Whatever makes you smile! Toppings. Ann Marie is the Social Media Editor for Eat This, Not That! The high smoke point of the peanut oil is probably completely conducive to sizzling up slices of bacon, and you can definitely detect subtle notes of peanut oil flavor on these slices. But if you don't like mushrooms, skip it no matter how you're feeling. It's Bassetts' most popular flavor. The patty melt benefits from the fact that they flip over a regular bun and double grill it with what would normally be the inside of the bun as the outside, and two layers of cheese encasing the burger patty. The dog is definitely more flavorful (not to mention simply easier to eat) because it's in halves, too. Nonetheless, it wasn't forgotten, as one of our editors finished her taste test with the comment "Overall, I'd rather have a Frosty from Wendy's!". That said, other cookies work well, too. You could opt for a flavored chocolate, likecoffee-flavored chocolates. Lets jump in! With more than 250,000 ways to customize your burger and more than 1,000 milkshake combinations, your perfect meal is just a click away! ", If you're not a fan of whipped cream, you won't enjoy this shake because it was on the top and bottom of the filled cup. Shed just settled down with her food at her table when she overheard an over-served guy likely wearing a Shawn Thornton Bruins jersey talking to himself as he inhaled a cheeseburger. I ordered an everything milkshake from Five Guys. There are now over 1,500 Five Guys locations all over the world. It was a toss-up between the Oreo Mint Shake and the Kit Kat shake so allow me to spend some extra time talking about the Kit Kat. Top with pieces of homemade peppermint patties and a fresh sprig of mint, or with whipped cream and a drizzle of chocolate sauce. Around here, we have pretty much all the big chains: Chick-fil-a, Steak 'n Shake, Sonic, McDonalds, Burger King, Hardee's, DQ, Five Guys, Wendy's, Arby's. I'm probably forgetting a few. You dont expect a milkshake from Del Taco to be good but this is probably the best strawberry milkshake in the fast-food universe. Oh, Five Guys. Kristin Hunt is a food/drink staff writer for Thrillist, and would like to thank Timothy at the Times Square Five Guys for only laughing a little at her order of "every milkshake". Here's the thing, though: as discovered with the bacon cheese dog, the Kraft American goo is actually pretty decent for what it is, especially when sandwiched between meats. Otherwise I guess go for chocolate if you must. Its okay, doesnt live up to its hype unless used as a fry dip. What is the best thing on the Five Guys menu, after all? Most candy milkshakes are made with a vanilla base. document.addEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', function() { One editor disliked the treat and said it "tasted artificial. Mudslide. The honey makes for an extra sweet, extra natural flavor that just peanut butter and vanilla together would not be able to achieve. Yum! Instant coffee is passable, too. The boys banded together and began their enterprise in a field that, according to their grandma, would guarantee income. The consistency is dense, but not so dense that its hard to drink. Most people add frozen bananas (which were peeled when very ripe and then frozen in a plastic bag or other sealed container) to keep the temperature down. Their Cajun Style fries are the perfect combo of new and spicy, not to mention classically rendered. Pick your coffee wisely. Don't get us wrong, the hamburger meat alone pulls it ahead in the ranking by a good bit. Salted caramel, chocolate, oreo cookies, and malted milk. It's creamy with a prominent vanilla-forward flavor that is really a key feature of this. Salted Caramel is always a great and easy choice, but feel free to get weird here. One editor stated the shake was "extremely milky, less chocolatey." They're more than $4, which wouldn't be so bad if they were a larger size and weren't paired with higher priced food as well. There are two schools of thought on making a coffee milkshake. Its a f*cking milkshake, how did you screw this up? Turns out that you actually can have way too many milkshakes. Go forcaramelized bananas or baked sweet plantains. They have a range of flavors from the simple to the more unexpected, like bacon. Check out more of our exclusive tastings: We Tasted 5 Fast-Food Chicken Nuggets & These Are the Best. advice every day. Five Guys is the refined grown-up version of dipping your fries in a Frosty. Before long, the infectious Five Guys flavor franchised all over the country and, now, internationally. The whipped cream, which is more of a whipped topping, almost hits its mark but its not quite as creamy