Just A Light Dessert Rule

My euro ass would instantly perish if I just held it in my hands
- Cops with fentanyl moment

So you're telling me I can get my daily vitamin C if I drink just 13 cups?
- Yeah that sounds right.

America. 🦅
I had to stop drinking milkshakes once I started counting calories because of this kind of thing. Like, I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was this bad. 😬
- I mean, having one of this once a year just for the morbid curiosity of satisfying your palate in that much fat and sugar is fine, specially if you share one with several people. Yet, some people were having these things weekly, even daily. Those poor arteries.
  
  At this point they're literally drug dealers willfully killing people with their product.
  I can't imagine consuming my entire days worth of calories with a single milkshake. It's mentally ill.
  
  And that's just their dessert. That's not likely to be the only thing someone would consume in a day.
- I make my own milkshakes now. Aim for about 8oz shake. Split it with the wife.
  Its bad but I'll have one a month or so in the summers.
  A bite of a burger and fries with a sip of chocolate shake takes me back to my youth.
- Fellow recent calorie counter since beginning of June. I've lost 10 lbs so far. I plan on continuing to do this even after I've met my goal

For reference, 1 litre of ice cream has about 180g of sugar in it. This milkshake is approx 0.95L and 263g, so 1.54x more sugar than straight ice cream.
(I wouldn't recommend eating a litre of ice cream all in one go either)
- (I wouldn't recommend eating a litre of ice cream all in one go either)
  I would though. Do it. You've earned it, a stomach ache is a sign of your indomitable spirit.
- Ahhh the brain freeze 🥶

... I want one
Americans be eating like they have universal healthcare but we actually do in my country
- They kind of suck. That's the real travesty with these franchise crimes against cardiology, it's all cardboard with high fructose corn syrup drizzle.
  It tastes good, right, but also... Shallow. Literally just a shitload of sugar and fat, nothing unique to it.
  
  These sorts of things usually taste better in the first three spoonfuls than anything that comes after.
  
  Call me a 12 year old in the body of a 30 year old, but "explosion of sugar and fat" is still my go-to for desserts and my pick whenever I have a cheat day
  Never much cared for "complex" or "acquired" taste desserts. Even the sourness of cheesecakes displeases me.
  If I'm consuming enough calories that I'll spend the next week paying the bill with interest, it better taste like I'm being brutally assaulted by a bag of sugar.
  
  Does it actually taste good though? Sure, ice cream is good. But nearly double the sugar and that ice cream turns into a vile mouth assault.
  
  I bought a milkshake on a beach boardwalk a couple weeks ago, as a treat, cuz I was at the beach, yknow, why not. The last time I had a milkshake was probably this time last year. They only offered one size, 20 oz. I would have preferred less, but whatever. My friend got a single scoop in a cup. About a third of the way into my shake, she was done w her scoop, and i did not want to eat anymore milkshake, but I also didn't want to be wasteful, so I ate the rest of it, but it was not good anymore. It was too much sugar, and then my tummy hurt haha. Her lil scoop was the perfect amount and cost less than my stupid thing.
  Sorry, you didn't ask for this anecdote. It was all to say: I agree with you, sure they taste good, kinda, but only for a minute and then the suffering comes.
  
  What more do you need?

That is a HUGE milkshake. It's a quart.
This is beyond major celebrations like graduations or windfalls, but for tragedies like break-ups and subprime mortgage crises.
Completely acceptable the day after Trump wins the election. In fact, get two.
- It's a quart
  0.946 litres if anyone needs a translation.
- I pray to the universe that that last scenario won't happen, but I'm totally doing it now if it does.

Bruh they didnt label the trans fat with a percentage because the recommended intake is 0g 💀
- Same for sugar. 266 gr of sugar per liter is and absurd amount of sugar.
  
  JESUS FUCKING CHRIST that's a quarter of a BAG
  
  26g/100ml is a lot but not that high. A European coke has about 10.6g, energy drinks around 15g, while smoothies and natural juices can go up to 20g.
  
  What the actual fuck i didnt even notice that
- 2.5g of trans fats aren’t the issue here

Crikey. You could run a marathon after that and still have a calorie surplus. Is this actually real?!
- Yes :(
- MILK WAS A BAD CHOICE

Was wondering how much is the contents and how much is the size so ran the conversation. Jesus christ 32 fl oz is like a litre almost! That's huge!

