#ThirstyThursday: Burger King’s Avocado Banana Coca-Cola Float Review: It’s Like A Lookalike Bruce Banner Who Can’t Turn Into The Hulk

It’s a Thursday…

And you know what it means!

It’s ThirsTeaThursday!

…Or not.

It’s just #ThirstyThursday!

We have had many ABCs. American Born Chinese… ABC Soup… Apple Beetroot Carrot Smoothies…

And now we have a new meaning to ABC!

Today, we’ll be reviewing…

Avocado Banana Coca-Cola Float!

Goes for $2.30 per cup.

Avocado? Healthy things in my fast food? Hmmm?

Blasphemy!

Or…

Revolutionary!

Which one is it? Only one way to find out.

(If you’re also secretly excited for the Bulgogi Chicken, be patient. Tomorrow is #FastFoodFriday and you know what that means!)

White On The Outside, Yellow On The Inside

That doesn’t look… as green as it looks on the ad.

Which is like when you call for the Hulk to rescue you, and you only get Bruce Banner.

But maybe… just maybe the taste will say otherwise. Bruce Banner still has a chance to transform into the Hulk right?

Looks can be deceiving.

And then I tasted it.

It is the wonderful taste of…

Bananas.

This is the scenario I imagined happened for this product.

Manager: Aight guys. We need a new product.

Recipe Developer ‘Avocado’: How about Avocado Banana?

Intern: And then we’ll add a float version, with Coke in it! It’ll be the new ABC!

Manager: Sounds good. This operation shall be known as ABC from now on.

Few days later…

Recipe Developer ‘Avocado’ and Manager are on leave. Intern is doing some other random thing.

Recipe Developer ‘Banana’: Sup, hows the ABC project going?

Recipe Developer ‘Coke’: Fantastic. It tastes exactly like bananas.

‘Banana’: So, any idea why they called this ABC?

‘Coke’: I dunno, man. Maybe because American Born Chinese are always called bananas. You know, like yellow on the outside, white on the inside. So this banana flavoured soft serve is called ABC instead of just straight banana flavoured, y’know. 

‘Banana’: *pauses for a moment thinking about how banana flavour is supposed to be a fresh new idea* …Sounds good to me. Wanna grab lunch?

In other words… this Avocado Banana ice cream took the A out of ABC (Avocado Banana Coca-Cola), but took on the meaning of ABC (American Born Chinese = Bananas).

This is a Bruce Banner lookalike without the powers to transform into the Hulk. It ain’t no Hulk!

We’re mostly Asians here, so we know how disappointed our parents were when we didn’t bring home the A.

Oh, Burger King. You think your parents will be proud when you didn’t bring the ‘A’vocado back?

Now, to be fair…

Avocados mostly don’t taste like anything. They’re kind of earthy on their own, but they mostly serve as a creamer and enhancer of flavours (because fat carries flavour, and avocado is mostly fats) when combined with other food.

But the problem here is it doesn’t have much of the avocado goodness that seems to enhance the banana-ness.

So, it’s kind of disappointing.

The last question I have is this:

What’s The Proper Way To Eat Floats?

The Coke below the ice cream tastes like Coke. So really, nothing much to say there.

But do I mix the ice cream with the Coke? Or do I eat them separately?

You see, it’s called a float because the ice cream ‘floats’ on top. And if you mix it, the ‘float’ disappears, so it’s technically not a float anymore right?

Either way, my preference is to not mix it.

Here’s what happens when you mix it. Ice cream and soft drinks don’t mix that well together, so they sort of form a hazy solution instead of a nice smooth caramel colour like you see in milk tea.

So you get a Coke flavour, then a hit of bits and bits of ice cream, which can only be described as weird.

If you want to go even weirder, our photographer D-Swag says it tastes like air freshener when combined.

Or Joy, which is not the emotion from eating it but the brand of dishwashing liquid we have in our office.

Let it sit long enough (~30 mins), and the colour of the Coke gets washed away, which is interesting.

To me, the flavour after mixing sort of tasted like chewing gum after chewing the flavour away.

At least when I don’t mix it, I get banana ice cream and Coke, which ain’t a bad thing.

I don’t know what kind of people out there mix their floats, but y’all are weird people.

As for the ABC, for the price, it ain’t bad. But as an ABC (Avocado Banana Coke), it fails terribly.

Rating: 1/5 (as an Avocado Banana Coke float)

Rating: 3/5 (as a Banana Coke float)