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So, this is from ジョージア州のトマトにて。
Alright.
こんにちは。
こんにちは。
数年前、偶然アマゾンミュージックのおすすめに出てきたこのポッドキャストを聞き始め、英語を頑張る他のリスナーさんに感化されオンライン英会話を始め、それを知った上司にアメリカの支社で働いてみないかと言われ、今、ケビンさん御用足しだったジョージア州のトマトでサバ缶を買っています。
Damn. Wow. Wow.
ケビンさんが行ってみたいとおっしゃっていたバッキーズにも行って、ラッコだかカワウソだかのキャラクターのTシャツも買いました。
Wow.
すでに40代半ばなのですが、人生何があるかわかりませんね。お三方には感謝しかありません。
さて、先日初めてアメリカのクリスピードーナツに行ってきました。
一人だったので、「一つください。」と言ったら、棚から直接、「はい。」と渡されて、「お金はいらないよ。」と言われました。
Wow. Okay.
他の日本人も、「一人一つなら無料でもらった。」と言っていました。
どうやら一段買わないと商品として扱ってくれないみたいです。
Okay.
これってどこのクリスピードーナツでも同じなのでしょうか?私の地域だけでしょうか?
罪悪感しかありませんが、一人暮らしなので12個も買うことはできず、悶々とした日々を送っています。
Wow. That is so America.
Yeah, it is.
Okay.
Is that a common thing in the United States?
I've never heard that. I've never heard that.
Maybe special for Georgia?
Maybe.
Yeah, I've never went into a Krispy Kreme store.
I think I sold it at Walmart or something.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, if I remember correctly.
We never had a store.
Like the ones we have in Japan.
Right. We never had the Krispy Kreme store.
Atlanta? Georgia?
In Georgia.
Yeah.
So, I don't know. If that's true, it's prettywild.
Yeah.
That's wild.
That's funny.
It's wild.
It's also wild that, that means most people neverbuy like with a single piece of donut, right?
Right. It's very rare.
How much was the smallest batch, they say?
12.
That's outrageous.
You have to buy, the first step, the minimumnumber is 12.
12? 12.
12, yes.
I mean, I have a feeling 12 is like the biggestsize you can buy at the Japanese Krispy Kreme.
Yeah. Obviously, in Japan, they have three, fourlittle series ones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Can we buy like one?
We can buy one. Yes, we can buy one.
I think they have like a drink set where it's likejust one donut and like a coffee. It's like a set.
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And the smallest pack, the box they have ready, Ithink is like three.
Okay.
Yeah. My God, they'll give you for free? JesusChrist.
How does that work?
How does that work, really?
My God.
Sometimes, yeah, America, you know Dairy Queen?
So there's a fast food ice cream burger shopcalled Dairy Queens.
And I love the menu called Dipped.
Oh, yes. That one you introduced to me.
It's a soft serve.
You dip it in like the chocolate sauce.
Yeah.
And then it like melts.
And like, sorry, it freezes as you bite into the,it's first melted.
But like, as you go, it becomes more crispier.
It's amazing.
Sometimes they give you for free.
Why?
They have like, they have like the celebrationday.
I don't know, like maybe once a month or so.
I don't know.
But like, you go in the store.
I think it's only ice cream, maybe.
Yeah.
Any ice cream, free.
You don't have to buy anything else.
What?
You can just walk in, get yourself a dip cone.
Boom, walk out.
Wait, what?
Is that like, how does that work?
Like is that a campaign thing?
Like some of them buy side dishes, like hamburgersand things like that?
No, it's usually, well, I mean, yeah, you don'thave to, there's no joke in.
Wow.
I'm sure some people also, you know, get theburger, fries as well.
But if you just want the ice cream, it's okay.
You can just get the ice cream and walk out.
Yeah.
And you do it like every month or something?
Yeah, I mean, I think it was every month.
Wow.
Hold on, let me check.
