Sorry for the photo. Newt posted not one but THREE of these disgusting pictures. He’s really outraged that DoorDash won’t refund the five bucks or whatever for the chicken corn chowder that he ordered.
Let me try to first explain what happened because the Ideas Man is not good at explaining himself. From what I can piece together, Newt ordered some chicken corn chowder from Wawa, a local gas station, through DoorDash, a delivery service. Newt had an allergic reaction to the food. He surmises that it’s from some sort of cross-contamination. So he went to the emergency room.
While on the way to the emergency room and upon returning, he re-tweeted more disgusting pictures of his eye and he tagged both Wawa and DoorDash in these tweets. His goal is, presumably, to publicly shame these companies.
Now, I’m not some kind of elitist but do you know how many times I’ve ordered food from a GAS STATION? Zero. Not one time. When you’re ordering food from a gas station, you’re taking your chances.
And why is he dragging DoorDash into this? They were just the pointless middleman. They didn’t refund the money immediately. Who cares? Why is this five dollars his top priority? Give them time to refund the money. He was posting this shit within hours if not minutes of the allergic reaction happening.
If he has a grievance against anyone, it’s against Wawa. And not for five fucking bucks. Get that shyster lawyer who you’re using to sue…somebody. I still have no fucking idea who he’s suing. But I don’t think DoorDash can be responsible unless they were carrying other food and it somehow contaminated Newt’s gas station food. Anyway, DoorDash responded and they apparently refunded Newt his precious five bucks.
Let me look this up. How much is a chicken corn chowder from Wawa anyway?
I was right. $5.19. For the “small”, anyway. They have different sizes: small, medium, large, and “family”. No family is sharing a bowl of chowder so this is obviously a “big fat guy” size. It’s $13.89 for the “family” size.
It’s interesting. They don’t do this sort of shit in the UK. And I don’t even remember this from when I lived in the US, but I wasn’t buying soup from gas stations so I don’t know. But they just have one size for shit like this. The only thing you can get in different sizes is pizza. Or in Subway, you can get a 6 inch or 12 inch sandwich. I suppose fast food gives you the different options in french fry sizes. Maybe drink sizes too, but I don’t think so. I can’t remember ever being offered a different drink size in the UK.
Oh, you can get a bag of Andy Capp’s “corn and potato” snacks. I’ve never seen these before but Andy Capp? That’s an odd mascot. People still know Andy Capp? Wasn’t it a British comic strip character? Yeah.
You can get all kinds of groceries from Wawa through DoorDash. Although, why anybody would is a mystery. I see these sorts of things increasingly on UK equivelent sites but they just clutter up the search results. I’m not going to order food from a fucking liquor store. Fuck off.
Three dollars for a bottle of Canada Dry ginger ale? That seems expensive. Are these inflated gas station prices or is it a big bottle? I don’t know how much 20 ounces is. Half a liter? Umm…I guess that’s a pretty big bottle but not so much that you’re not supposed to consume it all in one sitting. Another “big fat guy” size for the US.
Anyway, the Ideas Man still went to work. He says that he ran the cinema solo. This doesn’t sound like a viable business.
Oh, and death-obsessed asshole Newt also mentioned that Val Kilmer died. He’s a big Val Kilmer fan. Never mentioned him once but now that he died, he feels the need to pay his respects in the most zero-effort way possible: retweeting something that somebody else wrote about this.
When I originally saw Newt’s picture, I assumed that this would be much more interesting that it was. I thought that one of the pimps of the ladies he hangs out with beat him up or something. No. Just ate some bad gas station chowder and then wanted attention for it. Who wants attention for eating bad gas station chowder? But Newt will take whatever he can get.
By the way, Mr Professional Writer, it’s “all in all”, not “all and all”. You fucking moron.
once on an interstate trip, I stopped at a petrol station and ordered lunch. a simple meal, but tempered with all the expectations of something exotic and satisfying. made all the more appealing as it was at a faraway place. then the first bite. the thing tasted like old leather and shoe polish. I remember wondering how it was possible to prepare something in a way that it ended up tasting so poorly. the whole ordeal taught me to never eat anything at a petrol station ever again. I haven’t ever been tempted to fall off the wagon since then
Yeah, what kind of cooking amenties can a gas station even have? I think that Wawa is more like a convenience store that sells gas but even so, a convenience store isn’t going to have much in the way of cooking facilities. The staff won’t be chefs.
And you look at the menu and it’s mostly sandwiches and soups. Things that can be prepared fairly easily.
I can maybe see getting something if you’re in the gas station, getting gas or something, and you’re hungry. But Newt is ordering this shit for delivery. Why not order from an actual restaurant? The difference in price would be negligible and the quality would be much higher. Pay a little more for something much better. Or at least something that won’t make your face swell up and nearly choke you.
No, Newt wanted to save a few pennies so got food from a gas station and then expressed outrage when this chowder, that was probably sitting there for days, was up to scratch.