The Atlantic thinks of itself as so high-brow that they can't even conceive of referring to them as anything other than malteds. Bunch of elitists.
Yes, I used to like them - a spoon could stand up in them. Haven’t had one in 30 years, unfortunately.
As others have pointed out, Obama was a heavy smoker and ate all that high-falutin’, expensive food that would have gotten Trump condemned as an elitist bastard. And Billy Jeff’s bad taste in food was considered cute!