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I will be celebrating with Mint Chocolate chip!

What's your fav?

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same.

Hrm.. I can eat my favorite any time.. I think on National Ice Cream Day I should just try ALL of them...

I should have a root beer float to celebrate.

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Mint Chocolate Chip is my favorite as well.

When it comes to shakes, that's a different story. I am extremely particular about my shakes. This is because in high school I worked as a soda jerk for a '50s-themed diner called Galaxy Diner (used to be a small chain, now there's only one left. That pic was taken from the one in Flagstaff, AZ). I was the guy who made all the flavored sodas and all the desserts.

This included shakes and malts. And they were hand-scooped, not the soft-serve crap. On top of this, we used shake tins and shake machines instead of blenders.

Even though we had a very large variety of shakes to make from a selection of toppings, the top two most common shakes were 1. Chocolate and 2. Strawberry Banana. This means our servers entered in those two flavors of shakes a lot, and then each ticket was rung up to me.

One particular busy night a server sent me an order for a Chocolate Strawberry shake. Since I make dessert items exactly as they are listed, I didn't even question it (I would get interesting orders for things like Chocolate Cokes and what-not all the time). I made it. The server looked at it and she immediately noticed it was not the color she was expecting. "This was supposed to be Strawberry Banana." "Not according to this ticket." "Oh. Um, can you make a straw/banana real fast?"

Rather than let that interesting combination of a shake go to waste and dump it out, I kept it for myself and ate it. Eureka! I discovered the best-tasting shake I've ever encountered!

Since I controlled the tools and ingredients, I perfected it over the next few weeks. Extra chocolate syrup, extra strawberries (but keeping the correct ratio, where strawberries were the dominant flavor and chocolate was the more subtle). Extra thick. Sometimes I'd make it a malt.

If you ever run across a place that makes shakes by hand and not gets them dispensed by a soft-serve machine, I recommend giving it a try. Just make sure you let them know to use a vanilla ice cream base (and not a chocolate or strawberry ice cream base). And if all they have is strawberry syrup without actual strawberries, pass.

On a side note, having mastered the art of dessert making and having quite a few recipes up my sleeve has come in handy over the years. Especially when making a surprise visit, loaded up with supplies, to a house full of single women that I knew.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Ice cream, how can there be just one favorite?

I don't indulge mch anymore in my attempt to control my diabetes and lose some weight, but when I do it is a premium ice cream of the B&J or H-D variety. Cherry Garcia is among my favorites, as is the H-D5 version of chocolate.

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My all time favorite was always the Jamocha Almond Fudge hot fudge sundae from Baskin Robbins. I would kill for one right now...no, not really!

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Cookies and CREAM!... (and in selected stores, greentea ice cream... mmmm... )

Strawberry, specifically Tillamook Oregon Strawberry.

Mint Chocolate Chip + Black Cherry in a double scoop cone is the only way to go.

dulce de leche (pure carmel - not vanilla with carmel swirls)

So I didn't manage to partake this weekend, so I stopped by Baskin and Robbins yesterday and had a shake made with Chocolate-Oreo ice cream.

It's been years since I've been to B&R, so I thought I'd give it a shot. The Chocolate-Oreo was one of the 31 flavors.

The ice cream was terrific, but the person that made the shake used too much milk and it was a little runny for my taste. I prefer milkshakes that require a spoon to eat.

I used to be a big mint chocolate chip fan, but these days I prefer a good vanilla. Most important is that it actually be made with cream and nice and thick, not whipped up to be all light and airy.

In my opinion as a former professional milkshake-maker, if they don't tap the tin or use a spoon to get all of it out then it wasn't made right.

The same goes when I go to Zuka..er.. Jamba Juice. I use a particular phrase that, just like Emperor Palpatine, allows me to "feel their anger." The phrase? "Thick.... and well-blended." It has to be that combination, as each by themselves can make for a crappy smoothie/shake.


But, as of yesterday I am low-carbing it again. Ah well. Doesn't mean I can't have this stuff anymore, just not nearly as often.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Well, I'm not an ice cream snob.. I'll eat just about anything.

I do prefer my shakes extra thick though, and that especially applies to hand made shakes that cost $6 ea.

Anyway, the shake was still pretty good. I hadn't had one in a long long time, and probably wont again for a long long time (maybe next year on this occasion?).

Maybe I'll try Coldstone next time..

Coldstone is good, I approve of them. But they don't use vanilla as a base unless requested and they use blenders to mix their shakes, so they can come out runny unless you say something.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

It isn't a shake if you get a headache trying to suck it through the straw :p

Shakes aren't meant to be eaten with a spoon!

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Vivere Senza Rimpianti

Shakes should be straw-able, but it should require effort to do it that way. Shakes should be heavy and viscous, but not lumpy. Also the quality of the shake degrades when it crusts over.

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Get a thicker straw! :p

What kind of effort are we talking about, Kaf :p

A shake should not require you to exert effort to pull it through the straw...

A thicker straw? What good will that do :p

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I keep trying to come up with something witty and flirtatious in response, but am just failing hard.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Lol you are witty Kaf .

Hugs!

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chocolate peanut butter!

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Ceri
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