Don’t buy this junk…

Recently I had the opportunity to try two new fast food products on the market. Here is my unbiased opinion:

Taco Bell’s Frutista Freeze

http://www.tacobell.com/frutistafreeze/

Crap.  For a hefty $1.99 price tag, this 12 oz sugar fest is not worth the money at all. We had the Mango Strawberry and let me tell you, it lives up to the website’s disclaimer: Product does not contain real fruit juice. At first sip, it was very mangoey, and then there was an unpleasant synthetic aftertaste.  It is nothing more than a mango Slurpee [7 Eleven].  The 5 1/2 pieces of strawberry bits on top do indeed resemble a sundae topping, and sank quickly to the bottom of the slush, where they were sucked up at odd times in the narrow straw, startling us.  In all honesty, the flavor is nothing to rave over and the $2 for the tiny cup could have been better spent getting a large 20 oz iced coffee from McDonald’s with the caffeine power to keep 14 toddlers awake for days. Now THAT is a bargain.

McDonald’s Southern Style Chicken Biscuit

http://cep.mcdonalds.com/foodnews/biscuit/

Speaking of McDonald’s, I also sampled the Southern Style Chicken Biscuit recently as well, thanks to a free coupon from a friend. I was eager to try this, as I think the combination is unusual and sounds tempting. Kind of like chicken fried steak for breakfast but without the gravy and stuff. It looked appealing when I unwrapped it. However, the chicken inside, while warm and fragrant, had enough weird and rubbery parts lodged in it that I had to gag.  You know what I mean.  You are chewing a nice, tender piece of chicken and then there is this…piece… like rubber, sometimes kind of hard….like the chicken’s tendon or hamstring or something.  It was not great and made me remember why I try not to eat at McDonald’s much in the first place.  Obviously, it was traumatic because I devoted all this space to typing about it!  The other part was the biscuit. Smaller than I imagined and what it looks like in the ad.  Maybe 4 inches in diameter, tops.  Incredibly greasy and if that grease was butter, it would have been heavenly.  As Paula Deen says, “everything is better with a stick of butter.”  We know it is not butter though, don’t we?  But the worst thing was that despite their individual moistness, the combo of chicken and biscuit was rather dry.  Seemed to need a piece of cheese or some type of sauce, ooh a gravy sauce, or something to dampen things up a bit.  I had to drink alot of coffee to wash it down.  It wasn’t horrible, and the price tag of $2.89 in the Midwest, isn’t horrific.  But it makes me want to just stick to my usual Sausage Burrito or the venerable Egg McMuffin.

And now you know…