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

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[–] 200 points 1 year ago

No but I also wouldn't have bothered going to the closer DQ.

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  • [–] 125 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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    [–] 100 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    No, because 40 minutes of gas isnt worth the sub par ice cream.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    5% butterfat vs 10% butterfat for the FDA standard.

    Whatever. People write "it's not ice cream" like it's plastic.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    No wonder where the global warming comes from. This looks to me like one of the stupidest wastes of energy.

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    [–] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No. I'm not driving anywhere (walkable city resident) and I'm not eating that junk. I'm insufferable, sorry.

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    [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    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).

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    This question is more American than apple pie and an AR-15.

    Edit: I've started some shit with the apple pie.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    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.

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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    that's $3-5 in fuel and maintenance, so probably not

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    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.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're assuming the one on the left isn't the one already doing it correctly.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No. I could probably get 3 gallons of ice cream at the grocery store for what one of those costs.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Honestly dude, just show them the picture, and tip an extra 2 bucks when you go. They’re minimum wage workers, they don’t give a fuck and they do not get tips ever at dq. They will remember that shit forever and do that for you.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Uuh let's get some real ice-cream if we're all driving around here?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, I’d show my local this photo and ask why they were shafting me.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    No, I don't need all those extra calories. I also would eat at a local shop instead.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    20 minutes total or 40 minutes total? Honestly probably no to both. Depends how regularly it is.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    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

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    No. No I wouldn't.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn’t drive to a dq just for a blizzard

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