{"id":4469,"date":"2024-03-25T08:33:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T04:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2024-03-22T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:40:17","slug":"orange-is-the-new-frosty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"Orange is the new Frosty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over vanilla.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new Frosty in town.<\/p>\n<p>First discussed on\u00a0<em>Math and Musings<\/em> more than a month ago, fast food titan Wendy&#8217;s really does now have an Orange Dreamsicle Frosty on its menu.<\/p>\n<p>And God damn it&#8217;s delicious.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, the first time I wrote about &#8220;alternate&#8221; Frosty flavors was <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June of 2022<\/a>. I had to wait until I was 40 before having a third option following chocolate and vanilla. Now in less than two years Wendy&#8217;s has doubled that output, tacking on peppermint, pumpkin spice, and the aforementioned orange. That only one alternate flavor (to the o.g. chocolate) is available at a time is still an issue, but wow, one taste of that orange Frosty and all was forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>Friday on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/14702049\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a> you heard me and Franklin talk about how we haven&#8217;t had one yet. That&#8217;s an outdated lie. Shortly after we recorded the episode we were in the drive-thru line, waiting for that taste of Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>It was worth the wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over vanilla. There&#8217;s a new Frosty in town. First discussed on\u00a0Math and Musings more than a month ago, fast food titan Wendy&#8217;s really does now have an Orange Dreamsicle Frosty on its menu. And God damn it&#8217;s delicious. As &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4471,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}