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.
By the way, what kind of name is “Wawa”? Is this a word?
Apparently, the name of the town that the company is founded in is Wawa, Pennsylvania. I never heard of it. I think that they went with the name for the company for the kooky, babyish sound. Little kids might say “wawa” when asking for “water”.
I was always of the belief that it was named Wawa after the local Native American term for goose. A goose is pictured in their store logo.
My information is just from Wikipedia. I never heard of the place until the Screenwave Gang couldn’t shut up about it.
“The chain’s name comes from the site of the company’s first milk plant and corporate headquarters in the Wawa, Pennsylvania area. The name of the town Wawa is in turn derived from the Ojibwe word we’we (pronounced “way-way”) meaning snow goose, despite the company’s image of a Canada goose.”
I haven’t lived in the Philadelphia area where Wawa got its roots, but its expanded as far as Florida. While the quality has gone down over time, you’re underselling their food a bit. It’s still extremely popular. They used to have a die hard fan base for their hoagies (subs) and used very high quality deli meats and fresh baked bread. And this is in an area where you could get great hoagies in more traditional locations.
As I said, it’s not what it used to be, but I still stop by Wawa for some hot food every time I visit my parents for Thanksgiving. They have a hot roast beef sandwich that I crave.
I guess it seems weird on the surface, and paying a 15% markup, plus admin fees, plus a tip (not so sure in Newt’s case), is insane for Wawa when it’s a MTO (made-to-order) quick in-and-out kind of place. BTW – there are many stand alone Wawa’s on city street corners without the gas element.
I’m sure it’s a fine sandwich but I find Mike and Newt and the ex-Screenwave Gang talking about Wawa annoying. Why talk about local chain…establishments with such limited reach?
But yeah, speculating on Newt’s tipping philosophy, it has to be zero. And he says that he does nothing but order out. Despite the fact that he must have very little money. You just know that those drivers are spitting in his food.
By the way, Mr Professional Writer, it’s “all in all”, not “all and all”.
It has always baffled me how people whose first language is English make these kinds of grammar errors. My grammar is awful, I know, but English is not my native tongue. And still, I would never mistake things like “their” for “they’re”; I just don’t see how those two could ever get mixed up.
Anyway, this Twitter post seems like one of those things content creators upload when they have nothing else to talk about, so something minimally outside of the routine happens and they need to milk it for all it’s worth.
People are poorly educated in the US. I only went to public school (free, government-run school) for the 11th and 12th grades and the difference was absolutely shocking. There were teachers who literally did nothing all day. You come in, they’d take attendance, you’d talk with people around you for 45 minutes, and you’d leave. There were students who didn’t even speak English. I was taking fourth grade level arithmetic classes about dividing fractions and whatnot as a 12th grader. Nobody cared. Go through that for your entire academic life, and that’s a real problem.
Newt was surely a product of such a system. Plus, frankly, he’s stupid. So even with a proper education, I don’t know how much better Newt’s English abilities could be.
Since you feel like talking a bunch of shit all the time why don’t you come say it to my face? If you want to throw hands let’s go. I’m sick and tired of your stupid blog talking about your fantasies so if you really want to be a man drop me a dm and we can set up a time for me to come pummel your British ass.
In case anyone is wondering, that’s not Newt. The first clue, is the spelling and grammar is all correct.
Even If it was actually Newt…..you live on a different continent. I wouldn’t drive to a different town in Montana to fight someone. Come to think of it. I wouldn’t do it if it was the same town and I was twice the persons size….it’s called growing up. I stopped fighting after grade school because I realized it’s fucking stupid back then. Sorry for the grammar I’ve been enjoying the sauce today.
Alabama?
Whether this is Newt or not, someone receiving deserved criticism does not mean their critic “wants to throw hands”.
…It means their critic has criticisms.
Love the Newt content.