Hardee's Vanilla Milkshake

As part of my life quest to east as much ice cream as possible and write as many inane reviews about ice cream as possible, this year I have been attempting to try something from every place in Eldon to get ice cream. Unfortunately, I did not get any ice cream from Sonic before it closed back in the early Fall. (I am considering just going to a different Sonic in order to feel a true sense of completion.) Today, as far as I am aware, I completed that quest. Today, I got a vanilla milkshake from Hardee's.

Hardee's does not have many ice cream options. They have chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry shakes and malts all available in only one size. I decided to go as simple as possible with the vanilla milk shake. I may go back and get a chocolate malt and throw that into my chocolate malt head to head between Eldon Drive-In and Cree Mee I did last year.

I paid about $3.50 for this shake. I was pleasantly surprised that my $3.50 got me whipped cream on my shake. Cool.

Hardee's advertises their milkshakes as hand scooped. I'm hoping that means they use hard ice cream as opposed to soft serve, but I'm not sure. Most of my milkshake was thinner, more liquid, and smoother than you would expect a milkshake to be that was made with hard ice cream. It was not difficult to suck through the straw. There were no clumps of unmixed ice cream until the very end there was a small one. The presence of at least one ice cream clump does make me believe they use hard ice cream for it.

The flavor of this shake was very very sweet. The vanilla wasn't that strong. However, after almost every sip I got that filmy mouth feel that you usually associate from whipped cream. I don't know if it was because of the whipped cream on top or because of the milkshake itself. Hard to tell.

For some reason my wrist looks super running-nerdy in this shot. 

This wasn't the worst fast food milkshake imaginable, but it didn't blow my mind.

As a last note, if you pay attention to fast food advertising (aka you live in America and not under a rock), Hardee's enthusiastically embraced criticisms faced by the fast food industry at large for having unhealthy food. Unlike, McDonald's that has tried to offer "healthier" options, Hardee's has just been like "Nope, now we're gonna make our food kill you faster!" This milkshake has 700 calories, 33 grams of fat, 23 grams of saturated fat, and 72 grams of sugar. The fact that I walked to Hardee's and that this shake has 13 grams of protein does not even come close to the damage my arteries just took on that one. Yup, Dearest Reader, I am sacrificing my health for you. You'd better be flipping thankful.