McDonald’s Japan has just introduced six new McFlurry dessert flavors, each inspired by a beloved Pokémon—Charmander, Pikachu, Squirtle, Jigglypuff, Bulbasaur, and Gengar.
The flavors seem to have been inspired by the Pokémon’s various colors and characteristics, and the resulting desserts have got to taste pretty interesting.
Pikachu has a delicious sounding chocolate-banana concoction, Jigglypuff a peach flavor, and Squirtle’s McFlurry tastes like soda—all fairly mild and pleasant flavors.
Straddling the line between basic and bold tastes, Gengar’s McFlurry has a purple potato flavour—which should be sweet, but not the type of sweet everyone is accustomed to.
That is when the flavors get much more creative.
Bulbasaur’s dessert tastes like broccoli, and Charmander’s will be flavoured with habañero pepper. Imagining those tastes within a typically sweet, cold treat is hard to do, but worth a try!
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— マクドナルド (@McDonaldsJapan) July 9, 2017[via Konbini, image via McDonald’s Japan]