Christmas brings with it some weird and wonderful flavours from brands trying to invent the next festive favourite, each with their own successes and failures. This year burger chain Five Guys have brought out a milkshake inspired by a Christmas dinner staple -Pigs in Blankets.
Five Guys are known for having an expansive customisable milkshake menu where customers can pick from a variety of flavours and combine them at no extra cost. The Pigs in Blankets Christmas milkshake is made from their normal milkshake base with bacon bits throughout it.
We tested it to see if this salty and sweet combination would bring festive cheer or if Five Guys would be getting a lump of coal in their stockings this year.
Five Guys Pigs in Blankets Milkshake - 6/10
★★★★★★
£5.50 per milkshake
My initial reaction to this milkshake was apprehensive as I imagined it would be sausage and bacon blended together in a drink reminiscent of a bush tucker trial from I'm A Celeb. However, the reality was much more pleasant - albeit a bit underwhelming.
The dominating flavour in this milkshake is the basic Five Guys vanilla, creamy base - not sausage as I had feared.
Throughout the shake is little bits of bacon, which should be noted are free to add to any milkshake all year round. When you drink the pigs in blankets concoction at first you don't actually notice the bacon in the overall taste.
Once you catch a bacon bit though, the strong salty flavour breaks through and overtakes the vanilla base. At first this can be a bit jarring but the bacon flavour isn't bad, and I can see how it appeals to those who love a salty/sweet combination.
I was almost able to ignore the bacon in the drink at first, however, this changed over time as the drink settled. The longer I left the milkshake the more overwhelming the bacon flavour became.
While the flavour was never bad, it wasn't anything special either - and it would be fun to have a specific Christmas special, as there is a bacon milkshake all year around.
Available in Five Guys restaurants across the country, festive foodies can indulge in the shake, that costs £5.45 from Wednesday, November 16th until Monday, December 26th.
