• db2@sopuli.xyz
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    As a result of these shenanigans by Taylor and on their behalf McDonald’s itself I haven’t considered McDonald’s a viable place to go for any kind of ice cream or ice cream-adjacent thing for many years, whereas this was once not the case. I know I’m not the only one either.

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      I haven’t even thought about getting McDonald’s ice cream in years just because it seems like they are never able to serve it so I’m not even going to try. When I want ice cream I’ll go to the place that make ice cream on a cold slab.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      We are lucky enough to have a drive-through Baskin Robbins in this town. So my convenient ice cream choices are quite nice. But it must suck if your only option for ice cream is broken.

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        Wow, I really don’t envy your options. I’d prefer pretty much any ice cream chain over BR.

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          It’s not the best ice cream, but between that and McDonalds when you don’t want to get out of your car, I’ll pick the one with more flavor options.

          We do have one other ice cream place. It’s inside the lobby of a gun range. I’m not kidding.

          They also had a bullshit private ‘mask-free school’ going on during the height of COVID, so fuck them.

          • eric@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            That sounds like the kind of place I grew up in and eventually escaped.

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                1 year ago

                Lol no. I grew up in a place where you’d have an ice cream parlor in a gun range.

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      1 year ago

      I just stopped considering McDonalds a place that serves ice cream. The menu item just doesn’t exist there in my mind.

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        I wonder how much this actually hurts their business? Probably more than they realize. My daughter loves ice cream, and I am not going to play McDonald’s roulette, unless I have to. We just go to Wendy’s if we are going to eat fast food, the foods better and cheaper anyway and I have yet to run into a broken machine.

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          It probably hurts the franchisee more than it hurts McDonalds proper, and they make it back and then some from their deal with Taylor.