Why is the vanilla ice cream cone at McDonalds so fucking good?

Cater to low standards.

don't be fooled. the high priced ice cream is not made of any better or higher quality ingredients.

like the $250 jeans. There was a PBS special on the jeans manufacturing plants in China. It showed the same plant making the Wal Mart jeans and the $250--$500 ones, and the workers said that in many cases, the WM jeans were actually made to higher standards than the expensive ones.

Now I am not a WM fan nor do I buy clothes there. Just sayin you don't always get what you pay for.

I guess it pays more than flipping the burgers , OP but please, have a little self-respect.

Marble Slab is better.

Got a McDonalds milkshake a few years ago and accidentally left it in my car overnight. The next morning I found a cup full of watery liquid and a brown lump.

Point is, it's all chemicals and loaded with more fat than a Big Mac. It's nothing but a cone full of DEATH

Watery liquid and a brown lump, R5? Are you sure someone didn't have diarrhea in that cup instead?

Not sure about the USA but here in Canada, mcD;;s cannot legally call what they sell "ice cream" it appears on the menu as "Cone".

I don't like it, I prefer the cookies, at least that is baked fresh daily.

R6 Not exactly, but close

It sure takes a lot of chemicals to make that McD cone pretend to be ice cream

VANILLA REDUCED FAT ICE CREAM Allergens: MILK Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Cream, Nonfat Milk Solids, Corn Syrup Solids, Mono- and Diglycerides, Guar Gum, Dextrose, Sodium Citrate, Artificial Vanilla Flavor, Sodium Phosphate, Carrageenan, Disodium Phosphate, Cellulose Gum, Vitamin A Palmitate.

CONTAINS: MILK

All "Natural" Breyers is anything but these days, unless you like Tara gum and "Natural Flavors" which is often a code name for MSG and other very unhealthy things.

r5, if you left vegetables in a car over night, I'm pretty sure those would be brown too.

[R10] look at any carton of ice cream and you will see many of the same ingredients.

By the way, high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup are far more unhealthy than sugar; ask your doctor. Dextrose is corn sugar.

so what ice cream can we eat? baskin robins? hagan daas?

I don't know where you buy your vegetables, R12, but I've never had that happen. I left fruit in my trunk overnight once and other than a cloud of fruit flies and a lingering smell of pineapple, no bad effects. However, it's c9onceivable that a real milkshake would spoil, i.e. curdle or smell bad. Not turn into a brown lump.

r14, decent homosexuals do not eat ice cream, carb city.

It's that good, old fashioned soft serve that was around when I was a kid. I don't know how they did it, but I'm certainly am glad they did. It's McMarvelous!

Tastes like McMore!

I'm not saying ice creams that you buy in the supermarket are any good either. They do have all that shit in them too. It's just that there is no real ice cream out there anymore. You have to make your own and even then unless you use organic products including organic grass fed not ultra pasteurized cream you're still getting a shit product. If you do use all that it will probably end up costing 15 a pint. We just can't win these days.

R16, I got to gym 5 days a week, a little carb is not a problem for me.

Those McDonald's soft serve cones remind me of backpacking in Europe one summer. They were 50 euro cents in every country I visited. A little treat and a good way to get rid of all the coins you end up accumulating over there.

LOL at "decent homosexuals," R16.

R11, Breyer's is now called "Frozen Dairy Dessert" instead of ice cream.

Go for the Haagen-Daze:

cream, skim milk, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla extract

American ice cream is crap because of the short cuts often taken. For one thing, its whipped with a lot of air so you can make it look like you are getting more then you actually are.

McDonald's takes this to a whole different level. A chocolate shake left on the counter will in fact be half size by morning. They should be called chocolate foams.

Of course foam needs stabilizers so chemicals are added to keep it stiff long enough to look good. Then you need more sugar and salt, because it tastes bland. But real sugar is expensive which why you get high fructose corn syrup....which also works as a preservative.

