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The definition has changed throughout the years, hopefully we can all at least agree on that. Some early "shakes" had no milk whatsoever! I didn't know this either, but apparently the US has no legal definition of what constitutes a milkshake, leaving it up to the individual states to decide.

I also found this little snippet particularly interesting for this conversation:

As an ice cream drink, the 20th-century milkshake’s only serious contenders have been its legions of imitators. United States federal code defines ice cream down to the amount of air it may contain, but is silent on milkshakes, leaving their parameters to states. For restaurants with regional or national reach, the simplest way to sidestep dozens of states’ conflicting milkshake definitions within their territories is not to sell milkshakes. Many, instead, offer “shakes” or milkshake-adjacent frozen dessert drinks with branded names that suggest creamy coldness, but avoid the legal entanglements of calling them “milkshakes.”

This is why you end up with Blizzards and Frosties apparently!

https://imbibemagazine.com/american-milkshake-history/

Been saving up styrofoam all year. For arts and crafts, of course!

Back in my day we just wrote bad checks! (I'm kidding, I've never even owned a checkbook unless it was a starter pad that came with the account)

Don't forget eating almost exclusively fast food so that nobody can poison your meals.

Might have some milk, but when I went overseas a milk shake was literally milk with crushed ice blended intop a drink.

Blended ice cream is a milkshake in the USA. I didn't know it was weird until I ordered a milkshake in Australia.

I'm talking more like the Windows ME/XP days to be honest. But too many to count. It's more that actually useful features that used to be fairly standard (like 7-segment status displays and speakers) are effectively being gated behind $500+ motherboards to make them more attractive. A board that would have come with alphanumeric status codes now is lucky to ship with a couple LEDs that just indicate where a problem is at, not what the specific problem is.

President’s name was mentioned in some documents part of Tuesday’s release but did not implicate him in any crimes.

He was present while they drowned a baby.

I'm sure it doesn't help that motherboard manufacturers have increasingly been targeting "whale" consumers over the last 10-15 years. I remember when a top of the line motherboard would cost you $300; and an average board was around $100-150.

lol you get it

Even weirder, carry around one of those two-point security drivers that I've only ever seen used to remove the doors from toilet stalls (during a renovation!)

Agreed! They’re pretty small and inexpensive, leave one in every compartment you can.