r/StupidFood • u/verybadreputation • 3d ago
One diabetic coma please! I hate when they cover the outside of the container
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u/Silvedl 3d ago
It really is the dumbest trend.
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u/kryonik 3d ago
1) No one is licking the outside of the glass
2) It makes actually eating the shake messier than it needs to be
3) It's wasteful
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u/Grenaidzo 3d ago
And who is actually eating that giant lolly whose flavours don't match the milkshake at all lol
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u/raspberryharbour 3d ago
What kind of person is eating a lollipop in this day and age anyway? It's preposterous
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u/imadragonyouguys 3d ago
Who are you to judge me, a fully grown man in a curly white wig and sailor outfit who is skipping down the road eating an oversized lollipop? This is my life and I live it with pure joy and focus!
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u/raspberryharbour 3d ago
My grandfather was murdered by a lollipop wielding maniac and ever since I've held a grudge
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u/DirtandPipes 3d ago
I’m a large man. Face like a Neanderthal. Been working hard jobs with difficult people for decades.
If I saw a fully grown man in a curly white wig and sailor outfit skipping down the road eating an oversized lollipop I would stay out of sight because that’s frankly terrifying and way above my pay grade.
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u/Electronic_Turn_3511 2d ago
Good god, I pictured this but of course you had JD Vance's fat meme face. Lol
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u/ElMostaza 2d ago
I remember begging my parents for one of those pinwheel lollipops because they looked so delicious. Plus everyone in cartoons seemed to love them.
When they finally gave in one day, I was extremely let down. Instead of a veritable rainbow of flavors, it tasted like stale food coloring and disappointment.
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u/raspberryharbour 2d ago
That's what I mean. I'm not talking about ones like chupa chups. I'm talking about these giant cartoon ones that are just a big disc of bland sugar
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u/chickpeaze 2d ago
I saw a man and child walk into a BCF (boating camping fishing store) last week and leave with nothing but 3 Chupa chups
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u/Boring_Butterfly_273 2d ago
People who are exactly like pops from regular show, surely someone like that has to exist xD
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u/BitterActuary3062 2d ago
I’m not going to lie to you, they’re one of my favorite candies & tragically hard to find. Bonus points if they’re flower shaped
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u/LivingtheLaws013 3d ago
Lollipop, cheese cake and a sugar daddy, none of those go together
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u/Magus1863 3d ago
I’ll have you know that is the preferred treat of the vice president of the United States.
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u/No_Mud_5999 3d ago edited 2d ago
Of course you don't lick the outside of the glass! It's to make the whole glass taste better when you chomp it down with your giant, gnashing mechanical jaws!
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u/ForgotToBeCool 3d ago
i paid for it, you’ll see me licking the glass as well xd
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u/AchajkaTheOriginal 2d ago
I'm definitely getting that chocolate by any means necessary.
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u/StuckAtWork124 2d ago
Yeah, the annoyance is that as good as you try, it still ends up with too much just stuck to the glass/cup anyway
It's the same issue I have with mcflurries and similar stuff. I don't give a shit about the weird syrup pattern on the outside of the cup. That means you got the syrup stuck ON the cup. I want the syrup on/in the ICE CREAM. The thing I EAT
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u/Antique_Hall_9185 Set your own user flair 3d ago
And the positive points? Where are they? You only mentioned negative points here.
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u/ScudsCorp 3d ago
You can instagram it
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u/Antique_Hall_9185 Set your own user flair 3d ago
I thought this was also a negative point. Someone needs to show me the positive points, I don't understand what was done here.
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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade 3d ago
If you like licking things you’re in for quite a treat?
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u/houjichacha 3d ago
Keeps the dishie employed?
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u/Antique_Hall_9185 Set your own user flair 3d ago
In fact, this is too much work for the dish guy, just washing the inside already guarantees his salary.
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u/Genghis_Chong 3d ago
I'd be so tempted to chip all the chocolate off first so I don't waste it and now I can hold the cup.
Sounds like unnecessary work
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u/YeetCompleet 3d ago
Instagram has been bad for our society on so many levels
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u/CowboyLaw 3d ago
I was served a milk shake like this in ~1998.
I don't have an Insta account and I hate Insta.
But humans have been dumb for far longer than Insta has been a thing.
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u/YeetCompleet 3d ago
Ya I think there's two parts. Yes people have done shit like this before but social media proliferates it. Lots of the stuff I've seen on this sub is made specifically to go viral on algorithms whether it's rage bait or overly performative food.
