Off The Market: 6 Fun Things We Learned About The McDonald’s McFlurry Maker

As you can see, this thing was more complicated than putting together Mousetrap. Although hypothetically, the payoff would be greater. Still though, we have to wonder how long until a kid got totally bored trying to make his or her own McFlurry and just begged dad to take them to McDonald's. Or was that the plan of this diabolical machine all along?!

Before you added the McFlurry mix you first had to grind together ice, salt, and warm water until it had the consistency of "soft-serve."

I don't know about you, but this plastic didn't seem up to the challenge of making colonial era ice grinding.

Actually didn't take that long. We say: ignore the instructions, just put the pieces where they belong.

Look at the "ingrediants" for a McFlurry. Notice anything missing? Like milk products?! Your McFlurry is made out of potato starch, people!

Each McFlurry "packet" only contained 150 calories. Ice salt water doesn't equal the 620 calories that come in McDonald's restaurants' portions. Where does it all come from? We blame Oreos.