No McDonald's milkshakes!

[Pinkywoo]

Apparently due to shortages there are no McDonald's milkshakes in the whole country. I'm 12 weeks pregnant and feel like crap, a chocolate milkshake was one of the few things I could stomach, this is not acceptable!

thetakeout.com/mcdonalds-milkshakes-uk-1847556064

Of course it’s fine to have McDonald’s milkshakes during pregnancy, they’re hardly going to be using unpasteurised milk 🙄.

I was surprised that they had McFlurries but no milkshakes - normally if milkshakes are off so are the mcflurries as they come from the same machine and are basically the same thing.

My local Maccies has run out of milkshakes but they still do McFlurrys.

If there are any places nearby you that do Mr Whippy style ice cream get some of that and stick in a blender with a bit of Nesquik or Milo.

@yourstroobly

I was always told whilst pregnant McDs milkshakes and ice creams are a big no no? Where did I get that information from, surely I wasn't dreaming it ?! And depriving myself of deliciousness for 9 months

Yes, it's that these machines are near impossible to keep clean. The tubes will always have residue which is a breeding ground for bacteria. I got really ill from an oreo milkshake at TGIFs.

I had tried to order McDonald’s milkshakes - usually in stations or airports over the last five or six years and could NEVER get them and was always told not available then someone who used to work there told me that the machines are such a pain to clean that employees often just say they don’t have any to save the effort!!

This is probably not the issue at the moment but pre-supply chain problems, this has been it I think.

We've not got any ice-cream in at the moment but I'll add it to the shop and try making my own!

Dh works for the company who supply the milkshakes to McD. No drivers.

With regards to pay I firmly lay the blame at house prices.
Nothing else has tracked with house prices. Average pay needs to equate to the average home. Now the lower paid eu workers have gone everything needs to go up to enable us to pay to live here.
When that cheaper labour was happy to work their utter arses off to live in a crammed house share, to send money home to build a better future. British workers aren’t going to accept that as there isn’t that better future as the pound won’t stretch like it would abroad.
So prices need to go up, and wages need to go up.

It’s going to be a bumpy bumpy few years that’s for sure.

No milk-related hot drinks either at the one I've just been to

@MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously

Employers are going to have to pay better wages so that British people can afford to take these jobs. And British people might have to accept that a chicken burger bought for a couple of quid is exploitation of the labour force and the welfare conditions of the meat

which British People though? where are you going to get more people from?

the country is at near full employment ( 5% unemployed) and moving long term unemployed to job vacancies is not the easy solution its often quoted to be. The birth rate is dropping , the boom generation is hitting retirement.. where are these workers coming from?

we haven't enough HGV drivers , hospitality workers, care worker's, NHS workers, farm workers, chicken factory workers, construction workers..

If you pay more to attract people into these jobs you leave a gap somewhere else... its not solving the underlying situation.

This was all pointed out but dismissed as project fear but then and now no real tangible , practical solutions to the problem are being offered.

@Sakura7

It's absolutely due to Brexit.

We still have McDonalds milkshakes in Ireland (and indeed Northern Ireland).

The North of Ireland is protected from the fallout of Brexit thanks to the Protocol..the same Protocol thick loyalists want to get rid of.🙄 Thank God for it, I say.

I've read far too much about how unhygienic those machines are, I wouldn't touch a McD milkshake even without being pregnant

You can make decent milkshakes at home, give it a try!

When I was pregnant I was told not to have milkshakes or ice cream from machines because of listeria.
I didn’t touch it once and I absolutely love ice creams! Is it ok now? That’s so unfair!!!!! The last time the doctor told me not to have honey, my absolutely favourite thing and I missed it so much. It’s probably allowed now too is it?

I feel your pain OP. When I had my PFB I was in labour for 24 hours followed by an EMCS at midnight so by the next morning I was absolutely sodding starving. I sent DH off to the nearest McDs for three hamburgers, a large chips and the largest strawberry milkshake they did. Best meal of my life. Hatchet faced midwife came round, looked at the cup and said “I hope you’re not drinking cola!” I explained it was a milkshake but she still wasn’t impressed.

Apparently part of the driver shortage is due to backlog of tests, training and lessons during lockdown so it is partly Covid, but mostly Brexit and unattractive working conditions. Left wing Brexiteers could argue that the working conditions were allowed to become so unattractive because employers could still import cheaper Eastern European labour of course.

I had one yesterday. The only issue was I forgot a straw and went through 3 of their crappy paper ones.

When I was pregnant with DS (who's nearly 2) I asked my midwife if they were ok and she said they were fine, never heard of not being allowed honey!

That was to 3luckystars

When I was pregnant a couple of years ago, I was told it was a listeria risk, so to avoid McDonalds milkshake and all whippy style / extruded ice cream as the machines can't be cleaned well enough.

I worked in fast food as a teen, agree those machines are grim, extremely hard to clean properly they were the bane of my life, I hated being on close and having to do it. I had a colleague who said she would refuse to sell a product from them to pregnant ladies (not sure if she ever did though!).

I think I might possibly risk a McFlurry from McDonald’s because their cleaning regime is pretty rigorous, but not from a random Mr Whippy with a badly painted Goofy on the side.

What do they put in their milkshakes that's having supply problems? There seems to be plenty of milk /ice cream available in the UK! 🤔

Potpourri23 the article mentions a "milkshake mix", I'm assuming they mix this with milk so they always taste the same amazing.

Ohh that will be why there was none available in my local one yesterday!

Maybe they need to pay enough to make it worth it and they'll have plenty of people. They go on like there aren't millions unemployed.

Exactly @3Br1tnee

Every Brexiter who moaned about foreigners stealing their jobs/undercutting British workers never seemed to realise that EU workers were never “undercutting” their wages for a bit of fun, they were being exploited. And it turns out British workers (quite rightly) don’t want to work under those conditions. And too many people voted for conditions that made it too hard for EU workers to continue to work.

@Pinkywoo I hope you find a good substitute, pregnancy cravings are no joke!

Nothing to do with brexit, every summer since time began they run out in the summer of milkshakes and ice cream. The machines are always “broken”

Like someone up thread said, it’s due to no drivers, not brexit.