McDonald's review, 5 stars. Whaa??
This review is NOT for the McDonald's franchise (reading a book about how they treat their animals made me become a vegetarian, if that says anything about how I feel about it). This review is for the exceptional service! And the 2 items I had while I was there.
I came here with my dad for the first time since I was 9. I kept hearing about the smore pies and really wanted to try one! I finally got around to convincing myself to step into a McDonalds when woops, they don't sell it anymore. :P BUT!! They have pumpkin now! And I love pumpkin like scooby and shaggy love their scooby snacks, so we got that and sat down.
Review of pumpkin pie:
Kind of bland filling. It was warm, the dough had that firm softness of a perfect pie crust and the filling had a pretty good texture as well, but it would have gone very nicely with a hot drink. Say, a peppermint mocha, perhaps?
So my dad an I got up to buy one, but since I have a cold right now, we figured it wouldn't be too keen to split a drink and decided to get a MCFLURRY (!!!!) to split in two cups instead. (I love those things to death, only had 2 in my life till today but I can still say I am passionate about them. Even Donahough from 30 Rock likes them.)
They had limited edition peppermint and here's my review on that:
Soft serve blended with peppermint chocolate rocks
GREAT peppermint-y smell, peppermint flavor is perfect, it was just a little too crunchy for my liking
Onto my review of the service!
With Halloween coming up, McDonald's Happy Meal toy is a Scooby-Doo pail (that I'm assuming the meal comes in and can later be used for trick-or-treating) that comes in three different designs. Green-mystery machine style, White-retro w/lots of Scooby faces/expressions with a smaller image of "the gang", and Purple-spooky fog/forrest with a scared "Scoob and the gang" with lots of fun details. All have 'classic' Scooby-Doo artwork. My dad and I are ridiculous Scooby fans (my retainer has a mystery machine sticker imbedded in it. I'm not sure if you needed to know that...) So we were so psyched to see these! We were about to buy one and had the poor cashier (manager I'm assuming) go and hunt down all the ones he could find. Right when we were about to pay for it, I changed my mind (being the indecisive girl I am) and didn't get it. I try not give into buying unessential items that might clutter my house. As he was making our mcflurry, my dad and I continued to admire the buckets one last time. Do you see where this story is going? As he handed us the McFlurry, he also handed us the bucket I was going to get. FREE. A GIFT. GENEROSITY. THOUGHTFULNESS. UNEXPECTED. UNNECESSARY. KIND. It made us SO happy. I'm looking at it right now with a huge smile on my face. I love it so much and every time I look at it, it will remind me of my nostalgic outing with my pop and the wonderful, kind actions that people can make happen in our world every now and then. Maybe I can come back to "support" them more often and not feel so guilty buying limited edition pies and McFlurrys from now on... ;) So that's my story on the McDonald's in Millbrae. I hope you enjoyed it. :] read more