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Milkshake

Milk with some flavored syrup, but NO ice cream.

Compare to: frappe.

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actually milkshakes are made from icecream...i worked a friendly's, which started in springfeild mass, for two years and icecream was the first thing you put in milkshakes...

Scott on January 9, 2005 11:24 PM.

That's too bad then. Seems like Mass is using milkshakes to mean frappes now so foreigners don't get confused.

Trust me. Back in the day a Friendly's would never call something with ice cream a milkshake.

I live in Cali now, but I still call them frappes, much to the annoyance of everyone out here. But we know that a frappe is ice cream, not coffee!

Eric on February 4, 2005 02:52 AM.

I was recently in boston and had a confusing time of figuring out the fact that a milkshake did not contain ice cream, and if I wanted what I know as a milkshake, I had to ask for a frappe

Andrew on February 7, 2005 12:39 AM.

I live in Seattle now and milkshakes and frappes are two of the things I miss the most (along with "top- split" hot dog buns.) A milkshake here is more of a dessert that you eat with spoon than a beverage that you drink.

Dianne on February 27, 2005 10:48 PM.

Yah, but don't fahget, ya hafta shake it (or use one a'them hamilton-beach drink mixa things) and make it all foamy to be a milkshake (othawise it's just a chocolate milk, or whateva).

Marinda on March 4, 2008 02:19 AM.

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