Comment on McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup
whodatdair@lemm.ee 6 months agolol, 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. 🍦
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
and soft serve ice cream was partly invented by Maggie Thatcher, much-maligned ice queen of Britiain
zarp86@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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-…