[Paul_Sengupta]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57149071

The UK is facing a shortage of Cadbury 99 Flakes after a surge in demand for soft-serve ice creams topped with the crumbly, chocolate treat.

The ice cream toppers are half the size of the Flakes sold at newsagents and petrol station counters.

"We are seeing a recent increase in demand for our Cadbury 99 Flake in the UK and Ireland that we had not expected," Cadbury owner Mondelez said.

[rf3flyer]

The lead photo in that link is utterly unappealing! That's not ice cream! That's 'food-industry', homogenised, synthetic garbage!
Not sure the brown flaky bit is any better, so who cares if there's a shortage.

[Rob P]

SEE!

I told you Brexit was a bad idea!

Rob P

[Boxkite]

I think there's quite a few F(l)ake copies out there, so there should be no shortage.

[riverrock]

The lead photo in that link is utterly unappealing! That's not ice cream! That's 'food-industry', homogenised, synthetic garbage!
Not sure the brown flaky bit is any better, so who cares if there's a shortage.

Snob.

Soft serve can have pretty much the same simple ingredients as the hard stuff, ( https://icecreamdepot.com/blogs/recipes ... -ice-cream ) but if you buy it commercially both can have all the stabilisers and chemicals ( etc).

It's all in the churning and air addition.

[kanga]

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It's all in the churning and air addition.

ISTR reading that this was the field in which the only scientifically-qualified former UK PM did her only commercial science work

[FlightDek]

In my youth I spent 3 summers making ice-cream at an ice-cream parlour in N Ireland. Soft and hard ice-cream were exactly the same. The only difference is that the hard ice-cream started as 18 litre batches of soft ice-cream which was then put in the freezer.

The perk in my job is that I got all the flavours of hard ice-cream when they were still at the soft stage and of course there had to be some tasting - just to ensure quality, you understand

Mint and choc chip was my favourite

[Paul_Sengupta]

Mint and choc chip was my favourite

Argh, I'm now craving a mint choc chip ice-cream!

[Rob P]

I am surprised that @kanga hasn't yet been along to link ice cream, sausages and Gloucestershire. There is still time.

Rob P

[rf3flyer]

@riverrock

Soft serve can have pretty much the same simple ingredients as the hard stuff, ( https://icecreamdepot.com/blogs/recipes%20...%20-ice-cream)

That recipe is how you might do it at home, but that won't be how it's done industrially, as you perfectly well know.

It's all in the churning and air addition.

Churning being the operative word there!

The benefit to you is that I won't be holding you up in the queue for one.

[Paultheparaglider]

The ice cream toppers are half the size of the Flakes sold at newsagents and petrol station counters.

So, let them use the full size ones then. Which is what they should be doing anyway.

The cheapskate version should be renamed a 49.5.

[Paul_Sengupta]

How do you know that a full sized one shouldn't be called a 198?

That recipe is how you might do it at home, but that won't be how it's done industrially, as you perfectly well know.

It is how it's done in our local ice cream factory. It's the same stuff. It's nice, too!

[Paultheparaglider]

How do you know that a full sized one shouldn't be called a 198?

Because they were called 99s long before they started sticking these modern tiny flakes in. Give it another 50 years and they'll probably be palming us off with a single chocolate hundreds and thousands morsel stuck in the top.

And as for other chocolate bars these days...

[Paul_Sengupta]

I'm afraid that having a full sized flake sticking out of an ice-cream must have been before my time.

TGI Fridays used to (maybe still do) a dessert called an "outrageous" which had a whole bar of Dairy Milk in it, snapped in half.

[akg1486]

Someone should create a First World Problem-meme about this shortage.