I like 'em and was under no illusion that they were healthy, but great googly moogly, I don’t think I’ll ever look at one in quite the same way again:
Doesn’t look all that scary to me. We are freaking out over a little seaweed/algae and artificial vanilla flavor? The yellow #5 is not great, but lots of processed foods have it.
I still want one!
Oh and the “What you could have instead column is misleading”. If you add all those together, you’re going to be WAY over the carbs and fat of the shake. Just one of those lines replaces the shake’s content for that specific ingredient.
The 800+ calories is far more disturbing than the ingredient list.
What’s in a Shamrock Shake is what’s in every other McDonald’s milkshake, except with different flavoring. Seriously, the milkshake base is identical for all of their shakes; they just add a different flavoring in to make chocolate or Shamrock or whatever. Plus green food coloring, I guess.
Are people genuinely shocked that a big milkshake has a lot of calories in it? Were people ordering them under the impression that they were some kind of health food because they are green?
You read the OP, right?
I was responding more to Telemark’s comment. But even the “exotic and obscure” ingredient list honestly shouldn’t be all that shocking to people, IMO. It’s not news that seaweed is used as thickener in a lot of processed food products, or that sulfites are, or that food dyes are, or whatever. I feel like these articles are just someone’s way of producing some cheap and easy content on a slow news day. “Anything happening? No? Well, go get the list of ingredients in a Shamrock Shake and put it in alarming font, maybe throw in some cancer warnings. That should rile people up for a couple of hours.”
I heard Uncle O’Grimacey wasn’t really Irish.
A “Shamrock Shake” is just a standard McDonald’s vanilla shake with green dye. It’s a seasonal thing, sold only in the weeks right before St. Paddy’s Day.
Unhealthy, yes, but no more so than any other shake served the rest of the year.
What do you want in it? Real rocks?
And mint flavoring.
Obviously not. They’re sham rocks.
Since McDonald’s is where I work, I will ask about how much longer they are to be available with St. Patrick’s Day being over now. To me, they taste like a cold Junior Mint. 
God bless you always!!!
Holly
P.S. Tomorrow the Cherry Berry Chiller and the Frozen Strawberry Lemonade drinks are to be made available again…at least in my area anyways.
It’s been my experience that many McDonalds customers are about as thick as their shakes, both physically and mentally.
I’m guessing that the majority of customers have no idea that there are the same number of calories in a shake as in *two *QuarterPounders. It’s not obvious, and it’s a very common problem with choosing a nutritious diet.
One thing that I have noticed about our menus lately is how the number of calories are there next to each item. Not to put down who ever came up with that idea of course, but to me, the number of carbs should be what it is up there because from what I have been told, a lot of carbs is what can really run up a person’s sugar level.
God bless you always!!! 
Holly
At least Ronald McDonald didn’t beat up a hooker.
A few week ago we thought we hit on a genius idea of combining two March favorites and made a Thin Mint Shamrock Shake in the blender.
It was actually pretty awful. I think the two types of mint flavors don’t match correctly or something.
Meh. Nothing special in one, except the color. They’re still a great “once a year” treat.
Was hoping for some Creme de Menthe. I guess not.