Favorite quote that I'm not sure why the author included:
“You can’t just put your mouth underneath the nozzle of an ice cream machine and fill your belly,” he says.
While that facility also didn’t let you put your mouth under the nozzle they did have mini fridges lining the walls so you could just grab some ice cream whenever you felt like. New employees gained weight as soon as they signed the contract.
Allegedly also common at Google.
I don't understand what this means...
Now I'm in a place I could afford to do that, but alas, my metabolism can't keep up with the calories. (Sigh).
If I buy it, I eat it, so I don't really buy it anymore. But at least I indulge on special occasions, and even more occasionally make a batch of my own.
Sure, I'm a lot thinner now, which is great. But ice-cream will always be my first love.
However, I bet it's also a question he gets asked a lot by people: "do you ever just snack on some of the ice cream yourself?" And the reality squashing the dream would be no, that would be unsanitary, often infeasible given the mechanism and scale, and so on and so forth.
The exception was when a low pressure hose popped open, and squirted food all over my face. The line manager, who has been fiddling with it, said "please swallow that!" as spitting it out would be been much worse. (Having to clean and discard a lot of stuff.)
Once a week or so there would be leftovers in the canteen.
Why not just be cool?
It would be allowed to take food out of the factory area and eat it in the canteen, which is exactly what they did once a week or so. Returning from the canteen to the factory area required putting on different boots, clean overalls and a hairnet, then cleaning boots, arms and hands.
The only real cream in an aerosol can Ive ever seen was in Canada (it probably had sugar) Everything else is vegetable oil.
Which is weird, whipped cream is so easy and so delicious to make at home!
Because the original mentioned a 'tank' not a 'can', I assumed that original comment meant a restaurant grade whipped cream dispenser like eg https://www.amazon.sg/Otis-Classic-Stainless-Whipped-Dispens...
If you are fancy enough to use such a tank instead of a spray can, you would most likely load it with real cream, not sweetened vegetable oil.
(I don't know how likely sweetening of the cream in the tank is.)
They describe it as "whipped cream" in Europe, and there's no way they could do that if it wasn't. The alternative is "vegan whipped topping".
Aerosol cream (“squirty cream”) is a fairly common product in most countries, in my experience. Usually sweetened with some additives and nitrous oxide propellant, but mostly made from real cream.
An example from the UK: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/coffee-shop/anch...
Is that really a thing? I can only speak for here in the US, but all the normal whipped-cream-in-a-can I've seen has cream as the first ingredient. Even Reddi-wip.
(Source: existence proof.)
Turns out, you can't. There goes that dream.
The reason that is not allowed as a factory worker, is not because the company is cheap, but because of sanitation reasons.
These sanitation reasons do not exist in places that serve ice cream. In many of those, you may eat as much ice cream as you like.