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Funny thing is that over here in Europe the ice cream machines seem to work almost all the time. I understand that it’s because they use a different brand of machines, but I’m not sure about the details.
There they had to change the machines to the other brand because the ones they use here (us) was found to literally be designed to require a ton of maintinence so they could make money charging for repairs.
TLDR machine designed to break breaks a lot, not allowed in Europe.
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Canada here, never encountered a broken machine.
They are down for maintenance frequently, but nowhere near as frequently as the American locations that have the fucked up contracts with the machine manufacturer.
Seems like something that is location dependent. I go to McDonald’s far more than I’d like to admit and like I said, I’ve never seen them down.
I feel for Americans and their broken McDonald’s ice cream machines… McFlurrys are bomb af
The interwebs seem very, very concerned over Mac and Don’s supperclub’s ability to provide an awful excuse for “ice cream” in the world’s worst cone. Stop the madness. Touch grass and eat real food, nerds.
Look, I’m addicted to sugar fat and salt okay.
Don’t feel bad. Biology programmed you to prioritize it because it’s calorically dense and rare in nature, therefore important to survival and the propagation of your genes. The fact that it’s become widely available and cheap is not a matter of failure in individuals, but rather an example of the success of our species and civilizations.
Or something. Idk. Junk food is yummy. The key is moderation.
Am I weird for thinking McDonald’s soft serve is decent? I see a lot of people joking it’s not ice cream.
I love burger kings soft serve, I haven’t had it in a while but McDonald’s Sundays were always a hit for me
It’s almost never broken. I have only been turned away for a broken machine one time ever, and McFlurries are more or less a monthly treat.
Sorry to break the internet meme, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t all that common.
Fortunately there is objective data: https://mcbroken.com/
It’s probably locational and possibly the time of day. Since I understand cleaning them are a pain, certain locations may not prioritize it properly, or the downtime is always when you would go. The one by me for example has been down all of the 10+ times I’ve asked for something, but I know family members have gotten some ice cream there, so it’s not like permanently busted or anything.
The documentary on it explained that the cycles are timed to ensure proper cooling, and not warming too much for too long for sanitary reasons, so if an employee over filled the milk by a small amount the machine would sense the extra process time and default to needing a dump and clean. There was that raspberry pi device that would bypass that but for obvious reasons mcdonalds repair company lobbied against it.
Even when it works, it’s still not ice cream.
They can’t legally call it ice cream. It ain’t ice cream.
The McDonald’s menu is seemingly missing the exact phrase “ice cream” in lieu of “vanilla cone”.
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Guilty.
So this “joke” is still funny in 2024 huh?
I had one yesterday after 3 years. Is good
By broken, they mean we were too lazy to clean it today.
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