For every holiday season, chain fast food restaurants around the country sell festive shakes to go with the season. Some are great, but others not so much. Despite not being much of a fast food eater, I spontaneously decided to compare and contrast several holiday shakes around the ‘burg.

The first place I went to was age old Micky D’s, where they were selling an eggnog shake. I went into the taste negative after finding out that the medium shake alone had 680 calories. However, the shake wasn’t awful. I found that the eggnog flavor was too sweet and unnatural tasting, but very addictive. The texture was a thick cream, instead of a regular old milkshake. The shake was a total of $2.12.

I then traveled across town to try the next shake; Chick-Fil-A’s chocolate peppermint shake. This shake was actually of a shake-like consistency, not unnatural chemical goop. There were also actual pieces of peppermint in it which made the flavor really strong. One thing that was frustrating was that the consistency was very thick, so it was hard to get out of the straw. I enjoyed the peppermint chocolate shake way more than the eggnog shake; I drank it down to the bottom.

Further down the road from Chick-Fil-A was Dairy Queen, which housed my favorite shake of the trio. Unlike Chick-Fil-A, Dairy Queen had just a plain peppermint shake, without chocolate. The look of the shake was was the best so far. Atop the pink colored icecream was a mountain of whipped cream, sprinkled with crushed candy canes. The others just had stereotypical whipped cream and maraschino cherry.This milkshake had the best flavor. It didn’t have an overpowering peppermint taste, and it was also smoother to drink.

On my milkshake journey I experienced the classic saying of ‘you get what you pay for’. The eggnog shake was the least expensive, and I liked it the least. The shake from Chick-Fil-A was my second favorite, and was the second most expensive. My favorite shake was from Dairy Queen, which also happened to be the most expensive one.