In b4 censorship complaints
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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....
Actually, everything is salad.
I feel like I just went on a roller coaster ride of emotion reading this lol.
Same as Frostys at Wendy's. They're not as thick as a Blizzard, but you don't drink them. People would still ask for straws, though.
I guess they're free to suck till their brains fall out though
I always let both melt a bit so it can be drank through a straw 🤷♂️
I would say a frosty is more of a milkshake than a blizzard and I would still argue with some one who says a frosty is a milkshake.
Blended ice cream is a milkshake in the USA. I didn't know it was weird until I ordered a milkshake in Australia.
A milkshake has milk in it too in the US, wher've you been gettin your milkshakes?
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!"
Might have some milk, but when I went overseas a milk shake was literally milk with crushed ice blended intop a drink.
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
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:
This is why you end up with Blizzards and Frosties apparently!
https://imbibemagazine.com/american-milkshake-history/
So my usual Blizzard is a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup shake?
They don't add milk or milk substitute to blizzards. Blizzards are not shakes.
I thought that was a thickshake
No that's yo mama
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.
At Krusty Burger milkshakes are called "non-dairy partially gelatinated gum-based beverages"
This is my favorite response in the entire thread so far.
If you wait long enough, it's a drink. Don't tell me what to do.