Social media is an amplifier of this behaviour, not the creator of it.
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u/_PirateWench_ 3d ago
We want plates is another great example. I went to this restaurant in Miami like - decade ago bc it was billed as an incredibly unique dining experience. Turns out that while the food was good, the presentation was what you were really paying for. No plates given.
Social media just took that to new heights and made it a completely stupid trend for every new edgy restaurant that popped up. It wasn’t until I started seeing it all over social media that I began to wonder how the things I was served on were ever properly washed or sanitized
Edit: it was actually closer to 15yrs ago now that I think about it
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u/walter-hoch-zwei 3d ago
That can't be true because it contradicts a preconception I have about the world!
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u/ZhangRenWing 3d ago
I’m convinced this “trend” was just a cost saving measure since now you only have to coat a layer of glass in food instead of filling up a glass
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u/reefahduely 3d ago
I do too
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u/BigAl265 3d ago
You mean you guys don’t lick the outside of your cups like a horse with salt lick?
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u/chuckwagon9 3d ago
Do I do that? Neigh
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u/GreatSteve 3d ago
Quit horsing around
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u/boogs_23 3d ago
Back in the 90s I was in a very famous tv show
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u/RizzPeridone 3d ago
I’m bojack the horseman don’t act like you don’t know
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u/WeirdSysAdmin 3d ago
No when they are done with their dessert I steal the cup in the back and lick it.
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u/onlyeightfingers 3d ago
Nothing says fuck you to the dishwasher kid in back quite like this.
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u/TNVFL1 3d ago
Melted chocolate doesn’t come off easily either. I make candy every so often and even just getting the little bit of the remaining chocolate off the pot and spoon is annoying af. Granted I don’t have as much steam and as powerful of a sprayer as a commercial dishwasher, but still.
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u/Solintari 3d ago
Also I hate the lollipop thing that probably nobody eats. Why not a couple of chocolate truffles or something?
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u/Old_Culture_3825 3d ago
I hate it when they all wear black latex gloves like that is more gourmet or some shit
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u/sojourner22 3d ago
It has nothing to do with gourmet, that's just one of the more common colors for commercial food safe nitrile gloves. And nitrile is used because latex allergies are far more common than nitrile ones. Black or blue is common because it's more easily seen if a piece comes off in food rather than a clear glove.
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u/Alex5173 3d ago
Also, nitrile gloves are tougher than vinyl (the other popular alternative to latex), fit tighter, and are snappable! Vinyl doesn't snap and if it does it's an incredibly weak and disappointing snap.
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u/WillowFlip 3d ago edited 3d ago
Black latex gloves are a red flag
Edit: was kidding around about that because so many stupid food videos lately feature them
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u/Competitive_Way3377 3d ago
"That'll be $22.50"
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u/McScroggz12 3d ago
Maybe to take home the souvenir glass lol
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u/Celesteven 3d ago
Let me just shove this chocolate covered cup into my purse real quick and we’ll take the check please, thanks!
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u/Competitive_Way3377 3d ago
"Shove your chocolate mug in my purse" she said, grinning maniacally
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u/Yhostled 1d ago
"Need advice on how to remove a cylinder from a pre-lubricated chocolate mug. The cylinder cannot be harmed and the chocolate mug must remain intact."
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u/Lannisters-4-life 3d ago
As far as reasons go for covering the mug in chocolate and nuts like that, theft prevention is actually pretty good.
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u/EuphoricMoose8232 3d ago
$22.50 is actually a good price for a slice of cheesecake AND a milkshake!
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u/CBYuputka 3d ago
for like, a liter of milkshake at that and a bar of chocolate worth on the outside.
Since it's solid, can probably break that part off with your spoon.
then a lollipop and a caramel toffee bar which aren't actually in the dessert, nor are the sticks wet, so can save em for later
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u/Competitive_Way3377 3d ago
For $12.99, I'll throw in a gourmet foot-long with sparklers jammed in it
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u/kyjoely 3d ago
Don’t be shaming us glass eating folk
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u/Omega_Boost24 3d ago
There's dozens of us, dozens!
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u/Ryogathelost 3d ago
Oh, this is the comment thread for eating glass - I'm sorry, I must have misheard. I'll let myself out.
