Pointless prize: Quaxapalooza

[CBGanimal]

This little piggy went to market and bought apples, tomatoes, olives, cucumbers and bananas!

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[Laurie E.]

@Boomer2U 203787 wrote:

Does this pic quality w/ rule 2 which requires 5 elements of cyclist, wearing mask, bike, purchase/service, AND name of small biz? Asking for a friend who is photo-compositionally challenged by this rule

Firehook Bakery, Alexandria VA

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small biz, farm in Clinton, MD 2/12/21

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[Laurie E.]

Small biz in Clinton, MD Woodcot Farm, eat 1909, 2/12/21

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[JoM]

NW Chinese Food

[JoM]

Tatte Bakery & Cafe

Yummy pastries & hot drinks on a dreary day

[sdots]

Not an official entry, but I thought I’d post this in the spirit of the competition.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/13/opinion/sunday/small-business-customers.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Sunday%20Review

[CBGanimal]

Bought a few things from Casa Antonio but my favorite chips are yummy

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[Laurie E.]

@rumipumi 203315 wrote:

POINTLESS PRIZE: QUAXAPALOOZA

As the wife of a local small business owner (Maryland Meadworks), I am sponsoring a pointless prize to encourage supporting your local small businesses on your bikes (aka Quaxing).

Leaderboard: https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/BAFS2021SmallBiz

How to play:

1. Go for a Quax — support a local small business by buying something (any amount) and picking it up via bike. One point per business, and yes, you can do more than one per day, but need to log separate Strava rides to each stop. You only get one point per distinct local biz (so yes, you can come 100 times to Maryland Meadworks, as well you should, but you will only get 1 point for the first visit…)

2. Take a picture of you (wearing a mask), your bike, and your purchase (or if it was a service, perhaps the signage or some such that represents that service) outside as many different small businesses as possible.

3. For your ride to count, use #BAFS2021SmallBiz in your Strava ride title AND include the name of the place you visited, e.g., #BAFS2021SmallBiz Maryland Meadworks (shameless plug, right?) And upload the related photo to the same ride. Mileage does not count unless theres a tie. The points are solely based on the number of unique establishments you support, one per recorded ride (but no limit to how many rides / points you can rack up in a single day).

4. Please play safely: For example, picking up your takeout / growlers (of mead, or even things… that are not mead) curbside (on your bike!)! Again, please take your selfie OUTSIDE the establishment, masked, to set a good example for how COVID-safe cyclists are!

5. What constitutes a local small business? I’ll give broad leeway on this. Frankly most every business (esp restaurants) is in such pain right now, I’m likely to give a lot of slack. I just want you to go out for a ride, stimulate the economy and help keep your neighbors employed. And yes, I’ll allow you to more than one of a local chain if you differentiate the tags — i.e. “#BAFS2021SmallBiz Vigilante Hyattsville” AND “#BAFS2021SmallBiz Vigilante College Park” would each count for a point.

6. Prizes? I’ll buy the top 3 winners a giftcard ($75, $50, $25) to their favorite local business. (Even if it’s not Maryland Meadworks!)

Brought Baja Chicken Wrap, Sun Chips and Mango Magic Smoothie, Pack it in the pannier on the bike then took the picture, ate when I got home, still have the receipt, lol.

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[Shawnbeast]

Taco Bamba at GMU, so yummy!

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[JoM]

Brunch at Purple Patch

Yummy Filipino food to celebrate @surfertude’s bday!

Purple Patch also featured recently in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/global-breakfast-dishes/2021/02/16/d625e058-6b09-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html

[JoM]

Bad Saint, Material Things, and Sangfroid Neighborhood Drop Off

[JoM]

The Italian Store
Right off of the Custis Trail, in East Falls Church, you can get a slice of pizza or 3 mid-ride!

[rumipumi]

@JoM 209252 wrote:

The Italian Store
Right off of the Custis Trail, in East Falls Church, you can get a slice of pizza or 3 mid-ride!

I saw [mention]drevil [/mention]/ ricky this morning on my ride— we had a fly by!

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[Steve O]

Falls Church Distillers is assisting in my preparation for family game night tonight.

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[consularrider]

Sweet Science has opened (about two months ago?) in the former Java shack/Commonwealth Joes location near Courthouse. it looks like they did a build-out after gutting the interior.

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