Comment on McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup

• whodatdair@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol, funny thing is that this isn’t really a story about ice cream machines - anyone who’s seen melted mcds ice cream foam knows that ain’t ice cream.

  The frozen foam machines were intentionally hard to fix but someone figured it out and made a solution. Mcd was making money off fleecing franchise owners by having their company be the only ones who could fix it, so it looks like they did shady stuff to keep the grift going. For the ice foam. 🍦

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lol, funny thing is that this isn’t really a story about ice cream machines - anyone who’s seen melted mcds ice cream foam knows that ain’t ice cream.

    It’s funny people think this is some sort of secret. It’s right in the name of the product: soft-serve.

    That’s what soft-serve is. Basically a bastardized form of ice-cream mixed with air to make it soft and add volume.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and soft serve ice cream was partly invented by Maggie Thatcher, much-maligned ice queen of Britiain

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      • zarp86@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        soft serve ice cream was partly invented by Maggie Thatcher, much-maligned ice queen of Britiain

        This sounded so wild I looked it up.

        Unfortunately, “most sources agree that the soft-serve industry arose in the United States, not Britain, and that it preceded Thatcher’s arrival at J. Lyons by about a decade. In 2008, Marian Burros offered a version of the conventional narrative in the Times.”

        newyorker.com/…/the-margaret-thatcher-soft-serve-…

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• ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except it isn’t “corporate infighting” because, that would imply it’s fighting within a corporation when it’s simply fighting between a corporate machinery supplier and a competing startup that’s alleging illegal coordination and slander.

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  • Lophostemon@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see them as a big rotten pile of filth all squirming in amongst the gangrenous limbs of society. Hard to see where one ends and the other begins.

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    • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But back in reality, there are many more evil corporations than one, so lumping them all together into one “pile of filth” only serves to limit your understanding and ability to fight against them. If you don’t like corporations, punishing a corporation for helping their supplier illegally destroy a competitor should be something you are in favor of, and labeling it “corporate infighting” does nothing but miseducate people to the underlying issue.

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    • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a very childish view of the world.

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