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Post by whollygoats on May 24, 2019 16:53:46 GMT
The true milkshake is not a glass of milk flavored by some other item stirred in to it.
No, a true milkshake is an ice cream delight.
To properly make a milkshake, you need a quantity of your favorite ice cream, a quantity of milk, a good sized glass (a pint glass will do fine), and a sturdy spoon which will reach the bottom of the glass.
Add scoops of ice cream to loosely pile to the top of the glass.
Add milk to the glass of ice cream so that the ice cream is covered.
Vigorously stir the ice cream and milk together until it is a consistent viscous mass. No lumps. It should be viscous enough to pour out of the glass. One should be able to draw the milkshake through a large straw, although using an ice cream with chunks of candy, crust, or fruit, will clog the straw.
Drink from the said glass.
In the major ice cream outlets like Baskin & Robbins, they have a shielded milkshake blender that does the stirring in a hurry. It is the same process, though.
I don't know what it was that I had that the Brits were calling a milkshake, but it was weak tea for sure. Not a 'milkshake' in any American sense.
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Post by whollygoats on May 24, 2019 16:55:49 GMT
Baskin & Robbins will make any one of these flavors in to a milkshake....small, medium, or large. My usual is a medium World Class Chocolate (immediately above the pink spoon) milkshake.
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Post by JoeP on May 24, 2019 18:23:35 GMT
I thought this thread was going to be about anti-fascist protests, and the rights and wrongs thereof. Anyway, I agree true milkshakes are thick - that's how we made them in SA. But isn't McDonalds a standard product all over the world? Is a McDonalds milkshake in the US a true milkshake? (You might not know, that would be OK.)
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Post by whollygoats on May 25, 2019 0:34:56 GMT
I approve of the use of what are being called 'milkshakes' in the UK. I was assuming that they were the product of fast food outlets. Those are not real, righteous milkshakes. Those are ersatz milkshakes. They are mere attempts to mimic the real thing while being able to be extruded from a chilled machine directly in to a paper cup and sold as a 'milkshake'.
The use of the Micky D trademark in your included image confirms that my assumption was, in large part, correct.
I merely sought to clarify for the British reader that what was being called a milkshake was a poor replica....but worthy of the political use which is being made of it. They are better as weapons than as beverages.
Carry on.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 25, 2019 4:14:58 GMT
Interesting. Do you have sauces in the milkshake as well? I always thought of a milkshake as ice-cream and milk, but flavoured with topping such as chocolate or caramel etc. In the movies I always see pretty swirls of sauce on the glass. I would say here in Oz, you will more likely see milkshakes as vanilla icecream with milk and a topping flavour, but some places will also use other flavouried ice-creams - usually places that have dedicated ice-cream flavours in the first place. But always sauce toppings as well. We also have thickshakes, which are the same but even more ice-cream so they're really thick, sometimes difficult to suck through a straw.
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Post by Moose on May 30, 2019 22:38:18 GMT
I always home make milkshakes by mixing milk and ice cream. Delicious
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Post by Kye on May 31, 2019 0:22:44 GMT
I'm not a fan of milkshakes. I'd rather just eat ice cream.
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Post by whollygoats on May 31, 2019 0:42:29 GMT
Interesting. Do you have sauces in the milkshake as well? I always thought of a milkshake as ice-cream and milk, but flavoured with topping such as chocolate or caramel etc. In the movies I always see pretty swirls of sauce on the glass. I would say here in Oz, you will more likely see milkshakes as vanilla icecream with milk and a topping flavour, but some places will also use other flavouried ice-creams - usually places that have dedicated ice-cream flavours in the first place. But always sauce toppings as well. We also have thickshakes, which are the same but even more ice-cream so they're really thick, sometimes difficult to suck through a straw. 'Tis possible. The thing is, if one goes to an ice cream purveyor, then there are usually choices of flavors of ice cream from which one might want to have one's milkshake made from, obviating much of the need for any 'sauces' to flavor the ice cream (Baskin Robbins has 31 flavors on hand at all times). That said, I'm fairly sure that the purveyor would be willing to accommodate and they usually have on hand chocolate, strawberry, butterscotch, crushed pineapple, hot fudge, and marshmallow goo 'sauces' (to make classic banana splits and top sundaes), but this rarely happens. I grew up eating scoops of vanilla ice cream smothered in chocolate sauce, and made my chocolate milkshakes by stirring in chocolate sauce when I hand made my milkshake, so I think I know of what you speak. But, if, at the purveyor, I want a World Class Chocolate milkshake, I have them make it with their World Class Chocolate ice cream and not muddy the flavors with added sauce.
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Post by whollygoats on May 31, 2019 0:52:13 GMT
I'm not a fan of milkshakes. I'd rather just eat ice cream. The classic 'scoop in a cup, eaten with a spoon'? Or, do you prefer cones? If so, regular, sugar, or waffle cone?
