FREE TACOS!

by meetyourmako on Nov 13, 2011 12:40 AM PST

The Jack-in-the-Box Taco Minute has become the Jack-in-the-Box Taco Minutes! I made it clear at the beginning of the season how I felt about the promotion as it was first presented. Now, there is something to add: The crowd took to booing the announcement of the Taco Minute, which was announced during the last TV time-out of the second period of each game. People of the Arena, I thank you for booing this awful promotion and our voices, apparently, have been heard!

Yes, two games ago (LA @ SJ), there was no announcement of the promotion, although the Taco Minute icon still appeared on the gondola screen during the final minute of the second period. This last game vs. the Minnesota Wild, I noticed that the promotion, although unannounced, had been changed to the Jack-in-the-Box Taco Minutes, plural. Now, the promotion is for the final two minutes of the second period.

And it immediately paid dividends! Torrey Mitchell scored a one-timer directly off of Michal Handzus' face-off win with only 1:21 left in the second, giving each person watching the game a chance to win two free Jack-in-the-Box tacos. This, and the fact that I got a free slice of Amici's pizza in a commercial break give-away (Amici's, you may remember, is the reason the Round Table Four-in-the-Net promotion is gone), has temporarily softened my opinion. But, while these turns of events have made me slightly less eager to get my hate on regarding the subject, this promotion still has its problems. Namely, 1) that you are required to send a text message before the end of the game to claim your free taco coupon, which means that anyone without a cell phone at the game cannot claim them; 2) the thing being given away is regularly priced at $1, only slightly more than the cost of sending a text message; 3) there is nothing to keep people watching the game at home from texting "TACO" to 74499 for their own chance to win, possibly depriving someone at the game from getting theirs;* and 4) Jack-in-the-Box tacos are nasty. While I'm at it: for all I've heard from people saying how much they like Amici's pizza, it was remarkably average. Sure, the crust was a little thinner, which some people consider the litmus test for "good" pizza, but it didn't taste any better. I was underwhelmed. So, even though I ended up getting a slice for free at the game, I would like to take this opportunity to send out a big "FUCK YOU" to Amici's East Coast Pizzeria. You have already deprived the fans of at least three (3) personal pizzas with choice of toppings from Round Table, this season, and the Sharks have only played seven of 41 home games! FUCK YOU, AMICI'S! FUCK YOU!

I guess it's not that hard to hate on them, after all.

* Text "TACO" to 74499 whenever the Sharks score in the final two minutes of the second period of a home game! Anybody can do this! But remember: You have to do it before the game ends.

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by waive kent huskins on Nov 13, 2011 1:31 AM PST reply actions

But seriously

Yeah I agree the new promotion is terrible and it was nothing but bad press for jack in the box. But I personally LOVE the fact that we have something to boo at that isn’t related to the game at the end of every second period. I honestly find it fun and I really really hate Jack in the Box anyway so it’s awesome to see this awful PR stunt blow up in their face.

I never ended up redeeming any free pizza anyway. So this has been fun for me

by waive kent huskins on Nov 13, 2011 1:33 AM PST up reply actions

Yeah

I seriously do not get all the love for Amici’s. It’s okay, like any pizza is okay, but Round Table is actually REALLY GOOD.

Plus, free tacos is bullshit when they’re so cheap. I would not even bother redeeming them, what I’m gonna go out of my way for free tacos that normally cost a buck?

It’s bullshit.

And Jack-in-the-Box went way down hill once they stopped offering spicy chicken bites.

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by PNK on Nov 13, 2011 12:43 PM PST reply actions

Yea, it costs more in gas to go out of your way for the tacos, and on top of that the 2 tacos themselves aren’t even really filling enough for a meal regardless of their taste. So it is like a double nut shot in that the whole promotion costs them very little and on top of it all is really just a ploy to get you in and buy other stuff because they know it won’t come close to being a real dinner.

If it was like 4 tacos and a drink that might be something, but $1 worth of tacos is just frankly insulting.

by VVhirlwind on Nov 19, 2011 5:50 AM PST up reply actions

what is wrong with you people

Round table is disgusting, Amici’s is THE ONLY pizza I’ve had in the bay area that doesn’t have a crust thicker than Doug Murray’s neck.
As for Jack in the Box… my buddy and I won them from TM’s goal and ended up buying like 14 more. So yeah we lost money on that one.

by googleypoodle on Nov 14, 2011 9:42 AM PST reply actions

what's wrong with thick crust?

Round Table isn’t even that thick in the grand scheme of things. Yeah, it’s not pizza margherita, but it’s not deep dish either (both of which are good if done properly).

And if Amici’s is the only place you’ve had thin crust pizza in the BA, you clearly aren’t looking very hard.

by PNK on Nov 14, 2011 11:36 AM PST up reply actions

Speaking of which, where can I get a good pizza margherita around here?

by meetyourmako on Nov 14, 2011 11:56 AM PST up reply actions

Depends

if you live close to SF there’s a great place there, Tony’s Pizza Napoletana (they do margherita as well as other styles like Sicilian, they also have like 5 different kinds of oven – wood, coal, gas, etc. at various temperatures for different styles)

In San Jose I hear good things about Pizza Antica (Santana Row) and closer to the tank there is this new place Pizza Bocca Lupo right in San Pedro Square apparently.

Haven’t been in the Bay recently, but I’d like to try Bucca Lupo when I come back for Christmas.

by PNK on Nov 14, 2011 1:57 PM PST up reply actions

Crust thickness is a matter of preference. Like myself, I personally eat pizza for the combination of the parts of the pizza which includes the bread, because I really like bread. Thus I eat the crusts, which a surprising amount of people don’t. For those people the bread is just the edible plate for sauce and melted cheese, so obviously less plate is better for them.

So the meter for “disgusting” should really be sauce/dough flavor, and if its soaking in grease (like Pizza Hut pizzas are) or not.

by VVhirlwind on Nov 19, 2011 5:52 AM PST up reply actions

As long as it’s tasty I don’t really care how thick the crust is. Thin crust is great, but it sure is harder to eat with one hand.

by meetyourmako on Nov 22, 2011 4:40 PM PST up reply actions

I hate to it say but we’ve never had a good pizza from Amici’s. Unless the definition of “good” is a burned cracker with a layer of grease on the top. The Mr. and I don’t agree on what is good pizza either, but we do agree that Amici’s ain’t it.

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by Merope on Nov 27, 2011 8:25 AM PST up reply actions