What do you do with an icecream flake?

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Dense-Turnip2732@reddit

My partner and I were just randomly talking about this and I mentioned my perhaps unconventional method as a child was to chew the flake then basically gob it back onto the ice cream to create chocolate sprinkles. He was horrified by this and so I googled to see whether anyone else used this method. AI called it highly unconventional and suggested with its access to a vast amount of resources that I'm the only one doing this so he suggested I post here. Either you guys can be horrified with him, or I can find my people.

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halcyon_blaze@reddit

Push the Flake into the ice cream cone. Then you get a chocolate cone rather than hollow sadness once the ice cream has run out

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Moremilyk@reddit

Master the art of pushing the ice cream down the cone as you lick. Ice cream all the way! Probably why I never thought of pushing the flake down though, you have to remove that and eat it first. So take your pick, chocolate or ice cream at the end of the cone. Loved the hollow sadness description, so accurate for an empty cone.

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halcyon_blaze@reddit

If the ice cream is the correct consistency (i.e. soft-server rather than scoops) then it's possible to push some of the ice cream into the cone alongside the Flake, meaning that you get the best of both worlds! But it doesn't work as well if it isn't soft-serve

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bundyratbagpuss@reddit

There’s an ice cream shop in Brixham that pops a little bit of fudge in the cone before putting in the ice cream.

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DementedDon@reddit

I used to love an ice cream oyster. Can't remember the last time I had one. There used to be this fantastic ice-cream parlour in Bearsden, Glasgow, ice-cream to die for, a treat after going to the swimming.

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WarehouseEmpty@reddit

Tortalano’s in Uddingston outside Hamilton is the best. First time I ever had an oyster

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Seal-island-girl@reddit

You can get the oyster shells from Asda and Tesco for making your own....

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purrcthrowa@reddit

FYI, there are two types of Flake. The individually wrapped consumer ones are crumblier and flakier than the flakes that Cadbury sells to put in 99s. They are a bit harder and less flaky so it's easier to push them into the ice cream, and are called 99 flakes. https://www.vendingwarehouse.co.uk/cadbury-99-flake-144-x-1x144-units

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The_Queef_of_England@reddit

I didn't know they were different! I thought they crumbled harder because they were colder.

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LaraH39@reddit

I thought they were just shorter! I didn't know they were different. Thanks for that!

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The_Queef_of_England@reddit

Stick it up your bum, which is fanny to you.

Jk, it's just a chocolate bar that we also stick in ice cream. So you can just buy them and eat them on their own. Traditionally, you get a cone, soft vanilla ice cream, and stick a bar in whole.

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Fancy-Licker-66UK@reddit

My mum used to break off the bottom of the cone and scrape the ice cream onto it, therefore making a smaller cone.

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Fancy-Licker-66UK@reddit

My wife breaks of the last inch or so of the cone. When see was younger she saw chocolate vermicular in the bottom of the cone, her brother told her they were ants. So she still breaks off the bottom and won’t eat it.

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Fancy-Licker-66UK@reddit

When we were kids and we had a 99( that’s what we called it in the UK) We would push the flake all the way to the bottom of the cone. Eat the ice cream. Then eat the cone containing the flake and ice cream.

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chocolate_cronut@reddit

I take it out soon as I get the ice cream then eat it first

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Fuzzy-River-2900@reddit

You stick it in the ice cream and eat it. I like to pull it out and eat it when served as a 99 from an ice cream van

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Elinorea@reddit

I just scoop a bit of ice cream on it and eat it immediately. No self control.

My husband pushes it down into the cone so it's completely covered and then eats it when he gets to the cone...

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DuglandJones@reddit

Your husband is a genius with a tremendous amount of self control

I'm going to try this but, honestly, I lack the impulse control to not just immediately eat it

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Elinorea@reddit

😂 I know. I've found a solution though... get two flakes. Best of both worlds.

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DuglandJones@reddit

Id still lack the control to push the second down I think 😂

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Elinorea@reddit

😂😂😂 I can relate.

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bree_dev@reddit

Seems like we should have a poll on this. I'm a push it into the cone guy.

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Smiley_Dub@reddit

Ohhhhhh now!!! I'd never considered this approach💪💪💪

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stevey83@reddit

That is something I’ve never thought of doing, pushing it into the ice cream!

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gaz909909@reddit

It's the only way

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kairu99877@reddit

That's exactly what I do. Its the best.

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Historical-Car5553@reddit

Me too. Makes the cone more interesting

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fairylighterfluid@reddit

I get a 99 upside down in a tub. Break up the cone and dip it in the ice cream then smash the flake up so I get "chocolate chip" ice cream at the end. No ice cream running all over my fingers, better flake to ice cream ratio and don't get a soggy cone at the end.

