In THE BATTLE OF THE DOUGHNUTS, cream won, with chocolate, apple and raspberry coming next in the poll on doughnut fillings/toppings.
Now it's the turn of milkshakes, often called shakes, to do battle. Summer is here, at least here in the northern hemisphere. I'm making no great distinction between a milkshake, a malt and a flavoured milk drink.
Milkshakes are traditionally made from dairy milk but are increasingly made from non-dairy milk to cater for vegans.
Milkshakes originated in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Now milkshakes are popular in many countries, and they are widely sold in many fast food restaurants and of course milkshake parlours.
It wasn't easy compiling this poll as almost any food, especially sweet food, can be added to a milkshake, and there are many combination of flavours that can be blended to make a milkshake. However, the poll is excluding any alcoholic milkshakes such as beer, rum and raisin, whisky/whiskey and wine milkshakes.
The poll is essentially about milkshake flavours and not milkshake toppings. The poll doesn't include popular toppings like cream, pretzels, sprinkles, syrup and turmeric.
My most favourite milkshake flavours are banana, chocolate, chocolate mint chip, lime, mango, Mars, pistachio, strawberry and vanilla, with butterscotch my best milkshake flavour. Butterscotch is made from brown sugar and butter but I'm not sure the delights of butterscotch, unlike caramel, has hit America.
Butterscotch milkshake:
I like most milkshakes, and though there's a lot I haven't tried and a few I wouldn't want to try like bubblegum and candy floss, but my least favourite milkshake flavour is coffee. I like coffee to drink but I'm not that keen on coffee as a flavour in other foodstuffs, though I'll make an exception with an Italian tiramisu desert.
What are your most and least favourite milkshake flavours?
How regularly do you drink milkshakes?
Do you make or have you made your own milkshakes?
Though I love milkshakes, I don't regularly drink them, and if I do, they're usually bought from a fast food restaurant like McDonald's. I used to make my own milkshakes, and I always added a couple of scoops of ice cream to my concoction of fruit syrup and milk.
Below is a poll where you can anonymously select your most favourite milkshake flavour. Unfortunately only one pick is allowed in the poll.
A poll on this site can only have a maximum of 20 answer options. There was unfortunately no room as poll options for: apple, apricot, banoffee, blackberry, blackcurrant, boysenberry, bubblegum, butterscotch, candy floss (aka cotton candy), cape gooseberry, cheesecake, chocolate coconut (including Bounty), chocolate coffee (including mocha), chocolate orange, chocolate raspberry, Christmas pudding, cinnamon, cloudberry, coconut, cola, cranberry, Creme Egg, dewberry, Dr Pepper, fudge, ginger, goji berry (aka wolfberry), gooseberry, grape, guava, haskap berry (aka honeyberry), hazelnut, hazelnut chocolate (eg Nutella), honey, hot cross bun, huckleberry, Irn-Bru, Kit Kat, kiwi fruit (aka Chinese gooseberry), lavender, lemon, lemon lime, licorice/liquorice, loganberry, lychee, Mars, marshmallow, melon, mince pie, mulberry, Oreo, passion fruit, peach, pear, pecan nuts, plantain, pomegranate, popcorn, praline, pumpkin, raspberry, red velvet, rhubarb, root beer, s'mores, snickerdoodle, Snickers, teaberry, Toblerone, toffee, Turkish delight, Twix, Vimto, walnut and winterberry.
I think chocolate will win, but banana, cookies and cream, strawberry and vanilla will do well in the poll.
I want to thank @EnigmaInitiative for her advice in compiling this poll. Obviously, any mistakes with the poll are my mistakes unless 'other' wins!
Please see the first comment below to see what has won each battle of the food and drinks so far.
MilkShake Factory, Pleasant Grove, Utah:
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Give me some good moo cow milk. 🐄 as others are fake 🥛 so need her milkshake to bring all the boys to the yard 🥛 🧋 Personally haven't had a classic one in long time yet consume protein milk shakes, Cookie , vanilla, strawberry, chocolate. Blueberry also excellent. Tryed orange sickle not so good
@MsSkinny 😆 🤣 😂
All my milkshakes are made from moo milk.
