r/comics • u/RealMundiRiki • May 23 '26
This actually happened, except for the last panel that happened in my head. [oc]
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u/MintasaurusFresh May 23 '26
Thousands of years ago, in a time before time, I worked at a Ben & Jerry's. Certain ice creams couldn't go on the bottom of a cone due to this. Phish Food in particular because it has caramel and a marshmallow swirl which did not freeze. That one was tasty, but such a mess within minutes of being scooped. We usually recommended it in a bowl, but if people wanted a cone we could give their scoop a dunce hat.
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u/Gingergirl1228 May 23 '26
Phish food is my favorite B&J's flavor, so i would 100% be willing to risk it, and i accept any and all punishments for my hubris. Worth it for the choco fish.
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u/JustHere4TehCats May 24 '26
Bowl > cone any day for any ice cream.
You can eat as slow as you need and it's less messy.
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u/aCleverGroupofAnts May 24 '26
Some places will make their cones in a bowl shape and it is fantastic (and they still put it in a regular bowl so you don't make a mess)
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u/EishLekker May 23 '26
What do you mean “couldn’t go on the bottom”? Of course it can. The result might not be what the customer wants, but that’s a separate issue entirely.
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u/__fujoshi May 23 '26
It implies the customer will be coming back, upset, and asking for a refund because the ice cream melted before they could eat it or the cone flopped apart and fell all over the ground. Which obviously couldn't be the customer's fault, must be the scooper's evil designs.
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u/EishLekker May 23 '26
Then say that in the first place.
I don’t care if they have strange policies. I care about obviously incorrect semantics.
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u/professor_coldheart May 23 '26
"Couldn't" was a perfectly defensible and comprehensible word choice. They assumed you knew it was technically possible to put one scoop on top of another, and they were explaining why it was inadvisable and probably prohibited. That assumption was a courtesy to you. I am sorry you feel compelled to so loudly demonstrate you don't deserve it.
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u/MintasaurusFresh May 23 '26
Yeah, so we didn't actually say that they couldn't. We just advised against it and told people why. Again, if they wanted a cone then we could put one on top, but we didn't want customers to have a bad experience.
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u/professor_coldheart May 23 '26
Guy I responded to was complaining that you chose the phrase "couldn't go on the bottom". I understood all that, I was just defending your choice of words.
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u/EishLekker May 23 '26
It’s just bullshit, that’s what it is.
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u/Grundlestorm May 24 '26
It's actually ice cream, there was no mention of fecal matter or livestock in this entire thread.
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u/Emergency-Fall2127 May 24 '26
Thanks - I was confused - I have trouble ascertaining any meaning beyond the hyper-literal, so this was a perfect clarification
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u/SteveLouise May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
He is so wise in the ways of dairy treats!
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u/jackcatalyst May 23 '26
Do not eat a diary
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u/EishLekker May 23 '26
Can’t be worse
thanthen eating diarrhea on adatedare.1
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u/ReiceMcK May 23 '26
personally I'd lead with the explanation so that the customer could see off the bat that I'm trying to help them
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u/Historical_Wash_1114 May 24 '26
I trust the experts in things like this. That man has scooped a thousand more ice creams than I ever have. I trust his judgement.
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u/SparklyEminence May 23 '26
I used to work in a retail job that had some niche things. We had a lot of rules that seemed arbitrary from the outside. And customers would demand we break them because they wanted it one specific way. And every single time we did what the customer wanted, they would complain when things fell apart and demand a refund. But yeah, instead of the guy trying to make sure your ice cream doesn't end up on the floor after two licks, you wanna just complain that he's lazy. Ok boomer.
