This October, Burger King has teamed up with one of the most iconic Halloween families: The Addams Family!

This fall marks the 60th anniversary of the original series, and fans are eagerly awaiting season 2 of Wednesday. However, BK has opted to brand its seasonal lineup with the animated movies instead. (I enjoyed the 2019 film, but the 2021 sequel was literally the worst version of the franchise I’ve seen. And I’ve seen most incarnations.)

Representing the family matriarch is Morticia’s Kooky Chocolate Shake, which mixes soft-serve ice cream with chocolate cake batter fudge, topped with black and purple cookie bits. (It seems like a missed opportunity not to call this a Kooky Cookie Shake or a Kooky Cocoa Shake.)

Let’s get this out of the way first: chocolate cake and chocolate shakes seem like something that Morticia Frump Addams is unlikely to eat. For someone who enjoys cooking aardvark, yak, eye of newt, and cookies with bats and lizards, chocolate just seems too gauche. And she also seems unlikely to feed it to her carnivorous plant Cleopatra.

But for me, someone who does not keep nooses or iron maidens hanging around the house, I really enjoyed the shake. Since it is made with cake batter fudge, it is a richer, more sophisticated chocolate shake than one you would get made with chocolate syrup.

The cookie pieces are a standard chocolate sandwich cookie, but the creme filling is purple. They have a good flavor, but perhaps more importantly, they provide some textural contrast to the soft shake. But there’s not too many of them to become annoying.

At the bottom of the cup, I scooped up some of the cake batter fudge. It had a slightly gritty texture and a rich, almost buttery flavor. This tells me they actually put some effort into this limited-time offering, instead of just putting in a nondescript syrup and pretending it’s fancy.

Morticia’s Kooky Chocolate Shake is a scream. Or, rather, a scree-yum.

Purchased Price: $4.69
Size: Regular
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 740 calories, 30 grams of fat, 12 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 55 milligrams of cholesterol, 690 milligrams of sodium, 106 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of fiber, 82 grams of sugar, and 13 grams of protein.

Perhaps the most intriguing product from Burger King’s Addams Family Menu is Gomez’s Churro Fries, fried crispy pastry dough tossed in cinnamon sugar and served warm with chocolate sauce.

Wednesday’s Whopper looks cool with its purple bun, and Morticia’s Kooky Chocolate Shake sounds delightful with black and purple cookie pieces and chocolate cake batter fudge. But there have been numerous Whoppers with colored buns, and the shake sounds like it’s just a chocolate shake with cookie bits. However, how many major fast food chains have offered us a churros and chocolate combo? I can’t think of one.

The dippable dessert comes in four-, eight-, and twelve-piece orders and is served in an Addams Family-themed box with a section where you can put your chocolate sauce container, similar to the Chicken Fries bawk-s. I got an eight-piece order because four didn’t seem like much, and I expected these to be awesome.

However, they were disappointing.

Before dipping a churro into the sauce, I had to try it sans sauce. That was a mistake because it tasted plain, just fried dough with a hint of sweetness. I could taste more oil than anything sweet. I wondered if mine were tossed in cinnamon sugar because it didn’t taste like it. When I smelled the others in the box, I got a faint sweet scent, and after eating the first one plain, there was an accumulation of seasoning on my fingers, which had a light cinnamon sugar flavor. So maybe mine didn’t get tossed with enough seasoning?

The chocolate sauce helped my order taste better. There was more than enough of it in the container for all eight pieces with double dipping. The dark sauce covered up most of the oiliness, but that also meant it masked whatever hint of sweetness the churros had. Sure, the chocolate’s sugariness made up for it, but if these had a more robust cinnamon sugar flavor, they would’ve been excellent with the sauce. (Side note: I also dipped Burger King’s fries into it and enjoyed it more than the churros.)

Because of my disheartening experience with the churro fries, I decided to get another order from a different location. The cinnamon sugar flavor with my second order may have been slightly better, but they needed more seasoning.

Gomez’s Churro Fries had the potential to be great. They have a pleasant crispiness and are a decent size, but like the number of Addams Family references in this review, the cinnamon sugariness is lacking.

Purchased Price: $6.59*
Size: 8-piece order
Rating: 6 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 300 calories, 18 grams of fat, 6 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 20 milligrams of cholesterol, 270 milligrams of sodium, 34 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 10 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.

*Because I live on a rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, things are a bit pricier here. You’ll probably pay less than I did.

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