McDonald's Worldwide Favorites -- tasting ALL the items -- Spain, Netherlands, Australia, & Canada

**Emmy’s McDonald’s International Taste Test: A Review of Four Global Menu Items**

Greetings, my beautiful lovelies! It’s Emmy, and I’m back once again in my car for another McDonald’s taste test. This time, however, I’m not in Hawaii but rather in Rhode Island. If you missed my last McDonald’s taste test in Hawaii, don’t worry—I’ve included the link both above and below for your convenience. Today, I’ll be tasting four international menu items that McDonald’s has recently unveiled, each representing a different country.

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### **The Setting**

Today is June 6, and from 2 PM to 5 PM, you can purchase one of these international menu items at participating McDonald’s locations using foreign money. When I walked into my local McDonald’s, I decided to use 100 Japanese yen to buy what I believe is the Spanish-inspired item on the menu: the McSteam Bacon Burger.

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### **The McSteam Bacon Burger (Spain)**

Here it is—the McSteam Bacon Burger. It comes with a sesame bun, which looks just like a regular hamburger. On top, there’s a bit of bacon, some onion slices, sauce, and two slices of smoked Gouda cheese. The beef patty is generous in size, and there’s more sauce on the side.

I immediately took my first bite and was struck by the smokiness of the burger. The cheese has a smoky flavor, the patty tastes smoky, and the bacon, of course, adds to that smokiness. It reminds me a bit of McDonald’s gourmet burgers from years past—burgers that were trying to be fancy.

What I do like about this burger is the inclusion and quantity of fresh onion. The onion adds a nice crunch and liveliness to the dish, taking it out of what could have been a overly smoky experience. The patty itself is quite fatty, looking much thicker than what you’d find in a standard quarter-pounder or similar burger. It has a chewy texture that I appreciate.

I took another bite, this time with more sauce on it. The sauce resembles Big Mac sauce but lacks the relish, making it sweeter and simpler. While the burger is okay overall, its smokiness might appeal to those who enjoy smoky-flavored burgers and cheeses. If you’re a fan of that kind of flavor profile, you might really like this one.

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### **Cheesy Bacon Fries (Australia)**

Next up are these Cheesy Bacon Fries from Australia. I remember seeing these when I was in Hawaii, and they sound familiar yet intriguing—why don’t we have these in the U.S.? The idea of bacon and cheese on fries seems like it would do well here.

I decided to give them a try, but my initial impression wasn’t positive. These fries are extremely salty, and despite the presence of bacon bits, I didn’t get much of a bacon flavor. The cheese sauce is reminiscent of nacho cheese, which makes the fries soggy once they absorb it. It feels like eating deep-fried macaroni and cheese—very rich and excessive.

I’m not convinced that the cheese enhances the fries in any meaningful way. For me, McDonald’s fries are at their best when they’re freshly fried and served right out of the fryer. The quality drops significantly as soon as they sit out for too long. These Cheesy Bacon Fries just don’t measure up to my standards, especially compared to my love for ballpark garlic fries.

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### **Chicken Sandwich (Canada)**

Moving on to this Canadian-inspired Chicken Sandwich. Available in both fried and grilled versions, it comes with lettuce, tomato, provolone cheese, and a sauce on the bottom. I wasn’t sure about it at first since I’m not typically a big fan of chicken sandwiches, but this one actually works for me.

The fried chicken cutlet tastes familiar—it has a lot of black pepper and is nicely crisp, much like a McChicken sandwich. The bun isn’t my favorite (I prefer soft, squishy buns), but the inclusion of crunchy vegetables complements the crispy chicken well.

However, I wasn’t overly impressed by the sauce, which has a basil-like flavor that reminded me of salad dressing. It made me wish for the simplicity of the McChicken sandwich with its classic mayo and lettuce combination. This sandwich feels more excessive and experimental, blending elements like basil and tomato in an attempt to create something unique.

