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