No doubt you’ve seen the barrage of commercials touting the latest item to grace the McDonald’s menu. Yep, coffee.  McDonald’s has sold coffee, well, forever and we’ve all heard plenty about it with the famous hot coffee spillage lawsuit but until recently fancy coffee was something you had to get at Starbucks or the like.

I’m a fan of Starbucks myself, the product anyway, but hearing the overly happy barista read off my total evokes a cringe every time.  I’m willing to pay for two reasons, it wakes me up like a hurricane and it tastes freaking awesome.  I hate coffee but I love a Starbucks mocha-frap. Yum!  Soooo, naturally I had to give Mickey-D’s a shot.

I ordered 2 drinks, a medium mocha frap and an iced coffee for the wife. Both drinks are larger than their Grande equivalents and look about the same, complete with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. My total however was quite different. Five bucks for both and since I had a coupon I only paid two dollars! That’s all fine and good but how does it taste? Slurp. Not like Starbucks; I can tell you that. The Starbucks dynasty may not need to sell off the furniture yet. My frap tastes about like a McD milkshake with coffee added. Not bad but not great either. My wife reported her iced coffee to be crazy-sweet and “no Starbucks.” Oh well. It still had a kick and certainly wasn’t bad by any stretch. Two bucks well spent I’d say but nothing to, cough, blog about.