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### **Stroopwafel McFlurry (Netherlands)**

Now, this is the item I was most excited about—the Stroopwafel McFlurry from the Netherlands. If you’ve never had a stroopwafel before, it’s one of my favorite cookies. It consists of two layers of thin waffle with syrup inside and a hint of cinnamon flavor. The traditional way to enjoy it is by placing the cookie on top of a warm mug (like for tea or coffee) to soften the syrup.

The McFlurry version starts to melt as soon as you open it, revealing chunks of waffle mixed into vanilla soft serve. I wasn’t expecting the cookie pieces to be so hard, but given that it’s a frozen dessert, they make sense. The base has a typical McFlurry flavor—vanilla with a runnier texture than usual soft serve.

While the cookie pieces are a bit too crunchy for my liking, their cinnamon and nutmeg flavors come through nicely. As you warm the McFlurry in your mouth, it becomes chewier and more reminiscent of the traditional stroopwafel. Initially, it feels like biting into a Heath bar with its toffee crunch, but as it melts, the resemblance to the authentic stroopwafel becomes clear.

One quirky detail worth mentioning is the spoon provided with the McFlurry. It’s hollow and square-shaped, which made me wonder if it was meant to be a straw. Unfortunately, it doesn’t serve that purpose well. Experts might know more about its design, but for now, I’ll leave it at that.

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### **Conclusion**

Of the four international menu items, the Stroopwafel McFlurry is my favorite—it does an excellent job capturing the flavor of the traditional stroopwafel and feels like a successful product. The others, while interesting, either fell short in flavor or execution (like the overly salty Cheesy Bacon Fries) or felt too complex for my taste (the Chicken Sandwich).

If you’ve tried any of these items or have favorite McDonald’s offerings from other countries, I’d love to hear about them in the comments! There are so many unique and interesting menu options out there, and who knows—someday I might get to try them all.

Thank you for joining me for this taste test. If you enjoyed the video, please share it with your friends, follow me on social media, like this video, and subscribe for more content. I’ll see you in the next one—take care!

