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The Skyscraper

double.jpgMy "baby" turned 5 years old yesterday (head over to our family blog for my reflection on the past 5 years). For his birthday he got to choose the place that we’d eat lunch at after he got out of school. He chose Winstead’s Diner, after hearing a friend of his talk about the gigantic milkshake he had there on his birthday. When his friend said gigantic, he wasn’t kidding. The milkshake arrived in a great big "vase" for the glass. Topped with a generous amount of whipped cream and cherries, our strawberry shake was by far the biggest I have ever seen. We definitely shouldn’t have eaten lunch before if we wanted to make any kind of dent in this milkshake. Wide eyed and eager, we gave it our best try, but by about 1/4 of the way through the shake, and belly’s about to bust, we couldn’t make it any further. We gave it a great try, but just had to be defeated. Next time, I think we’ll invite a few more people to tackle the Skyscraper Milkshake with us!

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  1. Marce says

    that´s some kickass milkshake!!! and it looks delicious, I think I could have downed like half of it, too bad I wasn´t invited hahaha
    Happy belated birthday to Jacob! May he continue to teach you as much as he has thus far 🙂

  3. asha says

    Happy B’day to little guy!:)

    Wow!!That’s some milkshake.No wonder you couldn’t finish that one!:D Good luck next time.

    You got beautiful children,cherish every moment with them.

  12. Rachel says

    That milkshake is HUGE. There is a diner in Chicago called the Zephyr which is really well-known for it’s ice cream. They have something called the Frankenstein which has a crazy amount of scoops of ice cream in it. I think like 18 scoops or something like that. And all the sundae toppings get piled on as well.

  13. cookie jill says

    There was a Swanson’s Ice Cream parlor here in town where we gaggle of girls would head down for Bdays or other celebrations and order up The Earthquake.

    It was literally 5 lbs. of icecream topped with bananas, nuts, whipped cream, sprinkles, chocolate syrup, fruit syrup, butterscotch…and other things.

    We would eat ourselves silly…and sick. Our tummies felt they had been attacked by an Earthquake after our attempts to eating the entire thing.

  14. sherry says

    Hi,

    thanks for the comment on my blog! My kids would LOVE to get that milkshake! My ‘baby’ will be SEVEN on Valentine’s Day!

    Time flies,

    Sherry

  16. Kate says

    We grew up with an ice cream parlor that would make a Lollapalooza Sundae that had something like 20 scoops of ice cream and tons of toppings on it. If you ate it all yourself you got listed on their ‘Wall of Fame’. I think they had a junior version too.

    Your kids look so cute with that giant glass between them!

  18. The Food Snob (Rachel) says

    Hi Kristen,

    My oldest turned 5 years old December 14th and I truly know all the love and joy and pains and trials that come with being a stay at home mom. Congrats on reaching this milestone!

    Rachel

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