What is the Chick-fil-A Frosted Key Lime?
A close cousin of Chick-fil-A’s Frosted Lemonade, the Frosted Key Lime is nearly identical with the same mix of vanilla IceDream soft serve and lemonade, but with the addition of lime flavoring.
How is it?
I enjoyed this with as much pleasure as Chick-fil-A employees claim to have every time I visit. Actually, maybe more pleasure, because I have serious doubts my presence gives said employees that much joy, but this frosty drink certainly did for me.
Surprisingly, I didn’t taste the lemonade, but the pleasant yet not overpowering lime flavor came through along with the vanilla soft serve. The lime gave it a nice tart and sour taste that was well balanced against the sweetness of the soft serve.
Is there anything else you need to know?
The word “pie” — one of the greatest words in the English language — is absent from this product’s name, and that’s my only quibble here. As is, the Frosted Key Lime is delicious. Maybe it’s because I got spoiled by some of the Dairy Queen Blizzards with graham cracker crumbs to complete the pie experience, but I couldn’t help but think the addition of that taste and texture might take this to the next level. Unfortunately, I do not carry graham cracker crumbs on my person (except sometimes accidentally after eating pie), so my theory is still unproven.
According to Chick-fil-A, the green color of the Frosted Key Lime comes from spirulina and turmeric. Not having any idea what the former is and only an inkling on the latter, I turned to my friend Google, who informed me that spirulina is a “biomass of cyanobacteria.” Mmmm, sounds good, right? It turns out it’s just blue-green algae. That’s certainly not something I would normally put in my drink, but that description at least sounded a little more palatable. At that point, however, I decided to end my biology lesson and let the turmeric mystery remain unsolved.
Conclusion:
Even though what is essentially a lime shake might not seem like anything special, this does stand out compared to the endless variety of shake flavors available. Sometimes simple is the way to go, and the Frosted Key Lime proves that. It’s a really good treat.
Chick-fil-A says this will be available until May 25, or “while supplies last.” I’m not sure the world will run out of soft serve, lemonade, or limes before then, but I don’t know much about the current supply of spirulina, so don’t dawdle.
Purchased Price: $3.95
Size: Large
Rating: 9 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 450 calories, 7 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 25 milligrams of cholesterol, 200 milligrams of sodium, 90 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fiber, 64 grams of sugar and 7 grams of protein. (Also available with diet lemonade which reduces the calories, carbs and sugar).
There was an east coast mall chain that had fantastic frosted key lime shakes back in the 90’s. Sort of a key lime orange julius type of thing. This is the closest I’ve seen to that in about 20 years. Will make sure to try it before all the limes disappear from the face of the earth.
I tried it too and thought it was wonderful. I will def be getting it again before May!
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Chick-fil-a supports hate groups. Don’t support Chick-fil-a. Really, really gross move. I care more about people than if a stupid milkshake is good or not. Newsflash! I’m not going there to try it anyway.
Anyone who gives their money to this places sucks- wah wah, go ahead and disagree if you other commenters want to. You can be hateful, bad people if you want to be. But Impulsive Buy should do better.
It’s great. I hope they make it a full time menu item instead of taking it away in May. And the review is right in that it would be damn near perfect if they added graham cracker crumbs or some kind of dough crumble to mimic pie crust. Obviously they aren’t doing it for cost reasons but it would definitely make this 9 out of 10 item go to 11 out of 10
mine came with a cherrie & whip cream;)