Heading down to the gas station to buy the first Slurpee of the season means that warm weather is here! Sweet and icy cold, Slurpees are the ideal treat on a hot summer day. They’re so popular that 7-Eleven, the distributor of the frosty drink, launched an annual competition to see which worldwide region consumed the most Slurpees. This year, as it’s been for the past 13 year, the Slurpee Capital of the World is (drumroll please)…Manitoba!
Despite being a super cold province with a population of only 700,000 people, 188,833 Slurpees are sold every month in Manitoba. To celebrate their success, 7-Elevens across Canada gave out nearly half a million free Slurpee drinks.
Slurpees are great and all, but be sure not to overdo it! In the smallest cup size, there are 18 grams of sugar and not much else, meaning that you’re ingesting the equivalent to four teaspoons of straight sugar, which doesn’t make them an ideal daily drink. Nevertheless, Slurpees are a summer staple that have helped bring a province closer together for 13 years!