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All she wanted was a Shamrock shake, smooth and cool, deliciously clover-y . . . but that's not what she got.
Merry May's been on Earth long enough to know that the pictures of food on a menu board and the actual food item received bear little resemblance. She hasn't yet figured out that there's sometimes outright deception. Shamrock Shakes contain no actual clover; they're not even clover-flavored.
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Calling ordinary mundane things sourced from McDonalds, McX is a stroke of brilliance
Actually clover is edible, although some might have trouble with it in large quantities. There would be nothing wrong with having a flurry with enough clover to make it a clover flurry. I find it odd that restaurants wouldn't crop up almost immediately with pony options if ponies were around.
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They didn't specify that the continent was Atlantis -and the breakfast was what destroyed it.
Folklore
"Vervain, trefoil, John's wort, dill
Frustrate witches of their will."
Vervain & (Saint) John's wort are some of the things you can buy as health food. Trefoil = shamrock, symbol of Ireland.
Dill is the stuff in dill pickles. McDonald's puts them on hamburgers. IMO, this protects them from being cursed by witches.
Oh & their Kid's Meal was rated the Best Buy in a survey I saw online many moons ago.
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It's a dilly of a pickle.
This story inspired me to check McDonald's Shamrock Shake page to see whether the whipped cream actually is whipped cream. It is, although I was more surprised to find out that the shake itself contains real (reduced fat) ice cream.
However, the picture depicts the shake in a drinking glass made of actual glass. At what McDonald's are you going to get that?
A magical talking pegasus visiting a fast food restaurant in the real world? Sure. But an average McDonald's employee able to supply that fact off the top of his head? That was what broke my suspension of disbelief.
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One of the cooler ones. There's a few that are like normal restaurants, at least one where you can get lobster rolls, and one in Texas that is safari-themed.
a sweet short story i love it.
but as to the Shamrock shake nope nope nope to sweet for me.
I remember the first Shamrock Shakes. They were really good.
That was back in the ancient days when McDonalds still made the burgers and hot cakes on a griddle.
Everything was better back then... I'm going to reset the world to the 80's! WITH EXPERIMENTAL TIME TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY I STOLE FROM AREA 51!!! Sure, it may destroy all reality, but given how awful reality is right now, it's CLEARLY worth the risk... for better-tasting Shamrock Shakes!
And on that final note "Dewdrop" is now wearing the remainder of a "Flower smoothie "! Great story! Oh and if you're really old...the first Shamrock shakes to come out had a green color that seams to glow....AKA. Fallout.
11532524 It depends on the species of clover. Common white clover is not very digestible raw, but cooking solves that. The aerial portions of white clover also are effective against tapeworm infestations. Red clover flowers can be used to make jelly and tisanes, but it contains coumarin derivatives and should not be consumed by people with coagulation disorders.
There are 300 species of true clovers all over the world.
Also, shamrock is an interchangeable term between clover and several species of Oxalis, which are also called wood sorrels. These are also edible in moderation, and contain tart-tasting oxalic acid. People with kidney problems should not eat sorrels.
The most commonly accepted clover as the traditional shamrock is the clover species Trifolium dubium.
11532641 100% real dolphin beaten to death in a Japanese bay!
11532641
It is a work of fiction.
11532499 It's a very old joke.
"... grumble mutter... razzinfrazzin McDonalds... razzinfrazzin milkshakes..."
"Whoa hey, little pony girl! What's got you so upset?"
"Who wants- hey, aren't you that human actor and former wrestler Dwayne Johnson?"
"Yeah, not so loud, okay? I just stopped in this town for a quick meal."
"Well, if you're getting a milkshake, don't get one of those green ones."
"Why not? I like 'em, and they only make them about one week a year."
"Because... that milkshake is a sham, Rock."
Poor May. I am willing to bet that the laws in Equestria regaurding truthfulness in advertising are very different then here in America.
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They don't seem to have laws for that sort of thing. Every episode involving the Flimflam Brothers makes that more clear.
I hate to nitpick, but the term shows up enough times in the story that it actually became rather noticeable. McDonalds calls their sandwich the "Filet-O-Fish" (all one hyphenated monstrosity of a word and one less F than it ought to have).
Very amusing premise, though. I quite enjoyed it.
>Shakes detected
It is nice that the TornadoPonies are still killing tornadoes.
Biscuit, is there a way for you to link all of the Tornado Team stories? There are a few I think.
Huh, didn't know Ponish was so similar to Dutch
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I wish I could take credit for coming up with that, but it's been around for a long time.
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It is, and I've eaten it. The flowers are also edible (at least in part, IIRC) and I'm almost certain that you can make wine from them--I think clover wine came up when I was researching flower wines.
