f'Real makes Cookie Dough milkshake?

In 2005, we were introduced to the convenience store chain Wawa serving milk shakes. You have seen these machines, you choose what flavor you want and load it into the metal cup, which then raises into the blender and uses water to make you a cool snack in a quick and easy fashion. You can even choose your thickness (less thick, regular thickness, more thick.) The company that makes these wonderful, technologically advanced machines is called f'Real. I have made many trips to the local Wawa's just for a tasty frozen treat for the past 4 years.

It all started out with the standard Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry. The vanilla tastes great, like any vanilla milkshake you would get at a local malt shop. To me, the chocolate is waaaay to chocolatey (not that I'm a big fan of chocolate anyway) and the strawberry is, well, let's just say I would stick with the vanilla. A few years after the initial success of the three normal flavors, f'Real introduced smoothies and frozen cappuccinos. You could get any of three different flavor of fruit smoothies, Strawberry Spin, Wildberry Whirl and Tropical Burst or three different cappuccino flavors, Caramel, Classic Coffee and Mocha. Now, it wouldnt be fair for me to judge any of them because I never really tried them. One time, I had a thirst for coffee and tried one of the frozen cappuccinos and threw it out right after it came out of the machine. I took a sip and remembered I didn't like coffee and threw it out for a real milkshake.

Over the past couple of years, f'Real would release different flavors of milkshakes just to gauge the public's interest in having different flavors. During the holiday season, they used to make an Egg Nog milkshake and it was amazing. This past Christmas time they did not have it for some reason and it felt like there was something missing. A Cookies 'n Cream flavor was available for a limited time only and it was really good. I consider myself somewhat of an ice cream connoisseur, with Cookies 'n Cream being one of my favorites, and this milkshake tasted just like it. It was in demand so much it is now available all the time. Last spring, another limited time flavor was Mint Chocolate Chip. Now, I never was a really big MCC ice cream fan (why does it have to be green?) but the milkshake is great. The cool mint ice cream is very satisfying, especially on a blazing summer day. It even has little chocolate chips that fit up the straw. It is easily the best f'Real milkshake, that is until I made the Cookie Dough discovery on Saturday.

First, a little background story. Saturday I took a trip with Sara to Stone Harbor. There, we got ice cream at a nice little ice cream shoppe. My flavor of choice: chocolate chip cookie dough. We sat down on a bench and I saw a Wawa and thought immediatly about the milkshakes they have there. I said, "Wawa should have Cookie Dough milkshakes." Fast forward to 1130pm that night on my way back home, I stop at a local Wawa and make my way to the f'Real machine. I look into the freezer and see a different color than I normally do. There it is, "Cookie Dough."

It was the first time I have seen the new flavor, which I'm sure is only out for a limited time. It is vanilla ice cream with chocolate chip pieces, much like the Mint Chocolate Chip milkshake, but also has little pieces of cookie dough in it. That's right, there are cookie dough pieces in it that are probably a little less than half an inch that fit right into the straw. No, not those stupid skinny soda cup straws, the 'Regular Straw' that has the yellow and red stripe on it. It was as good as I had hoped and thought it ever could be. I highly recommend trying at least one before they are gone. And once you do, send positive comments to f'Real so they bring it back full time. I'm going to get one right now.

Happy Memorial Day.