Hungry Jack's Frozen Fanta Cream & Lemon Spider

The Frozen Fanta Cream & Lemon Spider is $5.40 and 938 kJ. Frozen creaming soda and lemon with soft serve through it, and it is the closest thing on the Hungry Jack's menu to a traditional Australian milk bar spider.

Creaming soda is vanilla flavoured, and adding vanilla soft serve to it doubles down rather than contrasting. That sounds like a mistake and it is not: the lemon is what stops it going flat, cutting through both layers of vanilla with enough acid to keep the drink lively.

Of the five Spiders this is the one that tastes most like a dessert rather than a soft drink. The dairy and the creaming soda together give it a texture closer to a thin milkshake, which is why it suits being drunk slowly.

At 938 kJ it carries considerably more than the plain frozen version at 341 kJ, which is the largest proportional jump of any Spider on the menu, because the base drink is the lightest one. Carbs are 35.1g.

Who it suits: anyone who grew up with milk bar spiders, and anyone who finds the raspberry version too sharp. It is the most grown up of the five.

Compare against the Frozen Coke Spider at $5.40, or take the desserts menu if you want something to eat with a spoon instead.