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Last year, Impulsive Buy reader Pauline emailed me to rave about the Apple Pie McFlurry her
local McDonald's makes. It's not a regular menu item and very few McDonald's locations
are willing to make it.
I didn't want to ask my local McDonald's to make me one because I'm afraid the employees
there would give me the same look they give me whenever I take too many napkins from the
self-serve napkin dispensers, or when I give the Ronald McDonald statue a lap dance. So
I decided to make one myself.
In order to do so, I needed three things. A McDonald's Apple Pie, a plain regular-sized
McFlurry, and a knife. If you decide to make one, you don't need the knife. You could use
your hands, but if you do, let the apple pie cool first, because heat plus ice cream equals
sadness. Also, hot apple pie filling doesn't feel good on the skin. Well, at the right
temperature on certain body parts it does, and I'd love to demonstrate, but I'd have
to take off my shirt. And I'm not going to do that because I'm pretty sure my camera's
white balance would have a problem with my body's paleness.
A whole McDonald's Apple Pie chopped up can fit in a regular sized McFlurry. But just
half a pie will still give you a good soft serve to apple pie ratio. So you can either
eat the other half, throw it away, or have two homeless people fight for it.
Once you've chopped up the apple pie, just mix the pieces with the soft serve and enjoy
the hard work you wish your McDonald's would do for you.
So how does this poor man's apple pie a la mode taste?
Okay, wait. Actually, a poor man's apple pie a la mode would consist of apples turning
brown in a half-eaten Cinnabon that's drizzled with liquid coffee creamer.
So how does the Apple Pie McFlurry taste?
It's good enough that I wish McDonald's would include it on their regular menu, but it's
not mind blowing.
The Apple Pie McFlurry has several different textures to please the palate. There's the
creamy soft serve, slightly gelatinous apples, and the crispy crust. The pie's cinnamon permeates
throughout the soft serve, giving it a very light spiced flavor in every scoop. I could
taste the apple, however, it's slighted muted thanks to the vanilla soft serve. The combo
of crust and soft serve was surprisingly tasty, although the crust was a little greasy.
Like I said in the previous paragraph, the Apple Pie McFlurry is good enough that I wish
McDonald's would add it to their regular menu. But it's also good enough that I would go
through the trouble of chopping up another McDonald's Apple Pie in order to have another.
I give the Apple Pie McFlurry an 7 out of 10.