Applebee's Rewind

October, 2011

CAVEAT EMPTOR!!!

There's not much to say about this LIIT, a chain-restaurant premix as usual, but there is scandal afoot and it needs to be addressed!

Having ordered a(n) LIIT, the waitress asked if I wanted the MONDO size. I literally had to ask her to repeat herself. Yes, she said mondo! Okaaaaaay, we'll do the mondo size. It costs more, of course. It must be huuuuuge.

Well the mondo comes out in a glass that I believe Friendly's uses for their ice-cream sundaes. Big round bowl on a pedestal. Very impressive, lots of booze, right? Well, after the LIIT was gone, an experiment was put into play. A regular-size glass of water was on the table, the same size glass a "non-mondo" LIIT would have come in. Pour the water into the mondo glass and...

The mondo glass held a little more than HALF of what the regular glass did!! Perhaps because it was seven inches thick and can be used to fry ants a mile away.

I think it boils down to this: I didn't ask what mondo meant. I simply assumed, from all other times I've ever heard the word mondo used (might be four by now), that it meant really big. I now know it's an anagram!

Maybe

Order the

Normal

Drink

Option

So if you ever meet a guy and he claims "mondo" status...buyer beware.