Soft Serve Expert
I actually witnessed this joke with my own eyes. This kid could reach the soft serve ice cream lever pulling down, but pushing it back up was the big problem. His dad had to step in to shut off the soft serve surge.
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The Unlife of the Party!
I have a hard time with soft serve ice cream too. I’m too greedy to try to cut it off. I keep trying to build this humongous pyramid-like mountain. 🙂
Yeah, everybody has their own unique technique when it comes to filling a cone. You’ve got the swirlers, the mountaineers, the dollopers, the Leaning Tower of Pisa technique…it goes on and on…
Free access to an ice cream machine is dangerous. 🙂
Especially if you’re under 7! An ice cream machine is a smorgasbord for a kid!
There’s no such thing asTOO MUCH ice cream. Well done young lad you may become my apprentice
That could make a good movie title, “The Softservers’ Apprentice”! Something magical about it…
The shutting off part of eating it is where I have a problem.
Lol, Bearman! An emergency shut off button to avoid over-eating perhaps?
Well, I’m not a kid, but I can never get the darn thing to come out right. Part of the problem, also, is that at first it dribbles out this gross melted stuff that is no longer ice cream, so you have to dodge that, and then the stuff comes on fule bore… it’s just impossible to get a nice-looking cone, but I guess since you’re just going to eat it, it doesn’t really matter.
Thanks for breaking down the process of soft serve so astutely, Jeffo. It’s one of those things I never really think much about, I just cone up and go. Next time I’ll be watching out for that dribbly goo at the beginning…
Those machines are the ultimate test of restraint. You just can’t help yourself when there seems to be an infinite amount of ice cream at your hands…until you pile on so much that it falls all over the place.
Yeah, I feel ya. The absolute worst part – and the deal breaker – is that the cone comes after you’ve thoroughly stuffed yourself with your meal. Now it’s just a matter of stomach storage space.
That’s not a problem, it’s an opportunity to eat more!
That’s when you wish you had an extra stomach, to fit more in!
I’d like to introduce my new band – the Dribbly Goo. We’ll be playing next week at Dickie’s Barbeque…
Just don’t combine groups, we wouldn’t want to see the Dribbly Goo on Fuzzy Shoes!
Hahaha, me too! I can’t stop the ice cream machine too! I always end up getting a massive load of ice cream…
That’s always a good thing when it comes to soft serve!
Great. Those machines can be intimidating.
There is something old fashioned about them. They’ve got sort of a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang thing going with all the rumbling, and things turning and the handle that controls the pipeline of ice cream. Some of them also mix flavors so you get that stripe, that’s cool too.