Who on earth eats the shit at McDonalds period? If you're not poor, and even if you are, there's no excuse.

What the fuck is with the people saying you can't find real ice cream anywhere anymore? Huh?

I can go to the hippie store around the corner, to Whole Foods, to any number of fine ice cream shops, and find perfect, genuine, unadulterated, organic fucking ice cream.

Where on earth do you losers live?

Thank Margaret Thatcher, who was on the food chemistry team that invented soft serve.

OP = paid McDonald's shill

They sell shit which tastes like shit, period!

Breyer's used to be so good. They sure ran THAT product into the ground. Never again!

R27, that is sort of a myth about Margaret Thatcher. The article you posted has been debunked here:

I bought some Haagen Dasz vanilla ice cream but ended up going back to my favorite, Safeway's Homestyle Vanilla Ice Cream - low standards perhaps, but it really tastes better than the high and mighty stuff to me.

Häagen-Dazs

It contains my sperm.

R2 I've noticed the quality of clothes at Macy's and other so-called better stores (not high end stores) deteriorating. I think they are buying all the inferior shit that used to go to outlets, and putting it in regular stores and charging more money for it.

But I digress. Maybe we need a thread about clothing scams and inferior merchandise.

Thanks fast food schill, I was wondering about the price of an ice cream cone at McDonalds.

OP I too am always up for the cheap little thrill which is the Mickey D's "cone." And I have never deluded myself that is is healthy or pure. t just tastes great and the consistency/texture is heaven. I am single and of even to have a large amount of disposable income for foodstuffs- I could purchase the high end stuff all day everyday if I wanted to, but I don't. Rich, overdone heavy cream ice cream doesn't do it for me at all. The light(tasting) bit of vanilla silken yumminess is exactly what tastes right to me. As for the "shakes", I cannot attest to what they use now, but back in the 1980's, McDonalds was one of my father's biggest purchasing clients. His company manufactured polypropylene in many different forms. The form which McD's used were the tiny little globules. Yes, the shakes were thickened with PLASTIC.(actually synthetic olefin) The guy in The Graduate was right.

r5, McDonald's can't call it a MILK shake, cause there's no milk. Lots of chemicals and artificial coloring.

pic of the OP

Does McDonald's still make their "ice cream" cone with that powdered mix you add milk to? It's more like ice milk, I think, which I used to love as a kid.

I eat Talenti. That's it these days and it's fucking good.

Contains small amounts of beef tallow.

The dipped McD's cone is $0.99. It's the best.

Beaver anal gland

Gays eat shit and drink piss and call it sex. I guess that explains why this AIDS boy likes McDonalds.

Ever since McDonalds discontinued the Triple Ripple Ice Cream Cone, who cares.

The cones at McDonald's may be cheap, but eating at McDonald's and other fast food venues can get pretty expensive. This food is not price friendly for the poor.

Jesus H. Christ, OP; like any of us know. Why don't you just ask McDonalds!

Some of you must have very little joy in your lives to shit on a silly .59 soft serve cone. I'm so tired of hearing about all natural this, and farm to table that. It gets old and annoying after awhile.

The best soft ice cream in the world is to be found in Scotland. Italians emigrated massively to Scotland after WWII and it seems like most of them opened ice cream shops. There aren't that many 'Tallies' left, but if you find one, you'll be in heaven.

What R48 said. Not to mention that a lot of food products touted as "all natural and organic" are any thing but.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna shower and dress, and run out and grab a Big Mac and a tasty cone.

I just ate an American peach. Delivered to my country like a chilled baseball in the basement of a jumbo. It had no proper thick peach fuzz. Was coated in some invisible vile substance to prolong shelf but murder all aroma and taste. I read that these fruit coating are now nano engineered and can include antifungicides and antibacterials. After reading that I threw the rest of the peaches in the bin. That adulteration like this of wholesome food is permitted is a scandal.

