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To ask who actually gets the toppings?

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Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 14:47

Light hearted of course but this happens so frequently I am genuinely perplexed!

I love ice cream, as do my kids (one is ND so sticks to the same flavour 😂) but me and my daughter like to try the new and unusual ones. As such, we go to the places where you’re paying far more than you ought to now and again because they tend to have the more ‘seasonal’ or unusual flavours and have a new one each month - hopefully you know what type of place I mean.

My question is, who gets the stuff that’s on the top? You know the bits that make it look attractive and lure you in? Because I eat FAR too much ice cream and I have never, ever been given one of the biscuits, big chucks of chocolate, liquorice allsorts or jammy dodgers that are adorning the ice cream!

I’m more than happy with the ice cream I’ve had, this is not a complaint at all but what are they doing with the toppings? Perhaps you work somewhere like this, do they just remove them? Am I just unlucky that I’ve never had just the right portion at the right time? Seems unlikely considering how often I eat it 🙈

I feel like I need to know - help!

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MintTwirl · 16/11/2025 14:54

You mean like a tub of ice cream with bits on top but you never get the bits on top.

Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 14:53

SoScarletItWas · 16/11/2025 14:50

I knew this would be about ice cream as soon as I saw the title!

I did once get a massive chunk of chocolate covered Turkish Delight from the top, which was joyous.

With biscuits I’ve always thought they were decorative and disposable because I’d think they would suck up moisture and go soft.

Glad someone understand what I mean, yeah Biscoff Lotus biscuits and Oreo’s definitely go soft but sometimes it might be jelly beans or something. I’m genuinely curious as to where they go? It seems a bit like false advertising if they just go in the bin. I might just hang around in our local farm shop and have a look 😂 more fool me for paying a fiver for an ice cream but I’ve just come back and they’re never piled in the tub or anything. I hope someone who makes it or works somewhere that serves it comments!

To ask who actually gets the toppings?
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isitmytime · 16/11/2025 14:53

I get chopped nuts if I go to an icecream shop nephew usually gets chocolate flakes but they’re an addition cost and you just ask for it. They’re not a freebie
if it’s the ones in the tub they scoop from to serve I’ve had bits of tablet, fudge etc as that’s what came out in the scoop I was given…now I want ice cream!

PiggieWig · 16/11/2025 14:51

i don’t really get what you mean. Do you mean you’re ordering a 99 and it comes with no flake, for example?

Notsurewhatisnormalanymore · 16/11/2025 14:50

Telemichus · 16/11/2025 14:49

Well you ask for it surely? Like sprinkles?

No, its the stuff that they put on top to make it look nice, it’s not stuff you ask for - I’ll try and attach a photo.

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MuttsNutts · 16/11/2025 14:50

What are you on about? You ask (and pay) for toppings if you want them.

SoScarletItWas · 16/11/2025 14:50

I knew this would be about ice cream as soon as I saw the title!

I did once get a massive chunk of chocolate covered Turkish Delight from the top, which was joyous.

With biscuits I’ve always thought they were decorative and disposable because I’d think they would suck up moisture and go soft.

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 16/11/2025 14:49

When I was a child I used to love crunching up a digestive biscuit and sprinkling that on top of ice cream.

Telemichus · 16/11/2025 14:49

Well you ask for it surely? Like sprinkles?

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