McDonald's customer gets very unexpected surprise after ordering ice cream cone

If you’re lucky enough to be at a McDonald’s when the ice cream machine is working, you might find yourself being treated to an absolute monster of a soft whip if you get the right member of staff on the case.

One particularly lucky Redditor really hit the jackpot, sharing a picture to the site of one of the biggest soft whip cones we’ve ever seen.

The height on it is impressive enough, but there’s also a remarkable consistency to the swirls’ shape and diameter as they rise up from the cone.

The sight of it has brought back lots of fond memories for other Redditors who started their working life behind the till at McDonald’s, with plenty of anecdotes about inter-staff competitions and various attempts at mastering the craft of serving up a massive ice cream.

“Sometimes we like to show off to our coworkers how big we can make them,” said one comment.

“There were people who would go for the perfect 4.5 swirls and pride themselves on presentation,” said another. “Others would make towers (with no shift manager on) and it sometimes ended up as a mess. Right before the machines did their auto-shutdown was when that usually happened lmao.”

“Same here,” chimed another. “Then I went into my college mess hall looking like a bad ass on the soft serve machine. The trick is a little push back upwards every layer.”

Another recalled: “Biggest one I saw was about 20oz. For comparison standard where I worked was 5oz.”

“Yes! It was one of my favorite parts of the job when I worked at McDonald’s,” said another who then added: “It’s that beautiful combination of being something that’s fun to do AND something that will delight someone and make their day!”

“When I worked at McDonalds, I'd give out random stacked cones like this,” added yet another user. “I was more impressed with my own ability, and some customer just got the end product of me being lucky with the swirls.”

The regular size is considerably smaller than the huge one shared by the Redditor (Bloomberg / Contributor/Getty Images)

Others shared how management weren’t always impressed with their efforts: “When I worked at McDonald's, I made this girl a large cone like this and my manager was all like ‘you can't just be making huge cones for girls you think are pretty’. But in reality I just had such a perfect cone going and didn't want to stop.”

One last one summed up the quiet joy of this whole practice: “The best kind of competition is the one that rewards bystanders.”