as wed like it to be, leaning more on the sugary-air side. Mocha. Another stated that the shake was "worse than I remember and the whipped topping is terrible. But they lose points on the price. Go with the BLT. As a chocolate lover, I want more from a 'chocolate shake. Over the past few weeks, I re-tested the best flavor from each fast food outlet** and ranked them. Or, change the whole game with chunks of iced cake in place of the iced cookies. Also known as "Double Chocolate" or "Chocolate Overload", this milkshake is for true chocoholics only. Still, others disagreed and said it had the "weakest chocolate flavortastes like there is just chocolate syrup mixed in" and that it was "too milky, not a fan. At its core, it's a vanilla milkshake, just like all the milkshakes on the Five Guys menu are, with various add-ins. In 1986, the four brothers Murrell opened a takeaway burger joint in Arlington, Virginia, just a stone's throw from DC, AKA Cap City. Also, quite famously, they never advertised at all until about three years agowhich, if you think about it, is kind of a way of advertising in itself amirite?!? Were officially out of bad fast food milkshake territory with Carls Jr. Everything from here on is great and definitely worth the cash and extra calories. Not quite. Oh Burger King, back at the bottom it seems. BananaYou might have a flashback to your many afternoons spent loitering at Orange Julius when sipping on this. When I started writing this, friends, I had a longer, drawn-out story here. I ate the entire thing AFTER I'd sampled two burgers, two hot dogs, two other sandwiches, two orders of fries, and two milkshakes. If you like thick chunks of Oreo cookies in your shake and dont care about quality whipped cream, its hard to go wrong with Jack in the Boxs Oreo Cookie Shake. Whatever. By. I like the Chocolate and Vanilla which is a mix of you guessed it chocolate and vanilla. Simply make a vanilla milkshake, and swirl in some butterscotch sauce. The standard hot dog is cut butterfly-style down the middle and griddled, which should be the only way you cook a hot dog. Toppings. A good chocolate milkshake has a great balance of that rich chocolatey goodness, but it should be creamy enough that it's not just ice cream in a cup. Keep an eye out for the milkshake menu at Five Guys locations in New York and New Jersey as they continue to expand, and pray to the fast-food gods that those peanut butter and Double Stuf shakes get permanent placement nationwide. ChocolateThis ain't your standard choco shake. If you're going to go with any hot dog at Five Guys, just lean into this big boy. Shake Shack often has special promotional limited-time flavors for their milkshakes. While the mushroom taste was barely noticeable while actually eating, they are frighteningly apparent when just looking at the sandwich. 60 31 Related Topics Five Guys Fast food chain Restaurant chain Restaurant Food Food and Drink 31 comments Best Add a Comment databaller 2 yr. ago Strawberry banana oreo. navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); ", Our other shocked editor wrote a note to you all. Last one I probably had was a shamrock shake maybe 3 years ago. 10. All five of you guys. 80 Calories 0 Carbs (g) 7 Total Fat (g) 260 Sodium (mg) Bananas Real bananas in your handspun milkshake. It had everything: Whipped Cream . Coffee and chocolate in a milkshake, what more can you ask for? The essential Five Guys order:Do you really want to live like you're dying, as the Tim McGraw song I heard while in a Five Guys passionately suggested? "This was the only one that didn't taste artificial. Here it is, the mother of all Five Guys burgers. Don't have butterscotch handy? Sonic banana Credit: Johnny Milano A super-banana flavored shake claims real bananas as well as "sweet banana flavor" for 640 calories. Now, let's see how these five fast-food chocolate milkshakes stacked up against each other, ranked from worst to best. Vanilla . This milkshake is remarkably thick and holds its consistency nicely, but its not too thick that you cant get it through the straw. For a cappuccino milkshake, start with vanilla ice cream. We took it upon ourselves to test five different hot spots where you get yourself a chocolate milkshake. Brew it well. Milkshake Mix-Ins. Vanilla-Strawberry mix is my editors pick. Dont be a shallow milkshake drinker, the milkshake is a generous and beautiful snack. This chocolate milkshake made almost a clean sweep across the board as everyone's favorite. A quality milkshake! Really, all you were tasting was the bacon. Some thought it reminded them of another frozen treat, stating that it "tastes like a Frosty. The basic idea is that it's a