They shattered so much ice that you ended up with a drink more resembling a 7-Eleven Slurpee than something fit for Winston Churchill.
For the 84th anniversary, to be marked on Monday, the company is stepping up its presence in social media – the better to help give away an estimated five million Slurpee drinks.
Mounted units often attract charity: the Baltimore department, which got a donation from the 7-Eleven company, now calls one of its horses Slurpee.
The Kings' home ice, after all, is just 600 gallons of lime Slurpee mix spread across a basketball court.
He doffed his tie and shouted himself hoarse, tweaking his standard stump speech — the one with the laugh lines about Republicans "drinking a Slurpee" and driving the economy "into a ditch" — into a more affirmative, upbeat vision of why voters should elect Democrats, and not just reject Republicans.
"You'd be a fool," Tom Jurkowsky, a spokesman for the Mint, said of the Slurpee idea, "but you could do it".
Through the scheme, the defendants, who as franchisees for the parent company were licensed to use 7-Eleven buildings, trademarks and Slurpee and hot dog machines, recruited more than 50 illegal immigrants and gave them identities stolen from American citizens, including children and dead people.
"It's not like walking into a 7-Eleven and buying a Slurpee.
"You notice that when you move forward in your car, you put it in 'D'; when you want to go backwards, you put it in 'R?' " Mr. Obama said to wild cheers in Seattle, where, for the first time, he pantomimed drinking a Slurpee as he caricatured his Republican opponents.
A couple of the models wore bright lipstick as well, one in a shade of blue so vivid it looked as if she had just downed a Slurpee.
"That is one reason we launched our new Slurpee Lite platform of good-tasting Slurpee drinks without sugar.
