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Queen of the fast food industry (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 101 points 10 months ago (30 children)

Non u.s. citizen here, wtf is a Daily Queen and why this make sense ?

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  • [–] 167 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (24 children)

    Dairy Queen is a fast food chain famous for soft serve "ice cream" which they put bits of other things in it, like oreo, M&Ms, cookie dough etc. for what they call a Blizzard, and part of their promotion is that they're supposed to flip the thing upside down quickly before serving it to you, to show that it is thick enough to not immediately run out and make a mess.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (21 children)

    That's fucking horrifying

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    Why?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    It's a marketing gimmick, that's all, don't think too much on it. If you do want to think too much on it, it's probably also a quality control proof. If your item doesn't pass this test then it obviously wasn't made correctly. Think of it like sailors testing the proof of alcohol to ensure it meet an agreed upon strength. If your DQ Blizzard dumps out all over the counter then it probably wasn't made correctly.

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  • [+] -56 points 10 months ago* (10 children)

    Because why would you do that? Do you also have a chain store where servers pour sulphuric acid over your cup to show that it doesn't melt?

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    They do it because a lot of milkshakes are made so thin and runny, or it sits on the counter for a few minutes and melts before getting to you.

    Doing the flip shows that it's fresh, still cold, and thick.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    But milkshakes are better when they're thin and runny, because it makes it a lot easier to drink them through a straw. Now I know why Dairy Queen does that but I don't understand why anyone would want a thick milkshake. I want to be able to drink mine, not eat it with a spoon.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's happened so long in my life that I'm mostly unfazed. The ice cream is thick and the cup they use holds it well to the sides so it can stay upside down (unless the machine mixed it wrong, but I've never seen it fall) for a few seconds before any real budging.

    Still don't like it, though

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It almost fell out on me once. I think the ice cream in the machine was still fresh so it was still a bit too soft. The employee caught it in time and flipped it back up before it spilled out.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Did you do the evil thing and insist that, because it fell down, it was free per the advertisements conditions?

    I can never bring myself to call out the fast food worker on a policy like that, like the McDonald's 'window to food in 30 seconds' nonsense they pull out sometimes or the 'if we didn't ask you about wanting fries, get free French fries' shit. Don't make customers into inspectors/watch dogs.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    As much as I was tempted to demand a replacement, I didn’t want to make the person’s (likely) already miserable work day even worse, so I just laughed it off and took it. They’re just trying to make a living.

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  • [–] 48 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    At the fast food chain Dairy Queen they make very thick milkshakes. Since they consider this a mark of quality, they prove it to the customer by turning the cup upside down with the milkshake still inside before handing it to the customer. These milkshakes are so thick that they do not fall out when the cup is inverted. Since they do this every time, employees get into the habit of doing this without thinking about it.

    The first time I saw this, I blurted out "What are you doing?!" and got a lot of weird looks, and my friend group had to explain it to me.

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    • [–] 70 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Nothing is censored on that post, why would anyone complain?

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    • [–] 58 points 10 months ago (18 children)

    Why are people here saying that "Blizzards" are "Milkshakes"?!

    It's breaking my brain.

    Blizzards aren't MILKSHAKES. They're soft-serve icecream in a cup. ICE CREAM is not the same thing as a MILKSHAKE.

    You don't drink a blizzard. You eat it with a spoon. You don't put two straws in and share it with your sweet-heart down at the old malt-shop. It's not a drink!

    Sorry. Don't know why this discussion about Blizzard vs Milkshake has triggered me. It's a new discovery about my personality that I'm not proud of....

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's technically not "ice cream" either. Enough of the cream (and fat) is removed that it's officially labelled "ice milk", at least in my dairy-centric jurisdiction.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Blended ice cream is a milkshake in the USA. I didn't know it was weird until I ordered a milkshake in Australia.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    A milkshake has milk in it too in the US, wher've you been gettin your milkshakes?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Might have some milk, but when I went overseas a milk shake was literally milk with crushed ice blended intop a drink.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    No might about it, in the US, definitionally, a milkshake is ice cream blended with milk at minimum. It can optionally have mixins or syrups blended in as well, but if there's no milk (or milk alternative)*, it ain't a milkshake

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    The definition has changed throughout the years, hopefully we can all at least agree on that. Some early "shakes" had no milk whatsoever! I didn't know this either, but apparently the US has no legal definition of what constitutes a milkshake, leaving it up to the individual states to decide.

    I also found this little snippet particularly interesting for this conversation:

    As an ice cream drink, the 20th-century milkshake’s only serious contenders have been its legions of imitators. United States federal code defines ice cream down to the amount of air it may contain, but is silent on milkshakes, leaving their parameters to states. For restaurants with regional or national reach, the simplest way to sidestep dozens of states’ conflicting milkshake definitions within their territories is not to sell milkshakes. Many, instead, offer “shakes” or milkshake-adjacent frozen dessert drinks with branded names that suggest creamy coldness, but avoid the legal entanglements of calling them “milkshakes.”

    This is why you end up with Blizzards and Frosties apparently!

    https://imbibemagazine.com/american-milkshake-history/

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    Depends on the state, apparently. There's no codified federal definition for what constitutes a "milkshake". As opposed to something like ice cream which is very much codified at a federal level.

    I posted a link further down, but apparently national chains do this is to avoid dealing with state regulations. "Its not a milkshake, its a Blizzard!"

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    [+] 30 points 10 months ago (8 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    It is plausible that someone who did things repeatedly for years might do that thing out of context. This is an unlikely extreme, but it is plausible or it wouldn't land as a joke.

    Of course it didn't happen to the person who told the joke. Most comedy bits like this are either 'what if' or extremely embellished to the point of being fictional with something real that was vaguely similar. It is still funny to think about how it could happen, because it might remind us of stuff that other people or even ourselves have done that was stupid and illogical due to habits.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    The act of making a blizzard vs filling a cup with soda are not comparable.

    Statistically, it is more likely this scenario woild happen at a Dairy Queen than a Burger King but that wouldn't be as funny.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Dairy Queen famously has no liquid products

    Is this an American thing? In Canada, Dairy Queen is a full restaurant with burgers and fries and the best onion rings. They serve drinks as well to go with meals. When I was a kid the kids meal would include a token so you could go get a dilly bar or ice cream cone for dessert.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago

    That person was joking. Dairy Queen serves normal drinks, so there is no reason why a person who worked there would turn every cup upside down.

    In fact, there are even some blizzards where it was a risk to turn it upside down. If there is enough stuff in there, it runs the risk of falling out over a marketing gimmick.

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    • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    All I get is

    a broken image

    Post needs text alternative.Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

    • usability
      • we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
      • text search is unavailable
      • the system can't
        • reflow text to varied screen sizes
        • vary presentation (size, contrast)
        • vary modality (audio, braille)
    • accessibility
      • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
      • some users can't read the image due to lack of alt text
      • users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
      • systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
    • web connectivity
      • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
      • we can't explore wider context of the original message
    • authenticity: we don't know the image hasn't been tampered
    • searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
    • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
      • image breaks
      • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

    Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

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    [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    We call it Dirty Queen where im from, there's a solid chance you might get a roach with your blizzard for free!

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