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This concludes Emmy’s international McDonald’s taste test. Stay tuned for her next adventure!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engreetings my beautiful lovelies it's emmy welcome back once again to my car to another mcdonald's taste test unfortunately i am not in hawaii if you missed my last mcdonald's taste test which was in hawaii i will put the link above and down below today i am just in rhoda island but i am going to be tasting some international foods mcdonald's has unveiled four international menu items that come from different countries and i'm going to be tasting them today today is june 6 and from two to five today at participating mcdonald's you could take some foreign money and purchase one of the menu items so i walked into my mcdonald's and i used 100 japanese yen to purchase i believe it's this one mcstream bacon burger now this is supposed to represent spain there it is oh seated sesame bun looks just like a regular hamburger it has a bit of bacon on it some onion some sauce and this cheese is smoked gouda two slices of that one beef patty more sauce here we go itadakimasu gave me lots of napkins which i appreciate immediately i am struck by the amount of smokiness in there the cheese is smoky the patty tastes smoky and the bacon of course is smoky interesting it tastes a little bit more like those mcdonald's gourmet burgers that they had out for a little while like it's trying to be fancy what i do like about this burger is the inclusion and the amount of fresh onion in there i feel like it really kind of enlivens things and kind of takes it out of the kind of liquid smoke thing that's going on here burger patty itself is pretty generous and fat looks a lot fatter than what we would get typically in say a quarter pounder or something like that it does have kind of a chewy texture to it which is let me take another bite with some more sauce i feel like i didn't get any sauce on that bite the sauce looks a bit like the big mac sauce but it's missing all that relish so it's kind of sweet and man-easy but yeah this burger it's okay it's a bit smoky if you like smoky burgers and cheese you might like this one for me so that's the spanish mixture bacon burger speaking of bacon let's try these next now these come from australia i actually saw these when i was in hawaii and these are the cheesy bacon fries mcdonald's fries look a little bit like bacons and some cheese on top this all sounds good and somehow very familiar like why don't we have these in the u.s like this seems like it would do well here all right let's get these go hmm it's a bit much for me very very salty and surprisingly not all that bacony the cheese sauce is just like nacho cheese sauce so when you get one on a fry which incidentally is pretty soggy by now because it's soaked up all that nacho cheese it's a bit like deep fried macaroni and cheese very very rich and somehow excessive but i'm not really getting a huge bacon flavor i'm actually really surprised by that because there's a good amount of bacon these are kind of like wetter bacon bits the pieces are small when you eat the bacon straight up you're like okay that's bacon but on the actual fries themselves they don't have that strong of a flavor i don't like how it makes everything so soggy and i'm not suggesting that there'd be any direct way to prevent that you are drowning your fries in sauce so it's understandable that they would get soft but i don't know that the cheese really does anything to enhance the fries i think for me mcdonald's fries are their best when they are fried fresh when you have them right out of the fryer and once they come out of the fryer the quality of the fry drops precipitously with the amount of time they come out of the fryer the longer they sit out the faster they go stale and that for mcdonald's fries in my opinion is a very very short window wow there's some birds hanging out here hey birds i'll share with you later there's a little puddle here and they're all kind of taking a little bird bath in the puddle very very cute i think i would just rather have a really great fresh batch of mcdonald's french fries rather than covering them in the sauce maybe it's my preference for garlic fries i love ballpark garlic fries they're fantastic and comparatively speaking these just aren't that great oh well alrighty so now we're gonna have another sandwich and just this one and this one comes from canada and this is the chicken sandwich you can get it fried or grilled it has lettuce tomato and provolone cheese and some sauce on the bottom here i actually like this one i'm not a huge chicken sandwich type of person although i really do love mcchicken sandwiches this works for me the fried chicken cutlet is familiar in the sense that it tastes a lot like a mcchicken because it has tons of black pepper in it and it's fried nice and crisp like that then you've got some more fancy things you've got the sauce in there that's a little bit sweet and it works the bun i'm not a huge fan of i'm not into brioche buns i just want the soft and squishy bun but i do like the inclusion of all those vegetable crunch elements it goes well with the crunch of the crispy chicken and the sauce works i'm gonna take another bite because i didn't get any onion on that bite on that second bite i got a really good taste of the sauce they use tastes a little bit basiled a little bit like salad dressing which makes me like this a little less maybe just because i'm wishing for a mcchicken sandwich which is super simple you've got your mayo you've got your lettuce you've got your chicken cutlet that's been deep fried this is definitely more and more excessive so basically this is a mcdonald's mashup of a caprese sandwich and a mcchicken so you've got the basil and the tomato and then you've got the deep fried chicken patty now this one is the one that i'm most excited about this is the stroop waffle mcflurry and this comes from the netherlands now if you've never had a stroopwafel before it's one of