At a restaurant a few months ago writes Tony Greenway, my two daughters – one young enough not to care, the other old enough to know better – ordered a couple of freakshakes for their desserts.
Excuse me for being behind the culinary curve, but while I’d heard of freakshakes, I’d never actually seen one up close. Imagine my surprise, then, when they arrived at our table 10 minutes later looking like two controlled explosions in an ice cream factory.
Freakshakes, like so many other things, we can blame the Australians. That’s because the freakshake was invented in Canberra in 2015 by the owners of the Patissez cafe, who wanted to ‘take the humble milkshake and make it into something special’. So they got a mason jar mug and filled it with ice cream and sundry treats such as sweets, fruit, pretzels, cookies, waffles, pastries, chocolate ice cream lollies, whipped cream and lashings of sauce. Et voila! In an instant, they had their freak on and their customers were instantly smitten.
Various Yorkshire restaurants have been serving up some amazing freakshakes for a while now. If you’ve never tasted one, it might be time to get out there and give them a go. Resistance, as I have discovered, is freaking futile.
NOCO KIOSK , HALIFAX
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