We asked for a regular-sized order of bacon cheese fries or, as the snack is officially known, the Baconator Fries. It cost $3.25.
We surveyed the cheesy warm goodness before making the trek back toward the office for a more thorough taste test.
McDonald's rolled out its Cheesy Bacon Fries to locations in Hawaii and Northern California in November 2018.
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But now the snack is going national, with locations across the US offering the loaded fries since late January.
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The chain is also giving its menu a bacon makeover, adding the ingredient onto classic McDonald's burgers.
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The container consisted of a good portion of McDonald's fries, but with a gross, Velveeta-looking dollop of cheese slathered on top and sprinkled with microscopic bacon bits.
We took a bite before taking our orders back to the office — and as expected, it did not taste great.
The idea of the new McDonald's menu item is to attract customers to purchase it as a snack rather than as a side for a meal.
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We gave them as much of a chance as we could, but the lackluster cheese and the less-than-desirable amount of bacon made the order difficult to endure.
We ended up fishing out the uncontaminated fries from underneath the cheesy muck. Those were yummy at least.
And perhaps it was a fluke, but the gobs of cheese that decorated the inside of the container also didn't help.
We alternated between picking the fries apart with our fingers and eating them with a fork — both methods worked.
And so besides the packaging (McDonald's red-and-yellow Cheesy Bacon Fries-branded carton was a nice touch), Wendy's take on bacon-topped cheese fries wins hands-down.
This is one battle that Wendy's wins in a long-running war between the two chains.
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