A Cape Town diner wins Guinness World Record for most milkshake flavors

I’m not too far from there… one of my commute variants takes me past their store. They do good milkshakes, for sure. But a lot of those three hundred flavors are the ol’ syrup and softserve, as opposed to hardserve and milk and toppings/flavors.

To my mind, syrup and softserve is kinda pushing the boundaries of what it is to be a milkshake, and when flavor count is driven by adding more syrup flavors to the multiplication, it seems like cheating to me. (Heck, if you simply do permutations of syrup flavor combinations and leave out some of the less desirable combinations, you can pass three hundred without breaking a sweat with just six unique flavors.) But maybe I’m just a milkshake snob?

Either way, good milkshakes are a thing of beauty, and the more folks making them, the better it is for all of us (lactose and carbohydrates notwithstanding).

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