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Well statistically, every 7/8 of the times it would be broken. If you go often enough, I would think 1/8 feels like it's all the time.

Ah but what I meant was in the ~50 or so visits in the last 5 years this has never happened to me. So I was wondering whether I was just lucky or if it’s an entirely different situation in Europe

German here, I encountered a broken ice machine maybe once but it was actually broken, not out for maintenance or something.

I always thought the meme/joke is more about McFlurry than your standard ice cream.

I personally never encounter ice cream machine broken either.

Sorry to clarify, I'm talking about the McFlurry :)