Ice Spice has a drink at Dunkin’, and I knew, in my heart, that she did this for me.
There are many reasons I deserve to be the only person ever reviewing this drink. First, every time I went anywhere while I was studying abroad in London, I requested Ice Spice. The DJs were slightly confused and occasionally accepted my request, but I never stopped pushing the Ice Spice agenda across the pond. Second, I am the self-proclaimed queen of fall. I’m a double September Virgo and I actually count down the days until pumpkin spice returns to Starbucks. No one supports the fall drink takeover like I do.
That being said, welcome, friends and family, to the Ice Spice MUNCHKINS review.
The MUNCHKINS drink, named after her fans, is a frozen coffee with sugar and cream, topped with whipped cream and caramel drizzle. The star of the show: pumpkin munchkins. Yes, there are actual pumpkin munchkins blended into the frozen coffee.
During the fall, my usual Dunkin’ order is an iced pumpkin coffee with a pumpkin donut on the side. This drink seemed to basically blend my order together — a one-and-done sort of deal.
Now, there’s no way I could do this without my friend Charlotte Maravelis, GSB ’25, because, as Ice Spice declared, “She a baddie with her baddie friend,” and I personally think we’re both baddies. Also, she’s my roommate and I asked her to join me for moral support at 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday.
But unfortunately for us, this drink was… not a munch.
The lack of coffee mixed with the lack of pumpkin spice is just disappointing, and there’s way too much caramel. If I thought critically before deciding to review this drink, I would remember that I don’t actually like caramel and probably wouldn’t have ordered it.
There is, however, a nostalgic factor to this drink. It reminds me of being a kid and my mom telling me not to eat the entire bag of candy I got from the mall. Of course, because I’m a kid (12 years old) and why would I listen to my mom, I ate the entire bag. Then, I immediately threw it all up while my mom had to hold back from saying, “I told you so.” I know the drink is bad, but I can’t stop taking another sip, praying the next one is better than the last.
Maravelis did not like the drink either, saying, “I keep wanting it to get better, but it doesn’t.”
“It’s like if you put pumpkin bread in the oven for like three hours and it’s just charred,” she continued. “It tastes burnt with a hint of pumpkin. I don’t even taste the caramel!”
We both agreed that the chunks of pumpkin munchkins sprinkled throughout the drink really added to the experience, but not in a good way. It was like a bad version of boba, or like a smoothie where the banana just will not blend all the way and you have to suffer through the chunks to get to the good stuff. But in the MUNCHKINS drink, there’s no good stuff that outweighs the suffering.
I had high hopes for this drink. I was mostly doing it for the bit, because who would’ve thought Ice Spice would do a collaboration with Dunkin’? But as much as I love the people’s princess, I cannot support this drink. Please, Ice Spice, why? Why did you do this to me? I wanted to support you! I wanted to love this drink! How could you do this to me?
I stood by Ice Spice after her remix of Taylor Swift’s “Karma” came out. I constantly request her music. I so desperately wanted this to be a good review, but I can’t lie — that’s against my journalistic integrity, my ethical code to always tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
Ice Spice, I will always love and support you. But I cannot support this drink. I hope you forgive me. Final rating: a lackluster one star.
