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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Blended ice cream is a milkshake in the USA. I didn't know it was weird until I ordered a milkshake in Australia.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A milkshake has milk in it too in the US, wher've you been gettin your milkshakes?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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!"

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Might have some milk, but when I went overseas a milk shake was literally milk with crushed ice blended intop a drink.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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:

As an ice cream drink, the 20th-century milkshake’s only serious contenders have been its legions of imitators. United States federal code defines ice cream down to the amount of air it may contain, but is silent on milkshakes, leaving their parameters to states. For restaurants with regional or national reach, the simplest way to sidestep dozens of states’ conflicting milkshake definitions within their territories is not to sell milkshakes. Many, instead, offer “shakes” or milkshake-adjacent frozen dessert drinks with branded names that suggest creamy coldness, but avoid the legal entanglements of calling them “milkshakes.”

This is why you end up with Blizzards and Frosties apparently!

https://imbibemagazine.com/american-milkshake-history/

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So my usual Blizzard is a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup shake?

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

They don't add milk or milk substitute to blizzards. Blizzards are not shakes.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought that was a thickshake

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

No that's yo mama