chocolate milkshake with more chocolate added in. We were split across the board. Welcome to your local Five Guys at 240 Main Street in White Plains. Bacon caramel. Some people like to make Double Chocolate into a boozy milkshake, too. Play around with different kinds of candy. You wont find BKs shakes on that menu, and it looks like the King knows that no one could stomach a whole shake from them, which is why theyre only sold in mini-sizes. One of the things I love about Five Guys is that the menu is completely customizable but doesnt lack character like a build your own pizza place or the food from Chipotle, and the customizability extends to the milkshakes. This is just the right amount of guys.. Make sure to order it with this name. Which would be cool and make sense if it didnt make it gross at the same time. I just got my second vaccine shot. Top with gourmet orhomemade peanut butter cups,candied nuts (such as Jordan almonds or candied pecans), nut brittle pieces (perhaps from this Macadamia nut brittle recipe) whipped cream and/or gourmet chocolate sauce. This milkshake is pretty much a meal, so dont plan to eat anything else if you order it. The shake itself is sweet, but nothing remarkable, and the sludge-y not quite thick not quite watery consistency really doesnt do it any favors. The idea of fast-food burger chains versus fast-casual is a scary topic for me. Not only does this make the burger more edible from a practical standpoint (you won't catch a Five Guys cheeseburger falling apart), but it also improves the flavor tenfold. We know, we know we've spent plenty of time talking smack about Five Guys' cheese choice. The only thing better than Chick-fil-As Cookies and Cream milkshake is the seasonal Peach Milkshake which usually drops in the summer, but as its a seasonal option we cant give it the top spot. Sonic rarely ranks this high on any of our fast food lists but their Strawberry Cheesecake Master Shake is truly some next-level milkshake shit. 14. Instead of cooking it in classic fashion as a round slab of meat, they slice theirs down the middle before throwing it on the grill. This well-oiled toast is good, sure, but definitely not the stuff of legend. You heard it here; The Frosty is an INSULT TO MILKSHAKES. But it's too icy and has a gross aftertaste. Sandwiches. Lindsey Goodwin is a food writer and tea consultant with more than 12 years of experience exploring tea production and culture. But after tasting it, we couldn't help but wonder which higher power that cult is loyal to. Back then, just the act of knowing about Five Guys was cool, and every little quirk (the peanut boxes, the standard order being two patties, etc) built the lore that has somehow sustained itself as the chain becomes a behemoth. That alone negates the other potential positives of this menu item. Then go with this: a patty melt; (don't forget the grilled onion); a regular hot dog with relish, mustard, and raw onion; Cajun fries; and a Banana Bacon Chocolate milkshake. The real substance of this shake is so delicious that you won't want to waste time on a fairly generic and sweet tuft of whipped cream before getting to the real good stuff. They have a section dedicated to best sellers on their online menu as if to convince all of us that they actually sell food that people like. For example, check out that less-than-crispy slice of bacon that made it atop our burger. It is basically just bacon on a bun, with a few slices of tomatoes sitting atop the crispy mound of bacon, though we recommend adding some pickles, too. They are as addictive as they are easy to eat and, considering the extra-large serving size of every Five Guys fry order, they can be a bit dangerous. Five Guys Onalaska Closed Contact 3025 S. Kinney Coulee Rd. Cheers to that! We recommend choosing the bacon over the burger, yes. Fresh mint leaves can be the perfect topper for your Mint Chocolate shake. Im not a fan of doubling up the meat on burgers (Id rather just eat two burgers, and vary the condiments), so I like a single patty, but there is some sort of alchemy to mixing barbecue sauce and mayonnaise, and when you combine that with the acid from the pickles and the heat from the fresh jalapeos, its a pretty damn glorious burger. Popular Five Guys Menu Items, Ranked Worst To Best. I am extremely impressed with Five Guysas impressed as I've been with any of the places I've reviewed so far. "If you can give a good haircut or if you can serve a good drink at a bar or if you can serve a good hamburger, you can always make money in America." But the Oreo Mint and Kit Kat are your best bet. For a flavored cappuccino taste, add a little powdered flavoring or flavored simple syrup. Chocolate