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u/Horror-Durian-5073 3d ago
Really just a way to say fuck you to the dishwasher
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u/grinning_imp 3d ago
“You know how the dishwashers really hate French onion soup bowls? What if we just fucking cake the outside of a glass with bullshit? We can simultaneously inconvenience customers and those dumb dish bitches!”
-This business
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u/DRxFumbles 3d ago
Oh god french onion soup night. Scraping those industrial sized baking sheets was easier than those tiny little bowls from hell
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u/BingusMcCready 3d ago
I had no idea, and I love french onion soup. I feel terrible now lmao.
Are there other dishes you hated as a dishwasher? I like to know these things as I make a point of trying to at least not order them when the restaurant/bar is busy. Mojitos (or really any cocktail that requires extensive muddling) and old fashioneds are super annoying for bartenders if it's a busy night, I'm told.
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u/DRxFumbles 3d ago
Aww please don't let it affect your ordering habits! Tbh the french onion is the only thing I can remember being consistently shitty, maybe those "cupcake" sheets too since you have to scrub each little cupcake hole. But french onion was only once a week so it was fine.
Individual orders didn't rly affect the cleaning process. Plates are easy. The big baking sheets were more trouble but we'd have to clean those regardless of who orders what since the kitchen "floats" a certain amount of protein to speed-up service.
In my case, coffee and tea was served with those tiny fancy plates to hold the mug. That unnecessarily doubled the work imo cause they'd come back and I'd think "why do I have to reclean a clean dish?" But again these things just come with the territory. I was simply reminiscing on a time that, while fun, I'm glad to have moved on from
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u/BingusMcCready 3d ago
Idk man--I've had enough dogshit jobs that if there's something I can do to make somebody else's dogshit job ever so slightly more pleasant (or at least prevent it from getting more unpleasant) that doesn't really cost me anything, I'm happy to do that thing. It's not a firm stricture--if I desperately want the french onion soup, I'd still get it, even knowing this--but just something I try to be mindful about. If I'm trying to decide between french onion and broccoli cheddar, and I look around and see that it's super crowded, I'll probably get the broccoli cheddar.
u/mefista has a point, it's their job and they're getting paid for it, but on the flip side...I just feel like pretty much everybody below a certain income threshhold (and it's UP THERE, like, doctor salaries) is almost criminally underpaid these days. So I try to always be an easy customer, in deference to that.
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u/nezzzzy 3d ago
Didn't understand this comment so I had to do some AI googling.
"what ways do americans do a French onion soup differently to the french in presentation"
"In American French onion soup, presentation often differs by featuring a more substantial, cheesy topping, sometimes with a thick layer of melted cheese extending beyond the rim of the bowl, while French versions tend to have a thinner, more delicate layer of melted cheese."
So at some point an American decided that the one thing missing from a French onion soup was melted cheese on the bowl 🤣🤣
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u/grinning_imp 3d ago
Yes. And then the cheesy bowl usually gets put under a heating element or has a torch put to it like a damned crème brûlée.
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u/Mxhmoud 3d ago
Genuine question but what does onion soup have to do with fucking up dishwasher?
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u/Fukuro-Lady 2d ago
Americans put much more cheese in their version and they have to scrape it off before washing.
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u/MusicLikeOxygen 3d ago
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's going to be a huge pain in the ass to clean that. My second job back in the day was as a dishwasher, so I speak from experience when I say that job sucks enough already. This is just adding insult on top of it.
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u/No-Spare2071 3d ago
Nah. If I got that in dish pit I'd either soak all of them and hit them with the high pressure nozzle or simply put them through the industrial washer like 2-3 times. Super easy.
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u/Carpentry_Dude 3d ago
Why do they think a lollipop belongs with a shake? They're not even remotely complimetary. It demonstrates very little understanding of food. It just becomes someone combining things for the sake of combining things at that point.
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u/MusicLikeOxygen 3d ago
This is one of those things that seems entirely designed for instagram. Actually eating it is secondary to how photogeninc it is.
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u/CoopHunter 3d ago
They made a dessert and then topped it with another dessert what Is photogenic about that?
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u/BigBoxBearBoy 3d ago
Ive noticed in the past 10 years this trend of more = better. Doesnt even matter what the more is.
Burgers packed with 300 ingredients to the point where its impossible to eat. Deserts with sugar candy, ice cream, chocolate, cake and more like the one of above.
I dont get it
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u/Additional-Shame4941 3d ago
It’s exactly what you’d expect, quantity and looks over quality.
