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Remember when you were the big winner?
Here's a fun remembrance for you from Oct. 2010.
There's a bar/restaurant in Minneapolis called the Herkimer Pub. They brew their own tasty beers and have a solid menu with tasty food.
At my old job, I used to work until 10pm at night. On occasion, my wife would pick me up and we'd head over to the Herk for their late night happy hour.
One evening, we rolled in and saw that they had a contest going.
I know, right?!? Who doesn't love a good bar contest?
Anywho, the contest was to guess the number of sliders (tiny burgers, in case you didn't know that due to inexcusable ignorance...) they'd sell for the month of October. That was it. Make your guess, write it on a slip of paper and drop it in the big jar. Easy peasy.
So we got to figuring. I'm talking like NASA-level math. We counted up the seating capacity in the joint, made some educated guesses on what nights they were busiest, when they were slow, etc. Then we drilled down into the psychology of Uptown, Minneapolis, a hipster enclave of post-college-but-still-too-young-not-to-habitually-drink-themselves-stupid-every-weekend kids. Sliders were having an indie restaurant comeback, so we figured a lot of these drunken twenty-somethings would probably gobble them up like pigeons at the scene of the breadcrumb truck accident.
After much calculating and psychologizing, we came up with a number. If memory serves, it was...
1,172
We dropped in our ticket and didn't think twice about it until a few weeks later when I received an email.
We won!
Oh yeah. That's right. We were SMART mofo's. We out-estimated, out-calculated, out-psychoanalyzed the best of 'em. We. Friggin. Rocked.
Now the funny parts.
1- The prize was a $50 gift certificate to Kramarczuk's Sausage Company, a NE Minneapolis institution. It's packed wall-to-wall with meat. Any kind, any flavor. You want meat, you go to Kramarczuk's. Their true specialty, though was right there in the name. Sausage.
My wife? She's vegetarian.
2- We guessed 1,172. As in, the Herkimer Pub would sell 1,172 individual sliders in the month of October. Want to know how close we were? The actual number was 1,170.
The funny part? Despite our otherwise excellent calculations and educated guesses, our expansive and well-defined theories about the eating habits of the average twenty-something Minneapolis hipster, despite all of that... we missed one important detail.
The Herkimer Pub sliders are sold 5 to a plate.
There's a bar/restaurant in Minneapolis called the Herkimer Pub. They brew their own tasty beers and have a solid menu with tasty food.
At my old job, I used to work until 10pm at night. On occasion, my wife would pick me up and we'd head over to the Herk for their late night happy hour.
One evening, we rolled in and saw that they had a contest going.
I know, right?!? Who doesn't love a good bar contest?
Anywho, the contest was to guess the number of sliders (tiny burgers, in case you didn't know that due to inexcusable ignorance...) they'd sell for the month of October. That was it. Make your guess, write it on a slip of paper and drop it in the big jar. Easy peasy.
So we got to figuring. I'm talking like NASA-level math. We counted up the seating capacity in the joint, made some educated guesses on what nights they were busiest, when they were slow, etc. Then we drilled down into the psychology of Uptown, Minneapolis, a hipster enclave of post-college-but-still-too-young-not-to-habitually-drink-themselves-stupid-every-weekend kids. Sliders were having an indie restaurant comeback, so we figured a lot of these drunken twenty-somethings would probably gobble them up like pigeons at the scene of the breadcrumb truck accident.
After much calculating and psychologizing, we came up with a number. If memory serves, it was...
1,172
We dropped in our ticket and didn't think twice about it until a few weeks later when I received an email.
We won!
Oh yeah. That's right. We were SMART mofo's. We out-estimated, out-calculated, out-psychoanalyzed the best of 'em. We. Friggin. Rocked.
Now the funny parts.
1- The prize was a $50 gift certificate to Kramarczuk's Sausage Company, a NE Minneapolis institution. It's packed wall-to-wall with meat. Any kind, any flavor. You want meat, you go to Kramarczuk's. Their true specialty, though was right there in the name. Sausage.
My wife? She's vegetarian.
2- We guessed 1,172. As in, the Herkimer Pub would sell 1,172 individual sliders in the month of October. Want to know how close we were? The actual number was 1,170.
The funny part? Despite our otherwise excellent calculations and educated guesses, our expansive and well-defined theories about the eating habits of the average twenty-something Minneapolis hipster, despite all of that... we missed one important detail.
The Herkimer Pub sliders are sold 5 to a plate.
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