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The Most Disappointing 620 Calories I’ve Ever Eaten

Gabe Johansson
2 min readSep 14, 2024

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Photo of Author thinking about how disappointed he was when he ate the food in question…

Not too long ago, I took my wife and kids to the park for a nice day out as we have been known to do.

The sun was shining and there were countless smiles and squeals of excitement on the swings from both our babies.

I love these moments.

They give me such a warm feeling, and it’s just one of the many reasons I’m glad to be a dad.

After the park, we decided to get some ice cream because why not?

So I drove on over to Dairy Queen and got a kids ice cream cone to share with my daughters, a blue raspberry Misty Freeze for Martha, and for myself…

I grabbed a Nutter Butter Blizzard because I enjoy Nutter Butters and admittedly I’m a sucker for food marketing.

(I swear these marketing creatives could make hardtack look exciting…)

Considering I didn’t want to eat nearly a day’s worth of calories in a single serving of hyped-up, gravity-defying ice cream in a cup…

I went for a small.

Even then, it was still a whopping 620 calories.

And believe me, it was delicious.

It didn’t take long for me to reach the bottom of the…

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Gabe Johansson
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