Posts Tagged ‘Pollo Campero’
This Week’s Greatest Hits on the Young & Hungry Blog
Thefts! Celebs! Confessions! Free food! C’mon, folks, let’s not be so damn predictable in our reading material! Frankly, this week, I’m taking small pleasure in the fact that none of top items contained a question as a headline. Y&H has a bad habit of overusing the question-as-headline gimmick. Oh, the shame…
Joking Aside, Free Sandwiches Tomorrow at Pollo Campero
Y&H will happily play the corporate shill when it comes to free food. Hey, with this economy, I’d be remiss if I didn’t tell you about an opportunity to dine for nothing.
The latest to throw sweet (spicy, actually) nothings at us is Pollo Campero, the Latin American chicken chain with the mascot who’s only too happy to have you gnaw on his leg. As part of its national roll-out for a new sandwich line, Pollo Campero will be giving away sammies all day tomorrow, April 2. You can get either a grilled chicken sandwich (the grill products are relatively new additions, too, a smart concession to American Fattyism) or one loaded down with the original Fried Death Bird.
One sandwich per person. You can find the list of participating D.C. area outlets after the jump.
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Animal Mascots That Offer Themselves Up to Eat
For several years now, the wife and I have had a running joke about the Pollo Campero mascot, this extremely giddy chicken who, with wings wide apart in welcome, appears to beseech us to enter his restaurant and eat all his little friends. We amuse ourselves, we really do.
But now, in the latest issue of Gastronomica, writer Mark Morton serves up a brilliant essay on the very subject. Here’s the nut graf of the piece (which is regrettably not online):
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