Would you drive an extra 20 minutes (10 miles) to get the blizzard on the right?
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.
No, but I’d always get one when I was over there anyway.
No. I'm not driving anywhere (walkable city resident) and I'm not eating that junk. I'm insufferable, sorry.
Respect
Awareness++
Gotta respect the honesty tho
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.
Yes, this. Can’t say it any better. Local shops for stuff like this is a win.
No. No I wouldn't.
I'd probably just buy the next size up at the closer store if I wanted that much. I usually buy the smallest size & end up throwing about 1/4 of it away.
Still, when I go for ice cream(*), I'm going because it's a treat. Getting one overstuffed like the one on the right would certainly trigger more dopamine.
So, I guess it's a coin flip depending whether or not it's a nice day for a drive.
No.
I wouldn't buy either though because you're paying dollars for something that costs pennies.
You're paying for convenience, Quick I want some icecream so you either go to drive thru or a store, However the store doesn't come ready to eat as you then need a utensil and usually they're bigger tubs which most don't want to eat in one sitting.
Drive thru will win as it's quicker and no extra steps/storage etc.
They're charging you the most you're willing to pay while giving you the least you're willing to accept.
You're not "just" paying for convenience, your paying for the luxurious lifestyles of those maximizing profit and defending them in the process.
I used to think useful idiots were the exception.
Edit: Downvotes check out. It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he'd been fooled.
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 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?
Nope.
americans really don't have thoughts or feelings, this is their whole culture aside from concentration camps
False, DQ also serves burgers.
i don't eat this sort of thing because im not fat
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
DQ can't stay in business around me with their crap ice cream. Also gas isn't free.
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.
No but I also wouldn't have bothered going to the closer DQ.
No, I don't need all those extra calories. I also would eat at a local shop instead.
Nope. Costco is closer and ice cream is way cheaper there.
Accessing the food court without a membership is hit and miss per location isn't it? Like, they really don't want people eating there without a membership but the way the stores are laid out they can't really prevent it so it's all down to how badly each individual store wants to enforce that rule.
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
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
Haven’t seen an open Dairy Queen locally in almost 10 years.
The one by me just closed. They made the image on the left look grand.
I went there six months ago and tried to order three separate things off the menu which weren't in stock.
A lot of these older franchise style companies don't have anybody at the helm making sure that the franchisees are doing them justice. Dairy Queen only exists because they're making a consistent product with a little fanfare.
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
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).
I would travel the first 10
No wonder where the global warming comes from. This looks to me like one of the stupidest wastes of energy.
What are we even doing freezing cream? Adds carbon to the air to chill stuff. And cream? Belching, farting cows. Plus they put flavors in it, which are totally unnecessary.
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.
This question is more American than apple pie and an AR-15.
Edit: I've started some shit with the apple pie.
Trivia: while the phrase "American as apple pie" is a thing, it's something of a misnomer. Apples aren't New World, and apple pie was a thing prior to Europeans heading over to the Americas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Eurasia before they were introduced to North America by European colonists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie
Originating in the 14th century in England, apple pie recipes are now a standard part of cuisines in many countries where apples grow.
Apple pie was brought to the colonies by the English, the Dutch, and the Swedes during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Although originating in England and eaten in Europe since long before the European colonization of the Americas, apple pie as used in the phrase "as American as apple pie" describes something as being "typically American".[31][32] In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, apple pie became a symbol of American prosperity and national pride. A newspaper article published in 1902 declared that "No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished."[33] The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for Mom and apple pie"—supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in World War II, whenever journalists asked why they were going to war. Jack Holden and Frances Kay sang in their patriotic 1950 song "The Fiery Bear", creating contrast between this symbol of U.S. culture and the Russian bear of the Soviet Union:
We love our baseball and apple pie
We love our county fair
We'll keep Old Glory waving high
There's no place here for a bear
Maybe we should use "American as chocolate chip cookies" --- those were invented in the US.
As American as regular school shootings. Nobody else has those.
Or brownies
I mean, the english may have apple pies, but if JOLLY has taught me anything it's that they apparently are nowhere near as good as american apple pie, to the point there's a fancy pie restaurant in London that specializes in american pies.
Right? 😂
Uuh let's get some real ice-cream if we're all driving around here?
I would report the DQ on the left to corporate. Fast food franchises have standards they meed to follow in order to not damage the brand. The franchise owner will absolutely get spanked for that.
You're assuming the one on the left isn't the one already doing it correctly.
As a former DQ regular (one of my favorite treats as I drove cross-country) I can say that the one on the left is definitely very short. Like, "I want my money back" full Karen "I want to speak to the manager" short.
No, I’d show my local this photo and ask why they were shafting me.
