Free Slurpees Today!

End your 7/11/07 with a free 7.11 oz Slurpee today! All day 7-Eleven has been handing out the free frozen drink in celebration of their birthday. A little nutritional fact about the drink: "Slurpees are mostly water ice and are heavily infused with air; there is less food energy in a Slurpee than in the same volume of a soda.They are also generally considered kosher 'parve', as well as halal." Here are some Slurpee tips and recipes. Just beware the dreaded brain freeze!

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Of course, if you go to the 7-Eleven Kwik-E-Mart in Times Square...you'll have to order a Squishee instead, but it's still free!

Photograph from the Times Square 7-Eleven/Kwik-E-Mart by brainware3000 on Flickr.

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I was at the Kwik-E-Mart on 42nd today and no free Squishees seemed to be handed out.

There's also a kwik e mart on 23rd street off park avenue south.

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Would I be considered racist for calling the Indian guy in the Kwik-E-Mart "Apu".

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i'm indian. calling an indian at the refashioned 7-11's apu would definitely be racist.

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Tasteless though it may seem, if you're Indian, and you own a 7-11, and you agree to take money to dress your store up as a Kwik-E-Mart to promote the Simpsons movie (I don't imagine 7-11s are doing all that for free), I think you've gotta expect that being called "Apu" a few times comes with the territory.

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Funny. All of my Indian-American friends and their Indian-Indian parents think Apu is a hoot.

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I once went to an Indian restaurant and used spanish colloquially in conversation with the owner and she got all offended that I thought she was spanish. So now I try to speak spanish to everyone Indian I meet. A little too self conscious aren't we?

Why is it racist to call a man "Apu" who is actually dressed like Apu?

I passed through the 42nd street 7-11 in a cab and was wondering "wtf, they changed it to a Kwik-E-Mart?" I had no clue it was part of a promotions for the Simpsons. I'm SLOW.

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uh, he DOES have a name tag on him.
and it's NOT apu.

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