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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today is Slurpeye Day, marking the ninety eighth anniversary of
seven eleven. The first door opened in nineteen twenty seven.
It was called the Southland Ice Company. The name was
then changed to Totem Stores and then seven eleven in
nineteen forty six.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Because they were open seven days eleven hours.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You like seven Yeah, seven days a week, eleven.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hours a day.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I read something like that.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah. Remember the old seven eleven jingle from the eighties, No,
but seven eleven get the good things easy?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Is wow? The jingles you Molly McButter yesterday right? Seven
eleven Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The slurpee was invented by accident nineteen fifty eight, whennesoda
fountain at the Dairy Queen's store stopped working and the owner,
Omar Needick, stashed some soda in a freezer so he
could sell them partially frozen, kind of like how you
that's how I make my cokes. You practically invented the slurpee.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
We're out on the same page me and Omar.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Is anyone blown away that Dairy Queen was around since
nineteen fifty eight?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
No, that seems about right, does it. Yeah, that's not
that long ago. I mean it is, but.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
I thought you, I probaly shouldn't say this out lot.
I thought dairy Queen was like a nineteen eighties thing.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
No, no, no, no, I think most of your fast
food and nineteen cry places.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Didn't you want him to be named Omar Slurpee though, Like,
how did slurp even you know, yeah that would even
come up because you're slurping it, I know. But still
Omar Slurpy would have been the way better.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You know. Customers loved it, by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
They started and led him to starting the Icy Company,
which would be the first distributor of what would later
become the Slurpie.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Uh the icy aren't the icies?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Those things and we get them sometimes and then they
just sit in my freezer because Warren thinks, oh I'll
eat those.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
They're all the different.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Colors, red, blue, green, and they're in the plastics.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Prob I know, what are they called it?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I think they can be called icies though, aren't they
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Whatever you said, Yeah, they're liquid and you put them
in and yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Then they freeze and you got a popsicle.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
They usually scratch up your throat like uh, like a sunny.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
D oh my God, they really do. They blues the best.
By the way, blue is the best.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I was gonna say that.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
The slurpee came to seven eleven in nineteen sixty five
when they began a licensing deal with the Icy Company.
As part of the terms, they were allowed to give
it an original name, which would be sold exclusively at
seven eleven. So basically, when you get an Icy, you're
getting a slurpee. Oh, because Icy is the originator, right,
and it just sold Surrey. Okay, Yeah. There have been
over three hundred slurpey flavors. The most popular in the
(02:35):
United States. There's Somebody at my Door. The most popular
one in the United States, Coca Cola and Wild Cherry.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
It's funny.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I was gonna say, if I got a slurpee, I'd
get blue.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Probably. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't get so. I haven't had a Slurpey in
probably decades. But like I mentioned earlier, Warren will get
a slurpee. I don't know, four times he gets a slurpee,
like four or five times a year. It's always the
coke slurpye, and I just find that weird. He drinks
no coke in our house, and if you were getting
a slurpee, I think you'd get cherry.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, cherry, Cherry's great.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, like just the original coke.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
What's the Oh you do so you like the coke
one too? Yes, okay, have it.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
But I think I remember back to like my high
school days when we would get them often, like that
was a treat for us, and you'd be putting in
every single flavor.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It could be mountain dew, Coca cola, cherry, I.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Know, and it's like that's wasn't enjoyable, Like what.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Were you thinking?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Slurpees make me sick as a kid too?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Of course they did, Yeah, I mean because I would
drink them too fast and it wasn't even a brain freeze.
It was like, you know, they're kind of frothy and
like frozen, and I wanted the Superman for slurpee cups.
So like, I know, I probably got too many and
just always remember throwing up after slurpees.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Now I can't really drink slurpees because of.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Like fleash matsurpes. You can't have peppermints. You can't have Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
If it made me throw off run, so I usually
can't have it again.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh you don't get back on that horse and Russian
that's right.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You got a good running list.