Left is the DQ near my office. Consistently does that. Right is the DQ in the next town over.
Nah, for the obvious gas reasons. Now, is it was a Foster Freeze… still nah, but I’d certainly consider it if I had other business in that town and could get a Boss burger alongside it.
The only place I’ve seen Foster’s Freezes are in California.
kagis
https://fostersfreeze.com/locations/
It looks like they never expanded out-of-state, so probably not an option for OP.
Dairy Queen:
https://www.dairyqueen.com/en-us/locations/
4156 locations
Yeah, unfortunate. Even within Cali, it’s not like they went the way of the In n Out, I see them close down more than open up. It’s too bad, they’re the OG blended ice cream, apparently making the Twister back in 1946.
I keep seeing your comments tonight with kagis used as a verb. I’ve been interested in trying kagi for a while now. How do you feel their indexing stacks up to Google? I like them from an ethical standpoint, but paying for a browser that doesn’t work well might be difficult to pallete I’m afraid.
I guess that they’re okay, but I didn’t use them because I was unhappy with Google’s index, but rather because Google didn’t offer a no-log, no-profile service. I didn’t want to be in a constant fight with service providers who are trying to make their money via whatever alternate route they can (selling one’s data, profiling, showing ads, taking payment from people to get higher result ranking, whatever). Just wanted to pay them up front and not deal with trying to figure out and try to mitigate the latest way in which I was the product.
If Google would offer YouTube service that provided a no-log, no-profile option, I’d probably consider that too. That is, I don’t have a problem with Google-the-company so much as I do the fact that they’ve decided that providing a privacy-oriented service isn’t presently worth it to them. Kagi does have a video search that indexes a number of video streaming services (including YouTube, PeerTube here on the Fediverse, and a number of others), but you’re still still needing to stream the video from the provider.
The only premium Kagi feature that I make much use of is their Threadiverse search (“Fediverse Forum” search lens), as there isn’t really a great way to replicate that browser-side, and other search engines haven’t bothered to implement it last I looked. They keep adding stuff, but I mostly haven’t bothered to try the new stuff out.
looks
It looks like at some point, they added a Usenet archives search, which I actually commented here at some point saying they should implement. So maybe I’ll make use of that. Right now the main alternatives there are Google Groups, which I don’t think Google has been doing much work on in many years and has a kinda-broken index that mingles Usenet results with other scraped forum results, and a small search engine that some indie person set up that doesn’t have much by way of filtering functionality.
As to result quality, Kagi has some trial option where someone can try out a limited number of searches without paying anything, so you can try it if you want to see whether their results are what you want.
paying for a browser
I don’t use their browser, just their website. They have a plugin for Firefox that I use that makes it slightly more convenient to use them as a search option.
No, I don’t need all those extra calories. I also would eat at a local shop instead.
I wouldn’t drive to a dq just for a blizzard
I wouldn’t buy either. DQ is a dinosaur about to go extinct.
You don’t like their ice cream?
This is a shitty ad.
I have to drive an hour to even get the blizzard on the left :(
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.
How often do you get ice cream?
Nah I’d just buy none and find something better closer. Or if I was desperate buy two of the shit one.
I’d take the five minute trip to the store and buy a half gallon (really 1.5 quarts, assholes) for the same price.
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.
Prefer it not overflowing, too messy
20 minutes each way? No. 20 minutes total? Yes. Though, not if I’m working. I’m not getting off later just to get some ice cream.
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.
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Congrats, you fell victim to propaganda!
I wouldn’t go that far. Even labeling what should be called ice cream is good. The problem is not understanding the regulations that cause people to make judgements that have nothing to do with quality.
This except the complete opposite… :p
The FDA definitions and regulations cost corporations money, because they need to produce what they claim.
History lesson, pre-FDA a large corporation got caught selling thickened yellow sugar water as honey… The kicker was they would put a dead bee in each bottle to sell the fraud.
FDA, EPA and other larger government regulating agencies aren’t perfect but jesus was shit crazy bad before them.
(Another fun example, look up the Ohio river fire. Yes, the companies literally dumped enough shit into the river, it caught fire.)
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.
“creamy” is a pretty common positive attribute for ice cream
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.
ice dessert to recognize it’s subpar quality.
The amount of butterfat says absolutely nothing about the quality of a food item.
Gelato from the Cremeria Cavour in Bologna is higher quality than Dairy Queen despite Dairy Queen having more butter fat.
Edited for clarity.
It tells you something about the quality of ice cream. Yeah, it doesn’t tell you about the quality compared to a totally different product, but if you are comparing “ice cream” quality then it is an objective measure of quality.
A sorbet or an Italian ice doesn’t have butterfat at all, because neither contain dairy.
I think that it’d be hard to convincingly claim that an ice cream intrinsically is higher quality than a sorbet or Italian ice.
No one said it’s not a food item, just that it doesn’t quailify as ice cream. Similary Ireland ruled against Subway calling their “bread” bread for the same reason, it doesn’t pass the standards to qualify as that specific food item.
Sorry I meant to say “quality food item”.
A label for fat content does not determine quality.
No, left one is better for not becoming fat.
that’s $3-5 in fuel and maintenance, so probably not
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It’s insane to me how expensive car ownership is
Around £0.50/mile I think is what they use here. My bike has already paid for its self in cost savings. I also suspect that value would be higher if you consider off road miles.
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Heard. You just can’t replace what cities have
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There’s a lot of things I miss about Orlando, the car dependency isn’t one of them.
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That’s sad to hear. l moved away a decade ago and it was the right decision but it still kinda hurts. And visiting has been made complicated the past few years because I’m trans - I pass but it’s where I grew up and some of the people I knew before are assholes.
