McDonalds' Red Velvet Oreo McFlurry

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It's been a pretty great week and with every good week comes a good opportunity to review another product. I'm so sorry, it's my 2nd review and it's another Oreo product. I last reviewed the Oreo Iced Cap from Tims, check it out if you haven't. I swear I don't have an addiction.

Anyway lets get into it.

The McFlurry is now 20! I remember when it first came out and I begged my mom to get me one, which she did a regular ...Oreo.  I respect the McFlurry, I've always have. The fact that this little ice cream mix could compete against the blizzard (with it's onslaught of flavours) with only 2..well now 3 flavours (Oreo, Smarties & now Rolo) is amazing. For the past 20 years people have been consuming straight up just Oreo & Smarties McFlurries every now and then McDonalds would drop a flavour out of no where and make the streets go wild. These flavours included Coffee Crisp, Creme Egg, Kit Kat(my personal favourite that they never brought back :( ) Personally i've always enjoyed the McFlurry a lot, the ice cream itself is thick, the flavours would always do so well especially when they drop new flavours.

Now onto the actual McFlurry, I go to McDicks and wait in line unsure that the McDicks I even went to carried the new Red Velvet Oreo. Thankfully while I was waiting in line the video menu board showed an ad for it. So when it was my turn to purchase and  I made my order price comes up to $3.14 total for a regular.


What the fuck?

I apologize but this thing looks like someone blended a hamster with ice-cream. It really looks unappealing and I'm being completely honest. It looks unappealing, definitely the worst looking McFlurry to ever been seen which it weird since they are following up the decent looking Creme Egg one.

Even not looking in it looks odd.

The Red Velvet Oreo McFlurry consist of:

• McDonalds infamous Ice Cream in all it's creamy glory
• Oreo pieces (not red velvet Oreos surprisingly and unfortunately)
• Red Velvet sauce

When I first heard about the Red Velvet McFlurry my original concept of it was that it would be the actual Red Velvet Oreos with a Cream cheese type of sauce that they would add in. Not this bloodbath that I have pictured below.

Seriously?

 Now lets get down to the actual taste. A couple days ago my friend and I were talking about Red Velvet as a flavour and she makes up the point that, she "couldn't tell the difference between red velvet and chocolate." I imagine this is the consensus with a lot of people that there isn't truly a difference between the two. With this McFlurry I can honestly say there is a slight difference but I can't tell you exactly what it is. After thinking about it I can make the educated guess that the chocolate sauce that McD's has a sweeter taste than the red velvet. However I think I prefer the red velvet, I loved how I got to taste more of the Oreo Chocolate cookie rather than the just the sauce itself. The Oreos itself were crunchy - an underrated aspect about Oreos that I found out I loved in my last review . Overall it was a decent McFlurry. Until I got about 3/4 through it...

No sauce, no oreo..








3/4 through this thing and I just hit vanilla. I'm not even kidding you. Sauce gone, Oreos gone, looked like someone tried to clean a murder scene. Now I'll forgive it if its just crappy McFlurry making, I've certainly had others where it's been nicely mixed.

Final Verdict

7.5/10

Looks like someone would kill to try this McFlurry.

Positives

• Red Velvet sauce makes a nice addition to the Oreos and the Ice cream. it's not overly sweet and the oreo chunks makes it a delightful limited time flavor.
• The McFlurry lasted 20 years. The Red Velvet Oreo McFlurry shows that more creative flavours are on its way.

Negatives

• The Mcflurry looks like someone blended a hamster
• Not enough oreo? What was up with that?

Once again thank you for reading broke & p1cky and if you enjoyed this don't forget to share with friends!

What was your favourite McFlurry flavour? let us know in the comments and if you have suggestsions let me know or Shayne know what we should review.

-IVS





Tim Horton's Oreo Iced Capp Review

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It is Mother's Day and so far it's been an excellent day(6-0 city what, what!), so good that I felt it was time to start reviewing food items. So originally I was going to head to Dairy Queen and grab one of the blizzards to start. Since it is Mother's day I figured I go to the place my own mother started working at when she first came to Canada - Tim Hortons.

I don't know if you noticed but as the years went by Tim Hortons has been doing a lot to, I guess, reinvent some of their products. This is seen with them adding new options like the fruit smoothies, frozen lemonade & iced coffee. Some of their more adventurous items involve collaborations with famous food items for example, I don't know if you remember the Candy Bar Supreme which was topped with M&M's and filled with a delectable chocolate filling. Now Tim's are collaborating with 2 popular food titans Nutella and Oreos.

