Buckets seem to be a Halloween thing. Not a new thing, since I recall having them in the early 90s (and there will be photographic proof later!). I always called them the McBoo, but aside from the Ghost, there was a Witch and a Pumpkin, the latter of which appears to have been called the McGoblin for unknown reasons. Likely just to give me a Mandela effect to ponder in my twilight years.
The buckets have returned in certain fashions over the years. Sometimes they mimic the originals; other times they just go with some generic art that could be used any time of year. The worst offender was the Angry Birds editions. I have no issue with a crossover at some point, but not during Halloween. The spirits don’t crawl back from the afterlife once a year to smash into green pigs. That’s disrespectful.
My main point of contention is the lack of a lid, and worse, the crossbeam that prevents them from being stacked. When something is in storage for 11/12th of the year, I need to maximize my space efficiency. Those throw a monkey wrench in the works.
Other fast food places have attempted to repeat the bucket success, but this year there is a clear winner: Dunkin Donuts. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that if your coffee is made by someone with a facial tattoo, it’s going to be the best one you’ve had in your life. I’m sure I’ve learnt other things, but that’s the only one that comes to mind.
But yes, buckets. Buckets with LIDS. Buckets with dressed-up trick-or-treater munchkins. Buckets with moon and bat cutouts for no reason at all. Is there a downside? Well, you can’t buy just the bucket. Online sources say you can, but theory seldom meets practice. So after plunking down $13 of money I don’t have, which will play into the usurious hands of unnamable groups, I now have one… and 50 doughnut holes.
I left them in the break room at work so I wouldn’t be tempted to eat all 50 and then die. With any luck, they will all go, but I swear if someone takes the bucket too, you will see me on the news. Oh, and here’s that photo proof on ye olde 35mm film. I know they’re not properly scanned, but I have about one million to get through, so a cell phone snapshot is all we get at the moment.
Oh yeah, I also got the Potion Macchiato. It took two tries, and at over five bucks a pop, that was mildly annoying. I swear, I'm the first person to even buy any given special edition, and the workers have to button-mash the register in order to figure out how to add it. This time, they must have given up to save face, but in the process, they just gave me a normal one. I sort of predicted that would be the outcome but had to wait until it was done, which at that point I wasn't going to make them do it right. This morning, I went to my normal place, and they made it correctly. It's purple at least. The Spider donut is too.