Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
Haven’t seen an open Dairy Queen locally in almost 10 years.
i don’t eat this sort of thing because im not fat
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 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!
No you are right, too!
some ungodly ingredients and sprinkles of human
What an unfortunate line break after this
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?
What is a DQ? Either way no I wouldn’t drive for any of them.
Dairy Queen. An ice cream F&B franchise, with this post most probably about one in US
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
This is a shitty ad.
For the left or the right one?
Nope. Costco is closer and ice cream is way cheaper there.
No? I got an ice caffee basicly at every corner
Another ice coffee corner store slut, eh. My people.
No, I don’t need all those extra calories. I also would eat at a local shop instead.
No but I also wouldn’t have bothered going to the closer DQ.
Tbh I don’t really need the full blizzard anyway, most of my enjoyment comes from the first several bites then the rest I finish out of inertia. I’d rather have half the size twice as often, from a calorie-counting perspective.
Also you could just buy a bigger size with your gas savings if you really needed it.
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).
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.
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.
“creamy” is a pretty common positive attribute for ice cream
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.
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 Turkey Hill despite Turkey Hill having more butter fat.
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.
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.
Nah. FDA definitions exist to make large corporations more money. There isn’t much else to it.
Congrats, you fell victim to propaganda!
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.
