What’s the worst food promotion you’ve ever seen?

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• Would you drink these three if the fourth was free?

Free food does something to a person. It switches off the reasoning portion of our brain and replaces it with sweet and fat. It’s why people wait two hours for a free custard from Sheridan’s or go for the vasectomy that gets you a free pizza.

There’s an ice-cream shop and grill in Rhode Island, the Newport Creamery, that has one of the all-time misguided promotions (which to their credit, I still remember) for its signature Awful Awful (Awful Big, Awful Good) — a flavored syrup, milk and ice-milk drink. If you drink three of the milkshake-like concoctions, your fourth one is free. Bear in mind, that’s all in one sitting and that … only … the … fourth … is … free.

What’s the worst food promotion you’ve ever seen or redeemed?