Here. This is a video on what goes into McDonald's soft serve and how it's made.

There's a big McD campaign in Australia where they answer people's questions about their food. I'm surprised it's not a worldwide campaign.

Source for the video I posted @ r52.

"All natural" they yell, "all natural"' as they swill their booze, blow the weed, and snort their coke.

You can insult flyover fat queens any way you like but don't you dare touch their fast food outlets!!

Marble Slab -- what a CROCK! Every noticed how self-important the workers are there, as they bang on the ice cream with their little metal shovels?

I'm glad I'm not the only one: I made a special trip in extreme heat and humidity yesterday afternoon to get one of those little honies. Pure bliss! I haven't tried the dipped ones yet -- next on my list.

People who claim they never east fast food are being less than truthful. It's time to end the shame. Closeted "Fast Foodies" , It's time to come out.

Mass-market food, especially fast food, is precisely designed to trigger addictive pleasure responses in the brain from combinations of sugar, fat and salt, plus "mouth feel." It's not so much food as a drug.

We had a vanillia softserve machine in my college's fast food cafeteria (burgers, hot dogs, pizza, fries, salad bar).

Wish they had the chocolate dip that hardened into a shell.

I scream, YOU scream, we ALL scream for ICE CREAM

I go to the drive-thru for a soda every few months. The other day, the temp. was in the 90s. I was going to get a soda but noticed a sign for a McCafé Frappé Mocha. It's made with chocolate flavor and a hint of coffee blended with ice, topped with whipped cream and a chocolate drizzle. It was heavenly and it means I'll have to avoid McDonald's until the memory fades. I intend to stay thin and this Frappe could pile on the pounds.

R62. Sorry, that memory is never going to fade. It will be forever with you. That littler voice in your head will cry out for that heavenly release. Just give in to that heavenly bliss, and do a little extra exercise. You could do an extra lap or two around your local McDonalds restaraunt.

A lap or two to get rid of one of those Frappes? I don't think so.

Try a lap or two around every McD's in the state

I am always shocked at how terrible American "ice cream" is compared to what we enjoy here in Canada. Not to oput down our good neighbours, usually anything to do with food , such as quality, variety, availbility you are world leaders.

But seriously WTF is wrong with your "ice cream"? I mean it's awful, we're talking Chinese buffet restaurant ice cream style, inedible, watery as a Quebecoise... snatch or hard as frozen muskox shit on the tundra tasteless , just plain fucking AWFUL crap !

I'm talking about the stuff you consider "gourmet" not soft serve , but the brands like Edys', Breyers, hell even Ben & Jerrys simply inedible, or as we say up here, "American ice cream like making love in a canoe in January "...it's fucking close to frozen water !

Many of the products for sale in the US ice cream aisle at your grocery store are ‘frozen desserts’ that are often made with edible oil products and don’t contain the nutrients naturally found in milk. Read the Nutrition Facts table on the label: frozen desserts are made with oils like palm kernel or coconut oil,

Anything labelled "ICE CREAM" up here is mandated by law to be made with 100% Canadian Whole Milk,including ingredients derived from milk, e.g. cream, milk powder, whey powder).

I suppose it's like US chocolate vs British chocolate, you grow up with the US version you just assume it is the best it can possibly... usually you're spot on America, but your ice cream really is crap.

R65, so when I go to Toronto, what brand of Ice Cream should I try? Please let me know.

The OP:

The only thing I allow myself to eat from McD's is their apple pies. They are beyond delicious (to me). I prefer to get them from a drive-thru because the smell in McD's is vomit inducing.

Gregs' or Eds' ... always listed in top 10, but there are tons of small independently owned ice cream shops all over Toronto, every neighbourhood has at least one.

We do have a 2 or 3 Baskin Robbins left ( one in the gay village just for tourists) but all the Bens & Jerrys went out of business here

I only eat ice cream MAYBE once a year - and it's usually Blue Bell Pistachio and Almonds. Mmm.

