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Cake day: March 10th, 2025

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  • Ice cream has to be at least 10% butterfat and 20% milk solids according to the FDA.

    DQ soft serve is 5% butterfat so would not legally qualify as ice cream, though it would qualify as low fat ice cream.

    I do believe that most soft serve is a similar fat percentage, and also has much more air per volume than traditional ice cream.

    Also, I must say as an ice cream aficionado, I do love me some soft serve and I would never disparage it by calling it “not real ice cream.”









  • And yes, I know the solution would be “cook at home!” But that also wastes a lot of freshwater from dish washing

    I don’t think this is a good point. Just by living you’re going to be using resources of some kind, it’s simply unavoidable. I would worry less about trying to consume zero resources and more about particularly harmful things, like single-use plastics. Especially since fresh water is not an issue in some places, like where I am.

    Honestly, if you’re going to a table service restaurant, it might be even better than eating at home. You’re not going to get much plastic waste from single use items like you would with fast food, and because of the scale of the operation I could believe that restaurants are creating less waste per meal than individuals cooking at home. Think of a case of chicken breast versus individually packaged ones and the amount of plastic each uses, for example.