Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
No. I’m not driving anywhere (walkable city resident) and I’m not eating that junk. I’m insufferable, sorry.
Awareness++
Respect
Gotta respect the honesty tho
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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.
No but I also wouldn’t have bothered going to the closer DQ.
As a European just let me say wow.
This is wrong on so many levels. And I assume you’re not aware of half of them.
As a Canadian, lol.
I hope I’m aware of at least 3/4’s of the levels of wrongness. We’re pretty influenced by American culture but still have our own identity. It seems to be fading a bit with time but I remember travelling to the US and thinking why is the yogurt so sweet? Why is the bread sweet?
I went on a work trip, pancakes had so much sugar they did not taste good, then powdered sugar on top, and a large slab of butter. The table syrup was just brown glucose-fructose. It was terrible. For dinner we went to Panerra bread, again everything you expect to be savory was so sweet.
As a Central American I’m… kinda clueless. What’s this about? Enlighten me, please!
Aside from the environmental impact of driving 10 (!) Extra miles (or at all) for a tiny bit of extra ice cream, which is neither healthy nor needed. It just doesn’t make sense on a personal financial level to waste so much gas to get a cheaper (per volume) treat. For a European driving to get ice cream alone is ridiculous as many placed have ice cream shops in the town we live in that we walk or bike to.
Adding to that, it’s not even icecream but a industrial replacement of (likely) dubious quality.
So one could get more in better quality cheaper if consumed regularly.
Oh, I thought they were taking about the ice cream itself as if it had some ungodly ingredients and sprinkles of human rights violations. Now I feel silly.
Thank you!
some ungodly ingredients and sprinkles of human
What an unfortunate line break after this
c/unexpectedcannibalism 😶
No you are right, too!
I was thinking with the petrol expense factored in wouldn’t it work out cheaper just to buy 2?
Gas is pretty cheap
I also dont know how much a blizzard is. I imagine theyre basically the same as a mcflurry from mcdonalds?
Looks like a blizzard is in the realm of $6? I don’t go to DQ, but living in a region with many of them I can say gas is generally accessible for ~$2.50 so unless you’re driving something that gets 10mpg there’s basically no way to make buying two be worth it. I only have to fill up gas once every month or two because my car is a plug in hybrid and I rarely go more than ~40 miles in a trip so it’s unlikely I use gas at all. With free nights I don’t even really pay much to fill my battery.
If you’re at the lesser DQ, you could pay a couple extra bucks and upgrade it to the next size up. You would save from having to buy a gallon of gas if you’re not electric and 20 minutes.
The current GSA mileage rate is $0.7/mi. This rate is pretty for accurate building in the cost of driving a typical car- gas, tires, oil, the car itself, etc.
That trip cost at least $7, if 10 miles of travel includes the return.
So no, I wouldn’t.
I am rarely twenty minutes, let alone electric
No, because 40 minutes of gas isnt worth the sub par ice cream.
And technically according to the FDA it isn’t even ice cream
5% butterfat vs 10% butterfat for the FDA standard.
Whatever. People write “it’s not ice cream” like it’s plastic.
The FDA is BARE MINIMUM, not quality. If you can’t make the bare quality, Im comfortable asserting its not that food item, much less a desirable one.
The amount of butterfat says absolutely nothing about quality.
Is whole milk not a “quality food item” because it’s only 3.25% butterfat?
Edit: I forgot the quality adjective which confused some.
It’s not ice cream. They didn’t say not a food item. They said not that food item. It isn’t ice cream if it can’t meet that incredibly low bar. If they want me to call it ice cream, they can make a small amount less in profit and deliver a better product. Until then, it’s an ice dessert to recognize it’s subpar quality.
ice dessert to recognize it’s subpar quality.
The amount of butterfat says absolutely nothing about the quality of a food item.
Gelato from the Cremeria Cavour in Bologna is higher quality than Dairy Queen despite Dairy Queen having more butter fat.
Edited for clarity.
It tells you something about the quality of ice cream. Yeah, it doesn’t tell you about the quality compared to a totally different product, but if you are comparing “ice cream” quality then it is an objective measure of quality.
A sorbet or an Italian ice doesn’t have butterfat at all, because neither contain dairy.
