UPDATE (7/25/2016): McDonald's Gilroy garlic fries were such a hit—selling out immediately in the original four locations—that the company has decided to roll them out to 240 restaurants across the Bay Area starting on July 27.
As if McDonald’s fries weren’t evil enough, now the company is trying its hand at some locally sourced ingredient action, namely garlic fries made with garlic from Gilroy in California, aka the “Garlic Capital of the World.”
Our #WorldFamousFries meet #GilroyGarlic only in the Bay Area! Try them at four South Bay restaurants today! pic.twitter.com/J7O4PSdEXJ
— McDonald's Bay Area (@McD_BayArea) May 3, 2016
Via TIME, the McDonald's press release says: “The new fries are made-to-order in McDonald’s kitchens where restaurant employees toss French fries in stainless steel bowls with a purée mix that includes ingredients, such as chopped Gilroy garlic and olive oil, parmesan cheese, parsley and a pinch of salt.”
Four McDonald’s restaurants are testing garlic fries in the San Francisco Bay Area; Eater confirms the locations are in the South Bay (San Jose and Santa Clara). If the testing continues to go well, the garlic fries will be rolled out to 250 Bay Area locations in August. No word if they’ll go even farther, but if they do, you’ll definitely smell them coming.