cp_journalcomic ([info]cp_journalcomic) wrote,
@ 2008-04-23 18:53:00
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I hadn't heard of Cici's before I moved to Ohio, but that's probably because I come from New York: The Land of Pizza that Doesn't Give You the Hershey Squirts.

Cheers to a lot of CDs comin' out that I want! In the past few months we got new music from Ray Davies and The Magnetic Fields... and in the next few months I get Weezer? Neil Diamond? Flight of the Conchords? Awesome.

Jeers to needing the money to buy those CDs.

Cheers to Monday night television for being so horrendously, hilariously awful: One Tree Hill at 9 and The Bachelor at 10? It's a sarcastic armchair commentator's dream come true!

Jeers to that new E-Trade commercial where the baby talks to you about buying stocks and then throws up.

Seriously? We're showing vomit in commercials now?

(A special Jeers to me for embedding that commercial, since essentially by doing that I've given ETrade s'more advertising for free... but fucking come on. Babies vomiting?)

Cheers to Nick Hornby's Slam for taking a tired YA plot (teenage pregnancy) and telling a story about it from a new perspective (Slam comes form the boy's P.O.V. rather than the girl's)

Jeers to the time travel stuff in Slam. I mean... maybe not Jeers, but I'm not sure the book needs it. It's strong on its own.


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[info]stellardreams81
2008-04-23 11:18 pm UTC (link)
There are Cici's commercials on TV here in Albany, but I've never actually seen a restaurant. Kind of like how there are Sonic commercials on TV all over NY and there isn't even a single Sonic in the state.
I just looked it up, there isn't even a Cici's in NY either. What the hell?

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[info]braintoad
2008-04-23 11:34 pm UTC (link)
They do the same in California. We get Cici's commercials, but there is none here. At least we have a few Sonic's but they are miles away from where they are advertised. It's strange.

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[info]cdk
2008-04-23 11:39 pm UTC (link)
Oh man, I hate those Sonic commercials. When I lived in Dallas, I was a 3 minute drive from a cherry limeade; now I'm in New Jersey and I see those commercials every day but the nearest Sonic is 40 miles away. Gah.

I'm not missing the CiCi's, though. It was nice back when the buffet was $2.99 and they had semi-ok baked ziti, but now it's just awful. I'm kind of glad I moved just outside of its ever-expanding range.

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-24 10:22 pm UTC (link)
I think it's just because a lot of the Sonic & Cici's commercials air on cable TV... which is the same everywhere. I don't remember seeing a commercial on local television when I was living in New York or Boston for either place, but I saw the bickering Sonic couple commercial a million times when I was in Brooklyn.

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[info]willowshines
2008-04-23 11:22 pm UTC (link)
1) never say "Hershey Squirts" again.
2) how did you feel about all of the weird greetings at Cici's? Do they still do the "HEY WELCOME TO CICIS!" and the "CICI YOU LATER!"?

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-24 10:22 pm UTC (link)
The kid who cleared our table didn't say "CiCi you later"! I feel gyped!

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[info]tobyisawesome
2008-04-23 11:28 pm UTC (link)
Cici's is amazing. Not because the pizza is great, but because the pizza is so much better than Domino's while being immensely cheaper.

(same as Little Caesar's)

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-24 10:31 pm UTC (link)
I would agree with this and add that their garlic breadsticks were AMAZING.

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[info]unsquare
2008-04-23 11:48 pm UTC (link)
The only reason I ever ate CiCis was because the one closest to me had some really nice old school arcade machines.

The pizza is just passable to me.

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-24 10:32 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it's pretty bland pizza. I liked the breadsticks and cinnamon dessert things much more.

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[info]kelbellene
2008-04-24 12:15 am UTC (link)
CiCis must be worse in other parts of the country. I hear people complain about it a lot. Here it's boring, but fresh and cheap.

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[info]40ozslurpee
2008-04-24 12:32 am UTC (link)
I'm the only one I know who can eat Cici's and not get the shits.

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-24 10:32 pm UTC (link)
It's good to know that it's not just me.

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[info]starryme17
2008-04-24 01:28 am UTC (link)
I used to go to CiCi's all the time when we would visit my g'rents in Florida. I seriously thought it was only a FL thing until they started advertising nationally. I haven't been to FL in a few years, so every time my brothers and I see the commercial we get an immense craving for the weird pizzas and "dough desserts." No CiCi's in MA yet...

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-24 10:32 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, the doughy desserts were amazingly tasty.

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[info]faery_believer
2008-04-24 02:06 am UTC (link)
I love that E-Trade baby, I have to say I'm not a fan of the vomit one but have you seen the one with the clown so much better!

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-24 10:33 pm UTC (link)
I just don't like that we're showing vomit in commercials now. I felt the same way about the Dentyne Fire gum commercial that had the boyfriend and girlfriend dry humping in front of their parents.

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[info]abrassea
2008-04-24 02:38 am UTC (link)
yeah, i never heard of cici's either until i moved to georgia. the price is good, but it really is basically just microwave pizza.
i need to pick up that flight of the conchords cd in the next few days... when does that neil diamond come out? i think i heard some good stuff about that.

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-26 01:46 am UTC (link)
New Neil Diamond comes out May 6th.

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[info]brainstems
2008-04-24 05:22 pm UTC (link)
dude they run cici's commercials here in poughkeepsie, NY ALL THE TIME and I looked on the website and there's not one until like PITTSBURGH. I was furious and am still not over it and trying to plan a road trip but NO ONE understands that an endless pizza buffet for $5 is worth a six hour drive. I need new friends!

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[info]cp_journalcomic
2008-04-26 01:45 am UTC (link)
Look, I'm not going to lie to you- the price is right, but the pizza is only so-so and the six hour ride back from the Pittsburgh Cici's would probably be awful, if you catch my drift.

That being said, they had good breadsticks and dessert pizzas.

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