I think that it’d be hard to convincingly claim that an ice cream intrinsically is higher quality than a sorbet or Italian ice.
No one said it’s not a food item, just that it doesn’t quailify as ice cream. Similary Ireland ruled against Subway calling their “bread” bread for the same reason, it doesn’t pass the standards to qualify as that specific food item.
Sorry I meant to say “quality food item”.
A label for fat content does not determine quality.
ice cream. With less it is not cream.
It’s a label so consumers know what they are buying. It has absolutely nothing to do with quality.
Gelato from the best restaurant in Italy is higher quality than Dairy Queen despite having lower butter fat content.
“creamy” is a pretty common positive attribute for ice cream
Nah. FDA definitions exist to make large corporations more money. There isn’t much else to it.
This except the complete opposite… :p
The FDA definitions and regulations cost corporations money, because they need to produce what they claim.
History lesson, pre-FDA a large corporation got caught selling thickened yellow sugar water as honey… The kicker was they would put a dead bee in each bottle to sell the fraud.
FDA, EPA and other larger government regulating agencies aren’t perfect but jesus was shit crazy bad before them.
(Another fun example, look up the Ohio river fire. Yes, the companies literally dumped enough shit into the river, it caught fire.)
I wouldn’t go that far. Even labeling what should be called ice cream is good. The problem is not understanding the regulations that cause people to make judgements that have nothing to do with quality.
Congrats, you fell victim to propaganda!
I can’t tell what size blizzard this is thanks to the short cup, they’re usually taller. (Where I am in the US) They’re $4.99 or so for a medium, that’s my best guess. 20 miles round trip for the further “better” blizzard, 40 minutes in the car at that distance means city/town driving, so I’ll guess 18mpg. Extra gallon of gas for that round trip is gonna be ~$3+ USD unless you’re in California, and then it’s probably $4.25 or so.
Your best bet is to not waste gas, time, and wear on the car and order the next size up if your gas is $3-ish, or maybe order two if you’re in California.
No, I would not drive further.
No. I could probably get 3 gallons of ice cream at the grocery store for what one of those costs.
And also for the price of the extra gasoline
No wonder where the global warming comes from. This looks to me like one of the stupidest wastes of energy.
What are we even doing freezing cream? Adds carbon to the air to chill stuff. And cream? Belching, farting cows. Plus they put flavors in it, which are totally unnecessary.
Theres a difference between everyday conveniences and going out of your way to waste $5 in fuel to get marginally more ice cream.
Written like a true cream-freezer.
This is a shitty ad.
For the left or the right one?
Yes
So both are wrong.
The one on the left is too low. It needs to be, at the minimum, at about the rim.
The one on the right is too high. You can’t put a flat lid on it, and if you put a tall lid and it melts even a little, you end up with a mess on your hands. Blizzards aren’t cones with drip rings (the holes in the top of the wafers, which is why they shouldn’t be covered up), they’re supposed to stay in the cup.
Source: was a DQ Store Manager 20 years ago, went to DQ School (yes that’s real… or at least it was).
I wouldnt drive 10 seconds to get overpriced, fake ice cream tbh.
For overpriced aerated ice cream? Just go to the local supermarket and get some good ice cream. It’s cheaper it’ll taste better.
No. No I wouldn’t.
This question is more American than apple pie and an AR-15.
Edit: I’ve started some shit with the apple pie.
Trivia: while the phrase “American as apple pie” is a thing, it’s something of a misnomer. Apples aren’t New World, and apple pie was a thing prior to Europeans heading over to the Americas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Eurasia before they were introduced to North America by European colonists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie
Originating in the 14th century in England, apple pie recipes are now a standard part of cuisines in many countries where apples grow.
Apple pie was brought to the colonies by the English, the Dutch, and the Swedes during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Although originating in England and eaten in Europe since long before the European colonization of the Americas, apple pie as used in the phrase “as American as apple pie” describes something as being “typically American”.[31][32] In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, apple pie became a symbol of American prosperity and national pride. A newspaper article published in 1902 declared that “No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished.”[33] The dish was also commemorated in the phrase “for Mom and apple pie”—supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in World War II, whenever journalists asked why they were going to war. Jack Holden and Frances Kay sang in their patriotic 1950 song “The Fiery Bear”, creating contrast between this symbol of U.S. culture and the Russian bear of the Soviet Union:
We love our baseball and apple pie
We love our county fair
We’ll keep Old Glory waving high
There’s no place here for a bearMaybe we should use “American as chocolate chip cookies” — those were invented in the US.