Now I could go on about the Nutella products like any right individual would do. However it's a hot, overcast day today and i need something COLD. When I was on my way to Tims, I started to really think about what I wanted to get there. I knew for a fact I was getting something that was cream based. To my benefit Tims released two speciality cold products for the upcoming summer - Creamy Chocolate Chill & The Oreo Iced Capp.

Funny enough when I was on my way to Tims I was edging towards the Chocolate chill, but then I found this:

The same Chocolate Chill just chillin beside the construction sign, half full. From there the Oreo won my decision and I arrived to Tims in no time confident what was I going to order. The person who wasn't confident was the girl in front of me who let me go ahead to order (thank you for that).

Now onto the actual Iced Capp. I haven't ordered an Iced Capp in what feels like years, not because I didn't like it I always found it delicious. However on a hot day I always thought there were better things to get whether it be from Tims or elsewhere. I ordered the small which came up to $2.98 in total. Mind you I've never seen this thing in person, so I didn't know if it were going to turn out like the picture on the menu looked or even worse(McDonalds is notorious for this).

The Oreo Iced Capp consists of:

• The original Iced Capp.
• Cookies & Cream Flavour shot
• Whipped Cream
• Oreo Crumble (topped off and mixed in)

Who knew Tims could add sex appeal to their precious drink?

For those that were worried that the Iced Capp has lost its flavour over the years, I'm glad to let you know that it's still the same Iced Capp that I remembered drinking when it first came out. Creamy, smooth and a non-overbearing cappuccino taste.

(apologies about the sideways pic)



So what was interesting about this drink is that the top actually sinks in. The Oreo topping becomes more spread out once you drink past the brim of the cup. You should start devouring it in an instant since the topping practically spills over the cup and after that point you can do the one thing that all Iced Capp drinks do, stir.

Whipped cream was being difficult today.

The drink is still smoother than the other Iced Capps I've had over time and with the Oreo crumbles it adds a really nice crunch that combines with the drink surprisingly well. It was nice to drink it until it got near the end of the cup where its just bare whipped cream. For the first time ever I drank an Iced Capp and I ran out of that smooth cappuccino flavour I was talking about earlier and hitting hard to sip whipped cream. At that point I gave up drinking it because it got to the point where it didn't make sense to try to finish it and I really didn't feel like scooping out whipped cream with a straw. Overall though, I was pretty underwhelmed with the lack of cookie flavour however, though it had Oreo crumbs on the top and all throughout the drink. The drink really lacked balance and overall just tasted like a crunchy Iced Capp with whipped cream.

Final Verdict

6.5/10

In a drink that was supposed to be a beautiful love affair, was instead a battle of flavours between Tims Iced Capp & Oreos and the Oreos lost... pretty badly.

Positives

• Taste: The Iced Capp has become one of Tim's main drivers and I can see why. Not only does it taste great and it's a smooth alternative to other frap style drinks. The Oreo Crunch is a surprising aspect that I think Tims should explore more into. 
• Price: Compared to the Starbucks & Second Cups out there this is pretty cheap I mean at $3.00 for a small, you get a pretty satisfying drink.
• Look: Honestly, with Starbucks and other coffee places being the designers that they are with their various frozen drinks. Tims actually goes with a simple Oreo look that really works and gets its message across - it's Tims best frozen drink with the one of the most iconic cookies of all time.

Negatives

• Taste: At the end of the day this is an OREO ICED CAPP, why the cookie flavour lacking is beyond me. Believe or not I barely tasted anything resembling chocolate or cookies. The cream was definitely there though and there was lots.
• Price: Again $3.00 isn't bad but if you're really craving that a fancy Iced Capp however I advise you to either get the Iced Coffee - with a Cookie & Cream Flavour shot (Small is $1.00 right now, $.25 for the flavour shot.) or go for the real deal and hit up Starbucks and treat yourself to the Cookies & Cream Frappuccino

Once again thank you for reading broke & p1cky and if you enjoyed this don't forget to share with friends!

Let us know your experience with the Oreo Iced Capp or if you have any food items $10 bucks you think we should review, please let us now in the comments or message one of us.

- Ian S.

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