In This Economy?

A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about Dairy Queen’s offer to give away a free year of DQ to the blogger who offered the best “deal” to them in exchange.  So, in the spirit of ITE and for the love of free shit, we did our best to develop a winning entry and waited patiently for the results. Then today—joy! We were selected by the DQ bloggers as one of their top 5 entries!

Now, we think our offer was pretty strong. And some of the competition was fierce. Being in the top 5 good, but we at ITE believe the winning entry is kind of a puss-out. Here’s why: While the highly poetic entry was cute, and according to the DQ blog she touched their hearts, the point of it all seemed to be to tell Dairy Queen she’s already done so much for them (by pigging out on their foods time and time again), and that she feels taken aback that they would have the gall to ask for more from her. I suppose at the very end, she offers to throw away her skinny jeans, but at this point she’s gonna have to after all the DQ she’s eaten. Maybe it’s just the sour grapes talking, but I would give this offer fair to mediocre at best.

The next best post, according to the DQ, is a post that contains an embedded video of some guy’s daughter eating a cherry-dipped cone. Again, soooo cute, but what’s the offer? What’s he giving up in exchange for a year of free DQ treats? Unless he’s offering that cute kid as DQ’s new mascot, I’m not really getting it. Again, an obvious cop-out.

Now, the two posts deemed #4 and #5 (we were #3) were pretty decent. One offers to “put on my sister’s dress and marry a cow from Wisconsin,” thus making him The Dairy Queen. I like that. The next is another kiddo offer, but this time the author’s kids are promised to prance about covered in ice cream each week. This would be documented, of course. Anyway that’s not too bad I guess.

Basically what I’m saying is this: We believe ours was the best deal out there. We offered not only promotional support to DQ, but we also offered personal sacrifices and/or feats to win DQ’s affection. And we kind of think we kicked those other guys’ asses, but that’s just us. What do you think?

Tags: bloggers, dairy queen, kiddos, third place

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