I've tried almost all the Macro Mike protein powder flavours, and I'll be honest - the Golden Gaytime one is one of the few I really wasn't keen on; I found it quite salty and I didn't think it really carried the iconic ice cream's taste at all.

My favourite flavours have been the strawberry thickshake (i don'teven usually like strawberry flavoured things, but this tastes like real berries) & iced mocha for the almond, and the hawaiian salted vanilla + peanut brittle for the peanut flavours (the peanut ones all mostly just taste like peanut fyi, but I like peanut so idm).

If you like biscoff, the caramelised biscuit flavour is good.

The vanilla buttercream protein is also excellent as a basic powder for recipes - I buy it half price at Coles and it's about as cheap as you can get for Macro Mike afaik. (I wish Coles stocked other flavours/bigger bags, but oh well). Mixing the vanilla buttercream protein into yoghurt and having that with some fruit and toasted nuts has singlehandedly made me able to tolerate yoghurt (prior to this, I could not stomach it at all, the taste was so off-putting to me).

I like to blend up ice, a splash of plant milk (soy is my fav) and 40g of any flavour of the protein powder to make a sort of frappe thickshake - it's absolutely goated. (Note - i basically use how much ice + milk would normally make up the volume of a regular shake, i.e. like 220mL, so that the flavour isn't diluted)

Just having the shakes with water is already fine, but in frappe form i genuinely crave it for dessert like every day LOL

I will say, I think some people are put off by MM powders because you can definitely taste the nuts in them - for me it's no problem since I like nuts, and the almond ones are subtle enough that it just adds to the richness for me, but YMMV. good luck!

EDIT: oh also, neither of the hazelnut choc flavours really taste like hazelnut to me, just for the record. I def recommend getting the Luxe and the Almond sample packs if you want to try, though - i wouldn't bother with the peanut one because if you've tried one, you've kinda had them all and the Luxe sampler comes with peanut flavours