X-treme Gulp
The award is back (until yours truly goes on the road again next week). And 7-Eleven does it again. The twenty-four-hour convenience store wins yet another Self Gratification award.
The X-treme Gulp is the most ridiculous mug you will ever see. For about $4.00, you get a 52-ounce mug full of your favorite soda. (Which should be Mountain Dew, if you know what's good for you.)
And oh, yes. The mug is yours to keep, baby.
Now, there's something here that deserves repeating. That was 52 ounces of soda. 52 ounces is almost four and a half cans. This mug is like something you'd see in a Texas airport souvenir store. (Ever see a foot-long "Texas-sized pencil"? It's guaranteed to make all your friends jealous, trust me.)
According to the cashier at the 7-Eleven where I bought my X-treme Gulp mug, approximately one of these things is purchased every week or two. I'm willing to bet a good ten bucks that most of these people are buying it for the same reason I did. Because the damn thing makes you burst out laughing just to look at it. I mean, the Rubbermaid company makes canisters for family picnics that aren't this big.
Can you imagine showing up at the Catholic Relief Fund's Kool Aid Give-Away in Bangladesh drinking out of one of these things? Your flesh would literally be torn off your body.
I'm filling mine up with beer. That's what I call thinking out of the box.
Check out this guy's X-treme Gulp site.
And here's an article on childhood obesity that mentions the X-treme Gulp.
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