The Frosty

I have issues with Wendy's. Not because I had a bad experience with a weird piece of something in my food once (I didn't), not because I never went there in the middle of the night in Provo to get chicken nuggets and a frosty, but because last year they did something that goes against the very trademark that makes them who they are. What am I talking about? The introduction of the "Vanilla" Frosty. I am sorry but "Frosty" by definition means chocolate. No vanilla about it. Who craves vanilla anything?? I just have a hard time hearing people say "vanilla frosty."

I have had this conversation with a number of people, including a random lady at a Nationals game. I was standing in line for soft serve ice cream with a few friends and we got into the chocolate vs. vanilla frosty conversation and I told them what I thought about it and the boys were giving me a hard time. All of a sudden, this lady turns around and said "She's right - a frosty is chocolate." She then went on a rant about hormones and women needing chocolate and that a frosty is not vanilla, and because she was older than them (she was directing her comments to the boys so they would stop playing devil's advocate with me), they should listen to her. It was hilarious.

I'd all but forgotten about my take on the Frosty until last night, after I'd been craving ice cream all day. I was out running errands and saw a Wendy's and thought to myself, "ok fine I'll cave in and get a frosty." So I pulled my way up to the drive-thru lane and the man (who didn't speak English very well) asked for my order and I said "just a frosty please." He then mumbled something that I didn't hear, either because he was speaking too fast, with too heavy of an accent, or it was too muffled by the microphone for me to understand. I said "what?" and he got kind of annoyed - he said "no 'what' - vanilla or chocolate or mixed?" Ok I about lost it and yelled at him! I really wanted to scream "CHOCOLATE" into the metal box in front of my face, but I resisted. ha ha I don't know why I am so passionate about this (its not like I have a Frosty more than a couple times a year even), but I have strong feelings about the frosty maintaining its original purpose - to satisfy a chocolate craving! For all the people out there that like vanilla things, go to McDonald's and get an ice cream cone...