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Post by whollygoats on May 31, 2019 1:08:07 GMT
I thought this thread was going to be about anti-fascist protests, and the rights and wrongs thereof. Anyway, I agree true milkshakes are thick - that's how we made them in SA. But isn't McDonalds a standard product all over the world? Is a McDonalds milkshake in the US a true milkshake? (You might not know, that would be OK.) Yes, so far as I know, the Micky D milkshake is a standardized product worldwide in their outlets. I suspect they also share the same basic product with almost any other major burger chain. It is basically an extruded 'soft-serve' frozen 'ice cream' product. They pour a milk-like fluid in the top of their machine and it chills and stirs it so that it extrudes their goo in to the beverage containers. They call is a 'milkshake'. Anybody with a scintilla of class considers it with disdain. I never buy such a product. It is a 'wad of guck' and perfect for the expression of a political statement of disdain via lofting of the contents upon miscreants, but disappointing as a beverage. [Sidenote: If there is any variation on the milkshake, it would probably be in Israel, where one cannot purchase a cheeseburger due to the ban on milk and meat. This means that they would not sell milkshakes in concert with burgers, either.....IF the product is really a milk product. If it is ersatz enough to be included in the menu, then it is questionable as to whether it is really 'milk'.] .
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Post by tangent on Jun 3, 2019 18:41:28 GMT
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Post by Kye on Jun 3, 2019 18:46:57 GMT
I'm not a fan of milkshakes. I'd rather just eat ice cream. The classic 'scoop in a cup, eaten with a spoon'? Or, do you prefer cones? If so, regular, sugar, or waffle cone? I like regular cones, but sometimes I eat my ice cream in a cup (as if that were particularly more virtuous... )
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 8, 2019 6:27:54 GMT
I had a milkshake made only from ice-cream the other day and didn't like it all that much. Really lacked flavour - but that's probably a lot to do with the quality of the ice-cream which I could tell was not very good just by looking at it. It's very easy to tell with gelato.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 8, 2019 14:28:03 GMT
Next time, for really piquant flavor, just tell them to hold the ice cream and make the shake with just milk and 'sauce'. You will have arrived at the British version of a 'milkshake'. Or, if you are concerned about the milkfat, then why not try sherbert? Oh...excuse me, sorbet.
At the prices they charge for 'gelato' here, I've never been impressed enough to return for more. It strikes me as pay point propaganda to charge more for essentially the same thing as ice cream. I tend to think gelato is an faux elitist scam.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 10, 2019 7:58:52 GMT
How much do they charge you for gelato?
In my experience, there is a lot of crap gelato out there. Even in Italy! But when you have the good stuff, I reckon it beats ice-cream hands down. So soft and smooth and of course it should be made from the actual product it's representing, such as pistachio, or pineapple etc. My favourite place, sells two scoops for $6.50. I think that is cheap. I haven't noticed a difference in price in ice-cream vs gelato.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 10, 2019 14:41:02 GMT
I haven't been in a gelato shop in more than twenty years, so I really don't know. But, back then, it was usually about double the cost for equivalent servings. It may well have eased since then, but to be honest, I could not discern any significant difference between 'gelato' and 'ice cream', so there was never any reason to return to spend twice the money for a treat. It's all iced milk confections with lots of added sugar.
Yeah, I know....Just call me Phil S. Dean.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 10, 2019 14:59:32 GMT
Fresh smooshed Hoodie Strawberries ladled over a couple of scoops of high grade vanilla ice cream, topped with whipped cream.
Who has the time or the inclination to stir it together?
Nom, nom, nom.....
(In this scenario, I could be talked in to abandoning the ice cream entirely if it were replaced with a slab of lemon pound cake.)
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 17, 2019 10:47:14 GMT
No chocolate topping? I feel like you need chocolate topping on vanilla icecream and strawberries.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 17, 2019 16:11:48 GMT
No, no chocolate topping. I'm a berry purist, not some chocolate slathering fool who puts chocolate sauce on everything.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 17, 2019 16:16:47 GMT
That's fighting talk when addressed to rb!
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 17, 2019 17:37:40 GMT
Do you then disapprove of me putting chocolate sauce on chocolate?
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 17, 2019 23:53:44 GMT
Do as you will, but that is just coals to Newcastle.
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Post by kingedmund on Jun 18, 2019 1:10:34 GMT
I’d rather have a vanilla malt. Or peppermint ice cream.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 21, 2019 18:40:40 GMT
'Malt' is something I've never quite understood in this context.
Why would somebody want to add powdered malt to a milkshake? Grit?
Are there 'single malt milkshakes' as versus 'blended milkshakes'?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 23, 2019 9:04:00 GMT
It adds nice flavour - malt I mean.
If you're a berry purist, how come you're eating your berries with ice-cream? That doesn't sound pure at all.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 23, 2019 14:11:46 GMT
Ice cream is not a 'sauce'. Nor is sponge cake, nor pound cake. The whipped cream is probably closer to a 'sauce', but it can be dispensed with without damage to the flavor.
True purism means eating the berries as one picks them in the field, still covered with dirt, hand to mouth.
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Post by Kye on Jun 23, 2019 16:23:56 GMT
Yeah --that's the way I like them! Although I do tend to brush off most of the dirt.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 23, 2019 20:28:21 GMT
Understood....But I did way too much time in the fields as an adolescent. I have no desire to ever return.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 24, 2019 9:47:42 GMT
Pure berries are yum! Usually how I eat most of my fruit. I am happy to sacrifice apples for strudel/pie/crumble, bananas for smoothies and berries for a pavlova, but most of the time I like fruit pure - no dirt thank you very much! I never sacrifice mango to anything except my mouth (or the cat).
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