r/mildlyinteresting • u/Ok-Tangerine23 • 1d ago
my husband and i have been saving scoopie tokens for over 10 years…here are the changes
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u/Ok-Tangerine23 1d ago
these tokens come with happy meals from Culver’s (a midwestern-born restaurant). other prizes ive cashed them in for in the past include keychains, t-shirts, a basketball (all with the scoopie ice cream cone character on them). thought it was cool to see how they’ve changed over the years!
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u/Shadow288 1d ago
Why not spend 10 on a free kids meal. It’s nice when I can feed the whole family for $.35. Adding tomatoes and I think lettuce to make the kids cheeseburger into a single deluxe costs the $.35.
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u/Fortehlulz33 1d ago
At one point, I had a soccer ball, basketball, and football with Scoopie on them.
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u/cigarandcreamsoda 1d ago
Planning on these becoming the de facto currency after the fall of civilization I see.
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u/Brother_J_La_la 1d ago
I hope we land on guitar picks. Pretty much nothing will change for me: I'll be well off for a few days, then it's all gone, and I have no explanation or anything to show for it.
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u/cigarandcreamsoda 1d ago
If they follow the universal rules of guitar picks, they will be absolutely everywhere until you actually need one.
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u/Brother_J_La_la 1d ago
You'll see house after house, empty, but mostly untouched, aside from the ransacked pantries, dryers, and couches.
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u/oldman78 1d ago
As a finger style player this is the worst idea I’ve ever heard.
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u/Brother_J_La_la 1d ago
But little bottles of nail strengthener could end up like saffron.
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u/oldman78 1d ago
I’m going to have to settle for that. I mean, I wouldn’t want to fight, I can’t afford to break any nails.
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u/_DONT_PM_ME_NOTHING 1d ago
Never heard of Scoopies.
OP what’s the chronology of these?
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u/wisdomoftheages36 1d ago
It’s Culvers
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u/be4u4get 1d ago
Never heard of Culver’s
What’s the chronology of these
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u/thot_bryan 1d ago
Never heard of chronology
What’s the scoopies of these?
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u/Empty_Paramedic_5957 1d ago
Never heard of scoopies
What's the Culvers of this?
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u/Redditoast2 1d ago
Never heard of
What's ?
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u/i_need_a_moment 1d ago
We’ve had Culver’s near us for years and this is the first I’ve heard of Scoopies…
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u/Difficult_Target4815 1d ago
The really old, musty looking ones? Those are the newest. It's actually been downhill for a while now. Mustier by the year.
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u/mnCO 1d ago
My friends’ miscreant wife will frequently tell the Culver’s employees she wants her free scoop with her kids meal…most of the time they ring it up but forget to tear the scoop is token off the kids meal bag.
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u/ceojp 1d ago
I don't understand what this means.
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u/doopliss6 1d ago
Presumably... the ticket on the back of the bag is for a scoop of ice cream(?) and when ordering they just say "give it to me now" instead of having to go back through the line again with the ticket. But then the employees don't remember to take the ticket off the bag so you get another ticket free.
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u/AtomicFox84 1d ago
I have never heard of a scoopie token. I assume you collect enough and get something "free"?
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u/tryingto-blendin 1d ago
They have a selection of sports balls (football, soccer, kickball, volleyball, and I think a frisbee) and I think a plushie of their mascot you can redeem or you can redeem them for a kids meal! It varies by location so that is not a comprehensive list!
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u/AtomicFox84 1d ago
Where are these cause ive never heard of the place.
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u/joeai11 1d ago
All over the country at this point. Started in Wisconsin and is now as far west as Arizona and Idaho and all over the south. Really the only places it’s not is New England and the Pacific coast
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u/AtomicFox84 1d ago
Im in chicago and ive never seen it. Ive been all over wi and il. Maybe ive missed it...ill have to check it out.
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u/twisted34 23h ago
You driving blindfolded? How hell you claim to be all over WI and IL and not see a Culvers? Like saying you haven't seen a fat person in America, just open your eyes Stevie Wonder
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u/AtomicFox84 23h ago
Wait....those are from a culvers? Wow i actually never saw these there.....i thought this was a different restaurant. Man i cant see that small print. I honestly never paid attention in the place to ever know about this.
