i was really hungry.

i have spent the day researching the mcflurries of the world so you don’t have to!

the new blueberry and oreo mcflurry at mcdonald’s japan. according to the mcdonald’s japan site, this came out TODAY, 8/8/08. ! i am excited for all the japanese people!

also seen in japan, but sadly discontinued, is the green tea and oreo mcflurry. apparently this still exists in korea so… get to korea, quick!

the cadbury creme egg mcflurry, found in the UK and canada around easter has chocolate pieces with a yellow fondant icing.

the cadbury mini egg mcflurry is too good to be true. its made with ice cream swirled with crushed cadbury mini eggs. i eat bags of these every easter. like really, bags. and bags. it is sick. i would FREAK OUT in the UK, running around from one mcdonald’s to another eating mini egg mcflurries like a crazed chicken with its head cut off. some day..

in finland, mcflurries made with daim can be found. daim is a candy native to sweden, norway, denmark, finland (and all united states IKEA stores…) that features a milk chocolate outside and a crunchy, almondy, carmely inside. if you live in finland you can also eat this licorice mcflurry:

however, if you lived in finland you would likely call it a lakritsi mcflurry, lakritsi being the finnish word for liquorice. mcdonald’s finland formerly carried a marianne mcflurry, made with crushed fazer marianne candy- a mint hard candy filled with chocolate, and a gingerbread-chocolate mcflurry.

smarties, which are much like M&Ms, can be found in their flurry form in austria, canada, finland, germany, greece, china, ireland, italy, malta, spain, sweden, taiwan, and the UK. in the czech republic, smarties are known only as “lentilky.” M&Ms replace smarties in most other countries. mcflurries in portugual and france are made with peanut M&Ms.

the cadbury wispa mcflurry is being served for a limited time only at mcdonald’s in the UK from july 30th 2008, to september 30th 2008 in celebration of the permanent relaunch of the cadbury wispa. the wispa is a chocolate bar that was discontinued in 2003, brought back temporarily in 2007, and discontinued yet again! the wispa bar is scheduled to permanently relaunch october 6th, 2008 in the UK and ireland, with other limited edition varieties being launched alongside it including wispa mint, wispa gold (caramel), wispa bite (biscuit and caramel filling), and a wispa with coffee flavored filling called the “wispaccino”.

photo orginally uploaded by Straußer on flickr

the nestle milo mcflurry pictured above has been seen in countries such as australia, new zealand, and malaysia. milo is a malted milk beverage mix similiar to nesquick or ovaltine but…not. (although greece apparently has the pleasure of having a nesquick mcflurry.) milo comes in the form of a powder, cereal, chocolate bars, premixed in cans, and mcflurries!

the lucky people of italy are eating BACI MCFLURRIES. baci is italian for “kiss”, and is also the name of an italian dark chocolate with a hazelnut filling. i was not really sure what the hell a fondente mcflurry was but 2 minutes of research tells me that fondente is chocolate. i guess that’s all there is to it. an italian chocolate mcflurry.

the milka cherry mcflurry is native to germany and austria.

norway is home to the non stop mcflurry. i am going to go out on a limb and say that non stops are a chocolate candy with a sugar coating similar to m&ms and smarties. norway is also home to the oboy mcflurry, a mcflurry made with oboy chocolate drink mix.

i think these cornetto mcflurries come from malaysia and the UK. cornettos are frozen ice cream cones, similar to the american drumstick. these mcflurries are made from ice cream and crushed cornettos!

mexican mcdonald’s carried (or maybe still carries?) the chips ahoy mcflurry, crumbled chocolate chip cookies swirled into ice cream.

i am physically tired of looking at mcflurries. there are way more than i ever dreamed. this is not even all of them! i just couldn’t stand looking at them anymore.

*mcflurries are a registered trademark of mcdonald’s