The 12 Days of (Saratoga) Christmas

Forget turtle doves, these are the things Saratogians really want.

Dec 22, 2021

You know you’ve been watching too much TV when you get not one, but two carbo-licious chain restaurant jingles stuck in your head—simultaneously, might I add. If you’ve been keeping up with the NFL (go Bills!) or reruns of Friends, you’re probably in the same boat. The two I’m talking about are Pizza Hut’s 12 Days of Pizza and Olive Garden’s 12 Days of, well, Olive Garden.

Everything Is Alive @ianchillag

It's weird to realize how many of the gifts in 12 days of christmas are birds. 6 out of the first 7 days, your true love just gives you birds. it's 23 total birds. what if you don't even like birds

While I bet the franchises’ marketing teams weren’t too happy to discover that they weren’t the only ones with the idea to co-opt a Christmas classic, Saratoga Living After Hours happens to NOT be in the Americanized Italian food industry, and so I have no shame in stealing their definitely-not-very-creative ad strategy—and doing it better. (How do you go from “six geese a-laying” to “shrimp on shrimp on shrimp,” Olive Garden?) So, without further ado, I present to you the 12 things the city of Saratoga will give to you this Christmas—and pretty much every other day of the year, too.

P.S. If you don’t read it in a singing voice you’re doing it wrong.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, Saratoga gave to me…

Twelve strummers strumming