You could drink a chocolate milkshake and have a good time. Or you could jazz up the milkshake by mixing in a little maple.
I never would have thought of having a chocolate maple milkshake until I ran across an old-school burger and fries place in Calgary called Peters' Drive-In. Yes, plural possessive.
I try and avoid milkshakes since ice cream by itself can put me to sleep. But on the Western Canadian trip, I needed extra calories.
Peters' Drive-In allows you to mix different milkshake flavors, creating thousands of possibilities. I would not have considered two, much less three, flavors until the question was put in front of me.
I thought chocolate or fruit-based for the milkshake. And then I saw maple. Of course, maple is very Canadian so the choice felt appropriate, even if we were thousands of kilometers away from the maple trees.
The combination of chocolate and maple proved to be a great match. I don't usually repeat food items on vacation, but when my blood sugars were falling, providence led me at another chance at that milkshake. The second one was equally as good, and felt really good to pick myself up.
The nice element about combining milkshake flavors is that I don't have to drink a maple milkshake and a chocolate milkshake. I combine the two into one shake, reducing the need for a second milkshake. Of course, if you like the combination, you might end up drinking two milkshakes, defeating the purpose of mixing the flavors. That is the chance that you take.
For me, milkshakes are a very occasional treat. Adding maple would make that an extra special treat.
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