Wtf. How can anyone eat that? It would be like dropping a bomb in my stomach.
If there are any non-Americans seeing this thing and thinking, "What's wrong with Americans‽" this is not a normal thing for people to consume here in the US. I will never have that drink. Not because I'm controlling myself for my health, but because I would be too repulsed by that much sweetness and heaviness. This is made for a specific portion of the population: those that are struggling with eating healthy. Of everyone I know, I can only think of two people that could even consume that thing, and both of them have a poor relationship with food.
- this is not a normal thing for people to consume here in the US.
  oh sure, that's why it's a local restaurant's novelty item, not a probable bestseller that is part of a heavily advertised inter-brand crossover product mass produced and mass consumed in a franchise restaurant that's so prolific, it's international.
- People in the US drink/eat stuff like this all the time, it’s why they are overweight. Not everyone, but a not insignificant number of people.
  
  Most of the time it's disguised behind being in small units (small thin cookies or crackers, liquids, sprinkles and powders) where eating too much is "your fault for being hungry enough and eating the whole box" not the manufacturers for making it adictive and unsatifying. ~~Try eating a whole cheesecake, or deep dish pizza in one sitting.~~
  
  I drink too many of these and am a healthy weight! I'm just unhealthy because I drink those instead of having actual food so Im malnourished (I exaggerate but holy fuck I don't know how someone can have that with a meal and finish both,I never can)

Is this for real? I've been keeping track of my own calorie intake for months and my highest record for total calories consumed in one day was 2670. I can't imagine what it is like to eat that many calories on top of something else.
- It is very real. Or rather, it was. They reduced it a bit somewhere down the line.
  
  I've looked it up and it says 1440 calories for this particular shake. I think they removed the cream top and the crumbled cookies, judging from photos, and I guess they may have added water or something to cut down that many cals.

Reminds me of the interview with Rob McElhenney where in order to put on the weight necessary to play ‘Fat Mac’ he asked his assistant to buy a gallon of ice cream every morning and leave it on the counter to melt so that he could drink it in the afternoon.
Basically, you can drink a lot more calories in a day than you could ever realistically eat.

Why the hell is there 1.7 grams of sodium in this???
- Probably comes mostly from the cookie part of the Oreo. Everything else is excessive, and that's like the least excessive part.
- To make it taste better.

What do you mean? It has vitamins!!
- Just three of these to hit them macros for the day 💀

Shit, and here I thought a giant chocolate Oreo shake from an ice cream store would be healthy. Egg on my face I guess.

That is more calories than I can eat in an entire day to maintain my current weight. Just looking at it gives me anxiety.

It should be a crime to sell that

Roughly five and a half days of sugar in a bucket! (~550% DV, if they were to try to estimate it which there’s good reason not to)
- huh that seemed low to me I thought it'd be more days so I checked and got nearly nine didn't realise america had a higher daily recommended limit for sugar it's only 30g here in the uk

I'm assuming where they say 'calories' they mean kilocalories?
In which case, what the hell?
- Correct. In America, "Calories" and "Kilo-Calories" are synonymous. In fact, rarely is the formal form of that used over here.
  
  I suspected as much. Still hate it.
  Don't suppose we could get everyone to switch to using Watt-hours? We could start listing exercise intensity in watts and you could easily calculate how much calories are burned during exercise.

Heck yes, hit half my protein goal in one go

Jesus I got diabeetus from just reading this.

This is 32 ounces, I would need multiple days to drink that much.
- It's equivalent to a medium-size gas station drink. 52 and 64 being the largest I regularly see.
  
  My girlfriend and I will sometimes get boba tea together and can usually share a 24 oz with some left over. Who is drinking 64 ounces of a drink that's 90% sugar and fat by volume?

Isn't that enough energy for the whole day?
- i'm quite confident most people (who aren't used to stuffing themselves to a pathologic degree) would be unable to finish a third of this horrid concoction.
  The general number is 2000 kcal per day for an adult with a normal amount of physical activity iirc, most people split their caloric intake into 3 meals, so that's ~700 kcal. A third of this thing is ~900 kcal.
  Fucking horrid.
- I shoot for 1500, so that's nearly two days for some.

900ml? What the fuck? I can barely drink a 300ml can of soda. How the fuck people drink this much?
- They make extra room by never drinking any water.

Great! You only need 12 to get your daily vitamin c
Edit: damn I just saw the serving size, 32 fl.oz? I seem to remember that there's 16 Oz to a pound, so I get 32 is about 0.9L? And you need to drink 12 each day? GTFO I might as well just keep eating fruits and vegetables

How is there fiber in that
- Microplastics.

I read calcium as cadmium 💀
- Mmmmmmmmmmm cadmiumm 🤤

This thing exists but people were bitching at me for having one beer after i get off work yesterday....

I wouldn't eat it, even if it was 0 calories.

Eh idk what there's to get riled up about. If they're being open with the calories content, I don't mind drinking this once in a while just for the heck of it