Verdict: This offering from BurgerFi somehow manages to capture the experience of eating red velvet cake, but in drinkable shake form. While it may not be a groundbreaking flavor option, this shake maintains the acidic and cream cheese flavors synonymous with its cake brethren.
Verdict: This shake flavor has mass appeal, but the Burger King version tastes a little artificial when held up against other Oreo shakes. Official Menu Description: " Make it your lucky day with the shake that started it all.
Creamy, dreamy vanilla soft serve blended with Shamrock Shake syrup and topped with delicious whipped topping. Available in small, medium and large. Leaning more on novelty that can sometimes wear off, the shamrock shake doesn't always deliver.
A bit overboard on the minty-ness and it had a slight taste of plastic. Verdict: The impressive pastel green color shines as much as the flavor.
The shake is also topped with delicious whipped cream. It's heavy on food coloring which can leave the taste a little artificial, but the winner is its pastel green color which is derived from the actual mint plant. Official Menu Description: " Hand spun vanilla milkshakes with or without whipped cream.
Verdict: The best thing about these shakes from Five Guys are all the different mix-ins you can add alongside the hand spun vanilla. Bacon, bananas, cherries, chocolate, coffee, malted milk, oreo cookie pieces, peanut butter, salted caramel and strawberries offer you the chance to make a shake that's completely your own. The base flavor vanilla is just average, but the toppings make this shake really shine. Verdict: This shake comes in six different flavors chocolate, vanilla, mint chip, strawberry, regular mint and raspberry.
Culver's is known for being a custard pro and we have to agree. The smoothness of the mint custard leaves a cool sensation that will have you running back for more. Verdict: PDQ was created in and meant to make people the focus. They now have a strong line of milkshakes that garnered a spot in the top ten. Made with a Heath candy bar and vanilla ice cream, it's a perfect alternative to any coffee milkshake.
They also offer flavors like vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, Oreo and Reese's. Verdict: How can you be in a Johnny Rockets and not order a milkshake? The different ingredients add a chunkiness to the shake that make it a special treat. You'll also find a sand-like texture where the Oreo meets the vanilla ice cream. Overall, this shake will take you on a texture adventure, but don't let that scare you.
Each bite and texture is filled with the best quality ingredients. Thick enough to use a spoon, smooth enough to use a straw, and perfect when enjoyed on the end of a fry. Verdict: You know what they say about reinventing the wheel The Frosty from Wendy's is iconic and only comes in two flavors: vanilla and chocolate. Each slurp, spoonful or sip is filled with a thick consistency that always stays the same. I mainly go there for their chocolate frosty.
A classic item on their menu. Their frosty is delicious. It's in-between ice cream and a milkshake. Not thick like ice-cream but not thin enough to suck through a straw. You have to eat it with a spoon. Lots of memories with this place. Official Menu Description: "Yellow birthday cake and sweet buttercream frosting topped with festive sprinkles. Verdict: Considering having a milkshake on your birthday? Try the Birthday Cake and let us know what you think.
We know you'll love it. Yellow birthday cake chunks mixed with vanilla ice cream topped with buttercream and sprinkles is just pure euphoria. The vanilla ice cream itself has a medium-thick consistency which is great for people who hate struggling with the straw for a sip. With 24 other milkshake variations, Steak 'n Shake is the perfect place for a cool down.
Verdict: The Sonic Drive-In is a prime example of perfectly blended ingredients with just enough top layer crunch that will make anyone happy. A Tripadvisor reviewer said "Stopped here for the first time ever to try the Oreo peanut butter shake. It was yummy! While it escaped the basement by having some semblance of flavor, the "chocolate" notes — if you can call them that — in Sonic's chocolate shake aren't a flavor you'll be chasing after.
The shake is cold but still somewhat thin, even before being exposed to the humid Florida air. And the first sip will make you pull your head back and rhetorically ask the glowing screen, "Is this even chocolate?? The shake is neither fudgy, like Nestle's Quik , nor slightly bitter like dark chocolate. It's not creamy like a milk chocolate or deep and rich like a mousse or chocolate cake. It can best be described as frozen Ovaltine, a flavor that has chocolate aspirations but didn't quite have enough to make it all the way.
