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I have a confession to make: over the past year or so, I have become an ice cream junky and/or freak. After going most of my life having kind of an apathetic attitude toward ice cream and not really liking or disliking it, I can now not get enough of it and would eat it before, during and after every single meal that I eat if I could. Thankfully, I’ve managed to discipline myself to indulge in large servings of it only two to three times a week now, so I consider that a small “victory.” Based on me being a junky now though, I have a feeling that you are going to start seeing a lot more of these ice cream treat reviews from me. Consider yourself warned (ha!).

I primarily get my ice cream treats from either Culver’s, Ritter’s, Cold Stone Creamery, Handel’s or Dairy Queen, but recently I’ve seen a lot of reviews about McDonald’s newest McFlurry offering: the Rolo McFlurry. The reviews haven’t exactly been glowing and despite the fact that I’ve had past negative experiences with McFlurrys, I was intrigued enough by the thought of a long forgotten candy (at least in my mind) being included in a limited time offering, so I made the leap.

For those of you that don’t remember what a Rolo is or need a refresher, it’s a chocolate candy with a caramel center or as Hershey’s describes it, “For the classic combination of chewy caramel and milk chocolate, grab a roll of ROLO chocolate covered caramels!”

What I Got: Small Rolo McFlurry; $2.39.

One of the main complaints of McFlurrys by both me and the previous reviewers is that McDonald’s doesn’t always do a good job of mixing their McFlurrys and you always end up with all of your mix-ins in the top of the McFlurry and then the bottom of the McFlurry is just their basic yet tasty, in my opinion, soft serve vanilla ice cream. To avoid this, I specifically asked when ordering for them to make sure to do a good job mixing mine. Whether they actually paid attention to that request or it was just a product of good fortune, I actually ended up with a well-mixed McFlurry that had Rolo candy pieces throughout the treat.

What also made it nice was that the Rolo pieces were broken up and there were bits of chocolate interspersed with streams of gooey caramel throughout my entire McFlurry. Since chocolate and caramel are two of my three favorite candy flavors (peanut butter being the other), this combination mixed with the tasty McDonald’s vanilla soft serve ice cream was heavenly. My only complaint was that after a minute or two, the caramel starts to harden and that makes it slighly sticky and difficult to eat, so eat it fast and watch out for the brain freeze!

Would I Buy It Again? Absolutely. McDonald’s isn’t always my first choice for an ice cream treat (more like my fifth or later, depending on what is available) and this treat is a limited time offering, so I may not be able to get another one for a quite a while, but if I’m in a place where McDonald’s is my only option, I will certainly not hesitate to order this one.

In case you are interested and don’t want to take my positive word on this treat as the final word, here’s the negative/lukewarm reviews that have been done by the other blogs:

*Foodbeast
*The Impulsive Buy
*On Second Scoop
*Brand Eating
*FATGUYFOODBLOG (the most positive; his was loaded with Rolos and mixed well)
*BevNerd (another semi-positive one)

Basically, just like all McFlurry offerings, it all boils down to how well your McFlurry gets mixed. This happens with Blizzards, etc. as well (although seemingly less often than the McFlurry), so buyer beware!

-IndianapolisEater

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14 Jun 2011

Review: McDonald’s Rolo McFlurry

Author: indianapoliseater | Filed under: Food Reviews

Tags: dessert, Food, Ice Cream, McDonalds, mcflurry, rolos

I was reading a post at SeriousEats.com the other day where they were comparing the various ice cream-type options at Wendy’s (Twisted Frosty), Burger King (Sundae Shake) and McDonald’s (McFlurry) and I realized two things:

1. The reviewer was absolutely right about that Oreo Sundae Shake at Burger King. That thing sucks.
2. I’ve somehow made it through my life never having tried a McFlurry and I couldn’t figure out how or why (I’ve never had a Twisted Frosty either, but I’ve at least had a regular Frosty, so I at have an idea what a Twisted Frosty would taste like).

I had an ice cream craving last Wednesday, so I decided to cruise on over to McDonald’s to try their new limited time offering, the Reese’s McFlurry (by the way, I could almost guarantee this is not just a limited time offering and will become permanent…why wouldn’t it?). I could have gone to Dairy Queen and gotten a Blizzard (the king of all ice cream treats), but I wanted to see how McDonald’s McFlurry stacked up since I have never had one before.

What I Got: Regular Size Reese’s McFlurry $2.35

If you’ve never had a McFlurry, it is similar to a Blizzard. They take their “reduced fat” vanilla ice cream, dump in Reese’s Cup chunks and blend. It’s not very complicated.

When I got mine and saw the amount of Reese’s Cup chunks and the ample portion size of the McFlurry, I was very pleased and devoured the first half in about 1.3 seconds. The taste of McDonald’s thick (I find it to be thicker than Dairy Queen’s) vanilla ice cream was a perfect mix with the peanut butter and chocolate of the Reese’s Cups. Truly, vanilla, peanut butter and chocolate is the best combination of ice cream and candy that there is in my opinion.

The second half wasn’t as wonderful though as I noticed that I was missing something and thought, “hey, where the heck did all the Reese’s Cup chunks go?!” Basically, they only put Reese’s Cup chunks in the top half of my McFlurry and not in the bottom half. I’m not sure if that is standard protocol or if that was just a blending error by the employee that made my McFlurry (maybe someone that has had multiple McFlurrys can help me here?), but I was very disappointed. I like the taste of McDonald’s plain vanilla ice cream, but that’s not what I was paying for here! If I wanted plain vanilla ice cream, I would have gotten a plain sundae for $1 and saved myself the money! I need my Reese’s Cup chunks! C’mon McDonald’s, I’ve got weight to gain here! Oh well.

Would I Buy It Again? Most likely not. I went into this to see how it compared to Dairy Queen’s Reese’s Cup Blizzard and the McFlurry lost. The McFlurry was just boring.

When you compare the two you are really comparing the taste of the soft serve ice cream that they use (Reese’s Cups are the same everywhere) and while I like McDonald’s ice cream in general, Dairy Queen’s is superior. Plus, I know that when I go to Dairy Queen, my Blizzard is going to be made by an ice cream “professional”, so I won’t run the risk of getting screwed out of my Reese’s Cup chunks.

The only time it would be acceptable to choose this over Dairy Queen is if in you are dying for ice cream and there is not a Dairy Queen nearby. Ugh…no Dairy Queen nearby…that sounds like the seventh layer of hell to me.

-IndianapolisEater

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