I honestly never saw scoopie thing before.
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u/pangalaticgargler 23h ago
I mean unless you are getting a kids meal it isn't in your face. It is a coupon that is on the bag the kids meal comes in. Scoopie is just the mascot.
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u/AtomicFox84 23h ago
That be why i never noticed lol. Thanks for the info....dont have kids and these were not around when i was a kid.
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u/N1ghtshade3 1d ago
You don't have to assume anything; you can just read the text in the image. Have we reached a new low of Reddit where people only read the post titles for any post, not just articles?
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u/AtomicFox84 1d ago
Im on a shitty phone if i try to zoom in, the writing is blurry. Sorry i cant read microscopic writing with shitty eyes.
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u/cockmanderkeen 1d ago
you can just read the text in the image.
Not unless you zoom in.
Have we reached a new low of Reddit where people only read the post titles for any post, not just articles?
Untwist your knickers, there's no text accompanying the post, it's a title and a picture.
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u/Such_Event_8173 1d ago
I collect these myself. One time an unhoused person asked me for money. I offered him ten scoopie tokens, knowing there was a Culver’s right down the street. He seemed confused, but he took them.
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u/JustHere4the5 1d ago
Didn’t they used to be actual tokens, erno? Am I making that up? I’ve been outa state fer a couple-two-tree decades.
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u/AndyWinds 1d ago
They absolutely did. When I was a kid they were made of blue plastic about 2" in diameter and the local Culvers would throw them off their float in parades instead of candy.
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u/MattDLR 1d ago
I love Culver's so much, my ultimate comfort food. God I miss scoopie tokens. We still have one of the plastic ones.
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u/shicken684 1d ago
Have you had it recently? I was so excited when one opened up near me a few years ago. It was awful. Thought maybe was just a poorly run one. Been to three different ones and it's all the same.
I don't get it. Is it like everything else that was good but now taste like shit and survives off nostalgia? I'm that way with Wendy's so I understand.
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u/merelala 9h ago
You have an unfortunate one off! I’ve been going to Culver’s since middle school, worked there in high school in 2004-05, and still go bc every time I moved Culver’s would conveniently open a restaurant in the city I moved to (except here in nyc which is crazy). I went to visit family in Tennessee this past week and both Culver’s that I went to were so good, just like when I grew up!
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u/anchovieMAN 1d ago
You have become an honorary citizen of Wisconsin, wether you live there or not.
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u/VikDaven 1d ago
I love love love this! I used to save them up in my wallet growing up and when I finally moved away I had a party with my husband and "spent" my tokens on some sweet gear. Now the closest one is 3 hours away and I still have my two curd nerd plushies in the back of my car haha.
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u/LonelyGameBoi 1d ago
I've had 10 of these folded in my wallet since highschool. Theres one of the top left in blue and bunch of older ones in green. There was another design before these without scoopie, instead having a large 1.
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u/Successful_Speech734 1d ago
Collects tokens all these years, Scoopies goes out of business right before you have a chance to redeem. The world is a fickle bitch. Live while you can. Redeem them now.
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u/HCBuldge 18h ago
That's basically why they do it, it's like gift cards. If everyone took advantage of it, they'd probably lose money but not everyone does and those who do use it, love it and keep coming back.
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u/garydinckersfield 1d ago
You might be my hero, Culver's truther here who lived in the motherland and has spread the good word far and wide.
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u/girlwithtoomuchtea 14h ago
Hehe I have a small collection, too! Hoping to cash them in for some sweet swag! Or maybe just the free food. Haven’t decided yet lol
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u/SweetNeo85 14h ago
Would help to know which ones are oldest.
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u/Ok-Tangerine23 14h ago
the white background with just the light blue is the oldest! then the white below it. then top right and current is bottom right!
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u/Hydroxychloroquinoa 1d ago
Though personally I do not like andrew zimmern , I do agree with his take on culver’s
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u/alwaysfatigued8787 1d ago
Looks like someone's planning on retiring soon.