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  3. Would you drive an extra 20 minutes (10 miles) to get the blizzard on the right?

Would you drive an extra 20 minutes (10 miles) to get the blizzard on the right?

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  • tal@lemmy.todayT [email protected]

    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.

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    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.

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    • tal@lemmy.todayT [email protected]

      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.

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      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.

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        Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.

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        I wouldn't buy either. DQ is a dinosaur about to go extinct.

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          Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.

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          No, I don't need all those extra calories. I also would eat at a local shop instead.

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            Eh, if you'd ever like* to hear my story of why I don't feel comfortable around horse owners anymore, I'll tell you the very long (well, short in most ways) and sad tail tale that I have. Rape may not be exactly the right word, but it's not far off either.

            *demonstrate your 'like' by hitting the spoiler... warning, it's unpleasant and I type so I can get it out, not relay it like a high school essay

            ::: spoiler spoiler
            So my buddy has a mother who wanted to get back to her youth as she came into the mid-life crisis, and bought a small ranch with three horses. My buddy wanted to be a vet, and so what better way to get him some practical experience than letting him care for the horses and participate in all the vet stuff that needs to be done... Well, seeing as the best way to get to hang out with my friend was to help him with his chores so they get done faster, little baconbit often helped out with stuff going on at said little ranch.

            Well, one of the horse facts of life is that they sometimes have foals. Interesting fact that you totally may not have realized, but for a mare (that's a female horse) to throw a foal (that's fancy talk for having a massive vaginal shit that is totally horrific), they need to be bred (in every pornographic meaning of that word...) by a stallion. So when the bacon bit showed up after school to help said buddy, there, cramming in by way of the eye orifice, is a picture of sin: a strangely old looking cowboy type with soapy hands getting very touchy feely with his stallion (cleaning is super important, because we've fucked horses so badly [okay... that was purposeful with the 'hole 'rape' thing] that it is incredibly easy for diseases to take root when horses copulate, so caring breeders and owners wash both the male and female parts very thoroughly first, and the mares have their tails bound so the individual hairs don't stray from the main portion of the tail being held up and to the side... and sandpaper the poor horse dick), and the two mares tied up in the main open area of the barn.

            Well, one way that mares have of showing their displeasure with a male trying to mount is to kick, which can kill the male. There are, or were, several videos you can find on youtube showing very expensive stallions becoming a very large problem to bury when that happens. So standard practice is to prepare and manage the mare, one part of which is keeping a halter on them and someone holding them in place so they can't move forward and make room to kick out. Well, you can guess what job that bit of bacon got that day... I can still very clearly remember the way the poor mare acted when it was her turn to be bred. I made sure to never be around that particular time anymore, because of course they did the whole exercise once more a year or two later.
            :::

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            your story demonstrates that, under our care, reproduction is safer.

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              No shit. I used to live in New York, where I could take the subway everywhere. When I moved to Orlando, including the cost of a car, my cost of living tripled. Living in New York was cheaper.

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              There's a lot of things I miss about Orlando, the car dependency isn't one of them.

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                I wouldn't buy either. DQ is a dinosaur about to go extinct.

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                You don't like their ice cream?

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                  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.

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                  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.

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                    There's a lot of things I miss about Orlando, the car dependency isn't one of them.

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                    I used to live here 20 years ago. It was a much better place to live then. It sucks now.

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                      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.

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                      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.

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                        Nah. FDA definitions exist to make large corporations more money. There isn't much else to it.

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                        This except the complete opposite... 😛

                        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.)

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                          Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.

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                          No. I could probably get 3 gallons of ice cream at the grocery store for what one of those costs.

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                            Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.

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                            This is a shitty ad.

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                              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.

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                              Amount of butterfat is a single ingredient. A single ingredient does not determine the quality of a food product.

                              Even if two food products were identical except for butterfat content, it still wouldn't be an objective measure of quality because it only affects taste and taste is subjective. It's like declaring that one burger is objectively better because it has more chili pepper seasoning. Now imagine if the FDA declared that to call a product a burger, it needed to have a minimum Scolville level of 500,000. The FDA would have created the requirement as consumer protection because people expected burgers to be spicy. The label would have had nothing to do with quality.

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                                Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.

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                                Nope. Costco is closer and ice cream is way cheaper there.

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                                • tal@lemmy.todayT [email protected]

                                  The only place I've seen Foster's Freezes are in California.

                                  kagis

                                  https://fostersfreeze.com/locations/

                                  It looks like they never expanded out-of-state, so probably not an option for OP.

                                  Dairy Queen:

                                  https://www.dairyqueen.com/en-us/locations/

                                  4156 locations

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                                  I keep seeing your comments tonight with kagis used as a verb. I've been interested in trying kagi for a while now. How do you feel their indexing stacks up to Google? I like them from an ethical standpoint, but paying for a browser that doesn't work well might be difficult to pallete I'm afraid.

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                                    I used to live here 20 years ago. It was a much better place to live then. It sucks now.

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                                    That's sad to hear. l moved away a decade ago and it was the right decision but it still kinda hurts. And visiting has been made complicated the past few years because I'm trans - I pass but it's where I grew up and some of the people I knew before are assholes.

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                                      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.

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                                      ice cream. With less it is not cream.

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                                        Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.

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                                        No? I got an ice caffee basicly at every corner

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                                          Amount of butterfat is a single ingredient. A single ingredient does not determine the quality of a food product.

                                          Even if two food products were identical except for butterfat content, it still wouldn't be an objective measure of quality because it only affects taste and taste is subjective. It's like declaring that one burger is objectively better because it has more chili pepper seasoning. Now imagine if the FDA declared that to call a product a burger, it needed to have a minimum Scolville level of 500,000. The FDA would have created the requirement as consumer protection because people expected burgers to be spicy. The label would have had nothing to do with quality.

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                                          Better =/= quality. You can prefer things of lower quality. Sure, it's only one component (I'd argue the most important one), but it's still an objective measure of quality. Maybe you can have just of high quality by using better quality ingredients other than that, but if you're skimping on this one then you're skimping everywhere almost certainly.

                                          DQ is not a fancy ice dessert place. Everyone knows that. They're the bottom tier for it. It's fine to like that. We all have certain low quality things we like; junk food for example. It's OK. You don't need to pretend like it's high quality though.

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