hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies
gentlemen and everyone watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of the running on empty
food review series i'm your host the report of the week i'm breaking out the blue shirt and the blue
tie and it is a rocket ship or it's actually just a space shuttle theme tie for a reason
i don't know what the outcome of this review is going to be
and this might be the last review that i ever do because wendy's is breaking barriers
wendy's has done the unimaginable the unthinkable and the reason why i say last
is because this might be this might be it for me this might do me in
ladies and gentlemen wendy's has released ghost pepper ranch sauce
and right now this blue shirt and blue tie with their water-like cooling properties
that's the only thing going that's the only thing on my side right now because ghost peppers are
one of the hottest peppers in the world you know why they call them ghost peppers right
ghost peppers think about it and wendy's has them and wendy's just released
them and i'm about to try them this may be the spiciest sauce i've ever had in my life
and i really don't know how to process it i feel my brain shutting down it's slowing down
it can't handle this information and i'm short-circuiting
the spice level right now that i may imminently be facing and you can see that
didn't even make any sense because my brain is melting as we speak is incomprehensible
got some nuggets to dip the sauce in but in short wendy's did release a new sauce
they released ghost pepper ranch sauce and of course the whole selling point of it is
that it's supposed to be really really spicy so you know how it is and um this might be it
this might be the one that actually does me in we'll do a thumbnail like this real quick first
and then we'll do one where i'm more in focus too
but yeah that's what today's review is i mean i'm just going to be trying out this sauce
um you know to to be more serious yes wendy's did release a new sauce um
it was just released again it is a ghost pepper ranch sauce and it's supposed to just be really
spicy you know again you know the way it goes with this ghost pepper stuff they sit there
and they say oh it's ghost pepper you know and it's gonna it's gonna make you go all crazy um
right i know there were other peppers in the past that they do this that they do this with um too
but yeah the ghost peppers you know how it is places have released ghost pepper wings before
they've released ghost pepper um sauces etc and it usually does pack a kick but it's nothing crazy um
i would have to imagine they just use a tiny bit of like ghost pepper extract for a large batch of
sauce and then they could theoretically say that there's a little bit in there you know but it's
the real ghost pepper stuff i mean i think i would be in an absolute state i wouldn't be able to
to process anything but i think this will probably be a little spicy with maybe a
little bit of cooling ranch as well um this sauce there's no there's no charge for it
it's just a dipping sauce that they've released you can get this with anything
i mean you can go ahead and you can um get it with fries you can get it with some nuggets
if you really want to go this route you can get a burger or chicken sandwich you could
dump it there you can just get something get a ton of sauce and just drink it down
but i'm just trying to reassure myself right now i'm trying to tell myself think about the ghost
pepper sauces that i've tried in the past right i remember popeyes they had some ghost pepper wings
and i i tried it and i'm still here because it wasn't as spicy but i don't know yet that's
the thing i haven't i haven't tasted this yet i don't know how spicy this is gonna be
i don't know i got some nuggets i got a four piece of the regular crispy
chicken nuggets and this is just again as something to dip it and you can get this with
anything you want but i thought nuggets would be a suitable pairing for the dipping sauce
look at it look at that creature there
smiling well the moment of reckoning has come
and we're going to see if i live to tell the tale i mean i guess you'd have to assume that
if you're seeing this video then obviously i did upload it so i guess there's your answer but
well it just smells like ranch sauce but maybe that's just the power of the ghost peppers
maybe it has like mind control properties and it's already just sending me you know
signals to to tell me not to sense the spice yet right this is going to be a surprise attack
although again maybe it just does smell only like ranch sauce
we're going to dip it in we're going to really you know submerge this good because again
i'm here to review the sauce not the
not the chicken nugget all right so we have a thoroughly coated nugget here
and we're going to do what we need to do
it's going in
so
i would have to assume based on this consumption experience here
that one of two things happened at either a
it's a delayed onset of the extreme spice
or b this blue dress shirt and this you know sort of blue space shuttle tie actually did
summon the powers of the ancient water gods and they came to my aid today
