Aussies Are Celebrating The Macca's Choccy Soft Serve, But '90s Kids Know It's Been There All Along

Did no one else order these as a child?

Look, there's nothing we love more than Macca's dropping a new menu item.

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Which is why Aussies collectively lost their minds when they discovered that Macca's was trialling a choccy soft serve for a "limited time only".

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GO NOW BEFORE THEYRE GONESKIES #maccas #mcdonalds @McDonald’s Australia PLEASE KEEP THESE

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A TikTok by Big Brother contestant Tilly Whitfield is spreading the news that choc soft serves are back, with Tilly imploring us to "go now before they're goneskies". The TikTok shows a sign that's been put up at Tilly's local Macca's that says "we are trialling new chocolate soft serve for a limited time only, try one today".

Macca's has separately confirmed that the trial is happening in select locations across NSW, Qld and SA.

But I'm here to bust an illusion or two...

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Turns out choc soft serves have *always* been on the menu.

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When you order your regular soft serve on the touchscreen menus, there's an option to customise your item — and you can choose chocolate instead of plain old vanilla. 

I will personally stake my life on the fact that they've been around since at least the early noughties.

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They were my go-to Macca's order on a Friday after school — and there was even the option of a half-n-half swirl, which is available as part of this "new trial". 

And while — yes, it's true — "secret menu" choc soft serves are admittedly hard to actually obtain, they're by no means mythical.

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Over the last decade or so of consistently ordering choc soft serves, nine times out 10, I've been met with blank stares and vanilla soft serves. But on rare occasions, I've been handed a decadent, sumptuous morsel of creamy chocolate ice cream and the dogged pursuit has been worth it. 

So yes, the new roll out of chocolate soft serves is absolutely something we should all get behind because it's been the best Macca's menu item we could never reliably enjoy — until maybe now.

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Let us know in the comments or vote below if you've been #blessed enough — whether in your childhood or as part of this new limited edition trial — to try this fabled dessert.