In Japan, we, even they do that, like every monththey have, you know, like the celebration days orlike memorial things.
Yeah.
We can have like 200 yen off.
That's right.
Right.
Or like 15% off.
Yeah, right.
That's the maximum.
That's it, right?
And yeah, on Dairy Queens, yeah, it's completelyfree.
And in Japan, I think if you do it in Japan, youget like a huge amount of line.
Yeah.
Right?
To get the free.
You can imagine that happening, right?
Right.
Literally nobody.
What?
Yeah, we didn't know.
We walked into a Dairy Queens.
We didn't know it was like the free day.
We just wanted to get dipped.
We were ready to pay.
But like the employee was like, oh, it's a freeday.
Just, you don't have to pay.
Oh, we just go?
Yeah, yeah.
Go, man.
It's crazy.
It's very American for me.
Very American.
Very American.
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I'm looking into when this is.
Wow.
Once a year, there's a thing called free cone day.
We treat all our DQ fans to a free, small vanillacone so they can enjoy a simple pleasure
of soft serve at no cost and no strings attached.
While you wait for the next free cone day, you cankeep.
So you were very, very lucky.
Yeah, I was very, very lucky then.
Yeah.
I mean, they don't make lines.
Right.
Unimaginable.
Unimaginable.
Unimaginable.
Let's say if you, like, let's say Mr. Donuts doesthese things.
Okay.
He will make crazy long line.
It will make crazy long line.
I can't imagine.
Yeah.
You get like free donut.
Yeah.
It's a pretty big deal.
Yeah.
In Japan.
Yeah.
They don't know about this?
Americans?
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe they don't.
I've never seen anybody talk about the free.
Cone day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, but another thing is maybe, like, they don'twant to wait in long line for just a single pieceof donut, maybe.
I see.
You know.
Especially if they're minimum, like, if what theyusually order is like 12 piece, maybe they don'twant to wait like 15, 20 minutes for just onepiece of donut, maybe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get it.
Wow.
Right.
So, it's July 13th to 19th.
Oh, so you have a week or so?
Oh, yeah.
A few days.
How do we do?
The free jelly bar.
Jelly.
For one or more deals.
Absolutely do that.
Oh, sorry.
It's a different deal.
Different deal.
Too many deals.
This is a, you can buy an ice cream for a dollaris the deal for that, for July 13th to 19th.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like a national ice cream day.
Oh, is it?
Yeah.
But right, they'd have it.
They have a free ice cream day.
That's funny.
It's very interesting.
My friend, Japanese friend, went to America forvacation and went to Subway.
It was near the closing time.
Okay.
Right.
And the employee was like, okay, we're almostclosing, so you ordered a half a foot, but we'lljust get you a foot long one, like the doublesize.
And you want extra veggies and meat on there?
It's like, oh, yeah, please.
Yeah, we'll put as much as we can.
We're going to throw these out, so we'll just dumpeverything on your sandwich.
You like that better, right?
Yeah.
You get a load of sandwich, double sized, and it'sso American.
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I love that.
Yeah.
It's better.
It is better.
It's closing.
It is better.
If you don't use them, you're going to throw thosethings away.
Yeah.
It's very 먹다이나, if you know that.
It's a service.
The customer will be happy.
The veggies will be happy.
Yeah.
The veggies will be happy.
I mean, everything.
Yeah.
I love that.
Right.
I love that.
I was working at a Starbucks several years ago,and my store was very open to those things.
Oh, really?
They allowed me to give out free foods to people.
Oh, that's good.
Yeah, I was like, yeah.
But don't do it so openly.
It's not like I would give them a full donut toanybody.
It's more like you get a donut, you cut it intoeighths, and then sort of give a sample toeverybody in the store.
That's kind of what I did.
That's nice.
But I think that made sense.
That makes sense.
You're giving out joy.
Yeah.
Less food loss.
Right.
Yeah.
And it's also kind of like an as, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Future purchases, maybe.
That's nice.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
You should do that.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.