the sauce is a little spicy i will give them that i will give them credit when i try out
these real spicy sauces i want to experience it full on you know because again they say
it's like okay you got the ghost pepper how hot is it really gonna be right is this one of those
sauces that i need to be diving for the water or for the liquid or you know well in this case
the blue chalice is getting washed right now so i did go with a soft drink i went with dr pepper
today because i mean they call it dr pepper so i figured maybe you know because of the name
it has some sort of um healing purposes it's a bad joke don't ever take that seriously um but
in the end i don't need to go for it here's my observation in terms of it it definitely has
those qualities of a ranch sauce okay it does have that little not necessarily an overt sort of tang
but definitely you know in terms of texture the creaminess of ranch sauce is definitely there
and those flavors thereof are present now as for the spice the spice the onset thereof is immediate
and i will say this um i have had ghost pepper sort of sauces and you know chicken tenders and
wings or whatever they market them as from one situation to the next i that we're more
milder than this so the spice is definite the onset is immediate but it is not long lasting
all right and you could see when i was dipping those chicken nuggets and the chicken nuggets by
the way taste fine they're your usual nuggets you know you can still they're pretty juicy they're
tender nice crisp to them as well so decent nuggets um but as you dip it in the sauce
again i was really you know submerging it you could already see i probably went through about
a quarter of this just on that one nugget so i was really getting the fall the full flavor
and it hits you right away and all of your mouth you know all of it the tongue the sides all of it
you get this spice but it's not overwhelming it's no spicier than let's say
you know just some regular hot wings you would get maybe from a restaurant what i always notice
is that the spice level of let's say wings for instance that you get maybe from like a local
wing place those are always spicier than the wings and stuff that you get from like a fast food place
it's just my observation um but it's spicy but it's not overwhelming but definitely the spice
is there but like i said i wasn't i was able to maintain my composure completely i was able to
just joke around and mess around a little bit as i was eating it i didn't need to go for the
you know the dr pepper or any of that nor did i need to eat anything to try to lessen
the effect of the spice all right so in this case the spice is there it hits you full on right away
it's not long lasting though it does not have a spicy aftertaste and within about 30 seconds
any discernible elements of the spice have pretty much dissipated and um
again like spice level it's just average i would say nothing crazy but for a sauce um
think of it this way think of this more so as spicy ranch sauce as opposed to ghost pepper ranch
sauce you know the name this is essentially like the marketing you know click bait version of um
of a sauce right because if you just said uh spicy ranch sauce it's like
i've been there done that right all right fine ghost pepper ranch sauce
holy ghost peppers right it's the ghost pepper sauce this is gonna be the one that buzzed me
in but again obviously it's not it's just marketing right so think of it this way
spicy ranch it actually works well with the nuggets i would say if you get this get it with
the regular crispy chicken nuggets i bet fries would have the same effect i would say get this
with an item from wendy's that is not inherently spicy and that could definitely transform it
is a nice blend and the creaminess also works to kind of if you're more sensitive
to spice i think it just it works well it's not overwhelming i don't think this is something you
would be overwhelmed by um this isn't something that would cause you to visit the er or anything
or give you a coughing fit or you know you're not going to be going into convulsions your eyes
aren't going to bug out of your head and then you know slide into the mouth or anything like that
you're going to be fine with this it's a spicy ranch sauce so considering that
though the marketing is a bit over the top they always go overboard with the ghost pepper stuff
i get it it's still a tasty sauce still a flavorful sauce um not as hot as they
they make you believe it to be but still decent compliments the nuggets and the fries and all that
stuff well i would wager so out of 10 um this is definitely going to get a 6.7 out of 10 from me um
a 6.7 a little bit above average you know certainly a flavorful sauce i get it again
um but again not necessarily as advertised because it's not as spicy as they make you um believe it
to be so that is a little misleading so that's why it has the assessment that it has so thank you to
the dress shirts i'm here i made it i survived and that's all that i have for you tried out
the ghost pepper ranch sauce from wendy's so you know everything about it now that is all take care