I figured Dairy Queen must have something coffee-flavored, and I figured right — they have the MooLatte. I would not have bothered trying it if not for this blog and now, in retrospect, I will most likely never try it again. This isn’t to say DQ doesn’t have good chocolate malts and Blizzards, they just don’t make very good blended coffee simulations.
The MooLatte is a variation on their “Freeze” variety, which means it had a lot of sugar and little ice chunks in it. From what I saw, it contains a large shot of their Freeze base, a few squirts of coffee syrup, a squirt of mocha, a shot of ice cream and whipped cream on top.
Perhaps the fact that it contains no real coffee rubbed me the wrong way since I had not had any coffee all day and thus the drink did nothing to appease my fiending brain.
I understand what Dairy Queen was trying to communicate by naming this coffee-esque slushy the “MooLatte” — “Hey guys, this is Dairy Queen’s version of a latte!” — but I think they could have done a lot better. When I hear “MooLatte” I picture espresso mixed with milk that went from the cow’s udder directly into my cup with no pasteurization in between. Enter the Dairy Queen barn, they make the espresso, a cow mooed, and thus my MooLatte came into the world.
If you were considering trying one of Dairy Queen’s MooLatte’s, I would recommend a dipped cone or a chili dog instead.
The Moolatte sounds YUMMY with all capitals but tea, I feel, is the wave of the future.
Coffee syrup will never help you through. Real coffee is so much better in frozen drinks anyway. If you start with coffee, and ice and mix in chocolate syrup and milk you’ve got it good on your own.
I agree, DQ should stick to what they know and leave the coffee for the experts.
I had this a couple of times, they sprinkled a kind of instant dry freeze coffee over the top to give some semblance of caffeine, but basically all one is doing is mainlining enough sugar to comatize an entire city.
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My boyfriend is a coffee fiend. On Saturday he didn’t get any until we got downtown (his machine had broken) and it was interesting to see how it affected his personality. I was all for getting him coffee, stat, just so he’d feel better!
Blizzards are yummy. But I wouldn’t look to DQ for coffee.
I like how you called it a coffee simulation. That reminds me a lot of the Frosty-Cino that I got at Wendy’s the other week.
Just never acquired a taste for coffee of any sort.
Call me a snob but I’m always skeptical of a coffee drink with the word Moo in it!
Thanks for the low down on the MooLatte