McDonald's Prosperity Burger Chicken and Prosperity Desserts

McDonalds's is having their inaugural promotional burger - the Prosperity Burger to commemorate the Chinese New Year celebrations. The Prosperity Burger is an elongated burger with a beef patty (chicken this year) saturated with black pepper sauce and onions.

The Prosperity Burger 2006 now implements a chicken patty instead of a beef patty, which makes sense from a marketing point of view - a chicken burger would have a larger demographic compared to a beef patty (missing out on the Hindu market).

Everyone eats chicken except vegetarians and vegans, but those people shouldn't be going to McDonald's anyway. ;) The recent years has watched a shift in the Prosperity Burger set from just the burger itself to the introduction of curly fries (first debut in '94 as a side order with the Sambal Burger, and yes I'm such a McDonald's geek :p).

The past two years has also witnessed the introduction of the tagline "Enjoy the Many Tastes of Prosperity" with the whole range of the Prosperity Burger set as well as "Prosperity Desserts". The Orange McFizz (Sprite with Minute Maid OJ) comes standard with the meal and there are orange themed desserts - the Peach Orange sundae and the Peach Orange McFlurry with come under the banner of Prosperity Desserts.

Twister Fries replaces the standard fries in this Prosperity Burger meal. It's a twisty version of fries that seems like it has been dunked into the deep fryer more than once, giving it a crispy outer layer. It's great, especially when you bite straight through the spiral, spawning multiple mini Twister Fries. :)

This is the Orange McFizz - a relatively recent introduction which sees the mixture of Minute Maid orange juice with Sprite. It tastes surprisingly good (and it has Vitamin C) and it has earned its place in McDonald's permamenu. It's now paired with the Prosperity Burger meal to complete the orange themed spirit (Mandarin oranges and orange = gold = wealth).

This is the Peach Orange sundae (RM 2.80) which comes in an orange swirl of colors, with the abstract orange syrup adorning the entire circumference of the sundae cup and with the presentation topped off with Mandarin orange pieces and peach chunks.

The Peach Orange McFlurry (RM 4.50) is the McFlurry version of the Peach Orange sundae. It tastes the same and also has the orange and peach pieces blended into the concoction, giving it the distinctive orange hue.

This is the main feature of the meal - the Prosperity Burger (RM 9.88). It didn't come in the Prosperity Burger wrapper coz it's probably too early on and I berated them for not having it yesterday even though they were advertising it (partly due to the fact that I had to search for a parking space and thus, I took it out on them ;)). The burger didn't look too good, and there must have been a mess up somewhere coz I KNOW for a fact that Prosperity Burger has always had onions - raw onions at that, that's why I love them.

The Prosperity Burger didn't have the thick slathering of black pepper sauce that was in all the previous iterations of the Prosperity Burger and the square cut chicken patty looks so familiar it evoked a strong feeling of déjà vu...and then it clicked! It's the EXACT same patty used in the McDonald's Grilled Chicken Foldover [sixthseal.com] that tanked! They're reusing the exact same patty for the Prosperity Burger!

Dammit McDonald's, you McSwindled me... :p