store with the flavor ice cream already on the bottom. That way they only have to add the milk and blend to make a MilkQuake. My idea is to take the vanilla ice cream cup, blend it one quick shot to break it up slightly, then pour Coke on it. It's quick, easy, and they really don't need anything to get started. If I still lived near a Krystal, I'd try to get them to make me one. If I actually drank Coke Floats, that is. (Yucky!)
Apparently Krystal already had frozen Coke products in mind. This evening I got another email from Krystal. They're trying to name their Frozen Coke products and again have turned to their biggest fans for assistance. They've had the frozen Coke products for quite a while. The biggest problem is the flavors rotate and I haven't seen a true frozen Coke in a long time. My Krystal had Blue Raspberry and Cherry for the longest time. In fact you can see where I mixed them together in this post from back in May.
The list of choices for the new name is:
  • Krystal Ice
  • Subzero
  • Extreme Freeze
  • Artic Krush
There's no updated rankings on this one. Also, the email says once voting is done, you can get a coupon for the newly named Frozen treat. While the names are good, I felt they could have allowed for a "Write In" entry.
My first thought was to go with "Kristal" as a direct rip off of the (once popular among rap artists) Cristal Champagne but then figured they'd have to spend too much time explaining the different between the Kristal and the Krystal. So it was back to the drawing board.
Then it hit me: Coca Cola. Add in an extra O for "Oh my gosh that's good." and you get "Coola". And to "Krystalize" the name you get:
Koca Koola
You say "Koola" like "Cooler"
Of course I know that Coca Cola, who is a close long time supporter of Krystal might object to someone tweaking the spelling of their name. In fact it reminds me a bit of a funny story from many years ago:
While in high school my family went on a summer trip to the beach (which we did often) and on that trip my brother and I got air brushed t-shirts. At that time, "Coca Cola" clothing was very popular, so my brother decide to take things up (or down) a notch. Being the top Spanish student in our high school he had the artist arebrush "Coma Caca" on the shirt to LOOK like "Coca Cola."
We wandered the boardwalk as the artists did his thing and when we returned he asked my brother what it meant. I'll give you the Babelfish translation, which is much cleaner than the real one: "Eat Poop" (Try "coma la caca" on Babelfish.) Since 95% of our high school would probably never know what it meant he wore it to school. Sadly, among the 5% of people who COULD read it was his Spanish teacher, who requested he never ever wear it to school again.
Getting back to the frozen beverages, if Krystal doesn't want to raise the ire of Coca Cola Inc., they can simply go with "Krystal Koola" or just rip all the fun out of it and go with "Krystal Kooler."
When it's all said and done, though, I could really go for one right now. Would someone please bring me one?
Krystal Lovers get more in the sack!.

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# posted by JasonJ1052 @ 6:43 PM
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Hey! I'm a Spanish teacher, and I would've found your brother's T-shirt pretty amusing! Vulgar, yet creative. (For the principal's & other students' sake, I'd probably tell him to not wear it again either!) An A for effort from me!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 11:08 AM
 
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