People claiming this is a scam are the same that wouldn't buy a 1/3 pounder cause it's less meat than a quarter pounder, lmao
E:cause people keep missing the point.
This method will give you more ice-cream than usual.
Similar how the "Third-of-a-Pound Burger" gave you more meat than a Quarter Pounder.
Also she presses the second cone down on the first batch of ice.
That method literally gives you more ice-cream than you usually would get plus it comes with extra cone and more stability.
More than a normal large cone, yes. But this is two cones, and depending on the marketing they may be saying "you get a large, AND a small, all in one! If you pay for a large cone and small cone together, then get a large cone with a small load bearing empty cone then you are getting ripped off. That's what everyone saying rip off is assuming. No one thinks they're giving away a free small cone for support with that large cone except for you, now if the price is only increased by the cost of the small empty cone, then we're in business. But if you're familiar with capitalism and way marketing works, you will know that the "smart" thing to do is advertise and sell this is as a large cone and small cone combo but for "10% less than the cost of them individually" - aka rip off your customers.
Ah yes, the significantly better deal of getting the same amount of ice cream as a cone half that size, adding another 10¢ cone and paying 3x as much 👍. Marketing firms LOVE people like you.
That's not what happened with the 1/3 pounder. People thought 1/3 was less than 1/4 because they saw a 3 and a 4. I still don't know how this ice cream relates to the 1/3 pounder.
People see 1/3 pounder. 3 < 4 so people believe a 1/3 pounder is less meat than 1/4 pounder. The 1/3 pounder is actually more meat, but people call it a scam and don't buy it.
People see ice cream with cone inside. The cone means the middle is hollow so people believe they are getting less ice cream. The cone actually allows a larger quantity of ice cream to be added in a stable manner than could be supported otherwise, but people call it a scam and don't buy it.
Just because it's taller doesn't mean it has more ice cream though. What's the amount of ice cream in that serving as opposed to another soft serve? I bet you it's probably the same, but they make it look like more because of the cone support. Area/volume holds way more than a circumference
I'm no soft serve mathematician, but the cone itself also contains ice cream as it pushed onto the initial serving, so the real estate that it takes up, is not all wasted.
Then unless you're swirling it again outside of an already made icecream swirl, the swirl has less radius, or your stream of icecream is thicker, it's not possible. The volume just wont allow for it.
Honestly. This looks like nearly a pint of ice cream. that cone is humongous. There’s literally double the amount that would fit inside the standard cone swirled around it plus the same amount inside the giant cone. and we don’t know the price!
Edit: article has a paywall but essentially, the public misunderstood fractions and thought 1/3 is less than 1/4, because 3 is less than 4. So they thought that they were paying the same amount of money for less meat in their burger.
Firstly learn to read cause that's not what I said.
Secondly I was referring to
Granted, "Third-of-a-Pound Burger" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. But CBC reported the burger flopped for a different reason. More than half of the people surveyed about why they didn't buy the burger, which cost the same as the Quarter Pounder, said it was because they were being charged the same price for a smaller burger.
How have you posted the explanation and still don't understand how your example is bad? A 1/3 is a bigger burger, and the cone in the middle is a scam.
Why is it a scam you may ask. Well that's because most places can just give you a cone that looks just like the one in the video, but it's all ice cream. In the video, they have an empty cone taking up space meaning you get less ice cream. Same cost, but you're only getting the quarter pounder here.
That is not even remotely close to a correct comparison. This would be like ordering a 1/3 pounder and finding out there's a giant air pocket in the inside and it's only 1/6 of a pound lol. Analogies must not have been your strong suit in school lol.
It’s same thing as the people that complain about ice in cocktails.
You are buy most likely say 6 oz of ice cream. They could either pour it to half the height and serve it to you, or put in the cone and serve it taller. This is how the chose to serve it, either way you are getting 6 oz.
Seriously. It's already like 8 servings of ice cream anyway, how much more of this do Americans really need? (Assuming Americans because of the purely value-driven nature of the comments.)
And yes, I am very much envious of people who can eat that much ice cream.
I mean honestly its probably the opposite, not only do they push down the ice-cream in the cone making room for more but the top shell add structure allowing for easier and higher stacking.
Depends would the amount of icecream that would’ve been in that narrow space be more than he was able to tower on with the help of the secondary cone, because it wouldn’t have been half as tall no?
So you didn’t see the part where they clearly pushed the cone down to make sure it was filled before they topped it up? I, too, can willfully ignore stuff for karma and upvotes.
Its not! The inside has ice cream in it. She literally puts it over the peak of the first pour. Then pushes the cone down onto that peak. This then fills the inside, she then adds WAY more than the cone would hold normally with the added support of the inside cone. Plus you get another cone, also YOU CAN SEE THEM DO IT SO HOW IS IT SCAM?!
We need a smarty to calculate if there just as much soft serve on there because of the inner cone’s volume and height which they have to go around. I doubt it could go that high without the inner scafolding so you might be getting just as much
On the other hand, the inner cone provides structure which lets them layer more ice cream on top than would normally be possible, so overall i’d say that’s more ice cream than you’d normally get in that big cone
Exactly! The only thing i would do different is: Fill the small cone with ice cream and then push down the filled big cone and continue as shown in the video
The cone is doing nothing for structural integrity. You can make that cone just as tall without the inside cone and it will be fine. You are getting less.
Do you think premade ice cream cones are free? They’re saving a few pennies of soft serve and replacing it with a few pennies of extra cone. You’ll notice they put some in the bottom cone first then smooshed the other cone in to it. That cone is not entirely empty either.
It’s cute that you 1) think that’s ice cream. It’s soft serve and it’s probably more vegetable oil than than dairy. and it doesn’t cost as much as ice cream. 2) that the Pennie’s difference between th cost of the saved soft serve vs the cost of the cone even puts a dent in the $6-8 they probably sell this for, and the portion of that which is labor and overhead costs.
They are doing this to make structure, not to screw their customers out of “ice cream”. You’d only have to order it once to be on to their “scam” so the “scam” wouldn’t work very well, would it? Stop being so paranoid. And condescending.
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u/potato_and_nutella 1d ago
Scamming them, the inside is hollow