All the franchises, uppie cafes etc in town that sell "iced" dessert type drinks. You buy them, expecting it'll be a nice gelato based shake or something like that with some flavour, and then it turns out to be like 30% milk / dairy product, 50-60% crushed ice, and 10-20% flavour / toppings, so what you end up tasting is a watered down drink for anywhere between a fiver and a tenner. I assume this saves the companies money as instead of spending on dairy they can just use what's in the tap.

Maccy's iced lattes are a big example of an offender on this listen, like 40% you can drink and the rest is just ice that hasn't been blended right, but there are other places that do it bad too. What I don't understand is that if cost is the matter, using powder to help thicken the "watered down" aspect would help. If you just use water you need something to thicken it.

For me, galaxy drinking chocolate powder is brilliant and universal. You can blend it with cream / milk, you can blend it with hot or cold water (though hot is easier) and it'll flavour it up really well. It's actually ruined drnking out at other places because 99% of the time unless it's somewhere like Five Guys or one of the dessert shacks in town that do proper gourmet type shakes (with proper cream / chocolates blended together)

The same goes with hot chocolate, especially those on the boot fairs and markets, like nearly £5 for what's basically a bit of boiled water, a single scoop of powder and if you're lucky, a small bit of squirty cream and some cocoa powder dusted on top. The actual drink has no flavour.

I must not be the only one to experience this?