Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
No but I’m not a fan of their blizzards honestly.
No cos on the one on the left would make me feel healthy.
No. Never had one. Not interested.
20 minutes each way? No. 20 minutes total? Yes. Though, not if I’m working. I’m not getting off later just to get some ice cream.
No, left one is better for not becoming fat.
DQ can’t stay in business around me with their crap ice cream. Also gas isn’t free.
You say that, but even McDonalds can’t keep their blizzard-knockoff machines running. DQ’s got that shit locked down. They’ve been serving air-fluffed-icecream-surrogate the old fashioned way for decades. It’s as American as health insurance that costs more than rent.
Oh i live in a touristy area so its local cheap awesome ice cream everywhere.
I wouldn’t walk 20 feet for those. Fast food is not healthy or cheap. The ice cream you can make at home is easy, cheap, and usually tastes better than anything you can purchase.
Your recommendation is to make your own ice cream?! Lmao
Yes, it’s not hard.
That’s a fine suggestion in a cooking forum, and completely asinine to a general audience.
I feel for “The general audience”.
Why does everyone on Lemmy seem to get so snarky about convenience? They’re talking about an ice cream that they can get while they’re at work, not everyone has the free time to make ice cream themselves. And I bet even if they did someone would be snarky about how milk tastes better if you milk your own cow for it instead of buying it.
Because I was raised by an idiot redneck that fed me the typical American diet, I was an unhealthy fat kid. So I’m going to call garbage out when I see it.
I mean this as softly as possible:
It’s not your job to shout at people online and be negative about things in relation to your personal past traumas.
You might be intending it as help, but you’re just coming across like a raging asshole.
This sort of behavior is a sign that you have a lot of shit to work through still. I’d expect that this sort of aggressive admonishing didn’t work on you, and is part of that shit you have to work through. Don’t perpetuate it.
From: Someone raised by a narcisist anxiety riddled wino with emotional regulation issues, and an absentee emotionally unavailable depressive man with ADHD.
Not trying any sort of one upmanship, just highlighting that plenty of people have personal traumas. Try to not make it the world’s problem to deal with.
Few things:
- Appreciate ya.
- I’m neither shouting or trolling.
- Don’t eat garbage.
It seems to me that people here are getting really upset by the idea that buying a sugary treat commercial product is trashy. Growing up I had no choices other than trash. Now I’m going to call out trashy behavior when I see it. Eating junk food is trashy.
Heightened snobbery brought about by inherent nicheness in this forum.
Oh people. Lol
I’m bemused that TheWeirdestCunt is pissed about snarky.
Automatic upvote.“You use a machine to make your own ice cream? A hand crank doesn’t use electricity and produces a superior product.”
It sounds like Dairy Queen technically sells what was sold as “ice milk”, since it has a lower butterfat content than “ice cream”, until the federal government removed that classification in 1995:
https://www.mashed.com/1408082/what-happened-ice-milk/
The Reason Ice Milk Isn’t A Thing Anymore
Many current popular frozen desserts were once categorized as ice milk and more in fast food restaurants than most people realize. According to Dairy Queen, its soft serve cannot be labeled ice cream because it only contains 5% butterfat and was called ice milk until the FDA eliminated the category. “DQ® soft serve fits into the ‘reduced-fat’ ice cream category and our shake mix qualifies as ‘low-fat’ ice cream,” it states.
Dairy Queen is far from the only fast-food chain that doesn’t actually carry ice cream — at least not the legal definition. The next time you order a Chick-fil-A’s Icedream or McDonald’s ice cream, you’re eating the modern version of ice milk.
It sounds like ice milk is more prone to ice crystal formation than ice cream.
I don’t know if it’s possible to do a Blizzard by hand crank. Like, even if you had the same mix, it might require more-vigorous machine mixing to keep the mixture smooth.
I know for certain when I had the icedream’s as a kid, there were a ton more of the ice crystals that you could feel. It was one of the appeals, honestly, when done right, because it was different enough from regular ice cream to be a novelty.
