It's that time of year again: half price shakes after 8 at Sonic. Yay! I decided to branch out from my usual order (caramel hot fudge malt) and try a few new flavors. Salted caramel is amazingly good- a new favorite! Last night I tried one I'd been curious about for a while: jalapeno chocolate. Sounds good in theory- sweet with a little kick? Hell yeah! Count me in! But the reality is not so great. The first sip, I tasted nothing but chocolate malt. A few more sips in, I convinced myself that I could taste a little jalapeno, but I think I was mostly imagining it. And then: a chunk. Oh. There it is. Turns out the jalapeno chocolate malt is literally a chocolate malt with some jalapeno slices mixed in. Yeah- the pickled jalapeno slices like they put on nachos. Sorry, but it just doesn't work. I think it would have been really good if it had been blended with, say, some chipotle powder instead; it might have even worked to blend in some of the jalapeno "juice" instead of the slices.
TL;DR: Chocolate malt=good. Chocolate malt with chunks of pickled jalapeno=not good. Sorry Sonic, this one's an "Ick!"
Sorry no pictures, I didn't think of blogging it til afterward. And I'm not going to go buy another one just to take pictures! Really, it just looked like a regular chocolate malt til I got to the bottom, where there was a handful of chocolate malt-covered jalapeno slices.
Any other weird-sounding fast food items you've been too chicken to try? Let me know in the comments and I'll go try it and post a review!
