Submitted by jdward01 t3_11dfaiu in todayilearned
Last I read (years ago) he got fucked
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He received royalties from 7-11 and others for about 17 years until the patent expired. How much? I have no idea. Kind of crazy it was in a small town in Kansas he created it and now it’s worldwide.
"Say, Omar, this drink is wonderful. Mild diesel overtones, a brake fluid finish that lingers on the palette, with hints of 90W and ethylene glycol".
So many summers scrounging up enough change for you and your friends to ride bikes to 7-11 for a slurpee and maybe some candy if you had enough left over
It was jack-in-a-box for me. But yeah yeah. Good old days
To Slurpees! And to Sgt. Pepper, who’s growing out of the middle of your back!
I mean, he did work for Dairy Queen after all…
monsters, taquitos, and mw2 with the boys, that was my life every weekend for a hot minute. Shit I remember one summer the gang going on a rotation at everyone's house where time was just a suggestion and the main concern was entertainment 24/7 lol.
I dont even talk to any of those people anymore. Life is such a trip sometimes.
A large corporation would not do that!
Car parts? There are some smart people out there.
The Margarita was named after a female bartender who was serving oil-workers after work in the summer.
Coke Slurpee was the best!
They got royalties from 7-Eleven for the machine, but I believe he founded the Icee company, so they were getting paid, until they sold the company.
How long do we need to wait until someone does this for McDonald's ice cream machines?
Has one last summer, for the first time in about 15 years. I can confirm, It still is.
Half coke and cherry
Manitoba thanks him for his service
What? The DQ sold it.
They used to have ICEE at K-Mart. Popcorn too.
(Faintly from under the shirt) "I'm just glad I'm along for the ride!"
my grandpa built an air compressor from an old ice machine and a propane tank. He also built a roto-tiller out of...car parts. Both items weigh roughly 325 pounds each.
I prefer to mix all the mfin flavors
And a full on cafeteria at mine, at least in the early 80s.
They used to make shit in this country
We'll call it Mountain Dew.
I kind of miss 5 cent candies. The bags and tongs and other people’s germs, but getting to select each candy.
What about Krusty's partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverages? Who invented those?
Wal-Mart did too. I remember the first time I walked into one and saw a fucking McDonalds instead and I just about shit a brick.
Swamp water baby!
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They do a slushee like this called the kamikaze at my local ice cream place.
I'm sure grandpa walked 10 miles to school uphill as well
> Slurpee flavors were given novelty names such as Pink Fink, Adults Only, Moonshine, Kissin' Cousin, Gully Washer, Sticky Icky, and Redeye.
Wow, those are some interesting choices
The kids in my neighborhood would get a large slurpee cup, put a pack candy inside and then fill it with slurpee. Pretty clever but they found out fairly quickly and cracked down on it.
Try as I might I can't seem to pull Calgary ahead of you guys by myself.... Ah well.
Suicide slurpee
That’s some next level shit
I get a coke icee still every time I go to my city’s zoo.
We had them in Dallas but i never went much.
People would still talk about their horsemeat and kangaroo meat scare
You can’t add diet to a suicide, it’ll ruin it!
Inb4 Poe's Law
Yup, flipping sofa cushions to find the change to make the .99$ needed
By "owner" I think thet mean the owner of that specific store as a franchisee
A song concept rejected by Looking Glass
Sick Frank Sobotka quote.
Slush Puppies are by far the best slushie created.
To be fair, it wasn't some super revolutionary idea. Snow cones go back to the 1850s and Kakigori goes back to the Heian period in japan (more than 1000 years ago). What he invented was just a machine that could make it easier and more convenient to serve.
Yeah… we got that part
We called them zombies.
Gully Washer. I need to use that sometime.
"Stuff that down yer..."
Yep. I'm using that.
His name was Mr. Misty
Where I’m from we call em shakes.
Meh, I'd eat a horseburger
I think that describes 99% of inventions. “Something we already do, just easier”
It was their tacos
Gross. Tacos are where I draw the line
That explains why the freon years where so good. Car parts
I know right?
“A man’s gotta have a code.”
Omar
Nevermore!
Can I put it in a double gulp cup tho?
I out 3/4 coke slurpee and pop over to the soda fountain to top the rest off with some regular coke, keeps the slurpee good the full was through.
having spent far too much time researching this; Malt-a-plenty. However Ray Croc sold the mix as a salesman before McDonald's... i mean krusty burger. And McDonald's... i mean krusty burger, never sold it as their milkshakes.
Icees are better than slurpies.
So kindly explain the three seashells then?
I’m from Singapore and used to get Slurpee from 7-11 when I was young. They don’t seem to sell it here anymore.
You put the candy bar in the slurpee before you fill it. 😉
They are still around
Which 7-11s?
Banana gummy was best
Most of the 7-11s i've seen still have slurpee machines. Maybe the one you went to had it down?
Oh I was asking so I could buy some. Maybe the ones I go to are smaller.
Even the small void deck 7-11s have them. Ofc, not the ones who are essentially newspaper stands. Or the standalone one in orchard road(didnt check.)
Why must the one at my office be the one not to have a slurpee? I get sandwiches and coffee in the morning and wouldn’t mind buying a slurpee once in a while.
DQ had the Mister Mistee, 7-11 had the Slurpee and the Icee was Circle-K perhaps
The guy's name is a linguistic rollercoaster.
"Omar" can be an Arabic name, but also a variant of Germanic name "Othmar", which, looking at the guy's pic and bio, sounds more plausible.
"Knedlik" is a Czech word for Knödel, a Central European boiled dumpling.
The whole name sounds like Mustafa Pierog or Muhammad Schnitzel.
It's named after the Daisy cocktail that came before it. A Daisy is base spirit, lime, cointreau, and simple. Daisy in Spanish is Margarita.
Hey, guys!
Big Gulps, huh? Alright!
No need: fuck, shit, fuck, etc - repeat as needed
Oh, it goes way back. Sorbet goes back to around Iran 550 BC.
Til slurpees are real not a joke from the Simpsons
after hearing about the flaming hot cheeto janitor not inventing flaming hot cheeto's, i'm inclined to not believe this story.
yes, and walking around looking at stuff as you drink most of it only to refill before paying and leaving. so many brain freezes that could have been avoided had I not been greedy.
Or getting yelled at because you were reading comics without buying
detox02 t1_ja88dpp wrote
I wonder if he or his family gets royalties