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buy_me_a_pint@reddit

Take it off, and stick a custard cream on the ice cream instead

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Ochib@reddit

Do you want a flake in that

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arashi256@reddit

I gnaw it down from the top to the ice cream base like a beaver

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LaraH39@reddit

I push the flake down into the cone and eat it at the end. Husband does the same.

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pineapple_on_a_stick@reddit

An interesting thing about flakes is they don't melt like other chocolate bars.

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Ovverallac@reddit

Ok, I had to look this up. And Flake is the actual name of the bar. Flake bars aren’t really available in the US. You can find something similar, but it wouldn’t just come with the ice cream, unless it was an old fashioned type of store. I’ve seen something similar at an old 50s style ice cream parlor

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DarkLuxio92@reddit

r/shitamericanssay

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steak-and-kidney-pud@reddit

We’re an old fashioned type of people.

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Familiar-Woodpecker5@reddit

I scoop up some ice cream on it and eat it, delish

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No-Ice6949@reddit

https://youtube.com/shorts/D20WPuflKrs?si=NUVCbdOqzcj8Xmum

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bazzanoid@reddit

I'd still love to know how they got this past the censors for a daytime TV ad back in the day

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LittleSadRufus@reddit

Probably by not showing anything worth censoring I imagine.

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Pedantichrist@reddit

What about this advert screams ‘censor this!’ to you?

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kowalski655@reddit

Whilst the lady is clearly meant to be having multiple gushing orgasms when eating the Flake, the symbolism is broad enough for the ad maker to say she is just relaxing in a bath.

Probably, I think. :-)

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Pedantichrist@reddit

I think she just liked the Flake.

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Serious_Escape_5438@reddit

You can't see anything at all, it's a woman in a bath. The 1980s wasn't the Victorian era.

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cloumorgan@reddit

Eat it!

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LittleSadRufus@reddit

Before any cheeky bugger can ask for a lick and then take a clandestine bite of the flake instead

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barrenasever@reddit

Bin it once it gets to the ice cream bit, I hate cold chocolate

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Delicious-Cut-7911@reddit

I shove it down into the cone and eat the chocolate filled cone

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fussyfella@reddit

You can eat flakes without ice cream. All Brits of a certain age are likely to remember this advert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEZ2ax2-O2A

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JediAngel@reddit

Anything you want with it mate! Use it as an edible scoop?

If you go to a pub and a get a pint with an overly large head of froth. It is customary to say can i have a flake in that please love? Because it looks like a ice cream poured from a famous Mr whippy van.

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folklovermore_@reddit

I normally just take it out and eat it straight away, but all this talk of pushing it down into the cone is making me want to try that now!

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ColinismyCat@reddit

Push the flake to the bottom of the cone. That way, you save the best until last.

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smelliepoo@reddit

All the way! Also, it has the effect of stopping the wafer from getting soggy and breaking apart. And the flake does not flake off and fall, so you get every little bit of chocolatey goodness.

I may have to eat ice cream today now!

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bundyratbagpuss@reddit

Absolutely! Wafer, ice cream and flake with every bite!

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New_Expectations5808@reddit

Eat around it until it is no longer supported

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dwair@reddit

You have two choices really. Use it for weird sex stuff or eat it. Either are good and people won't judge you.

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Dolgar01@reddit

I get annoyed by the way it breaks up when I eat it, so I give it to my wife.

She is not as keen on ice cream from a ice cream van as me, but thinks she is getting a bit extra with my flake, so we have it more often 😉

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bazzanoid@reddit

I had assumed up till now I had assumed they were wafer sticks covered in chocolate

If you want chocolate covered, the Twirl is basically a chocolate-covered Flake

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HollyGoLately@reddit

Put ice cream in the cone and shove the flake into it.

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papayametallica@reddit

You’ve started something now

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lalalaladididi@reddit

Eat it all first.

It's called a 99 a cone with a flake

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KingKhram@reddit

Smash it up and sprinkle over the ice cream

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MicroDyke@reddit

I always opted out of the flake in the ice-cream as it was too cold 🫣 But I love flakes crumbled over cakes, or just on their own 😋

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

Eat it

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SmartHomeDaftOwner@reddit

Ohhh it's been ages since I've had a 99 (that's what we call the ice cream cone with the flake sticking out), and now you've made me want one! I used to just pull it out and eat it. It's not usually served with ice cream in a dish, it's something we get from street vendors and it's a wafer cone filled with soft, whipped ice cream and the whole (or more usually half-sized) flake sticking out of the top.

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