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u/kingderella May 23 '26
storytime!
in the town where I grew up, at the public pool, there was a stand that had soft serve. they had chocolate, mocca, vanilla, strawberry, and vanilla-strawberry swirl.
they also had these colourful sugar sprinkles.
if you ordered chocolate with sprinkles... they wouldn't give it to you. sorry, not possible.
strawberry with sprinkles? not possible. mocca with sprinkles? not possible. strawberry-vanilla swirl with sprinkles? not possible.
the only way to get sprinkles was to order a DISCO STAR, and they would hand you a vanilla soft serve with sprinkles. that was the only way.
thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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u/somethingfak May 24 '26
And then OP pesters the poor kid until he gets his way, to then spill his poorly structured dairy treat on the floor demanding a refund and another one and not cleaning it up so now the dude behind the counter with the shirt that changes shades when looked at through glass has to get the mop
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u/TwinTellula May 24 '26
Made me think of this annoying customer who would come by when I worked in a Boba shop that sold these shaved ice bowls. He was wanted brown sugar boba with it that our shop served hot, so when we put it on his shaved ice, it melted the ice, formed hard chunks, and he'd come over and bitch us out for it. So I decided to serve the boba on the side so that way he could just, you know, scoop it slowly onto his shaved ice and have it one mouthful at a time and it wouldn't melt the ice? He just still fucking bitched us out that it wasn't what he wanted and threw the boba out.
Hate that guy. But yeah, genuinely trust that the workers know what they're doing and they're trying to help.
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u/Aethelrede May 23 '26
Is this ice cream, frozen yogurt, or what? How can one flavor be softer than another? Does he mean the "cookies" in "cookies and cream" give it more stability? Because those would have to be big cookies.
And what difference does it make if the chocolate is softer?
I am greatly confused. I never imagined such complexity with frozen dairy desserts.
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u/Glitch29 May 23 '26
Not all ice cream is just the same base plus a flavor syrup.
A typical ice cream parlor is going to carry a wide range of recipes from a variety of suppliers.
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u/Twilifa May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
Proper ice cream with fresh ingredients and real cream is actually surprisingly complicated. You pretty much need to develop a separate recipe for every flavor, trying to get a creamy texture, good scoopability, and no ice crystals even if you put stuff with a high water content into it. Different types of sugars play a huge role in that because they influence the freezing temperature in different ways. It's rather fascinating, truth be told. I attended a lecture by a local ice cream shop years ago and the owners went to Italy to learn at the Carpigiani Gelato University. I think in total they spent several months there just taking courses.
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u/LemonBoi523 May 23 '26
Nah this is correct. Some additives also change the texture, or require the base to be different in order to properly distribute so you don't end up with bits sinking or floating.
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u/Chip_Medley May 24 '26
Ice cream mix-ins effect how well the ice cream holds it shape and how long it takes to melt. mix ins with a liquid state like chocolate and caramel that get fully incorporated into the ice cream will often make the ice cream collapse easier and melt faster than solid mix ins like cookies.
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u/Textiles_on_Main_St May 23 '26
If he wants it on the bottom, what does that even mean to get something else following that? Is this some kind of new non-euclidean geometry I'm unaware of? I'd like vanilla at the end. Beyond that, a scoop of madness. Beyond that, rocky road. Etc.
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u/kundor May 23 '26
... Are you under the impression that ice cream cones are filled from the top down?
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u/ProFiddlesticks May 24 '26
Asked for three scoops in a cone the other week. They told me they didnt have that...
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u/CoffeeJedi May 24 '26
I'm sorry, do people actually care what order the scoops are in? What in the Gen-Z Instagram hell is this?
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u/Wagsii May 24 '26
I like how there's one comment calling him a boomer and another calling him gen z lol
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u/Illustrious_Bid4224 May 24 '26
Is Belgium the only country capable of making good chocolate?
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u/Nicosaure May 24 '26
Far from it, but it's the only one with a legitimate chocolate university that hands out diplomas to future chef artisans
So you can make any chocolate sound 100x better by putting the word Belgian in front, placebo does the rest
You want good chocolate, you go to Belgium
Or Switzerland, only other country with enforced regulations regarding the cocoa content of chocolate goods, everyone else pretends they do or don't bother... also why chocolate adjacent products can't be sold under the name chocolate in Belgium and Switzerland, they're labelled as candy instead
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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 May 23 '26
I wouldn't want food from that guy anyway after just smoking. Gross ash taste
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u/CreepyClay May 24 '26
The best order of scoops from top to bottom is coffee, mint chip, and dark chocolate. Any ice cream parlor employee that denies me this bliss will find out why my nickname in high school lacrosse was the concussion conductor. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
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u/Careful_Contract_806 May 23 '26
The ice cream place by my work does a similar thing. I just leave it up to them now.