Would you drive an extra 20 minutes (10 miles) to get the blizzard on the right?
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The problem isn't that it's nothing special, The problem is that the quality has been dropping for years in a lot of locations. It's that dreaded food service downward spiral. People initially go to you because you have something special going on. Eventually for one reason or another you need to make more money, so you need to raise prices or drop servings, quality. Raising places and or dropping quality brings you less customers so you have to continue raising prices, dropping quality or both.
Dairy Queen is on the decline and will disappear in upcoming years. They're cheap because they can't make any money not being cheap. Twist is, You're not making enough money being cheap either.
Ah, I haven't experienced that, but it could just be that the ones near me are well run. Quality wise I haven't really noticed a difference, even my dad agreed (who worked for DQ back in like the 70's I think) that it tastes pretty much the same as it always has, even if we've personally outgrown it and no longer find it appetizing.
You sparked my curiosity enough that I looked up the price.
The small Oreo cookie blizzard that I remember as a kid, which I will get a few times a year probably, is $2.89. I didn't realize the different flavors have different prices, though I guess it makes a little sense?
https://dairyqueensmenu.com/dairy-queen-blizzard-menu/
Can't speak to the rest except to say the steak fingers I tried again a few years ago after a 30 year hiatus are as horrible as ever.
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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.
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Do you make all your own food, clothes and shelter yourself with foraged materials from the land you live on?
I'd love an idea world too, but the one we live in requires compromise, like sometimes trading your labor for things your labor can't easily produce. Like drive through ready fluffy air-laden ice cream.
You can do it yourself, but you'll have to raise a cow, travel Madagascar or Mexico for wild vanilla beans, extract sugar from somewhere (sugar cane might be easy to get for you), and I think there's gelatin in there too, good luck with that. You can probably carve a bowl and spoon fairly easily, as well as appropriate the salt, but the ice might be a problem depending on where you live.
Taking a month to ferment and distill something to get some alcohol to make vanilla extract would amp up the flavor, but that might be more trouble than it's worth (it is fun though).
wrote last edited by [email protected]Do you make all your own food, clothes and shelter yourself with foraged materials from the land you live on?
Lol, the mental gymnastics you people resort to in order to justify being taken for a ride.
Let me just say this: the profit margins from my spending habits are significantly lower than the profit margins from yours.
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Do you make all your own food, clothes and shelter yourself with foraged materials from the land you live on?
Lol, the mental gymnastics you people resort to in order to justify being taken for a ride.
Let me just say this: the profit margins from my spending habits are significantly lower than the profit margins from yours.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Maybe, but you didn't answer any of my questions in any kind of a good faith way, which tell me your talking out your ass and haven't actually thought about any of your words. What percent or amount is fair? How much do you value work other people do for you? If you don't value it at all, how do you justify not doing everything yourself. Other people don't want to be making you ice cream, prob because you're an asshole, but regardless they'd do it for money, not for free.
So the question stands, if you don't do everything yourself and presumably also participate in the system you were born into, what percent or amount do you think is a fair amount to pay for other people's labor?
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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. -
Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
For overpriced aerated ice cream? Just go to the local supermarket and get some good ice cream. It's cheaper it'll taste better.
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No, I would go to the local mom and pop ice cream shop. It is better ice cream and keeps the money I spent in my community instead of investor groups.
Yes, this. Can’t say it any better. Local shops for stuff like this is a win.
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That’s a fine suggestion in a cooking forum, and completely asinine to a general audience.
I feel for "The general audience".
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Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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Maybe, but you didn't answer any of my questions in any kind of a good faith way, which tell me your talking out your ass and haven't actually thought about any of your words. What percent or amount is fair? How much do you value work other people do for you? If you don't value it at all, how do you justify not doing everything yourself. Other people don't want to be making you ice cream, prob because you're an asshole, but regardless they'd do it for money, not for free.
So the question stands, if you don't do everything yourself and presumably also participate in the system you were born into, what percent or amount do you think is a fair amount to pay for other people's labor?
I answered your question honestly and in good faith.
If you want more details, you can do your own research and find out the exact percentages. I'm not going to do it for you.
Come back and let us know what you find since it matters to you so much.
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No, I would go to the local mom and pop ice cream shop. It is better ice cream and keeps the money I spent in my community instead of investor groups.
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.
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I answered your question honestly and in good faith.
If you want more details, you can do your own research and find out the exact percentages. I'm not going to do it for you.
Come back and let us know what you find since it matters to you so much.
I know what they actually are, I'm asking you what percent above cost you think is fair for someones labor. And like I said in the other thread, your strange caginess about not giving a number when your whole rant is about profit margins is just fucking weird.
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Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
No. Never had one. Not interested.
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Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
I wouldnt drive 10 seconds to get overpriced, fake ice cream tbh.
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Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
Me? No. My wife? Probably. She'd also drag me along when she went though.
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Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
I like the Starbucks here that's better than the other one
'Cuz the other one's not as good
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Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
No because I probably shouldn't be eating the quantity on the right
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I guess that they're okay, but I didn't use them because I was unhappy with Google's index, but rather because Google didn't offer a no-log, no-profile service. I didn't want to be in a constant fight with service providers who are trying to make their money via whatever alternate route they can (selling one's data, profiling, showing ads, taking payment from people to get higher result ranking, whatever). Just wanted to pay them up front and not deal with trying to figure out and try to mitigate the latest way in which I was the product.
If Google would offer YouTube service that provided a no-log, no-profile option, I'd probably consider that too. That is, I don't have a problem with Google-the-company so much as I do the fact that they've decided that providing a privacy-oriented service isn't presently worth it to them. Kagi does have a video search that indexes a number of video streaming services (including YouTube, PeerTube here on the Fediverse, and a number of others), but you're still still needing to stream the video from the provider.
The only premium Kagi feature that I make much use of is their Threadiverse search ("Fediverse Forum" search lens), as there isn't really a great way to replicate that browser-side, and other search engines haven't bothered to implement it last I looked. They keep adding stuff, but I mostly haven't bothered to try the new stuff out.
looks
It looks like at some point, they added a Usenet archives search, which I actually commented here at some point saying they should implement. So maybe I'll make use of that. Right now the main alternatives there are Google Groups, which I don't think Google has been doing much work on in many years and has a kinda-broken index that mingles Usenet results with other scraped forum results, and a small search engine that some indie person set up that doesn't have much by way of filtering functionality.
As to result quality, Kagi has some trial option where someone can try out a limited number of searches without paying anything, so you can try it if you want to see whether their results are what you want.
paying for a browser
I don't use their browser, just their website. They have a plugin for Firefox that I use that makes it slightly more convenient to use them as a search option.