As American as regular school shootings. Nobody else has those.
I mean, other places have had them. I wonder what they did that they don’t anymore…
Or brownies
Blueberry Pie
That’d work!
I mean, the english may have apple pies, but if JOLLY has taught me anything it’s that they apparently are nowhere near as good as american apple pie, to the point there’s a fancy pie restaurant in London that specializes in american pies.
Hmm. I’m in the US, but I think my favorite style is the Dutch style, which has that streusel topping with brown sugar and cinnamon.
That being said, I don’t know whether Dutch apple pie actually originated in the Netherlands.
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Hmm. Well, I don’t see anything that clearly indicates that, though it looks like the Dutch did make apple pie without strusel topping, at least at one point:
https://www.historicalcookingclasses.com/oldest-dutch-apple-pie/
The first printed Dutch cookbook appears in 1514 in Brussels . It is called Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen (a notable book of cookery). It is filled with many tasty recipes involving the use of luxurious products, and it also has a great apple pie recipe. The apples are richly seasoned and cooked in a luscious layer of dough. The spices used to season these apples are the most expensive ingredients in the 16th century. Back then, this was a pie that was only eaten by the richest people in town. Nowadays, everyone can enjoy it.
investigates further
These guys think that what we call Dutch apple pie in the US may be actually a development in the US fusing various European dishes:
Many pies will grace the Thanksgiving buffet today, and perhaps one of them is a Dutch apple pie, topped with a buttery, crumble crust laced with chopped walnuts.
The name Dutch, however, is a bit of a modern-day misnomer.
The etymology of these names have historic roots that pervade the ties of colonialism in the New World and old European traditions. The term Dutch, now used specifically to identify people from The Netherlands, was once used interchangeably to describe people from both Germany and The Netherlands.
The Dutch and Germans each had their own version of an apple pie that would include a lattice crust or be more cake-like in consistency.
“Dutch apple pie is not Dutch. Our ‘appeltaart’ is either more cake-like or made with a buttery crust,” says Peter Rose, a food historian and author specializing in Dutch cuisine.
But where did Dutch apple pie originate, and why the walnuts?
“The Netherlands certainly has walnuts and perhaps adding those makes it Dutch. In his book of 1655, Adriaen van der Donck remarks on the quality of the walnuts here. The Dutch are and were very fond of nuts. In New Netherland (the Dutch American colonies), it was customary to offer ‘nuts ready cracked’ to visitors,” says Rose.
Black walnut trees grew with abundance in the Northeast — one of the few sources of nuts — and the American ideal of “make it do,” paired with the availability of the nuts, apples, sugar (thanks to triangle trade stops in Albany, where rum was made for British bastions in New York and western Massachusetts) easily led to pie (which was more of a breakfast food at the time.)
Beyond that, dairy farming as an industry didn’t begin in America until the 1800s, and butter was used sparingly. (Many apple pie recipes from the time will call for a touch of cream, but not butter.) Making a simple strudel of sugar and walnuts, a technique long employed in Europe, could replace the top crust and save the precious golden butter for other uses.
As New York settlers began to move into Pennsylvania, they took with them the habit of crumb toppings on pie. In her book, “The Lost Art of Pie Making,” Barbara Swell lists various Pennsylvania Dutch pies with crumb toppings (like shoefly, vanilla custard and sour cherry), stating that most of the original pies in the area are the unique cake-pie combination Germans were known for.
Many of the settlers in that area were also French Huguenots, who brought with them a tendency toward flakier, crispy doughs and crusts that we associate with pie today. The claim can be made that modern Dutch apple pie actually has French-colonist-in-Pennsylvania origins.
Hmm. So maybe Dutch apple pie derives from a dish that started in England, has a crust from France, a cake crumb topping from Germany…but that the fusion probably happened in the US, maybe in part due to limited availability of butter in the early US. So at least my favorite form of apple pie probably was developed in the US, though it was a fusion of various European dishes.
There are fancy restaurants in London specialising in almost anything.
Right? 😂