Woops, I forgot to mention that I also worked at Baskin Robbins the summer before my senior year, and then during my senior year I worked with some of my friends at Dairy Queen.
At BR I developed a Pop-eye forearm from scooping the hard ice cream. My favorite flavors to eat were 1) Wheel of Fortune Choco Letter Crunch, which has been retired, and
2) Nutty Coconut: A taste sensation since 1967, made with Coconut ice cream combined with roasted almonds, buttered pecans and walnut pieces (their words, not mine). I would describe it as a 300 calorie & 20 fat gram scoop of goodness. Good thing my metabolism was working then!
Hardest flavor to scoop: Rocky Road.
If I'm being honest, the ice cream wasn't quite as good at DQ, but it was more fun working there with my friends. We had a drive through, and it was always fun to play on the headsets. I was actually pretty good at making large ice cream cones with the trade mark curl on top. I still like to show off my soft-serve skills when we go any place with a dessert buffet.
My favorite's at DQ were the Peanut Buster Parfait and the Brownie one (I can't remember what it was called). Again, it's good my metabolism was in high gear.
There was a company policy when making the banana splits- we weren't supposed to put chocolate next to one of the other flavors... judging from this picture it must have been strawberry. The managers said if you put chocolate next to strawberry, some sort of bad chemical reaction would happen. I never really believed it, and I could never remember what two flavors I was supposed to keep apart. Hopefully I never killed anyone!
There was a company policy when making the banana splits- we weren't supposed to put chocolate next to one of the other flavors... judging from this picture it must have been strawberry. The managers said if you put chocolate next to strawberry, some sort of bad chemical reaction would happen. I never really believed it, and I could never remember what two flavors I was supposed to keep apart. Hopefully I never killed anyone!
5 comments:
I love this post. You are so creative and very articulate. I am very jealous. Plus, I have to agree, Baskin Robbins does have better ice cream. I also wish I had my metabolism like I did in High School so I could eat like that again.
You crack me up! I love this post! Unfortunatly, I never had that great of a metabolism! You had awesome jobs!
This post makes me want to binge on ice cream and DQ's fry sauce! I always wondered how people can scoop ice cream all day. Love all the high school pictures. You both look the same which is great!
Yum, yum, yum,
I am ready for ice cream, any ice cream. I also worked at Casper's Malt Shoppe and Jed's Burger Bar. Yes, I too love to show off my skills whenever we go to a buffet with an ice cream machine.
I totally did the DQ job in high school too. I worked at the one in the mall before they built the food court. We had zero supervision there so we liked to "experiment" with the ice cream. My favorite concoction was a mint hot fudge brownie blizzard. The thing I hated the most was the super huge dipped cones that would fall into the dip and you'd have to dig them out :)
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