is the classic flavor you see in all your favorite 1920s diner movie scenes that just makes you ache for a batch of fries to dip into a shake, with whipped cream and a cherry on top. Specialties: Your nearby Five Guys at 2 Metrotech Center in Brooklyn is ready to offer you a classic take on burgers, hot dogs, fries, milkshakes and more. "Easily the most decadent and highest quality of chocolate of them all," one editor wrote. My personal favorite is Black Sugar Vanilla, with its aromatic vanilla and complex notes of burnt butter and caramel. It turns out Sonic is a place to go if you want a really good milkshake. If this all sounds fairly standard, that's because it is. Speaking as fast food connoisseurs, we can promise that there are better cheap cheeses out there. If you're looking for something plain, the bacon meat edges out the burger. But there's a secret ingredient here that packs a real flavor punch. One editor said it had a "weird consistency," and another said it "tastes artificial." In-N-Outs milkshake has a great consistency that starts off a little too thick but settles into a very creamy and drinkable state after the cup starts to warm slightly in your hands. Even plain, the burger is an enjoyable if not entirely noteworthy experience. So well have to rely on the old memory for this one. This may feel familiar. CherryListen, if you like cherry shakes, you'll probably like this one. Admittedly, Im probably the least familiar with Steak n Shakes milkshakes, so maybe this deserves to be ranked higher. And although a vanilla milkshake base is best, you can also use strawberry ice cream (or aberry gelato) for a "very berry" flavor. Add as many free shake mix-ins as you like Oreo Cookie Pieces REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Lotus Biscoff Peanut Butter Banana Salted Caramel Bacon Drinks Coca-Cola Freestyle Five Guys founder Jerry Murrell's mother. There is more to this shake than meets the eye or the simple name. Five Guys gets points for using Ghirardelli chocolate syrup in their milkshakes, and more points for having bacon as a milkshake mix-in option. I don't even really like Oreos, and I still find a creamy, cookie-chunk-filledvanilla shake to be far superior to a plain one. The extra spice in the "Cajun" fries are clearly superior to the regular fries, and I very much appreciated the fact that they wrote on a chalkboard where the potatoes came from that day (last visit it was B&S Farms in Saint Anthony, Idaho). We agree, as one look at the finished hot dog will confirm. A good berry jam atop a vanilla milkshake is incredibly tasty. running the brand's social media accounts. Be careful not to suck any chocolate chips down your throat without chewing, though. McDonalds uses vanilla ice cream, Wendys isnt really a milkshake, but Carls Jr uses actual scoops of ice cream, and the depth of flavor that real ice cream has over a generic vanilla soft serve base sets this one notably higher than those ranked below it. The other is to start with a vanilla or chocolate ice cream and to add coffee for the coffee flavor. The cheese and bacon hot dog was a lesson in too much of a good thing, as the saltiness of the hot dog, the saltiness of the bacon, and the saltiness of the American cheese made me long to pour pickle jar vinegar or really any type of acid directly into my mouth. Is this one ranked too high? Sadly, she was alone in this as our other tasters were not a fan of this frozen concoction. Follow us onInstagram,Twitter,Pinterest,YouTube,TikTok, andSnapchat! Customise your milkshake with as many of our 10 free mix-ins as you want. The texture is like a gloppy cheese tarpit layered with the bones of . But that being said, we did find this option refreshing and (for reasons that are readily evident) more healthy tasting than the rest of the menu. One stated that "this tastes more like a black and whitevanilla with a touch of chocolate. Some locations may also have other options, but they're either a bit boring (like vanilla or chocolate), or not available in enough locations to fairly rank them. A true traditional milkshake." Plus, in line with Five Guys' fully customisable menu, you can even add a combination of any of the 11 mix-in milkshake ingredients to create a truly bespoke dessert, including peanut butter . It was so unsteady that, when we tried to pick this up to taste-test it, not all sandwich components made it from the table to our mouths. If you love the full-on sweetness of a double-chocolate shake, you can use chocolate sauce or chocolate syrup for the base flavor, and then add mix-ins for the second level of chocolatey flavor. Delicious! 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