my favorite cookies it consists of two layers of very very thin waffle and the inside has a little bit of syrup inside it has a little bit of a cinnamon flavor buttery delicious so so good with tea coffee what you do is you take the cookie and you rest it on top of your tea mug or coffee mug and it softens the syrup inside a bit delectable honestly one of my favoritest cookies ever so that's why i'm excited about this so here's the mcflurry it's starting to melt as you can see but there are chunks of waffle in there all right let's give this a go huh well hmm now i wasn't expecting the cookie pieces to be so hard because you hear that they're kind of crunchy but of course mcflurry is a milkshake it's like a frozen dessert so that probably solidifies the cookies a bit the base tastes like a typical mcflurry vanilla smooth a bit like a runnier soft serve and the cookie pieces are in there but they're a little bit too crunchy and hard but the flavor is pretty close you've got a nice cinnamon flavor a little touch of nutmeg in there yeah i think of all the four things this one does it for me but you know i've got a sweet tooth as it warms up in your mouth it does get chewier and more reminiscent of swoop waffle initially when you bite into it it's a bit like a heath bar you got that kind of toffee crunch but then as it warms up you're like okay i taste you stroup waffle yeah this is the one of the four this is the one that does it for me in terms of accuracy of the flavor it's trying to capture and in terms of just successfulness of a product it's weird so these spoons are hollow i thought this might be a straw but it's not why does it do this okay mcflurry experts why am i missing something the handle of this spoon is square and it looks like it has some sort of purpose like there should be i don't know it's kind of lit or something what's happening here it's not a straw it doesn't go all the way through oh maybe it does no not really people tell me what am i missing here oh maybe if i plug up this hole in the back right here there's a hole this will be a straw no what's going on okay i don't know obviously i've never really eaten mcflurries before experts chime in alrighty so there you have it mcdonald's first four offerings of their worldwide favorites of the four i definitely like the stroopwafel mcflurry the best if you've had any of these let me know down in the comments which one is your favorites or if you live outside of the us let me know what your favorite mcdonald's offerings are i want to know about them there are so many very interesting ones who knows someday i might be able to go alrighty so thank you guys so much for joining me please check out my drive-through playlist where i try other things in my car and yeah thanks so much for watching i hope you guys enjoyed that one i hope you guys learned something please share this video with your friends follow me on social media like this video subscribe and i shall see in the next one too take care bye felt that one coming definitely feel like i've got some scoop waffle and some like lettuce some aaron lettuce like up in there yeah lovelygreetings my beautiful lovelies it's emmy welcome back once again to my car to another mcdonald's taste test unfortunately i am not in hawaii if you missed my last mcdonald's taste test which was in hawaii i will put the link above and down below today i am just in rhoda island but i am going to be tasting some international foods mcdonald's has unveiled four international menu items that come from different countries and i'm going to be tasting them today today is june 6 and from two to five today at participating mcdonald's you could take some foreign money and purchase one of the menu items so i walked into my mcdonald's and i used 100 japanese yen to purchase i believe it's this one mcstream bacon burger now this is supposed to represent spain there it is oh seated sesame bun looks just like a regular hamburger it has a bit of bacon on it some onion some sauce and this cheese is smoked gouda two slices of that one beef patty more sauce here we go itadakimasu gave me lots of napkins which i appreciate immediately i am struck by the amount of smokiness in there the cheese is smoky the patty tastes smoky and the bacon of course is smoky interesting it tastes a little bit more like those mcdonald's gourmet burgers that they had out for a little while like it's trying to be fancy what i do like about this burger is the inclusion and the amount of fresh onion in there i feel like it really kind of enlivens things and kind of takes it out of the kind of liquid smoke thing that's going on here burger patty itself is pretty generous and fat looks a lot fatter than what we would get typically in say a quarter pounder or something like that it does have kind of a chewy texture to it which is let me take another bite with some more sauce i feel like i didn't get any sauce on that bite the sauce looks a bit like the big mac sauce but it's missing all that relish so it's kind of sweet and man-easy but yeah this burger it's okay it's a bit smoky if you like smoky burgers and cheese you might like this one for me so that's the spanish mixture bacon burger speaking of bacon let's try these next now these come from australia i actually saw these when i was in hawaii and these are the cheesy bacon fries mcdonald's fries look a little bit like bacons and some cheese on top this all sounds good and somehow very familiar like why don't we have these in the u.s like this seems like it would do well here all right let's get these go hmm it's a bit much for me very very salty and surprisingly not all that bacony the cheese sauce is just like nacho cheese sauce so when you get one on a fry which incidentally is pretty soggy by now because it's soaked up all that nacho cheese it's a bit like deep fried macaroni and cheese very very rich and somehow excessive but i'm not really getting a huge bacon flavor i'm actually really surprised by that because there's a good amount of bacon these are kind of like wetter bacon bits the