If you're looking for a chocolate shake, try stuff further down the menu like the hot fudge or Oreo options. Or if you want a pure chocolate shake, just go somewhere different.
While to our knowledge there was never an episode of The Golden Girls where Rose, Dorothy, Blanche, and Sofia took a field trip to a Miami-area Sonic, we can only assume this shake would have been the first thing they ordered.
And while Rose would have undoubtedly launched into a story about a cow named Sonic who owned St. Olaf's only Drive-In, and Blanche would have gotten a phone number from the gentleman parked next to them in a Ford F, they'd have found this shake about as satisfying a Drive-In experience as Stan Zbornak.
Of course, being finished in only a couple of minutes is a good thing when you're talking about milkshake preparation. But this "Cheesecake" shake doesn't taste like any kind of cheesecake we've ever had. What it does taste like is sugar and cream with a bizarre hint of lemon on the back end.
So while we wouldn't call Sonic's cheesecake shake bland, necessarily, we wouldn't exactly bust it out at the kitchen table for late night conversations either. An espresso milkshake sounds suspiciously like a Frappuccino, if you're a Starbucks regular.
But much like the Starbucks blended drink is really a cup of coffee with milkshake tendencies, so is Sonic's espresso offering a milkshake which leans towards coffee. The flavor is more cream and sugar than anything else, and if you're jonesing for a milky, frozen coffee you'll save about calories rolling through the Starbucks drive-thru instead: A Frappuccino with whipped cream is only about calories.
A mini shake at Sonic starts at calories and goes up from there. The shake is thick, though, and has a pronounced coffee flavor, so nothing about the name is misleading. That said, it's an odd profile to pair with chicken strips, seasoned fries, and hamburgers, so it may be the kind of thing that's best ordered solo. There's nothing wrong with Sonic's espresso shake, really, but nothing overwhelmingly right about it either.
If coffee flavor is your thing, go for it. But if you just want a milkshake, there's better stuff on the menu. You see the words "Oreo" and "Espresso" in the same menu line and you assume it's going to be this aggressive explosion of coffee, cream, and chocolate flavors that puts a Frappucino to shame. And while we'd hesitate to ever describe anything on the Sonic menu as "subtle," the flavors here don't come up and slap you in the face as much as you think they would.
The first sip hits more creamy than anything else, with slight notes of both Oreo crumble and coffee. But not a whole lot of either. Sonic's Oreo Espresso shake might be the classic case of "love them both separately, but not so much together," as while the flavors don't exactly clash, they're not a beautiful marriage either. Our advice: If you like Oreos, get the Oreo shake. If you like espresso, get the espresso. If for some weird reason you like them both, order one of each and alternate sips.
But this mix, while inoffensive, isn't all that memorable. If one shake on Sonic's menu is teeming with Proustian moments , it's the hot fudge. Because before anything else from this milkshake hits your taste buds, you taste the hot fudge. And as the fudge flows over your tongue you're immediately taken back to summertime state fairs of your childhood, or long holiday weekends out at the lake.
It's like Sonic ripped this shake right from the soft serve ice cream stand on the boardwalk, where you covered your face in chocolate after crushing a hand-dipped cone with no regard for the mess. But like Happy Meals and Saturday morning cartoons, revisiting this milkshake as an adult makes you realize it was actually kinda bland. At least, Sonic's take on it is, and after you're done being transported back to the boardwalk you'll realize once the fudge wears off you're left with little more than a memory.
So despite the smile it'll undoubtedly bring to your face, the hot fudge shake still ranks low. Your grown up palette will likely demand more, and you'll find better options elsewhere on Sonic's milkshake menu.
Vanilla, in general, gets a little bit of a bad rap. When people describe something that lacks spice, interest, or anything to distinguish it from the rest of the pack, it's often described as "vanilla.
The name says it all. Call me Danza, because I am the boss of this shake! It has been replaced with a dull breeze. My tastebuds are spent. Anything with that graham cracker stuff on top is gonna taste good.
My blood runs thick with vanilla. Finishes with notes of strawberry jam. Rich and velvety. Wonder how long they've been there. Are they my friends? What are they counting? Big chunks of strawberry. Mommy and I went to market when I was a boy, and we bought candy! The author of this article never once felt threatened by the Milkshake Compliance Officers that were hired by Thrillist for this photo shoot.
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