Can you eat Chick-Fil-A every day?

by Harold

You would think it’s impossible. After all, there’s really just a few choices (grilled or breaded, sandwich or nuggets). But I managed to do it every weekday my freshman year at Duke. So imagine my excitement when I found out that UNC students get a free sandwich every day this week when they show their One Card at the Renaissance Village location.

Unfortunately, my wife (the one who actually has the One Card) doesn’t share my enthusiasm, so we compromised on going twice, and the second time I had to bribe her by promising a trip to the Super Target next door, where we could look at vacuums while I finished my peach milkshake. 

I won’t waste your time reviewing the trip. I think we can all agree that Chick-Fil-A is one of the top fast food chains in the country, achieving cult status alongside other regional favorites like In-N-Out Burger (something about dashes I guess). But I will say this — sometimes they can be really stingy on the sauce. Like, you ask for the Polynesian sauce and you get one packet, and you ask again and you get a second packet, and then you have to ask a third time for the honey mustard for your fries.

At Duke, they actually started to charge us if we asked for a second sauce packet, so my fraternity staged a protest rally (slash pledge task) demanding unlimited sauce. We had students signing a petition and got the attention of the media (slash school newspaper). We even collected sauces from other Durham locations to hand out to our classmates in need of additional condiments. I’m proud to say that the store manager acquiesced to our demands and we had all-you-can-eat sauce the rest of the year.