Now during the summer months, the fast food chain Subway has a bit of a limited time Hawaiian theme going on here in Japan with some "Aloha Subway" campaign. As we frequented one of their chains recently Mrs. Sunshine thought it would be nice to try out their "Tropical Tea" (yep, the one you see in the picture) at a price of 250 yen for a relatively small cup of it.After ordering, without one once of shame in her, the lady at the register takes out a package of the cheap ass "Top Value" brand pineapple juice (which I'm sure that Subway buys in bulk at less than 50 yen/litre) and basically fills the glass with it and then adding, maybe 10% of some tea on top of the juice to bring out the color...
Ok, I know that calling fast-food chains on making a lot of money of their softdrinks is not really anything revolutionary, but for that price and the campaign, they could at least have pretended that it was something more than top value juice with a sprinkle of tea...
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Now you know how to make your own Tropical Tea at home.
But don't you see? That recipe comes from Hilton and was hand picked from the 1000's available. Surely there is a Hawaiian michelen starred topless female chef in the back kitchen, caressing the pinapples between her boobs and playing ukulele to them for days on end to nature the flavour.
Well, I guess I can make my own now in the kitchen topless, have to learn to play the ukulele though
The way fast food rips you off on the food & drink feels even better when they actually show you the process (after you paid), basically flipping the finger to you in a figurative way.
Gotta love it.
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