Hey r7 can you post some other things that those of us here in the States might be surprised are labeled differently in Canada?

Karamel Sutra

M.Y.O.F.B.

Obama signed a veto in the Oval office nearly 2 years ago, bowing down to the junk food lobby, eliminating ice cream purity and quality in the US. All for a paltry $100K campaign contribution. Did the same thing with his buddies in the gun lobby! Don't you read?

The Japanese make surprisingly fabulous frozen desserts--you may find some in import supermarkets.

Who cares? Just gimme my ice cream.

R65, I do not consider Edys or Breyers to be gourmet ice cream. I don't know why you're sneezing at Ben & Jerry's, I think some of their stuff is fucking heavenly. Chubby Hubby anyone? No, not Chunky Monkey. Not the one with bananas and walnuts. Chubby Hubby, with malt vanilla ice cream, chocolate-covered peanut butter-filled pretzel nuggets, and fudge and peanut butter swirls. Jesus god. Did I mention I'm on a diet?

There are so many great gelatos and sorbets and actual, organic, fucking amazing ice creams available in the U.S. Or at least in NYC. I never want for bad ice cream.

But I'm on a diet, god damn it! I'm sure the cravings will go away in another week or so.

R74 just can't stop her cunt from flapping, can she?

Ben and Jerry's is too sweet. I don't like it. I like Baskin Robins.

Where the heck did you live to ever believe or even think this is good? Grow up on food stamps? Wan't there an Abbots? No Haagen? No B&J in grocery?

That should have read, "I never want for good ice cream."

OH DEAR

R80 Shut up and haul your ass back to the fucking Hamptons before somebody inserts a pointy waffle cone up your posterior orifice.

Make your own with all organic ingredients. If you're too lazy to do this, you deserve what you get. There are tons of alternatives that others have mentioned. Either eat healthy stuff in moderation , or find alternatives( sorbet/ gelato) to consume . Get off the addictive food/junk craving roller coaster. Remember quality OVER quantity. It's not too difficult even if you have little income.

Did someone use the "they use frozen cow cum" to make it taste good reason yet?

R 84 Where can I by some of that? I'm very much into "organics" and premium quality. In fact my favorite Ice Cream is BJ's and Whoregan Dasz.

[R-11] [R-22] Breyers ice cream is mostly whipped in air. There is no substance and as a chef I would never use it for desserts. Ben & Jerry's vanilla is most definitely the best commercial ice cream; however I have an ice cream maker and nothing can beat that.

And I have ice cube trays!

{quote]The cones at McDonald's may be cheap, but eating at McDonald's and other fast food venues can get pretty expensive. This food is not price friendly for the poor.

OMFGF, that is the FATTEST sentence I have ever read,

R88. OH, CANADA ! Come on down! I'll be the fat ass with a McDonald's McCone I each one of my chubby little mitts, just waiting for you to cross the border ! It will be a great day for McAmerica.!

Not cow cum, exactly, but...

R89. do me a favour, where a name tag or hold up a sign when you meet me ok?

You "People of the United States OF Walmart" tubs of shit south of the border all look alike to us.

Meet me at the border of Quebec and Vermont, high noon, Canada Day.

Better make that Quebec and Maine , Vermont' border is a mere 145 kilometres wide, your gigantic bloated porcine derriere might not be able to ooze through such a tight opening.

Is Kweebeck anywhere near the Irak? We don't have maps in our schools so it's hard to find places.

WHERE a name tag

Oh, dear,Mary!

The McDonald's ice-cream cones in GOOD neighborhoods are awesome. Delicious. Extremely white, cream, and vanilla-y.

If you go to a McDonald's in poor or minority neighborhood, however, you'll get crappy ice-milk instead. It's kinda yellowish, with noticeable ice-grains, and it's just not creamy at all.

More corporate screwing of the poor.

