HONEST REVIEW: McDonald’s Garlic Cheddar Fries

McDonalds recently launched a new product, Garlic Cheddar fries as part of its Minion line.

Priced at 80 PHP, Garlic Cheddar fries is made with McDonald’s iconic fries drizzled with garlic aioli and cheddar relish.

As enticing as their advetisement was, this product is a living proof of the saying, “looks can be deceiving”.

Of course, I have no problem with their World Famous fries, it’s perfect. But the sauce, oh god, the sauce! It tasted more like mayonaisse than “garlic aioli and cheddar relish". There was a hint of garlic but the taste of mayonnaise was really overpowering everything, which made the cheese feel and taste non-existent.

Three bites into it, and you’ll feel sick of the fries. I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the whole thing because I got sick of the it — yes, even the World Famous fries altogether because it was too bland. There was nothing to balance out the taste of mayonnaise. I even tried drinking soda to cleanse my palate but it was too much mayonnaise. Maybe, I’m being subjective here because I am not fond of its tangy taste, but if you market something as “garlic cheddar" and it tasted entirely different from the advert, then isn’t that false advertising?

If I knew better, I could have just bought a Large-sized fries which is 3 PHP cheaper and dipped it in mayonnaise that we have at our fridge if I wanted to eat fries with mayonnaise.

It should have just been named as “Mayo fries" if that was what they were really aiming for.

RATING

Flavor: 1/5

Price: 2/5

Presentation: 2/5

UMAY FACTOR: 5/5

It’s not worth your money. Buy at your own risk.