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 running on empty the food review series
i'm your host the report of the week and welcome yeah i wanted to switch up the setting a tiny bit
and i'm sorry if the lighting isn't perfect you know it's just midday but it's a nice day it's
comfortable it's temperate so i thought to myself oh let me let me just drag out a couple a couple
chairs just get nice and comfy and uh enjoy the day and uh why not try out some arby's while we're
at it right so that's exactly what i'm doing as a matter of fact arby's has just announced that
they are releasing a couple new items today's review i just want to rapid fire some things
and we're just going to try them one by one i think it's just two items this time around but i
want to try out a new hero that they have or some will call it a gyro and i also want to try out
their new crinkle fries so first and foremost let's get into the meat of things so to speak
arby's has released and i have my notes right here arby's has just released their new spicy
greek gyro right and again i will use the uh you know the traditional pronunciation what this comes
with as the name implies of course it's supposed to be on the spicier side of things so it comes
with red hot chili sauce that's actually the name of a famous band in the 90s the the red hot chili
sauce they also have the gyro meat sauce sorry if i mispronounced that uh they also have hero
seasoning iceberg lettuce tomatoes red onions and it comes on a flat bread you can get it for
an eight dollar meal or by itself at a price variable three to four dollars so let's first
grab it there is the famous hero wrapping and the famous stain
boy look at that grease right there oh my goodness let me lay down some
napkins i have to lay down a bed of napkins for this to even just put it on because let me
look at all that grease but maybe that means it's good you know
Wasn't there an old saying from the 80s... "grease is good"?
that was a real bad joke
and now i'm struggling to even find a way to because it looks pretty messy but you can see
in there what it looks like all right there's the flatbread okay there it is
a little lopsided i must admit the red stuff is the sauce all right so you can see in there
spicy sauce it looks like it became a little oh that's actually a tomato in there too and some
spicy sauce and there's the gyro meat a very very messy eat just by the looks of things um
so be wary of it let me take a quick thumbnail picture right here
and uh well it looks evenly balanced on this side so i'm just going to dig in you
know sink my teeth into this and try it out the spicy greek gyro from arby's going in
there we go now that my suit jacket is out of the way now i can really dig in
curse you jacket
very messy but good i have to say and i have yet to get any on my suit
so that's good i'm actually going to pause it real quick and just get this jacket out of the way
and that's totally on me for uh wearing this all right let's take a couple more bites
here
and sorry i keep eating it so weird but there is tons of sauce
look at it all dripping out right there this is easily one of the messiest things i've ever eaten
but it's good messy but good i would actually almost say that there's too much sauce for it
truth be told i mean it tastes good but it's almost like too much of a good thing you know
one more bite
i would say the meat number one they just describe it as euro meat
i would say it's more like a lamb mostly lamb probably perhaps a little bit of beef mixed in but
it's not chicken it's not turkey or any of that um but it's flavorful you know it comes in chunks and
you get some good sized bits i mean if i took the time and tried to just you know more evenly spread
it out um you know you get these they're really seasoned i have to tell you that really seasoned
um but it's tender flavorful and uh i really can't complain at all
and very well seasoned the sauce the only thing that i could really say about this
number one the spice the spice is not overwhelming but it's definitely there and i mean you really
you really taste it and you could see how much sauce that there was on this thing like it was
just i was struggling to eat it um because one wrong move you know it's like you're
just squirting it out of the bottle right onto my lap here and um well in terms of cleanliness and
practicalities of eating it that's a little difficult um the flat bread though was nice
it did hold everything together um the crisp lettuce there actually i wish there was a
little more lettuce on this because i felt it would have been a nice balance to everything
um the tomato was there it adds more moisture to an already extremely moist
hero the under the onions are kind of there the one thing is that the tatsuki sauce
it just gets lost in it all because there's just so much sauce on this
that i know it's there i can see a little bit of it but some people said that there's actually
more of that sauce less of the uh red hot chili sauce in my case as you could see is actually the
adverse there is so much of that red hot chili sauce not a lot of the the other sauce and um
you know just in terms of proportions or portions i guess some people might be upset about that i
think it was pretty tasty all things considered but if there was one complaint that i had
i would actually ask them to cut back on the amount of sauce overall
seems flavorful again one of those sorts of sauces that you don't really need a ton of it
so the fact that they put so much on imagine if i were just you know on my lunch break
or something and i were trying to eat this in the car you would have it dripping all over you
um it would be a bit of a mess and it just wouldn't be the most practical thing to eat
so that's just a little bit of an issue there so you know all things considered i wish they cut
back on the amount of sauce because i'm actually looking and there's like a puddle of sauce on the
ground they kid you not from where it all dripped out and um it just gets messy annoying and though
the sauce is good it's like it's too much of a good thing it just gets soggy waterlogged and um
i would just say they and i think this is just where it comes down to the individual preparation
thereof sometimes you know it's going to be different when you get it at yours it might be
light on the sauce or moderate mine was drenched and it's just like too much of a good thing it's
it's good otherwise too much sauce so they just need to cut back on that um if they did i think
i would have enjoyed it even more so than i did i mean i like the heroes it's traditional i like it
but they really need to uh cut back on that sauce it just kind of it's too much you know too much
so out of 10 i'm going to be giving that item a uh a 6.8 out of 10 um because again it's pretty
good but it needs a couple adjustments but decent otherwise all right real quick now
let's try out the crinkle fries um this is an alternative that they're introducing permanently
uh to be you know i think they still have the curly fries but they got these pringle
fries there too now crispy and covered in kosher salt they said so let's try it out
back in the medieval days they used to use these for the joust which is just an interesting factoid
basic but decent they are what they say they are getting a crisp to it nicely salted
and uh yeah overall they're decent uh not the world's most remarkable fries and i'd
probably get the um the curly fries next time i go to arby's but for those of you who don't
like it and would prefer an alternative i would say that try it out again getting them
getting a good amount for a buck there so out of 10 i think i would rate that a little higher
you know not for everyone but still pretty good um definitely in the 7.5 range for the crinkle fries
so with that that's all that i have for you ladies gentlemen everyone watching i'm your
host the report of the week now i'm going to try to um probably mop up some of that sauce and enjoy
the rest of my hero and some crinkle fries too thanks for watching this review on one final note
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