“Holy shit!” Those are actually the words that came out of my mouth when I first sipped this. well, that’s what SoCal weather will do to a milkshake. All photos were taken after the initial tasting, so if they look a little brutal. I tasted each, recorded a few voice notes on my phone, and then ranked them. Once the fourth milkshake was acquired, I hit a nearby parking lot, put on a blindfold, and had my girlfriend pass me milkshakes at random. Considering Dave’s didn’t even make the top three last time around, it doesn’t seem like that much of a loss (with that said, my editor tried it and called me twice to call it the best vanilla shake in all of fast food so… we might eventually have to run this back.) And then as I pulled up to the Dave’s Hot Chicken drive-thru I heard the seven worst words you can ever hear from a drive-thru speaker “I’m sorry, our milkshake machine is broken.” Because I was working on a time crunch with perishable products, there was no time to improvise, so instead of a five-milkshake taste test as we did in our chocolate taste test, we’re going with just the four.
The idea was to pick up vanilla milkshakes from Chick-fil-A, Dave’s Hot Chicken, Five Guys, In-N-Out, and Shake Shack, five fast food restaurants that all make fantastic milkshakes. The good news is that’s doable with the help of a small cooler and the same route I sketched out for our chocolate milkshake blind taste test. I needed to be able to scoop up five milkshakes in a relatively short amount of time (meaning the fast food restaurants chosen needed to be in close proximity) and make sure none of them melted. As we found out in our last blind milkshake taste test, blind tasting shakes is a huge challenge - especially as the weather gets warmer.
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