Posted on 10/25/2021 5:52:27 PM PDT by mylife
If you thought you had it all figured out, you are wrong. I don’t care if you mastered the art of the all-you-can-eat specials. I don’t care if you have a perfect job and a big house and a loving family. Because there is only one person on this Earth who found the ultimate life hack and is truly living the dream, a man simply known as “Dylan.”
MEL Magazine spoke to the 33-year-old electrical engineer who spent $150 a year to eat all of his meals at Six Flags. Back in 2014, $150 got him a yearlong membership to Six Flags Magic Mountain that included unlimited roller coaster access, free parking, and two free meals a day. He kept it up for the next six years and ate an estimated 2,000 meals at the park, essentially spending 50 cents per meal. And through his savings on food, over those years he was able to pay down his student loans, get married, and buy a house. (No word on whether or not the wedding was at Six Flags.)
At the start of this venture, the menu mainly consisted of burgers and fries and pizza, which sounds like a chore, but over time evolved to include things like tri-tip sandwiches, carne asada salads, and vegan options. Still, at the end of the day it’s all carnival food, and carnival food every day isn’t all it’s cracked up to be after half of a decade.
“I got so sick of those chicken balls,” Dylan said to MEL Magazine about an especially unappetizing-sounding food item.
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Chicken balls. lol
Chicken balls, hell. How about chicken lips?
My first job was as a field service engineer in power plants. Our meals were reimbursed up to $10 per day which was actually fairly generous then, especially because so may jobs were in tiny boondocks towns with cheap cafes and mom & pop restaurants. A colleague was an incredible tightwad and bought peanut butter and Saltine crackers by the case. I think he ate for $1 per day and fudged receipts to pocket the $9 per day. It was almost like a 20% raise!
Stop talking about their reproductive parts! :)
I can’t take amusement park food for a day! 5 years? That’s insane.
I have had pickled pigs lips LOL
If you worked at Six Flags, this would be a fantastic deal.
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And peckers!
Chicken lips?
An electrical engineer, pinching pennies eating that stuff, when he surely could have afforded to put better food into his body all those years?
Geez...
the menu actually sounds quite good
He spent $10,000 and 10,000 hours cheating to get 5000 in free food. Good for him.
ok dinner for me is done... ;(
Cheapness don’t work with women. He better recognize.
Good God! What are his blood pressure, and cholesterol like?
I have some rattlesnake hips mixed with my chicken lips.☺
That’s ballsy of him.
No travel expense as we can walk or bike there. And no waiting if ordered through the app. Only 6 days and I’m almost sick of crispy chicken.
But his deal with free rides is far better.
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