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by Clent 1023 days ago
But are they authorized? These are McDonalds franchises. There is a contract.

We're going to start limiting what McDonalds can do to control quality of product because the tech community thinks it knows better?

Dairy is not a product to play loose with the rules on.
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repiret 1023 days ago
The franchise owner is the machine owner, and therefore can cause a repair person to become “authorized by the owner”.

The franchise owner may have a contract with McD or Taylor in which they agreed not to make certain repairs, but I’m pretty sure they do not, because otherwise Taylor wouldn’t need to lean on the DMCA to argue that certain repair tools are illegal.

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ghostpepper 1023 days ago
(Semi-)Serious question: does McDonald’s soft serve “ice cream” contain dairy?
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rufus_foreman 1023 days ago
"Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Cream, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor, Mono And Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate."

-- https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/vanilla-cone.html...

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mcpackieh 1023 days ago
It does contain dairy, but they can't legally call it ice cream. (Or at least they can't call their shakes "milkshakes": https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/desserts-and-shakes.h... )

Q: Why don't you call your 'shakes,' 'milkshakes'?

A: Great question. Our shakes contain milk from our reduced-fat soft serve, which makes them thick and creamy. Dairy regulations actually vary from state to state on what can officially be called a 'milkshake.' We like to keep it simple and refer to them strictly as 'shakes.'

(Note they say "reduced-fat soft serve" and not "ice cream")

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bandyaboot 1023 days ago
In order to call it simply “ice cream”, it would need to have at least 10% fat content. They could choose to call it “reduced fat ice cream”, but I’m guessing they’ve decided that that doesn’t sound as appetizing to consumers as “soft serve” since to most people, “soft serve” is just a type of ice cream. Marketing finds a way. said in the voice of Ian Malcolm
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Clent 1023 days ago
I really don't want keep defending a corporation here but it's quite clear form that messaging that it may be consider ice cream in some states.

If we're going to dunk on corporations can we do it for legitimate reasons?

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mcpackieh 1023 days ago
They can't call it ice-cream because legally it isn't in at least some states. They likely aren't using enough cream, or they're adulterating it with other ingredients that some states don't permit. What exactly are you refuting?
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