Two Glasses of Milk Shake or Two Milk Shakes?

Question

Milk is noncount. Why is milk shake count while other beverages such as coke, tea, beer, coffee, and lemonade are noncount?

Wouldn't milk shake be made in big batches at a fast food restaurant? I still don't see how you can count milk shake. There isn't a set amount in each container that constitutes one milk shake. If you had two blenders filled with milk shake, would that be consider two milk shakes? What about two bathtubs filled with milk shake? Two milk shakes again?

Answer 1

I think that beverages can be both count and noncount. In menu parlance, you can order 2 milks, 3 cokes, 1 tea, 4 beers, and 2 lemonades (just don't try to drink them all), but you can also refer to them in terms of their container.
I just think that "milkshake" is one of those menu items that has become an object in and of itself, rather than the content of its container. With all the other beverages suggested we are just as used to pouring them into a glass from another container ourselves (or making them, as sometimes with the tea), but with milkshakes, there much more commonly ordered at a restaurant instead of made at home, so we got used to seeing it as an item all by itself, already made, and unless you knew a good diner or soda shop, you didn't do or even see the pouring out. Also, most other beverages that we're used to referring to by "a glass of" are not necessarily made, as often as they are poured. Or even with things like lemonade, iced tea, or Kool-Aid that are made, they're made in large batches, and you only pour a little bit into its own glass. But with a milkshake, even if you make it yourself, you only make it in small batches, one or two at a time. They're much more of an individual item.

Answer 2

Do you mean count towards sugar levels. Milk shake has tons of sugar in it. And if you get a milk shake at a place like McDona'ds, it's not even made from milk. The other beverages are real.

Answer 3

i do no longer purchase into the "Milk Your eating ordinary" marketing campaign. First, I certainly have had extra ideal fulfillment at weight alleviation, once I cut back my milk determination to a "specific shield" or basically jumbled at the same time as a tablespoon to a cup right here or there in recipes. 2nd, as a diabetic, milk, even the skim style, basically has too plenty sugar to be something yet a shield. 0.33, I actual have 9 babies... so I do funds milk into the eating ordinary, yet no longer at 3 glasses an afternoon for each physique. Milk for our kinfolk is straight away forward to located on cereal, valuable to install pancake mixes, and good on the comparable time as very almost frozen and served with heat temperature cookies. inspite of the easy actuality that, that being reported, milk is a persnickety investment around right here. I certainly purchase 2 gallons at a time. it is using the fact there are weeks that we will open one gallon and under no situations end it, letting one finished one pass undesirable...it particularly is basically too severe priced. yet there are diverse weeks, that I end off on the keep, or grant a kiddo jogging (we live under a block from a close-by grocer, that has a remarkable fee...2 gallons for $6.00), an extra ideal 4 - 5 situations for basically milk on my own! And to be quickly forward, on the comparable time because of the fact the funds gets quite tight, milk is taken under consideration a mindset of "optionally obtainable" buys after the 1st 2 gallons.

Answer 4

I disagree about them being noncount. If you go out drinking and on your drive home, the cop asks you how much you had, you say 3 beers. If you go to a coffee shop with your friends and you go up to the counter to order, you ask for 5 coffees. And so on. Same with other drinks you name.

Answer 5

I would say that you say Milk Shakes because the term suggests the presentation (In a glass, with whipped cream and a cherry on top) and not just liquid volume. It's almost as if it's a brand name, like Starbucks Frappachino or a mocha. You don't ask for two cups of mocha, you ask for two mochas.

Answer 6

Two milk shakes, or two glasses of lemonade? Hmmm, interesting - never thought about that before.

I would say two cokes, two iced teas, two beers though...

Answer 7

Two milkshakes, two cokes, two coffees--I'd more likely say two cups of tea and two glasses of lemonade, but maybe that's just because I wouldn't order two of either at a time.

I want one bourbon, one scotch, one beer--one bourbon, one scotch, one beer!

Answer 8

What the hell do you mean "noncount"?

Answer 9

Say it to Barrie's face.

Answer 10

What are you talking about