# For the love of malt **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [March 19, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210 "2021-03-19T02:26:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/21 "2021-03-19T15:20:59Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Interestingly both Milo and Ovaltine are produced by Nestle. It looks like this is only the case (for Ovaltine) in the U.S.; in the rest of the world, Ovaltine is made by a subsidiary of Associated British Foods. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/22 "2021-03-19T15:25:00Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > and of course Maltesers. In the U.S., there’s a similar “malted milk ball” candy called Whoppers. [![](https://fa74d61d848a20b729bb-0251b36b713060ab3e0e8321940e01ff.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/0010700024400_CF_version_type_large.jpeg) ](https://fa74d61d848a20b729bb-0251b36b713060ab3e0e8321940e01ff.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/0010700024400_CF_version_type_large.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/23 "2021-03-19T15:44:30Z")
Malt lover here! I don’t know anywhere near me (NYC burbs) where a malted milk shake is available. Carnation malted milk powder can be found in some big supermarkets. And the Chinese supermarket a mile away from me always has Horlicks and Ovaltine powder. And with Easter coming up there will be malt-filled Robin Eggs candy to enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/24 "2021-03-19T16:01:15Z")
One of my favorite things in driving across Minnesota is to drive through Northfield, the home of the Malt-O-Meal company (now under Post Cereals). The main highway MN-19 passes right next to the malt processing plant, and we always roll down the windows to capture the smell - heavenly. There’s the old joke about the teen-aged girlfriend and boyfriend. After a long kiss, the girlfriend says, “I think I have your gum.” The boyfriend says, “I wasn’t chewing gum, I just had a malted milk.” ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/25 "2021-03-19T16:23:45Z")
I didn’t realize until doing a search that Robin Eggs is the Whoppers brand, and other manufacturers call them “Chocolate Malt Easter Eggs” or similar. > **[9 Things You Should Know Before You Eat Robin Eggs](https://www.delish.com/food/a52487/robins-eggs-history-facts/)** > > We've talking the candy, not the actual bird's eggs, people. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/26 "2021-03-19T16:27:51Z")
My dad and I would go to Farrell’s and order large malts with extra malt - mine chocolate his vanilla, and have a contest of who could drink theirs the quickest. To this day I always order extra malt if at a place that serves malts. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/27 "2021-03-19T17:35:26Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > One of my favorite things in driving across Minnesota is to drive through Northfield, the home of the Malt-O-Meal company Northfield is home to two colleges and a Malt-O-Meal factory (and not much else). My daughter went to school there and they’d walk out in the morning and take a whiff: “Ooh, it’s Blueberry Morning today.” They had a facebook group “My college smells better than yours”. … ps, like many maltophiles here, I grow weary of hearing “Uhh, we have shakes, but I don’t think malts.” A couple of times, it’s worked to ask if they have a tin or jar of malt powder in the back. When they ask what to do with it, I’ve learned to just say “Bring me a little bowl of it and I’ll stir it into my… shake.” (that last pause is because it’s painful for me to say ‘shake’. "The _good enough_ is the enemy of the _best")_ ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/28 "2021-03-19T18:30:56Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > My dad and I would go to Farrell’s and order large malts with extra malt - mine chocolate his vanilla, and have a contest of who could drink theirs the quickest. To this day I always order extra malt if at a place that serves malts. I remember Farrell’s! We’d go there every once in a great while, like on my birthday, or if we had relatives from out of town. Normally my parents would only let me get the small size malt at an ordinary ice cream shop, but at Farrell’s I was allowed to get the biggest malt, served in a glass the size and shape of a small goldfish bowl, and try to finish it. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/29 "2021-03-19T18:49:03Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Restaurants that sell Ovaltine or malted milk or similar drinks are similarly vanishingly rare in Canada. I can’t think of any. I’m sure there must be some places in Toronto, though. T&T Supermarket sells Vitasoy’s malt/soy beverage. In fact, it looks like even Walmart carries it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/30 "2021-03-19T18:58:13Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Malt-O-Meal Get on the Malt-o-Meal mobile! get that start in your engine, And see how good you feel! For the life of me, I can’t find an audio or video of that jingle online, even tho right now it’s stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/31 "2021-03-19T22:24:19Z")
You can also buy Milo or Ovaltine at many grocers. However, these are not restaurants. I don’t know of a place where one could buy a malted milk in Canada. Toronto is so diverse there must be some restaurant somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/32 "2021-03-19T22:40:56Z")
The Minnesota coffee chain Caribou Coffee occasionally has a drink called a “malted mocha” which is basically a cafe mocha with added malt powder. They are exceptionally awesome. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/33 "2021-03-19T23:05:45Z")
I’m always on the lookout for a good chocolate malt. The best one I ever had was at the old Harvey’s Diner/Snackbar in Petrified Forest National Park. It was a super hot day and man did that taste good. The waitress even gave me frosty stainless steel mixing cup with the extra malt that didn’t fit in the glass. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/34 "2021-03-19T23:32:06Z")
I’m going to try that at home. As for products that were once weirdly popular in Canada but are now extremely difficult to find, I’m adding malted milk to my list with Colby cheese and diet grape soda. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/35 "2021-03-20T00:29:26Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Here in America’s Dairyland (motto: Smell our dairy air!) malts are pretty ubiquitous, I grew up on them (as my waistline shows). You can also order “dusty road” ice cream sundaes, where malt powder is sprinkled all over ice cream or custard. Ohmigosh, I just got transported back fifty years to my dad ordering a “Hot Fudge Dusty Peak” at Gille’s Frozen Custard in Wauwatosa, WI. The ‘peak’ was salted pecans, but it was in a large bowl with so much malt that it looked like a desert, like he’d ordered a bowl of malt powder with a cherry on top. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/36 "2021-03-20T00:49:38Z")
@digs I used to live less than a mile from Gille’s in Tosa, and have been there in the last couple of years. Last I checked, they still offered “dusty” malt custard concoctions. Kopp’s and Leon’s also offer malts at their custard locations. Those 3 operations are the Holy Trinity of custard stands in Milwaukee county, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/37 "2021-03-20T01:10:04Z")
We keep a jar of Carnation malt powder in the pantry, at all times. Wife uses it in a chocolate ice cream recipe that she has perfected over the years. It’s the best chocolate ice cream I’ve ever had, mostly because it has malt in it. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/38 "2021-03-20T01:21:15Z")
Farrell’s was absolutely wonderful. I can get malts from DQ. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2021, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210/39 "2021-03-20T05:53:50Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > You can also buy Milo or Ovaltine at many grocers. However, these are not restaurants. I don’t know of a place where one could buy a malted milk in Canada. Toronto is so diverse there must be some restaurant somewhere. My mistake, I thought you were asking about prepared malt drinks in general (as opposed to just powder). I have seen Ovaltine offered at some Chinese restaurants in Toronto, for what it’s worth. E.g. Congee Wong’s takeout menu lists both Ovaltine and Horlick (hot or cold): [https://www.congeewong.com/menu/takeout201222/CongeeWongTakeoutMenu.pdf](https://www.congeewong.com/menu/takeout201222/CongeeWongTakeoutMenu.pdf) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-malt/938210.md?page=1)