I was really disappointed because I really wanted the guy with the bad review to be wrong. I got the rootbeer and vanilla. It tasted faintly like a rootbeer float, but all the syrup was at the bottom of the cup. There were several times I got huge chunks of ice and all I could think about was the review saying that. The small was 2 bucks with a 75 cent increase for ice cream at the bottom. My daughter got the cotton candy and birthday cake. The cotton candy overpowered the birthday cake, to the extent I could not taste the birthday cake. I will say the cotton candy did taste like cotton candy and made me jealous I didn't get cotton candy instead of rootbeer. She got ice cream at the bottom and it was really good. It did not melt even though it was 110 outside. I will give them another shot, but I will likely try some other sno shacks too.