@spunkycumfun and a very happy moooo to you
@spunkycumfun you did inspire another post to my blog
@bignicktx Pleased to be of inspiration.
@spunkycumfun 🐄 🐮 🐄
@flannel_light drink up
@flannel_light important to hydrate 🥛 🧋
Sonic makes a great peanut butter shake. Peanut butter is my jam
Peanut butter isn't so popular here, usually had on toast or in a sandwich rather than in a milkshake.
@spunkycumfun I eat peanut butter every day whether it's on toast or big glob of it with a cut up apple. It's my favorite.
@mysexualgoodtime I like peanuts and I like butter but I find peanut butter too heavy.
Vanilla and brandy.
I've not had that milkshake. Thanks for stopping by.
I had some awesome key lime milkshake when I went to Florida to join a cruise 😁
I've had a lime milkshake but never a key lime milkshake. Key limes are difficult to get here.
Hey Spunky, see Taurean had exactly the same thought as me when mentioning a "milkshake"! And Hey again, you should have remembered me talking about a "Dom Pedro", (usually the Festive drink I enjoy, so in my Festive Blog) - Doms as I call em - so delicious - thus guess I'd add a bit of whiskey to a milkshake as well? Haven't actually had a milkshake in ages! Seems like so many flavours to choose from, all sound great cept maybe "peanut butter", is there really such a flavour? Nope, wouldn't want that!
I do remember you blogging about a Dom Pedro. I'll have to make one now.
Cannot remember the last time i had a milkshake , does a Dom Pedro count as a milkshake
I had to look up what a Dom Pedro is, maybe it counts as a milkshake!
@spunkycumfun Lol. ok , after looking it up now, see it is South African cocktail . Should try it
@taurean62dbn I will definitely try a Dom Pedro cocktail.
‘Leche merengada’, a traditional Spanish chilled drink made from sweetened milk, cinnamon, lemon zest, and whipped egg whites.
Leche merengada sounds delicious.
I can't remember the last time I had a milkshake! I think I'd probably order chocolate-banana if I were to get one.
I didn't know the chocolate-banana milkshake combination existed. We don't do fancy milkshakes here - it's banana , chocolate or strawberry.
I love milkshakes. My mom and dad use to make them for my siblings and I. I use to drink so much milk as a kid and today I seldom drink it. I will make an exception if it is a milkshake....yum.
With that, when I hear, or see the word milkshake, this music video comes to mind.
Unfortunately the video clip can't be played here.
@spunkycumfun Well it still up on this end....Don't what to do to make it available
@CallMeMrWrong69 Because of different regulations between America and Europe, what you can see, I can't see and what I can see, you can't see. If you give the name of the song and artist, I can probably find it on YouTube.
@spunkycumfun The artist is - Kelis - Milkshake. The song title is Milkshake
@CallMeMrWrong69 I can find it. It'll be interesting whether you can play the clip.
@spunkycumfun says here that video is unavailable
@CallMeMrWrong69 America and Europe have different regulations when it comes to sharing data, including images.
@spunkycumfun Geez....I don't get it. I have seen far worse things come from Europe and I am sure the same could be said about here.
@CallMeMrWrong69 It is difficult to understand. Britain, despite Brexit, follows EU regulations. America and the European Union need to sort this out.
@spunkycumfun I wonder if Weird Al Yankovic has made a parody of the song I posted.
@CallMeMrWrong69 There's a chance.
What are your most and least favorite milkshake flavours? My least favorite would be Vanilla yuk!!
My favorite is a hot fudge chocolate shake that Foster Freeze used to make not sure if they make them anymore.
How regularly do you drink milkshakes? Not often once in a great while.
Do you make or have you made your own milkshakes? Not at this time but I will be soon when hubby replaces my blender that he ruined making very hot salsa's.