Sounds to me like you’re a quitter
I guess one could invent some sort of mechanical cranked device that maybe has multiple people cranking and some sort of geared system to combine their inputs and produce the same level of mixing as an electrically-driven system.
See, there you go! Now, for the mix-ins: you can’t just go buy a Snickers bar, that has a plastic wrapper and HFCS. Making your own Snickers is so much better and rewarding. And you’d better mix it in by hand!
I think you’re just picking up on the fact that we’re better than everyone else. It’ll sink in eventually and you’ll become one of us.
For instance, you probably posted this comment on a malware-laden capitalist phone or, even worse, a store-bought computer running Windows, with dirty factory electricity.
I, on the other hand, am posting this comment on a solar-powered pc built entirely of recycled parts, purchased locally and anonymously with foraged currencies. I haven’t seen a single advertisement in my entire life, and while I do run Linux,I won’t tell you which distro it is (Arch, btw) unless you ask.
You’ll get it eventually, unless you’re a tankie. Or a liberal. Or a vegan (or not a vegan, we haven’t made up our minds on that yet).
And I bet even if they did someone would be snarky about how milk tastes better if you milk your own cow for it instead of buying it.
That’s why you just grab a few buddies and some axes and chainmail and raid a farmstead, let the farmer class do the herding and milking. Though that does raise the difficult issue of how far you’re willing to travel on your raid to get the best milk.
how far you’re willing to travel on your raid to get the best milk
I’ll travel to the private room to get the breast milk, that’s for sure.
not everyone has the free time to make ice cream themselves
But they have the free time to drive some extra 20 miles (supposedly) for ice cream? I mean, the whole thread exploded in shitty takes, but driving some 35ish kilometres extra for some extra ice cream is a wild take to begin with 😅
Yeah, but walking anywhere only feels good if you walk in shoes made from leather you have tanned from your own cow. Why even bother walking in mass produces fast fashion tennis shoes? Anyone can tan their own hide and make some shoes. It’s much more comfortable and a better fit than store bought.
Leather? You want to kill a cow just so you can walk around? A few days barefoot and you’ll grow your own self-replenishing leather. If you really must waste resources on your feet, I recommend cutting up an old, used tire. Same techniques as leather footwear, but re-use rather than murder.
If you really must waste resources on your feet, I recommend cutting up an old, used tire.
https://www.instructables.com/Tire-Sandals/
First, forget about using steel belted tires. Just don’t try it. They are HARD to cut no matter how you do it and it is dangerous with tiny bits of steel flying around your face and eyes. Not to mention that eventually you will get a sliver of steel in your finger or foot. If you have ever gotten steel in your finger, you know how aggravating that is.
There are plenty of nylon belted tires you can use. The most common source is the little donut spare tires in newer cars. These are the ones marked ‘Temporary Use Only and Don’t drive over 45 miles per hour.’ The reason being, they are not steel belted. You can get these at the junkyard or just steal one out of your neighbor’s car when they are unloading groceries.
I would travel the first 10
No, I don’t need all those extra calories. I also would eat at a local shop instead.
For overpriced aerated ice cream? Just go to the local supermarket and get some good ice cream. It’s cheaper it’ll taste better.
Nah I’d just buy none and find something better closer. Or if I was desperate buy two of the shit one.
I’d take the five minute trip to the store and buy a half gallon (really 1.5 quarts, assholes) for the same price.
Me? No. My wife? Probably. She’d also drag me along when she went though.
I wouldnt drive 10 seconds to get overpriced, fake ice cream tbh.
I like the Starbucks here that’s better than the other one
'Cuz the other one’s not as good
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Yes, this. Can’t say it any better. Local shops for stuff like this is a win.
Got to be honest here, I know and patronize a lot of Mom & Pop shops, but it hadn’t occurred to me until just now that there were still independent ice cream shops anymore. I’m super jelly that you have one available to you.
