McDonald’s has officially launched its new Dr. Seuss’s The Grinch Meal, marking the fast-food chain’s latest holiday promotion. Available for a limited time at participating U.S. restaurants, the meal is highlighted by Dill Pickle ‘Grinch Salt’ McShaker Fries.
Customers can sprinkle the tangy seasoning into a McShaker bag with their delicious, crispy golden fries and shake for a bold, flavor-packed twist. The Dill Pickle ‘Grinch Salt’ McShaker Fries can be purchased separately or paired with a Big Mac or 10-piece Chicken McNugget and a medium drink.
The Grinch is at it again, devising a mischievous plot.
He wanted to change World Famous Fries® for the worse, or at least that's what he thought.
All it would take is a sprinkle of Grinch Salt dill pickle seasoning.
New Dill Pickle McShaker Fries are a plan with, at best, flawed reasoning.
For Whoville embraces flavors of all kinds.
Even mouth-puckering tanginess, the mean green one would come to find.
Little did the Grinch know, what he deemed suspicious...
Fans everywhere would find sneakily delicious.
This isn't the first time McDonald's has teamed up with The Grinch, but it is the first time the current "Grinch Meal" (with Dill Pickle “Grinch Salt” McShaker Fries and socks) is rolling out in the U.S. The "Grinch Meal" actually launched in Canada last year and also featured the Dill Pickle seasoning.
Each of the meals will also come with a pair of spirited socks inspired by the classic holiday story. There are four different pairs to collect, each with different holiday designs and scribbled messages from the Grinch himself.
The socks are cute, but some earlier Grinch campaigns that launched globally last year actually included little ornaments of characters like The Grinch and Max the Dog. In Australia, the promotion included collectible sand‑globes or snow‑globe–style ornaments.
The Grinch is one of the most recognizable Christmas characters in the world, right up there with Santa, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Frosty the Snowman. Created by Dr. Seuss, he debuted in the 1957 children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. It was the 1966 animated TV special, however, that made him a holiday staple. In the years since, the character has appeared in multiple adaptations, including the 2000 live-action film starring Jim Carrey and the 2018 animated film from Illumination, in which he was voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.