Great battle again my friend and I hope your Friday is a fantastic start to a fun weekend..
I love vanilla milkshake!
Growing up the favorite was what was called a "Black and White". That's basically a vanilla shake with chocolate syrup in it. I kind of think maybe that is a mid-Atlantic regional term, since if you ask for that other places they don't even know what you mean.
I've never come across that milkshake. As with doughnuts, I suspect our milkshakes are quite plain compared to American ones.
For the record, Brussels sprouts won THE BATTLE OF THE VEGETABLES, bananas won THE BATTLE OF THE FRUITS, basil won THE BATTLE OF THE HERBS, garlic won THE BATTLE OF THE SPICES, cashew nuts won THE BATTLE OF THE NUTS, sunflower seeds won THE BATTLE OF THE SEEDS, roast beef won THE BATTLE OF THE ROAST DINNERS, cheesecake won THE BATTLE OF THE PUDDINGS, pepperoni won THE BATTLE OF THE PIZZA TOPPINGS, Caesar salad won THE BATTLE OF THE SALADS, green beans won THE BATTLE OF THE BEANS, watermelon won THE BATTLE OF THE MELONS, tomato-based pasta sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE HOT SAUCY DIPS, barbecue sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE COOL SAUCY DIPS, vanilla ice cream won THE BATTLE OF THE ICE CREAMS, capellini (aka angel hair) won THE BATTLE OF THE PASTAS, steak won THE BATTLE OF THE BARBECUE, romaine lettuce won THE BATTLE OF THE LETTUCES, honeycrisp apples won THE BATTLE OF THE APPLES, stout won THE BATTLE OF THE BEERS, whisky won THE BATTLE OF THE SPIRITS, clam chowder won THE BATTLE OF THE SOUPS, sourdough bread won THE BATTLE OF THE BREADS, liver won THE BATTLE OF THE OFFAL, roast turkey won THE BATTLE OF CHRISTMAS FOODS, Old Fashioned won THE BATTLE OF THE COCKTAILS, Americano coffee won THE BATTLE OF THE COFFEES, English breakfast tea won THE BATTLE OF THE TEAS, maple syrup won THE BATTLE OF THE PANCAKES, barbecue sauce won THE BATTLE OF THE CONDIMENTS, ribeye steak won THE BATTLE OF THE STEAKS, portobello mushrooms won THE BATTLE OF THE MUSHROOMS, beefsteak tomatoes won THE BATTLE OF THE TOMATOES, barbecue crisps won THE BATTLE OF THE CRISPS, strawberries won THE BATTLE OF THE BERRIES, crab won THE BATTLE OF THE SHELLFISH, vanilla yogurt won THE BATTLE OF THE YOGURTS, jasmine rice won THE BATTLE OF THE RICE, chicken wings won THE BATTLE OF HOT FINGER FOODS, cheeses won THE BATTLE OF COLD FINGER FOODS, dry red wine won THE BATTLE OF THE WINES, tap water won THE BATTLE OF WATER, blueberry muffins won THE BATTLE OF THE MUFFINS, cheese won THE BATTLE OF THE CHARCUTERIE, cow milk hard cheese won THE BATTLE OF THE CHEESE, burgers won THE BATTLE OF FAST FOOD, olive oil won THE BATTLE OF THE OILS, beef stew won THE BATTLE OF THE STEW, cow milk won THE BATTLE OF THE MILK, butter won THE BATTLE OF THE BAKED POTATO, salad won THE BATTLE OF THE SIDE DISH, pizza won THE BATTLE OF THE SAVOURY PIE, apple pie won THE BATTLE OF THE SWEET PIE, coffee won THE BATTLE OF THE HOT BEVERAGE, iced tea won THE BATTLE OF THE COLD BEVERAGE, salmon won THE BATTLE OF THE FISHES, rice won THE BATTLE OF THE GRAINS, cheese won THE BATTLE OF THE OMELETTE and cream won THE BATTLE OF THE DOUGHNUTS.