F&F for R44

You bastards. I just ate two of these because of this thread:

I can see Canada from my house. It's right there next to Poland. But I gotta admit, them there Canucks and Poles sure do look and act alike. But them Canucks sure do make good pierogies. Darn tootin.

WalMart is taking over Seller's. We'll be sure to keep you Canuckies stocked with plenty of Sam's Choice "ice cream."

Now that Walmart is invading Canada, should we rename the Canadian branch?

QueMart

WalBecs

Either way, they'll be sure to include a new MickeyDees Specialty Stop with your choice of Vanilla or Vanilla Supreme Shakes.

And, Big Canuck Burgers and Montreal Steak Fries, and don't forget the Alberta Apple Pies. And how could we forget those fabulous CanAm Ice Cream Cones ?

[quote]WalMart is taking over Seller's. We'll be sure to keep you Canuckies stocked with plenty of Sam's Choice "ice cream."

R98, I hesitate to correct t your post, even though it is severely inaccurate i hate to discourage one pf America's foremost foreign affairs experts by pointing out your errors, but it must be done, it's the only way to learn is through ones mistakes, eh?

The Canadian retail giant "Zellers" ( still a half credit for getting it almost correct at least phon-net-cally ( thas means spoken aloud sweetie) was sold by it's parent company,The Hudsons Bay Company ( btw way class it ios the oldest the oldest commercial corporation in North America (in continuous operation for 344 years) and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada and the United States, including Hudson's Bay, Home Outfitters, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue and two Zellers liquidation stores. Kmart Canada was acquired in 1998 and merged with Zellers

Zellers is still owned by HBC but as been reduced to a chain of two liquidation stores following the successful sale of its lease portfolio to Target in 2011, sorry but it has niot been sold to Wal-mart, even target just took over the retail leases of former Zellers location, but the brand is still owned by HBC.

HBC also just bought Saks 5th Ave., Canadians love shopping in the USA, not for the merchandise per se, but for the obsequious "Uncle Tom" style of "Yas Sir, right away Sir" toadying offered by American style retail staff . Canadian retail service follows the French influence of "go fuck yourself, I am going for a smoke"" service model.

We marvel at how servile you can be, see we never really had a strong service industry, and not many slaves to speak of up here, .. ( except for all those runaways you couldn't catch and ended up here.)

By the by, we still have quite a few of yours, so when can we expect you to come up here and take them back home, like the good neighbour we know you are?

Canada sucks. eh?

R7 says it all. Just no.

OP, because you're a garbage person

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Fun Fact: In poor neighborhoods the McDonald's ice-cream cone sucks. It's a yellowish vanilla ice-milk that is grainy and artificial tasting. But go to a McDonald's in a well-off neighborhood, just miles away, and you'll get this ultra white ultra creamy delicious ice-cream that is smooth as silk, light as air, and so tasty you can't even stand it.

Seriously. This really happens. You'd think they'd standardize it, but they don't.

Op must live in nebraska or some flyover crap state right?

That's totally racist

Bryers Ice Cream is absolute shit.

It is also called vanilla cone in the US, R7.

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The secret is that they never clean out their ice cream machine, so the growing bacteria gives it a unique flavor.

The ingredient "milk" is actually horse semen. It makes the milk shakes creamy.

Voila! Now you know.

It always cracks me up to read a really old thread and KaBOOM! you realize that a comment made 4 years ago was made by YOU.

The worst part is that I made an typing error.

Re the ice cream machine - there was a recent Reddit thread by fast food workers citing the items they would never eat at such places. The soft serve ice cream was mentioned because of the infrequency of cleaning the machine.

I went down to Ye Olde Kroger and picked up a carton of something called chocolate cherry truffle swirl.

It is cheap and orgasmic.

Like me.

When I worked at McDonalds (35 years ago, mind you), we cleaned the shake machine and ice-cream machine EVERY NIGHT.

I have no idea why they'd stop doing that.