It would depend on the concentration of ponies, I think. There are certainly restaurants and grocery stores that cater to particular dietary preferences where they have a good enough customer base, and such could also happen if there was a pony enclave somewhere, but I don't see the business case to put a hayburger on McDonald's menu (for example) in case a pony shows up.
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That's a reasonable explanation. Hmm, dill pickles are kinda ubiquitous in the US, maybe that's why we don't see so many witches anymore.
Is that the one that they were marketing that filled the space between a Happy Meal and an adult meal? I thought that had gone away, but maybe not.
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As I recall, some years back McDonald's improved the shake ingredients when they did the whole McCafe rebranding. So I'm actually not surprised that it's more natural than it was years ago. (Still won't stop me from making fun of them.)
Also, to a pony who's used to hoofmade food from home instead of the industrial processed stuff, even if their whipped cream is legally real whipped cream, and the shake is legally real reduced fat ice cream, it's probably not as good as what Merry May could get at home.
Well of course they're going to market it that way. I almost used that picture as the coverart, but reasoned that getting a Shamrock Shake in an actual glass wasn't going to be anybody's experience.
Maybe he was taught that in training, or maybe McDonald's has had an ad campaign promoting the fact.
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I've never been in one that isn't the basic standard McDonald's, although it doesn't surprise me that they exist.
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Thanks!
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Thank you!
I can understand that. Sometimes I get one, sometimes I don't. This year I got one and then had a second for additional research and that's very much my limit.
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I do feel like the flavor's changed since I was young. Whether that's my taste evolving, or they no longer use the toxic secret ingredient in them, I don't know.
I'd still call that big hot flat thing they have a griddle and that's all I can remember them ever using.
I suppose being on the quest for a proper Shamrock Shake is a good villain origin story.
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I don't think that Merry May would throw it at him, I think she'd rather enjoy it. She might dump his Shamrock Shake on his head though, or just hit him with a wing as she goes by.
Thanks!
Yeah, seem to remember that decades ago they were a much more vibrant green.
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Wikipedia had a breakdown of which ones Irish people thought were Shamrocks. Trifolium dubium got 51% of the vote in 1893 and 46% in 1988, making it the most popular choice. You're right that not all the ones considered shamrocks are even actually clovers.
You might know the answer to this, the four-leaved clovers are a mutation, but is that a whole plant mutation, or does it just happen on individual stems?
11532846
That's both a groaner and hilarious
I feel like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would get along with ponies quite well.
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They're probably very different. 11532943 says--and I agree--that Flim and Flam are evidence that they give broad latitude to some claims made by salesponies; however there might be some very specific rules regarding food, for instance.
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I should probably go back and fix that. I did know that it was spelled differently, but thought I'd spell it the correct way in the story.
Thank you!
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We were even talking about you in the associated blog post!
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Dr. Tetsuya has lots more data he needs to get, and so there's plenty of work for them.
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I think just this one and Starbucks, besides their appearance in Silver Glow's Journal, of course.
I could make a library for them . . . I could also include other similar stories about pegasi working aerial jobs on Earth, like Sky Sweeper.
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After a joking reference to a meme seven years ago in the comments of Silver Glow's Journal, it is now my headcanon that Ponish is the same as Dutch.
This reminds me of hearing a relative get very mad at the Harry Potter park in Universal Orlando. He got a Butterbeer and it was just a shitty caramel / cream shake soda thing. No beer or butter to be found.
Now sure, not having it be actual butter beer is understandable you wouldn't want to sell beer to the many kids who would be buying it but come on they could have at least have tried to make it somewhat like the real thing maybe a eggnog type of meme with some hops and stuff.
11533350 Wendy's and a couple of other chains use sweet pickles. BLECH. Which is why I don't eat burgers those places.
Merry May! Language young filly.
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When it is slow, the crew could read the NutritionGuide.
11533467 No, no, there actually are training videos, and sometimes hires are given enough time to actually watch them. So it's not impossible that the clerk would know the factoid.
What actually IS impossible is that said clerk would give enough of a damn to actually SAY it.
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People think ponies are cute and novel so having something on the menu for them lets you do advertising saying that you cater to ponies which not only gets you the pony business but also the curious, especially if said food is also human edible like an actual clover shake option.
Just wait till she tries Musk Sticks.
Do these musk sticks contain real musk?
They sure do! (Some still do)
Hmm... would ponies actually enjoy musk sticks?
Ah, suburban America, where you have to drive to cross the street.
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I like to joke that the infamous Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks is because everyone's scared of the taxis in NYC. The joke is implying that being on the sidewalk would save you.