Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
I wouldn't drive 20 minutes for $1000, let alone a mockery of an icecream.
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No but I also wouldn't have bothered going to the closer DQ.
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.
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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.
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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No wonder where the global warming comes from. This looks to me like one of the stupidest wastes of energy.
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No. I'm not driving anywhere (walkable city resident) and I'm not eating that junk. I'm insufferable, sorry.
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).
that's $3-5 in fuel and maintenance, so probably not
Closer to $7 for the round-trip
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.
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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?
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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.
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.
No. I could probably get 3 gallons of ice cream at the grocery store for what one of those costs.
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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.
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.
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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.
Uuh let's get some real ice-cream if we're all driving around here?
No, I don't need all those extra calories. I also would eat at a local shop instead.
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
No. No I wouldn't.
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