It seems that, in my absence, because yes, they clearly waited until my eyes were off the prize, McDonald’s has commenced plans to introduce smoothies to their restaurants. The move is expected to line up some competition with places like Jamba Juice, which has counter-fired with something they call the Cheeseburger Chill:
Except not really. It’s a joke, but they did make a spiffy website to promote it where you can get a coupon for a dollar off any actual smoothie they make. Which might be tasty, or might contain donkey; I really don’t know because they don’t have them up here. Smoothies, that is. Donkeys we have in abundance thanks to the Donkeys For Igloos exchange project the Canadian government whipped up a few years back to modernize our villages.
So here’s the riddle of the day: would you stop at a McDonald’s, say, on a road trip, for a smoothie? Let’s assume that they make something remotely healthful – it’s quite possible that these things will end up being watered-down McFlurries with fruit, if a McFlurry is actually a thing – it sounds like something they’d make, and I’m picturing something like a Blizzard or Frosty, but I can’t visit their website to research it without risking an outbreak of Yelling At The Computer, which wakes the baby. Seriously, I’m not even allowed to watch most current affairs shows on TV anymore.
Anyway, if McDonald’s made a fruit-based drink that could legitimately tide you over and contained zero cheeseburger, would you try it? As a last resort when on the go maybe? Or just plain never?
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I would get a McD’s smoothie if I were desperate, i.e. lost in the backwoods of Alabama with starvation imminent. However, as I don’t have any trips planned for the backwoods of Alabama or any other dirty southern frontier, I can’t see the need arising.
Colleen, I take offense to calling the southern frontier “dirty.” Let’s not confuse the people with the land… and I can say that because I hail from the south, which completely legitimizes my position, am I right? (if not, at least the question mark helps.)
As to a smoothie from McD’s… nope. I don’t see the McD’s Corporation setting up business with local fruit growers and making smoothies out of just that (fruit… which they don’t. Don’t scream, it’s their “wild berry” smoothie: http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/itemDetailInfo.do?itemID=3701).
http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/itemDetailInfo.do?itemID=3701
…because it caught the parenthesis mark above.
But the south isn’t widely known as “the clean south” – people would have been confused.
Colleen’s just trying to deflect attention from the donkey/igloo thing, is all.
I’m not trying to defl- HEY, LOOKOUT BEHIND YOU!!!!
I think I would rather eat one of our igloos than give McD’s money for something. It was bad enough having to pay them to use their bathrooms in Europe (going pee costs money there).
But, but, but… Peeing for free is what McDonald’s is FOR!
>> Jason July 27, 2010 at 6:14 pm
>> But, but, but… Peeing for free is what McDonald’s is FOR!
OMG! I’m *not* the only one!!! Greeting, BROTHER!!
I don’t think it is a question of would i try one if i were desperate, in our consumerist society we can never be truly desperate for anything, there are shops everywhere. I am sure that McD’s are perfectly capable of making a healthy drink, i’m sure they do, the issue is that i don’t want to patronise them. i believe if you don’t agree with a company don’t patronise it, customers are their life blood.