DQ Jurassic Smash Review

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I've been missing lately and for that I apologize.

But I AM BACK with another..ice cream review... yeah..

Earlier it was the 20th anniversary of the McFlurry and apparently DQ is having a Blizzard anniversary where they're deeming it the "Best Blizzard Menu EVER" It's only out of fairness ( and slight laziness) on my part that I go try some of these flavours.

Before I started this blog I actually tried one of the "Fanniversary" flavours Brownie Chunk Cookie Dough and I wasn't too fond of it. I didn't think they mashed well together as a blizzard soft serve as they do as a hard scoop ice cream flavour (see Ben & Jerry's and Nestle Toll House for fantastic collaborations between brownie and cookie dough). There are other flavours depending on whatever DQ you go to like for example: Oreo Birthday Cake, Salted Caramel Truffle (which was sold out at the location I went to) and also Brownie Batter.

Lets move on to the actual Jurassic Smash

Now I don't know what about the upcoming Jurassic Park Movie says Peanut Butter Cookies but that is the most compelling part of this whole experience.

 So first of all the cashier didn't even flip it upside down, what was up with that? I checked the door and they didn't have the "upside down or free" signs.

It's whatever though. Here it is in all it's glory. The Jurassic Smash consists of:

• Peanut Butter Cookie Dough pieces
• Chocolate chip cookie dough pieces
• Peanut butter
• Chocolate chunks

All in all it's pretty much a cookie ice cream version of Reese's. Kidding

Unlike McDonalds' ice cream when you can actually tell what's inside of it. The blizzard remains that classic ice cream truck twist when it melts colour that's universal when it's mixed with anything chocolate or caramel related. To be real I don't ever think I've had a pure white blizzard with coloured chunks and that's completely fine.

Now when you bite into it the actual peanut butter cookie pieces, they are unbelievable! They were so f-n good, I actually slowed my chewing down to savour every last piece of it. I'm surprised they haven't done this before, maybe this brings the possibility of other cookie flavours? Chocolate chip seems a bit overdone, and that's exactly how I felt when my delicious peanut butter cookie was substituted with a chocolate chip cookie dough piece. To me, at least, the flavour felt boring and a let down especially after tasting those awesome peanut butter pieces. If they were just to have a peanut butter cookie dough blizzard, I would of just gotten that. However it would not of been a Jurassic Smash without the chocolate chip / chocolate pieces.

For the actual Blizzard/DQ soft serve ice cream, I tasted a hint of peanut butter however it mostly tasted how it looked like melted twist ice cream where you couldn't tell if it were vanilla one bite in or chocolate the next. Not really a terrible ice cream but it serves the purpose right? It just melts way too fast too. I really don't enjoy that.

Overall

This is an interesting blizzard that I hope they bring back without the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Whenever I do get a blizzard 75% of the time I get the Reese's one but if they were to have a just Peanut Butter Cookie Dough blizzard that would be my main flavour. The cookie dough itself was super soft, easy to chew and had a smooth taste that clashed pretty badly with chocolate chip cookie dough.

Pushing aside my recently discovered bias against chocolate chip cookie dough(no idea where that came from), I must say that this is a pretty creative blizzard and a lot of people are going to enjoy this one. This is a must have for peanut butter lovers who love ice cream, and want something different than the typical Reese's and Peanut Parfait.

8/10


If you enjoyed this or hated it
OR if you just want to talk DQ or other ice cream flavours I should try
OR any awesome meals (which i should be really reviewing instead of desert)
OR my over use of brackets

Let me know! Thanks for reading.

- IVS

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?

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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