Milkshake Hate

I decided for this week's post that instead of focusing on a single ice cream flavor, I'm going to write about a form of ice cream that I hate. Milkshakes.

Don't get me wrong, I love drinking (eating, slurping?) milkshakes, but making them is another story all together.

Any ice cream flavor at the Creamery can be made into a shake (except for "no sugar-added" flavors because they have an artificial sweetener in them that make people sick if they eat too much, and milkshakes have a lot of ice cream in them). This means that all of the flavors that are just TOO hard can be made into shakes. And as I said before, there's a lot of ice cream in a shake.

So after the ordeal of scooping the ice cream, it is likely that the scooper will be unlucky enough to have to make the shake. Though sometimes there's a designated "Shake Person" who will make all of the scooped shakes, but you have to be really lucky for that to happen.

First, a little cup of milk is added to the ice cream in the metal shake container. After the shake is put onto the "Shake Machine." It takes about two, two and a half minutes to complete the shake. Which means two minutes of constant twisting of the cup, which freezes your fingers, and a horrible screeching sound that happens when the cup gets too close to the metal blender.

Most of the time I don't have to make shakes, because I find something else to keep me busy (dishes, register, mixing sprinkles). But when I do it's quite a miserable time.

The worst thing about milkshakes though is that someone, or a group of someones, will ALWAYS come in and order them five minutes before we close. This means that:

• the dishwasher has to wash the scooper(s) and milkshake cup(s) (when the dishes were already done)
• the person making the shakes can't do their other job (cleaning glass, wipe down of freezers, etc.)
• the person who just finished cleaning the shake machine five minutes ago (and believe me, that is a job that takes a lot of time) has to clean it all over again

Moral of the story is: milkshakes are delicious and people love them, and we love to make them for you as long as it's not five minutes until close :)