Then the local manager reports the good store to corporate
Or the other way round.
Some franchises try to eke out more profits and corporate might not like how that degrades their brand.
No? I got an ice caffee basicly at every corner
20 minutes total or 40 minutes total? Honestly probably no to both. Depends how regularly it is.
Take those pictures to the closer one, ask to see the manager, sweep your bangs back behind your ear, and Karen the fuck out of them. Justice achieved
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.”
I think you're just picking up on the fact that we're better than everyone else. It'll sink in eventually and you'll become one of us.
For instance, you probably posted this comment on a malware-laden capitalist phone or, even worse, a store-bought computer running Windows, with dirty factory electricity.
I, on the other hand, am posting this comment on a solar-powered pc built entirely of recycled parts, purchased locally and anonymously with foraged currencies. I haven't seen a single advertisement in my entire life, and while I do run Linux,I won't tell you which distro it is (Arch, btw) unless you ask.
You'll get it eventually, unless you're a tankie. Or a liberal. Or a vegan (or not a vegan, we haven't made up our minds on that yet).
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.
not everyone has the free time to make ice cream themselves
But they have the free time to drive some extra 20 miles (supposedly) for ice cream? I mean, the whole thread exploded in shitty takes, but driving some 35ish kilometres extra for some extra ice cream is a wild take to begin with 😅
Heightened snobbery brought about by inherent nicheness in this forum.
Oh people. Lol
Because I was raised by an idiot redneck that fed me the typical American diet, I was an unhealthy fat kid. So I'm going to call garbage out when I see it.
I'm bemused that TheWeirdestCunt is pissed about snarky.
Automatic upvote.
Your recommendation is to make your own ice cream?! Lmao
Yes, it's not hard.
Yeah, but walking anywhere only feels good if you walk in shoes made from leather you have tanned from your own cow. Why even bother walking in mass produces fast fashion tennis shoes? Anyone can tan their own hide and make some shoes. It’s much more comfortable and a better fit than store bought.
How often are you buying blizzards?
How often do you get ice cream?
honestly, why would anyone pay for a blizzard, when the only thing they do to it is mix candy with ice cream in a blender? you do that yourselves.
You don't pay for any service you could do yourself?
I don't pay for a lot of services I couldn't do for myself.
I wouldn’t drive to a dq just for a blizzard
Nah, for the obvious gas reasons. Now, is it was a Foster Freeze... still nah, but I'd certainly consider it if I had other business in that town and could get a Boss burger alongside it.
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
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.
Yeah, unfortunate. Even within Cali, it's not like they went the way of the In n Out, I see them close down more than open up. It's too bad, they're the OG blended ice cream, apparently making the Twister back in 1946.
20 minutes each way? No. 20 minutes total? Yes. Though, not if I'm working. I'm not getting off later just to get some ice cream.
Ten years ago? Maybe. Not regularly but as a treat. I might talk with the manager about my concerns. Might even take it to corporate if I'm still unhappy. If I still don't like it, then I would just probably go without instead of exerting extra effort.
Now? No way. I'm so fed up with companies giving us less for more, I participate as little as I possibly can.
I have to drive an hour to even get the blizzard on the left :(
No. For starters I'm a metric kind of guy. Secondly I'm not that into blizzards.
the neat thing about measurements of distance is even if you drive 20 kilometers , you're still driving for miles .
Without a doubt yes. Why? Because I bet the customer service and wait time at the 2nd one is better.
I’m too damn grumpy for that.
No, left one is better for not becoming fat.
No but I'm not a fan of their blizzards honestly.
Everywhere I have lived and visited that was car centric has had local dairy farms with ice cream nearby. Lucky? Or do I just look around more than others?
No. I am not driving extra to get marginally better meh ice cream.
Why is everything a parody of the original lol. Flurry.. Blizzard.. Anyway what's everyone's opinion on this, are Dairy Queen's Blizzards better than Mcdonalds' Flurries?
You made me curious. In case anyone else is also curious; the Blizzard has been around since 1962 and has existed in it's current form, with all the stuff mixed in, since 1985, and the McFlurry was created by a Canadian franchisee in 1995 and started rolling out around the US in 1997.
No cos on the one on the left would make me feel healthy.
Prefer it not overflowing, too messy
I used to love Dairy Queen until I went vegan. Now they can go fuck themselves for supporting an industry that rapes and abuses animals.
no one is raping animals.
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
Well, if you've ethical issues with ranching, there is an ice cream option!
Breast Milk Ice Cream A Hit At London Store
Anyone pining for some ice cream in London now has an unusual option to consider: ice cream made from mothers' breast milk. The Icecreamists shop has made headlines for using milk from as many as 15 women to make its new "Baby Gaga" flavor.
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.