DORIS/SHAKE vs. DENNIS/MALT!

     This past Friday, a window cleaning  customer at lunch time was taking Maid Rite orders for her grand-kids.  Some wanted malts and some wanted shakes. Yes, it reminded me of a story.

     A few years back, my sister Doris was in the local hospital in Marshalltown and had asked me to get her and her visiting daughter, Sarah, a shake from the Maid Rite. I brought them into the hospital room and announced that I had gotten their MALTS. In unison and as if I had just handed them a hand grenade with the pin pulled, they both yelled Malts! We don't like malts! Good grief! I didn't know I had started World War III.
  
      I prefer a malt because it has malt powder in it and that's what makes it so special. As a matter of fact when I am in the Maid Rite in Marshalltown, I always ask fora double shot of malt. More like the old days of years past.

     With a shake you are basically having ice-cream and some milk mixed together. A lot of people, I know, use  the terms interchangeably and really don't know the difference. But, again that's what makes the world go around.