![]() Chris Dharod, senior executive of SSCP Management, Inc. This National Margarita Day, Monday, February 22, Applebee’s restaurants in the Dallas/Fort Worth area* will celebrate the holiday with the return of the DOLLARITA – a 10 oz house margarita for only one dollar – and the largest margarita in Texas, only for one day. Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of VICE delivered to your inbox daily.Dallas, TX ( ) As the saying goes, Everything’s Bigger in Texas. *This post has been updated with a response from Applebee's regarding the rules surrounding drink limits. As millennials bogged down by debt and the prospect of never owning homes or retiring, these establishments and their cheap alcoholic offerings are a small, yet significant, respite from our dystopian reality. If anything, the experiment only heightened my love for Applebee’s and all chain restaurants. Getting drunk for $3 in the year of our lord 2018 isn’t easy, and I’m still amazed it was actually possible. Despite tasting more like watery Coke than a real Long Island iced tea (gasoline and regret), the Applebee’s DOLLAR L.I.T. was capable of any actual lit-ness, but I was proven wrong. ![]() When I started on this journey, I didn’t think the DOLLAR L.I.T. I scribbled my final note at 11:19PM: “I feel like I AM SZA.” This was, on many levels, false. On the way home, I did what I normally do when I am drunk and alone: listen to SZA. Clockwise: Peter DOLLAR L.I.T.s, mostly mine terrible burgers THE RECEIPT CATALOGUING THE MONEY I WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN Our franchisees implement their own responsible service of alcohol practices, which include monitoring consumption and exercising judgment with regards to drink limits." O.K., fine.*įirst Applebee’s location. In all of our restaurants, we encourage responsible service of alcohol. That said, according to an Applebee's spokesperson, "All Applebee’s restaurants are locally owned and operated, and drink limits vary by location and local and state laws. I immediately cooked up a conspiracy theory that the waitress hated me and didn’t want me to enjoy all the L.I.T.s god intended. I was floored, I hadn't noticed any mention of a limit in the ads for the promotion. While the food was truly disgusting, I appreciated it nonetheless, because miraculously I was beginning to feel something, something which made me grateful to no longer have an empty stomach.īefore ordering my third L.I.T., the waitress informed me that there is a three-per-customer limit. The buns were maybe Key Food-brand and I was actually kind of glad the chef seemed to have no knowledge of what “medium rare” means. The burgers arrived and were objectively terrible. The next note reads: “Am I drunk? I kinda feel like I’m drunk.” In my notes I wrote, “ feel like I could drink 20.” The second didn’t taste any more alcoholic than the first, despite vigorous stirring. At chains, you can come as you are and leave when you’ve had your money’s worth of stale mozzarella sticks and the finest bottom shelf liquor. At these establishments, no one (at least none of the employees) judges me for ordering an appetizer sampler for myself or pounding back a Skinny Lime Margarita, a Bubblegum Daiquiri, and a Mudslide for dessert. The cocktails tend to have silly names like “Pink Punk Martini,” a real drink at TGI Fridays, or the “Presidente Margarita,” a classic at Chili’s. It’s seemingly always happy hour at Bubba Gump’s or Olive Garden or Texas Roadhouse, with cartoonish-sized goblets of alcohol going for $7 or $8. Happy hours exist, but many end right when I leave work-or as early as 5:00, which is just cruel. Living in New York City, it’s not unusual to shell out upwards of $18 for a cocktail at a fancy bar. I’ve always loved them, but my affection grew significantly when I hit legal drinking age.
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