Hello everyone, this is Running On Empty...
...Food Review!
Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen, and everyone watching,
this is Running On Empty Food Review,
I am your host, The Report Of The Week.
Well,
today I found myself in the environs of Taco Bell.
You may ask "But why? You know, what are you..."
"What are you doing at Taco Bell?"
Well,
they brought a classic.
They've resurrected...
...this...
...creature...
...from kind of the graveyard or the dumpster
—whatever you what to call it.
And they brought it back,
and they didn't just bring it back,
but they brought the original back,
and then they brought a modified new and allegedly improved...
...version of this...
...creature back as well.
Today we'll be reviewing their Wild Naked Chicken Chalupa.
They also have of course the standard infamous...
Naked—whereas some like to say Nekkid—
Chicken Chalupa back as well,
but they also brought back the wild one.
Wow, that's incredible.
You know, boy, that name...
Wild Naked Chicken Chalupa, what makes it so wild, you know,
it's wild. I mean, it's still, you know, kind of...
...slithering about? Is that why it's wild?
Or what's going on with this?
Well, here's why it's wild.
The ingredients.
The ingredients make this...
...such an incredible, incredible piece,
because it comes with wild sauce,
tomatoes, lettuce,
cheese, and a crispy chicken shell.
This was... I was reading this and I had to take some notes down.
It's $2.99.
Got this from Radio... Radio Prague.
Good broadcaster.
But anyway, that's what it is.
It comes with wild sauce
and that's supposed to be like a...
...little bit of a spicy...
I don't know what that was.
That was sauce packet by accident.
I'm gonna apply them later.
But anyway, the wild sauce is supposed to be...
It's supposed to be like a spicy type of...
...garnish essentially.
It's actually just a liquid sauce...
...that goes on this, I guess it's just supposed to make The Naked Chicken Chalupa...
...just even a little more wild and crazy than it already is.
Because we already know this is just for the adventurous folks out there.
All right now it comes in...
...this. You could actually see—Look at that.
You almost have a...
...have ourselves a wild sauce emergency right there.
You can see it actually seeping out of the...
...Naked Chicken Chalupa holder.
But you can see if I made it turn this around right there.
This is what it is. There's me holding it.
Look, it's looking at you. It's looking into your soul.
It knows everything.
But this is what it is.
It's like a fried, breaded,
crispy chicken shell.
As you can again, see.
It's a, you know, it's a breaded crispy shell,
instead of a tortilla, you get this.
Where it's made of chicken...
...and inside again it's just lettuce, cheese, tomato...
...and wild sauce.
All right with that being said, I'm just going to eat it,
and I will let you know what it tastes like.
Seems like the wild sauce is concentrated at the other end
so if I need to switch it around so I can taste the sauce,
I'll do just that.
But now you know what it is; You know what it looks like; You know its life story;
I know its life story, and I'm gonna let you know what it tastes like.
Wild Naked Chicken Chalupa from Taco Bell, going in.
Sorry for trying to eat those so precariously it's just...
The toppings are stacked up in such a way
that things can fall out very easily.
I'm trying to just avert certain disaster.
Take a few more bites—maybe two more.
One more bite we will take.
Cross section.
I got some sauce on my fingers 'cause it's just going wild.
Now...
...when it comes down to things,
the word "wild" being used as an adjective,
it can be a very powerful word.
You know, to say something is wild,
be that an event,
or...
...used to describe a person or action or even product.
I think...
...everyone has their own baseline for what they consider wild.
I mean I, you know, what do I consider wild?
Well, I wanted to wear a white pocket handkerchief with this suit today.
I couldn't find it,
so I'm going wild today because I don't have that pocket square.
So what classifies...
...this...
..."wild"...
...Naked Chicken Chalupa...
...as so wild?
Well the wild sauce.
I think that's what everyone really wants to know
what does it taste like?
You know, because we already reviewed The Naked Chicken Chalupa.
Where the chicken quality in and of itself...
...is similar to that...
...from McDonald's.
Where this is just the best similarity that you'll get it, you'll understand it right off the bat.
You know McDonald's has their...
...McChicken Sandwiches.
We know they have that. The chicken quality on those sandwiches...
...is probably the most precise match to the chicken quality which you will be getting...
...on The Naked Chicken Chalupa that exists out there.
It's pretty much the exact same thing in terms of how it tastes, how it looks,
even just the Consistency and everything.
The quality of chicken is almost exactly that
when it comes down to that chicken there.
So keep that in mind it's not the highest-quality fried chicken.
Rather it's just a more inexpensive kind of breaded chicken
that you're getting on this.
But the wild sauce.
Now I wasn't really sure what to expect from it
because granted they've never even had this before at Taco Bell.
You know, you never... You go in and you tried to get a taco and you said
"Yeah I want to get a ton of wild sauce on it."
Well, actually I've never done that before
so maybe they have had it in the past, but I don't think they ever had.
The wild sauce is interesting though because I was thinking to myself
"Wow this is probably gonna be extremely spicy", you know.
Hence the name.
But it's interesting. The sauce itself was a little spicy,
but it actually had a lingering sweetness to it as well
which caught me off guard.
Maybe that's why it's supposed to be wild like in the expression,
like a wild guess, you know, I don't know.
I'm thinking way too much into this.
It's just a fast food item.
But anyway, just to get to the basics.
The sauce itself, which really permeates into this
is actually seeping out the other end was...
It was spicy. It did provide a... it still provides a lingering spiciness.
I think there also might be a little bit of
perhaps more of a simple black pepper that's in the chicken breading itself
which also gives you a little bit of a spice,
but this sauce has a little bit of a sweetness to it as well
which is very very interesting. Caught me off guard,
took me by surprise.
That's interesting for what it is.
As for everything else that's on at the lettuce,
the lettuce is standard.
The tomatoes were at least a little bit on the fresher side
which is always a plus at least.
And as for the cheese, there wasn't a ton of it
so those of you who really like all things cheesy
maybe ask for some extra cheese on it if that's what you're looking for,
but don't expect a ton of it.
As a matter of fact, I'm sad to say from this...
...particular Taco Bell,
my experiences as of late haven't been the best.
I've kind of felt cheated a little bit
because I've been getting very little meat on the tacos that I've been getting
and sometimes at which I have been getting weren't the best.
But this item that I did get...
...certainly is a little better than the other...
...long standards that I would usually get from this establishment.
Which is good. It's kind of a sigh of relief,
But albeit I came in here a little nervous
because the past experience at this exact Taco Bell.
But nonetheless with the price factored in, what you're getting is a novelty item.
You don't see too much chicken like this from Taco Bell.
Therefore with that being said, I'm going to be giving this an 8.0 flat out of 10.
Because again, it's a novelty item,
but I can't really find too much to criticize it on,
because they're not necessarily marketing this as an extremely high quality item,
and the sauce was interesting.
It actually did pick my interest so I haven't any complaints
and it adds some flavorful spiciness to it.
That's all that I have for you, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm your host, The Report Of The Week.
Today's review was for Taco Bell's Wild Naked Chicken Chalupa.
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