While the outermost layer was one that’d been sold to me by a company that literally made a Game Boy Color game to celebrate the mascot’s birthday, the innermost layer was one that brought me years back to the past. In the midst of my Grimace Shake experience, I found myself caught in a nesting doll of nostalgia. I remember ordering one every time I successfully pestered my parents into taking me to the Golden Arches on the way home from school. Aside from its breakfast, McDonald’s milkshakes are some of the fast food chain’s most consistently decent offerings. Maybe it’s because I don’t exactly drink a lot of milkshakes thanks to my mild lactose intolerance, general preference to drink my sugar after it’s been distilled and disinterest in spending ungodly amounts of money on milk and ice cream, but I thought the Grimace Shake was delicious. Think of it like a berries and cream-flavored shake that comes with a disclaimer that it doesn’t actually contain any real berries. The brighter, borderline zesty purple flavor adds a fresh sensation to the milkshake that balances out the rich, creamy vanilla in an interesting way. I don’t really like artificially fruity cereals, but this shake was a real treat. I’ve seen people online compare it to Fruity Pebbles or Froot Loops (especially the purple flavor), but I don’t exactly see it. In other words, it tastes like artificial blueberry or mixed berry. Not just in color but in flavor too the first sip just tastes like unadulterated, artificial purple (not grape) flavor. Being a total mark for any sort of weird or cursed food novelty or fast food concoction, I knew I needed to try the purple shake, lactose intolerance be damned. (Grimace was introduced in the early ’70s, but for many ’90s kids, he was inextricable from the McDonald’s experience.) The anthropomorphic purple blob is getting lots of love from the company not only are McDonald’s social media pages now “run by Grimace,” but the giant taste bud has his own birthday meal at the fast-food chain.įries with either a Big Mac or a 10-piece McNuggets isn’t anything new or ground-breaking, but what makes this meal special (and absurdly expensive by fast food standards) is the Grimace Shake, a deep purple shake that’s apparently “Grimace-flavored,” whatever that means. McDonald’s has become the latest company to cash in on the ‘90s trend by bringing its bygone mascot, Grimace, seemingly back from the dead. Between loose-fitting pants and strange-colored novelty foods, I have a feeling we’re two weeks out from TikTok falling in love with the Super Nintendo’s iconic sound chip or Orbitz popping up on store shelves. I should know-I never experienced them, and yet, I’m still being suckered into the nostalgia at every turn.
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