Isn’t it supposed to be ice creams and milkshakes and stuff?

  • spongebue@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Here’s the fun part: while you’re all talking about their ice cream, technically it’s not legal to call their product that. You won’t see it anywhere on the menu. I think it has to do with the milk/cream/egg/sugar amounts? There may not be egg at all, but can’t remember for sure.

    Anyway, all you’ll ever see on the menu is “soft serve”

    • cattywampas@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Ice cream has to be at least 10% butterfat and 20% milk solids according to the FDA.

      DQ soft serve is 5% butterfat so would not legally qualify as ice cream, though it would qualify as low fat ice cream.

      I do believe that most soft serve is a similar fat percentage, and also has much more air per volume than traditional ice cream.

      Also, I must say as an ice cream aficionado, I do love me some soft serve and I would never disparage it by calling it “not real ice cream.”

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        24 hours ago

        Funny enough, the milk they use (at least the supplier to the store I managed) is nonfat milk. So the first listed ingedient is nonfat milk, and the second is milk fat, lol.

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        1 day ago

        Oh, for sure. Especially during pumpkin pie blizzard season. Plus they always seem to feed my FOMO with some other flavor so I go twice during that season alone

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, soft serve is just frozen sugar milk, comes in cartons like regular milk and you can totally just drink it, tastes a bit like whole milk but clearly with an unhealthy amount of sugar in it.