McDonalds McDonald's: Get a Vanilla Soft-Serve Cone for $1.00 Until August 31 Last Chance for $1 Vanilla Cones at McDonald's!
get this dealTaste the summer with a sweet treat from McDonald's, where you can get a Vanilla Soft-Serve Cone for just $1.00 all summer long!
You'll need the McDonald's Canada app (Android, iOS) to get this annual favourite -- simply open the app and tap Offers for quick access to this deal.
For reference, soft-serve cones are regularly $1.99 in Ontario (pricing may vary by region).
This offer is available until August 31 at participating McDonald's locations across Canada -- click here to find the restaurant nearest you.
If you're not in the mood for a cone, you can still cool down with Summer Drink Days and get a small fountain drink or McCafé iced coffee for $1.00.
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View allThere are other alternatives that are safer for your health. They may cost more, but can one really put a price on their health?
2. Any McDonalds restaurants in Toronto offer year-round $1 cones?
I have a strong suspicion that the definition of ice cream varies by state/province/place. so its easier for mcdonalds to just drop the words 'ice cream'.
I think they have a similar problem with the word 'vanilla' and whether that can be used.
either way it ends today in most places
(in my town there are 3 mcdonalds that run the $1 cone promo all year , yay)
The only thing I don't really get about this line of thought is why people do this knee jerk stuff after "learning something" they really should have known all along. It reminds me of the time a friend of mine, who "doesn't eat pork" didn't know that the vast majority of sausage...is pork. So this guy had been eating like sausage McMuffin and breakfast wraps/sandwiches at Timmeh's for years until one day a couple years ago I noticed he was eating this and said, "wait a minute, I thought you didn't eat pork?" LOL. And from then on, he didn't eat it any longer! But there I was, just thinking what the hell does it matter now?* You've been eating it and enjoying it for years and all of a sudden now you can't? To me, that ship has sailed and you may as well forget about it. It's not like you're getting cancer from eating this stuff in the immediate sense; and ice cream, or whatever variant, is not exactly health food to begin with. So does it really matter that people don't eat [insert food] after some "crazy revelation" that was really just obvious to begin with? But anyway that's just my take on it. If I liked something for years and was eating it and then one day someone tells me something that isn't desirable, I don't just stop eating it. Similar to the "bugs in strawberries" bit where you can see the bugs that are hiding in there if you put them in saline, I never stopped eating strawberries because this all of a sudden becomes "viral news" .
*Yes I get ppl don't eat certain meats for religious reasons but it's not entirely clear this particular guy I was talking about, pork is strictly against his religion. He's not Muslim nor Jewish, I know that much.
On that note I was really disappointed in the promos this year anyway, particularly the removal of the smoothies and frappes from the Dollar Drinks. I've probably gone to McD's less this year than any other year since I was a kid. High prices and a crappy summer drinks promo kept me away.
You're certainly entitled to that opinion and to not eat soft serve but c'mon now we can post a YT video on "why you should avoid [blank] at all costs" where that blank is any food you can think of. Yet most people don't go by that stuff or say things like "no one should be eating it!" based on some random YT video to that effect. Otherwise you'd probably consume nothing besides water and air...and even then I'm sure there's videos on all the terrible pollutants and additives in that stuff too.
We could go on, ad nauseam, about "no one should be eating McDonald's" or "no one should be eating fast food" as well, but I doubt people in a thread about a $1 cone @ McD's are going to care that much.
They have a 4 hour cleaning cycle and take 4 hours to make the soft serve ice cream when started up.
Why McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken and How To Fix Them
https://youtu.be/2uCpY3tFTIA
https://youtu.be/tQSKaQNuwJY
After learning about how frozen dessert does not melt at room temperature (from some YouTubers doing their own experiments to show how bad this artificial stuff truly is), I've learned it isn't really ice cream because it's made from different things but mostly an edible oil product. Dairy spoils fast at room temperature, but frozen dessert stayed pristine for days. So now, I try to avoid buying frozen dessert if I can. There are the promo packs from Nestle that do go for very cheap at Walmart every summer for $1.97 until it's now $2.42 on sale.
Anyways, the end of soft serve promos generally signals the last hurrah and end of another summer. Till next year.
Even though most people love McD's soft serve cones, it's a nasty pain in the rear to clean, sanitize, and clean the machine. Doesn't help that it would be "broken" so often. I am suspecting there are some outages that are a result of not having anyone to clean the machine since it must be done properly or there will be a lot of unwell customers.
Even if is a better deal (hard disagree, completely subjective) there’s like one wendys for every 500 McDonald’s.
To the Mensa candidates complaining about ice cream vs soft serve…. How do you guys get through life?
I've explained this several times on RFD but here we go again. Soft-serve, from anywhere, is never ice cream. It simply cannot be ice cream whether you're buying it at McD's, DQ, Wonderland, the local fair/carnival, wherever. McD has not "pulled off any scheme" here, that's what soft serve is (NOT ice cream).
What you're talking about with the Breyers and "frozen dessert" is not the same since Breyers is not soft-serve, it's still a hard "ice cream" or, by regulations, frozen dessert. It should also be noted that only the "cheap" Breyers (in the blue cartons) is frozen dessert. The stuff that comes in the black cartons branded "Creamery Style" is indeed ice cream as are most of the "Canadian" flavours in the red cartons. The exception being the non-dairy stuff which is also in a black container but being non-dairy it's obviously (or should be obvious) not ice cream.
Lots of other brands do this too, it's not just Breyers--there's often a cheaper line which is "frozen dessert". Often is also the case with "branded" chocolate bar type flavours like Rolo, Smarties, etc. (none of those are ice cream either). But none of this is soft serve we're talking about.
In short, no soft serve is ice cream and this is not any kind of "McD's thing", it's what you are buying. However you can get hard "ice cream" that is not technically ice cream and is really frozen dessert. This stuff must be labelled as such, according to regulations.
It is soft serve. Not real ice cream
I guess calling it a cone is better than calling it frozen dessert
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As for cones, it's up to the person making it (or their manager). Sometimes they load it up, but usually they don't. It's interesting that everything at McDonald's is so controlled and standardized, but not that.
Choose the option to have it in the cup. That way you can take your time to enjoy it at your own pace, and using the provided spoon to scoop the ice cream on to the cone and take bites with it at the same time time. Then, finish eating the remaining ice cream your cup.
https://mcbroken.com/
hwy 7/Valleymede
Yonge/Elgin Mills
Yonge/King
Aurora,
Yonge/Industrial
Bayview/Hartwell
Walmart @ Wellington
Newmarket
Davis/Leslie
Green Lane/Yonge
Yonge/Eagle
Been buying from above locations and have been $1 as long as I can remember this year. I was sure it was before the summer drink promo.
Which locations have you been to for $1 since May?
Those locations that I mentioned have been offering $1 cone for a very time as I recall paying for a $1 cone and getting free fries for many times.