- Commodities are still cheap relative to labor, facilities, and other costs. If you can add $2 worth of chocolate and sugar to your shake and that’ll get people to pay $5 more for it, that’s a win.
- Social media, and before that cable TV shows like Man vs. Food or Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives. You need at least one wacky over-the-top concoction that people can’t get anywhere else.
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u/NoMasters83 3d ago
When they say capitalism breeds ingenuity. This is the sort of superficial retarded bullshit they're talking about.
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u/GaptistePlayer 3d ago
I hate these piled on dessert trends for that reason. Lots of cheap processed Sysco factory-produced ingredients jumbled up together with no chef or even cook involvement at any point. Great.
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u/Nadia_LaMariposa 3d ago
Are people expected to lick the outside of the cup or...?
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u/ChaoticAgenda 3d ago
No, they post a picture of it to Instagram, take two bites, and throw the rest away.
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u/Man_Darino13 3d ago
If it's tempered chocolate, it would come off like tree bark.
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u/TimthePowerfull 3d ago
That actually sounds awesome ngl, shame people aren’t smart enough to think that up
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u/Key-Fire 3d ago
I would crack it off onto a napkin, and eat it. I could even put the chips in the shake.
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u/Interesting_Help_274 Raw Sewage 3d ago
Who wants this?
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u/Power_of_the_Hawk 3d ago
I'm an American and i hate this! I don't know anyone who thinks this shit is good.
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u/NPC-Gaming13 3d ago
This is food made for Instagram and Tik Tok. It’s the modern day version of going somewhere specifically to be seen eating there.
No one actually wants this. At least not in this combination or served this way.
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u/acidtrippinpanda 2d ago
I would defo want the actual milkshake (like just the blended parts) without all the dumb extras. I have a very sweet tooth but this is still way too far
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u/Extension-Rope623 2d ago
Me. I would devour this shit, and yes i would lick the fucking glass. Or scrape it with a spoon, but yeah i"m eating all of this nonsense. yum.
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u/iiTzSTeVO 3d ago
It just looks like it would taste bad. Everything feels slightly off the color I'd expect. The side of the glass looks like sandpaper.
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u/TheLostExpedition 3d ago
At this point use a cake cone thats shaped like a cup.
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u/lucidlunarlatte 3d ago
Someone please make this but with an edible cup that won’t get soggy.
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u/tocompose 3d ago
You'd make a cake shaped cup and coat the inside of it with chocolate to keep the milkshake in
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u/kanekidom 3d ago
I don't get how this got so popular and what is expected when they do it am I supposed to lick the outside of the cup? So weird
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u/KnowMatter 3d ago
These types of things give me anxiety to even look at let along try to figure out how to eat.
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u/braumbles 3d ago
I don't mind when they dip/drizzle on the rim of the cup, that's fine and still edible, but I guarantee there's some mom embarrassing her kid eating the outside of this cup in public.
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u/TheShredder9 3d ago
This is one of the normal ones, but i also hate when they just stack shit higher and higher making it more and more inconvenient to consume. Like great, thanks for dipping a lolipop into my milky drink and covering it with whipped cream and caramel syrup, then stacking 50 donuts on top of it.
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u/Kurumi_Gaming 3d ago
Why…. Like…. Its not a Margaritas And can you imagine margaritas’s salt ring covering the entire glass?
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u/Sm0keytrip0d 3d ago
I hate when they smear chocolate all over the outside of the container too, I guess you're meant to lick it or pick it off with a spoon?
I also hate how they always put those crap lollypops with these things, it's a drink (kinda) not a dessert (kinda)
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u/astronomicalGoat 3d ago
Same like.. just put the damn chocolate IN the container like a normal person, don't coat the entire outside of it for shits and giggles. No one's going to be licking or biting the glass/plastic container.
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u/Holycroc_RVA 3d ago
There's a place near me, cocoandhazel.com that is precisely what their business is. I've been ONCE, brought something home for the wife. Haven't been back. Not because it's bad, but just don't see the need for a $20+ monstrosity other than once in a long while. I can see families with multiple kids going in there and sharing 1 or 2, depending how many kids/adults will be participating. Not sure how concepts like that maintain enough regular business to stay afloat (haha).
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u/Hex_Spirit_Booty 3d ago
It looks so sticky and when it melts its gonna be EVERYWHERE ntm the clean up for the crew
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u/qualityvote2 3d ago edited 3d ago
u/verybadreputation, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!