what is the difference between a malt and a shake?
Anyone carrying around thirty or more extra pounds should be able to answer this question easily. How do you think we got fat, after all? To a plump man, the word “shake” never has connotations related to dancing (when we dance, we warp floorboards, and no one needs that), delirium tremens (while we tubbos often enjoy beer more than is healthy, very few of us wind up as alcoholics, who are usually emaciated, in direct conflict with our chosen physiques) or chills from cold (as every skinny person knows, fat people don’t get cold; we’re the ones that make all of you bony people shiver by keeping the thermostat set solidly at 65 degrees). When we think, “shakes”, we associate the words “frosty”, “milk” and usually “chocolate”.
The simple answer is that all malts are shakes, but not all shakes are malts. Maybe that isn’t so simple after all, like saying that all black holes are singularities, but not all singularities are black holes, which has nothing to do with desserts, so I digress.
A shake is a basically desert beverage composed of milk and ice cream of choice, sometimes with a syrup that either matches or compliments the selected ice cream and often whipped into a frosty froth inside a blender. A malt is basically the same thing with a spoonful or two of malted milk powder added, which adds a wonderful richness that perfectly accentuates many sweet delights, vanilla and chocolate in particular.
You can buy malted milk powder in most supermarkets. I always choose the Carnation label, partially because it’s never let me down but mostly because it’s usually the only brand available. If you’ve never had a real malt—and you don’t give a hoot about your waistline, like we the Fat of America—then have yourself a malt, or two. The simple things bring us happiness, so get fat and find bliss.
Animals 11, I hope you get a notification here so I can let you know to go back to my martini recipe where you asked for the Mexican Martini recipe. I posted the recipe I found online there for you (they say it’s from the place you specified; you’ll have to try it and see if it’s authentic; let me know!).
