McDonald's celebrates McFlurry's 30th birthday with Canada-only treat. See what US is missing
No stranger to adding new sweet treats to the menu (cookie tote boxes, anyone?), McDonald's unveiled yet another spin on the classic McFlurry. This one, however, isn't available in the U.S.
Here's a look at the dessert that's only available in Canada.
McDonald's new birthday cake McFlurry comes weeks after the restaurant chain dropped its Cadbury Egg Creme McFlurry Easter dessert, which was also only available in Canada. The new birthday-themed dessert celebrates the 30th anniversary of the McFlurry being invented in Canada.
Made with vanilla soft serve, Canada's birthday cake McFlurry is blended with frosted cake-flavored confetti cookie dough pieces and birthday cake-flavored syrup. A regular serving is 680 calories.
Right now, the birthday cake McFlurry is only out for a limited time in Canada, with no talks of it appearing on American menus anytime soon.
Food Instagram page page Mouth Attack posted that "McDonald's hasn't confirmed if it'll expand to other markets like the U.S." so you'll have to make a trip to get across the border if you want to grab one before it's gone. However, Delish notes that some of McDonald's Canadian menu items have migrated south in the past, so there could be hope for the birthday cake McFlurry to make a similar journey.
In the U.S., McDonald's McFlurry flavors include Oreo and M&M's, but the chain is known to introduce unique flavors like its KitKat banana split McFlurry.
There are 615 McDonald's restaurants in Ohio, the fifth-highest number of locations in the nation, according to the web scraping tool ScrapeHero.
The McFlurry was first created by a Canadian McDonald's franchisee in Bathurst, New Brunswick, in 1995. According to a McDonald's fan page, Oreo, Heath, Nestle Crunch, M&M's and Butterfinger were the original flavors, but that number has since expanded to more than 20 different flavors globally.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: See the McDonald's birthday McFlurry treat the US won't get
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