I tried McDonald's limited edition Shamrock Shake available in the UK for the 1st time ever

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00:00hi guys my name is Jack Marshall I'm a digital food and drink reporter and I'm

00:05just out to try something very new today McDonald's announced yesterday the very

00:10exciting news that their shamrock shake will finally be available in UK stores

00:14now so far this thing's only been available in the US they kind of release

00:18it around st. Patrick's Day so they've obviously decided to do the same thing

00:21in the UK this time I'm gonna go down to my local Mackey's grab a grab a shake

00:25for the first time try it out see what I reckon of it so let's go down to the

00:29local Mackey's and grab one hi guys so joining you from the very glamorous

00:33location of my car in the car park outside my local Mackey's I've got

00:39myself a shamrock shake as you can see very luminescent mint green in color

00:46yeah it's the first time this is available in the UK it's quite famous in

00:50America they kind of take over every time they're there people go crazy for

00:54them people just love them it's kind of like one of the signs of the impending

00:59arrival of st. Paddy's Day obviously st. Patrick's Day coming on Monday the 17th

01:03so they're now here in the UK as well we're following America's footsteps so

01:07yeah I'm gonna have a bash see what it's like right so my first kind of reactions

01:13smell wise is it does smell quite minty I don't really know what the vibe of

01:16this is gonna be like because in my mind like a mint milkshake it could be one of

01:21two things it could go the flavor of like mint chocolate chip ice cream which

01:25I quite like or it could taste like an ice cream made of Colgate which doesn't

01:30sound as appealing so yeah keen to see which kind of side of the fence this

01:33lands on knowing McDonald's and the sugar content in their kind of food I'm

01:36leaning more towards a mint chocolate chip ice cream so let's give it a chance

01:43surprisingly that's more Colgate than I thought it would be yeah that's very

01:51minty I think with something like this you want it to be more actually it's

01:57quite after 80 it's coming through it's not as powerful as you want it as you

02:00thought it would be at the start it kind of hits a palate hard it's quite a

02:03sharp mint taste yeah the mint the mint doesn't really linger very much it's a

02:15bit like an after eight but without the balance of like the after eight dark

02:18chocolate so yeah I'm not sure about that yeah I had a similar reaction with

02:26the grimace shake which is like berries flavor it was alright it's just it's

02:31very artificial this one's the same I mean anything which has that kind of

02:35color is never gonna taste like something natural and from the forest is

02:40it so yeah it's a strong mint taste but I think on the grand scale of mintiness

02:45it's leaning more towards Colgate rather than you know natural peppermint

02:51kind of thing so yeah you'll have to grab yourself a shamrock shake see what

02:55you make of it yourself I'm not convinced by that I'm a little

02:58underwhelmed as well shamrock shake gets so much hype that I thought it was gonna

03:01be a bit more hard-hitting in terms of being like wow that's actually something

03:06really different it just tastes a lot like toothpaste so yeah maybe it's me

03:11let us know if you've had a shamrock shake let us know if you love shamrock

03:14shakes let us know if you'd rather eat a tube of toothpaste instead

03:19but yeah thanks for watching guys cheers