You can buy Shakes at many places. They are a luxury today at over $5 for a large.
Here’s a few places, but there are many others.
Some places offer Shakes and others Milkshakes. Depends on how it’s made.
McDonalds
Wendys (if a Frostie is a shake)
Burger king
Sonic
Diary Queen
Do Applebees and Chili’s offer shakes? I haven’t been there in years.
What’s your favorite flavor?
Vanilla
Chocolate
Strawberry
Or something else? Places like DQ have many flavors.
DQ, chocolate. With whipped cream.
Steak 'n Shake, of course! It’s right in the name. 
I can get by with the child-size, it’s plenty. And they have all kinds of interesting flavors, like Nutella or Reese’s cup.
Truthfully, I haven’t had a real shake for quite a while. We frequently make frozen banana smoothies at home and pretend it’s ice cream.
Braum’s Ice Cream Store.
They will make a shake from any of their many flavors of ice cream or frozen yogurt.
My favorite is Chocolate Chip.
I generally like shakes from any place.
My favorite is at Sonic. Strawberry 
I used to order a Frosted Coke. It’s a Coke Float blended into a shake. But Sonic discontinued them over a decade ago.
DQ is a close second. You’ll find pieces of strawberry in their shakes.
We go to local ice cream stands. We used to go to Sweetie’s (but we always called it Sweatie’s).
Then, earlier this spring we stopped just before closing time. The place is owned and operated by a guy who employed and underpaid young girls to do all the work. The guy saw me approaching the window and flipped the sign to “CLOSED”. Since that night as we drive by the place, we simultaneously yell, “Fuck you, Sweetie!”
Vanilla malted is my go-to.
‘Y’know, I went to the McDonald’s in Shelbyville on Friday night.’
[…]
‘Do they have Krusty’s “Partially Gelatinated, Non-Dairy, Gum-Based Beverages”?’
‘Yeah, they call them “shakes.”’
When I was a kid DQ made an acceptable malt, despite the ice cream being soft-serve, because they used real Carnation malt powder, unlike other places that used some sort of molasses extract or something for their ‘malts’ and didn’t taste malty at all. Chocolate malts were my preference, and it had to be vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup added; chocolate ice cream alone for the chocolate flavoring wasn’t the same for some reason. Yes, I was a connoisseur of fine single malts as a kid (sometimes I wanted two, but I only had so much allowance to spend 
).
As a grownup, I discovered home-made strawberry malts-- vanilla ice cream, milk, fresh strawberries and malt powder in a blender. Incredible. Fantastic Summer dessert.
Oberweis has fabulously creamy ice cream and, as always, it would be vanilla.
In-N-Out and chocolate. With an order of fries.
I remember in childhood a shake was a drink that went with my burger and fries.
Now they’re more expensive and I’m less active. Calories matter.
Shakes are a rare treat. Sometimes I’ll order one instead of buying a burger.
I haven’t had a shake in umpteen years, but if ever I do any time in the future, it has to be a malted to be worth it.
Steak n Shake (except I get it as a malt, if that franchise has them) or In N Out, chocolate.
Usually I make my own. I have an antique malt maker, and use far too much malt powder. Not a single person has ever complained!
Another vote for Steak N Shake. Reeses or Nutella. They have a happy hour each day when their hand made shakes are half price.
I haven’t had one in years, not since Hardee’s stopped selling their peach milkshake. I hear Chick-Fil-A will sell them for a while this summer. I might try one, if I can find out if there’s real peaches in it.
Steak and Shake!
Chocolate.
Glad to see others share my opinion here. The first time my gf suggested milkshakes, I ordered mine malted. She had no clue what I was talking about, but she tried mine and now she is also a malt maven.
Meanwhile, she mentioned really liking a Dole Whip, which I had never heard of. She is one year younger and grew up within 20 miles of me, yet we had very different experiences as kids. I have since had a dole whip and they are great.
I skimmed the thread title without my glasses and thought, “Are there more than one flavor of Snake?”
Essentially yes, but it’s also loaded with thickeners to give it that signature viscosity.
Wendy’s frosties are dang good.
Arby’s had a Jamoca shake. I’m not sure if it’s still available. You could get a small one on their $1 menu.
And they were diabetic safe(they said). I haven’t seen an Arby’s in years. So this is old info.
But, seriously getting a shake from a fast food place with that weird machine is disgusting and probably dangerous. They never clean those things properly or often enough. I’m talking to you MickeyD.
ETA… @aceplace57 Sonic will still make you a frostie. Just ask. It’s just their soft-serve and coke ran thru the shake mixer.
Snake and Shake? Shake and Snake…hmmm?
I could say something nasty right here, but I’ll not …
