"This milkshake tastes like milk!" (long)

[guitardude1987]

Five minutes before closing, some woman comes through the drive and orders a chocolate shake. Co-worker makes it and hands it to the woman. She takes a sip and hands it back to co-worker.

Lady: "This doesn't taste like a milkshake."
CW: "Um...ok. I can make you a new one if you want."
Lady: "Yes, please."

Co worker remakes the milkshake. This time, she adds a little more chocolate to the soft serve. I should mention that we don't have a machine that spews out ice cream in milkshake form. We have softserve ice cream. We just add a little milk to it, then use a shake mixer to mix it.

CW: "Here you go, sorry about that."
Lady: *takes sip* "This milkshake tastes like milk."
CW: "Well...we add a little milk to it so we can mix it better."
Lady: "Can you make another one without using milk?"
CW: "That's really the only way we have to make shakes."
Lady: "Can I speak to a manager?"

Co-worker grabs me from my till balancing.

Me: "Can I help you?"
Lady: "Yeah, that girl has made me two milkshakes. The first one didn't taste like a milkshake (again, ) and the other one tastes like milk."
Me: "Well, I'm not too sure what to say about the first shake she made, about the second, it's normal to taste a little milk. That's how we make the shakes."
Lady: "Yeah, I asked her to make a shake without using milk and she said she can't."
Me: "We...can't. We have to add milk or the softserve we use won't get creamy."
Lady: "Can't you make one without milk or softserve?"
Me: "Well...no. We only have softserve ice cream."
Lady: "It isn't hand dipped?"
Me: "No, it's soft serve ice cream. It isn't hand dipped, and we can't make a milkshake without using milk. It won't work otherwise."
Lady: "Can I just have my money back? *sips shake*
Me: "Can I have that shake back?"
Lady: "I still want it."
Me: "Then no."
Lady: "But it's not how I wanted it."
Me: "But you say you'll drink it anyway."
Lady: "I didn't want it this way. I wanted a milkshake."
Me: "And you got one. Almost 15 minutes ago."
Lady: "It's not a milkshake. It's softserve ice cream and milk. I wanted a shake from a milkshake machine."
Me: "And a second ago you were wanting a shake made of hand dipped ice cream and milk."
Lady: "And now I'm settling for this thing. I just want my money back."
Me: "I'm sorry, but you've just used up all the patience I've allotted you for the day. We're closed now. Goodbye." *closes drive through window and locks it*

This post may only take a good 5 minutes to read, but believe me, 9:17 when the conversation ended. And she stayed in the drive through, staring in at all of us and knocking on the window at least twice for about 5 minutes after.

[Hyena Dandy]

Milk? In a milkshake?

Next they'll be putting peanut butter in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Potatoes in Potato Salads! Where will it end?

WHERE WILL IT END?!

[Mr Hero]

Your milkshakes bring all the bitches to the yard.

[Lingering Grin]

Part me think that what she wanted was actually a MALT, and not a shake... they do have quite a different flavor to em.


Of course, then again, anyone who likes malts, knows to ask for them specifically.


and yes, I prefer malts....yummy

[Nekojin]

Lady: "It isn't hand dipped?"

Maybe I'm getting confused by regional slang, but here in California, "hand dipped" would be talking about a soft-serve cone that was dipped in chocolate sauce. Very popular. But that question makes no sense that way...

Does "hand dipped" mean hand-scooped ice cream where you're from?

[Calud]

UNBELIEVABLE! Why didn't you make her a milkshake without the milk!!! ITS COMMON SENSE TO DO THAT !!!!!!

[Bright_Star]

She was going to keep it anyway BUT she still wanted her money back? OK. Can we say SCAMMER? Of course we can...lol.

[Sir Spaniard the 12th]

Your milkshakes bring all the bitches to the yard.

You could teach, but you'd have to ... barge?

[mikoyan29]

Can't resist:

I Drink Your Milkshake

[BookstoreEscapee]

But...but...that's how you're supposed to make them! Perhaps she should go to McDonald's and get a cup of milk solids and artificial flavoring. Sounds more like what she wanted...

When I was in college I worked in my campus's little fast-food-type place (more like short-order cook). We made milkshakes with hand-scooped ice cream and milk (even used chocolate milk for the chocolate shakes). Somehow I always seemed to overestimate my measurements....... A guy I worked with taught me how to make a faux-Orange Julius (vanilla ice cream, a few drops of vanilla extract, sugar, and orange juice instead of milk; I still make them sometimes, but without the added sugar; tastes more like a creamsicle). My senior year we got a little Friendly's ice cream station where we had regular ice cream and Fribble mix (which is unflavored ice milk; they use that with flavored syrup to make the Fribbles). I used to make a chocolate Fribble and with a generous spoonful of marachino cherries/syrup. Good stuff.

[RootedPhoenix]

It tastes like milk?

But...but..it's made with milk right down to the ice cream...!
*brain fizzles*

WHY do people do this?
I agree with that scammer thing. She wanted a free shake.

[Jester]

My very first real job when I was 16 was at a Friendly's, which is a major ice cream shop/restaurant chain in the Northeast U.S. And anyone who wants a milkshake that doesn't have milk in it is either:

1. expecting a McDonald's type milkshake from a milkshake machine,
2. completely uninformed as to what a milkshake is,
3. a scammer,
4. a fucking idiot.

Or some combination of the above.

Me, I vote for #4.

My senior year we got a little Friendly's ice cream station where we had regular ice cream and Fribble mix...

There is almost nothing greater than a Fribble. One of the few things I have ever missed from living in the Northeast. Mmmm....Fribbles......(insert drooling smiley here)

[csquared]

Probably wanted one of those "Non-Dairy Frozen Deserts."

I was spoiled growing up. A local dairy, Oberwise, Aurora, IL. made fresh ice cream. Real ice CREAM. You know it is good when it was in a cow yesterday.

When I was in NJ, Hoffmans!

I guess I will have to settle for Steak & Shake now. And it is just about dinner time. Yum!

[BookstoreEscapee]

There is almost nothing greater than a Fribble. One of the few things I have ever missed from living in the Northeast. Mmmm....Fribbles......(insert drooling smiley here)

Hehe...even better when you can make 'em yourself to your exact specifications! (Hence, my chocolate-cherry concoction.)We only had a small freezer; it held 4 of those big round tubs of ice cream (5 gallons, I guess?). We had chocolate, vanilla, Fribble mix, and a rotating 4th flavor (supposedly; usually it was mint-chip - we didn't go through enough to actually rotate it very often).

[jerkface11]

I wonder if she's related to the guy I had that complained his cappucino tasted like coffee.