pieces are small when you eat the bacon straight up you're like okay that's bacon but on the actual fries themselves they don't have that strong of a flavor i don't like how it makes everything so soggy and i'm not suggesting that there'd be any direct way to prevent that you are drowning your fries in sauce so it's understandable that they would get soft but i don't know that the cheese really does anything to enhance the fries i think for me mcdonald's fries are their best when they are fried fresh when you have them right out of the fryer and once they come out of the fryer the quality of the fry drops precipitously with the amount of time they come out of the fryer the longer they sit out the faster they go stale and that for mcdonald's fries in my opinion is a very very short window wow there's some birds hanging out here hey birds i'll share with you later there's a little puddle here and they're all kind of taking a little bird bath in the puddle very very cute i think i would just rather have a really great fresh batch of mcdonald's french fries rather than covering them in the sauce maybe it's my preference for garlic fries i love ballpark garlic fries they're fantastic and comparatively speaking these just aren't that great oh well alrighty so now we're gonna have another sandwich and just this one and this one comes from canada and this is the chicken sandwich you can get it fried or grilled it has lettuce tomato and provolone cheese and some sauce on the bottom here i actually like this one i'm not a huge chicken sandwich type of person although i really do love mcchicken sandwiches this works for me the fried chicken cutlet is familiar in the sense that it tastes a lot like a mcchicken because it has tons of black pepper in it and it's fried nice and crisp like that then you've got some more fancy things you've got the sauce in there that's a little bit sweet and it works the bun i'm not a huge fan of i'm not into brioche buns i just want the soft and squishy bun but i do like the inclusion of all those vegetable crunch elements it goes well with the crunch of the crispy chicken and the sauce works i'm gonna take another bite because i didn't get any onion on that bite on that second bite i got a really good taste of the sauce they use tastes a little bit basiled a little bit like salad dressing which makes me like this a little less maybe just because i'm wishing for a mcchicken sandwich which is super simple you've got your mayo you've got your lettuce you've got your chicken cutlet that's been deep fried this is definitely more and more excessive so basically this is a mcdonald's mashup of a caprese sandwich and a mcchicken so you've got the basil and the tomato and then you've got the deep fried chicken patty now this one is the one that i'm most excited about this is the stroop waffle mcflurry and this comes from the netherlands now if you've never had a stroopwafel before it's one of my favorite cookies it consists of two layers of very very thin waffle and the inside has a little bit of syrup inside it has a little bit of a cinnamon flavor buttery delicious so so good with tea coffee what you do is you take the cookie and you rest it on top of your tea mug or coffee mug and it softens the syrup inside a bit delectable honestly one of my favoritest cookies ever so that's why i'm excited about this so here's the mcflurry it's starting to melt as you can see but there are chunks of waffle in there all right let's give this a go huh well hmm now i wasn't expecting the cookie pieces to be so hard because you hear that they're kind of crunchy but of course mcflurry is a milkshake it's like a frozen dessert so that probably solidifies the cookies a bit the base tastes like a typical mcflurry vanilla smooth a bit like a runnier soft serve and the cookie pieces are in there but they're a little bit too crunchy and hard but the flavor is pretty close you've got a nice cinnamon flavor a little touch of nutmeg in there yeah i think of all the four things this one does it for me but you know i've got a sweet tooth as it warms up in your mouth it does get chewier and more reminiscent of swoop waffle initially when you bite into it it's a bit like a heath bar you got that kind of toffee crunch but then as it warms up you're like okay i taste you stroup waffle yeah this is the one of the four this is the one that does it for me in terms of accuracy of the flavor it's trying to capture and in terms of just successfulness of a product it's weird so these spoons are hollow i thought this might be a straw but it's not why does it do this okay mcflurry experts why am i missing something the handle of this spoon is square and it looks like it has some sort of purpose like there should be i don't know it's kind of lit or something what's happening here it's not a straw it doesn't go all the way through oh maybe it does no not really people tell me what am i missing here oh maybe if i plug up this hole in the back right here there's a hole this will be a straw no what's going on okay i don't know obviously i've never really eaten mcflurries before experts chime in alrighty so there you have it mcdonald's first four offerings of their worldwide favorites of the four i definitely like the stroopwafel mcflurry the best if you've had any of these let me know down in the comments which one is your favorites or if you live outside of the us let me know what your favorite mcdonald's offerings are i want to know about them there are so many very interesting ones who knows someday i might be able to go alrighty so thank you guys so much for joining me please check out my drive-through playlist where i try other things in my car and yeah thanks so much for watching i hope you guys enjoyed that one i hope you guys learned something please share this video with your friends follow me on social media like this video subscribe and i shall see in the next one too take care bye felt that one coming definitely feel like i've got some scoop waffle and some like lettuce some aaron lettuce like up in there yeah lovely\n"