News: McDonald's - BOGO Quarter Pounders June 18 - 20

McDonald's entices you to try their three new Quarter Pounder burgers by offering a "buy-one-get-one-free" offer on Quarter Pounders starting tomorrow, Tuesday June 18, and running until Thursday, June 20, at participating locations.

Review: 7-Eleven - French Vanilla Iced Coffee

7-Eleven's French Vanilla Iced Coffee is a mix of coffee, sugar, milk, plus artificial and natural flavors in a chilled pre-mix. You just add ice in a cup and fill it yourself similar to a soda fountain. It's described as "light" and "sweet" on the 7-Eleven website.

7-Eleven is currently running a promotion where you can buy a 16-ounce medium cup for $1 (normally about $1.59).

News: McDonald's Tests Dollar Menu Expansion

McDonald's is looking to expand the Dollar Menu with new "Dollar Menu & More." The new menu expands the menu with some new burgers and new variations on current value burgers like the McChicken and McDouble. Most menu items range from $1 to $2.

Notable new items include the Dijon Swiss Burger and the Southwest Burger, while new versions add bacon or tomato and cheese to value-priced chicken and burger platforms. The menu also includes current Dollar Menu items such as the McChicken, soft serve cones, and the Cheddar Onion Burger.

Local Review: Grill 'Em All - Primate Fries

Grill 'Em All's Primate Fries are their take on In-N-Out's Animal Fries. The key differences are shredded cheddar cheese instead of American cheese and the fries themselves. The grilled onions and Thousand Island dressing remain the same.

An order costs $5.

Around the World: McDonald's Singapore - New Durian McFlurry

McDonald's Singapore makes an interesting move for a fast food chain of general appeal by incorporating an extremely polarizing fruit into their latest, limited-time McFlurry, the new Durian Crunch McFlurry.

For those of you who have never heard of or encountered the durian fruit, it is an extremely pungent large fruit with a spiky shell that would not look out of place as the head of a mace.

Around the World: Wendy's Malaysia Goes Local with Chicken Rendang

In what may be an example of a truly localized dish from a major fast food chain, Wendy's Malaysia offers new Chicken Rendang Deluxe, which is basically a fast food version of the local dish of the same name (sans the deluxe).

Rendang originates from Indonesia and is popular among several countries and Southeast Asia. It's a type of heavily-spiced curried meat dish that's been reduced so that there's not much liquid remaining.

Frozen Friday: Fruttare Coconut and Milk Popsicles

Fruttare is Unilever's worldwide brand for juice- or milk-based popsicles that was just recently introduced here in the U.S. Coconut and Milk Fruttare bars are mostly milk, sugar, water and coconut in frozen form.

A box of four bars typically costs about $3, but I received these courtesy of Unilever.

News: Red Robin - New Wolverine-inspired Burgers

Red Robin is doing a cross-promotion with this summer's The Wolverine movie (the super hero not the animal) and offering two Wolverine-themed burgers: the Berserker Burger and the Kuzuri Style Tavern Double burger.

Review: McDonald's Egg White Delight McMuffin

McDonald's Egg White Delight McMuffin is a new option on McDonald's Egg McMuffin and substitutes the egg and American cheese for grilled egg whites and white cheddar processed cheese. The rest of the sandwich is the same: a toasted English muffin with 8g of whole grains and extra lean Canadian bacon (i.e. smoked ham).

My local McDonald's offers these for $2.89 each.

News: Jack in the Box - New Summer Menu Items

Jack in the Box welcomes summer with four new menu additions: Jack's Big Stack, Big Waffle Stack, Loaded Chili Cheese Wedges, and Iced Coffee. The tagline accompanying the new items is "Go Big or Go Hungry."

Jack's Big Stack comes on toasted Sourdough bread with two jumbo beef patties, American cheese, pickle slices ,onion rings, mustard, and mayo onion sauce.

News: Wienerschnitzel - New Jalapeno Cheese Corn Dog

For a limited time this summer, Wienerschnitzel serves up the new Jalapeno Cheese Corn Dog. It features a jalapeno and cheese stuffed hot dog with a deep-fried coating of corn meal batter. It's a basically a spicy option for corn dog fans.

Also featured this summer are new Summer Sippers, and new Chili Burgers.

Summer Sippers are flavored lemonades with Strawberry, Mango, and Blackberry options available. They're made with a base of Tropicana lemonade.

News: Papa John's - Double Bacon Six Cheese Pizza is Back

Papa John's limited time pizza continues this month with the return of the Double Bacon Six Cheese Pizza.

The pizza comes topped with Canadian bacon, hickory-smoked bacon, 3-cheese blend (provolone, Asiago, and Fontina), mozzarella, and Parmesan-Romano cheeses.