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everyone watching welcome one and also this newest edition of the running on empty food review series
i'm your host the report of the week thanks for being here thanks for checking in hope everyone
out there is feeling and doing all right this is going to be a very spicy one it's going to
be a spicy review you can tell by my spicy wing collar that i'm breaking out today uh indeed
this this this one is all about the spice and the heat and um well let's just get right into things
this is the rare example of an item from arby's that people actually care about believe it or not
and um i don't even say that to you know try to bash arby's i like arby's uh they have some decent
items the last thing i tried out from them was actually pretty good the wings that they did where
were solid but a lot of the general public i don't know just seems very uh they don't really care
very much but this one has people talking it has people talking but it has people scared as well
terrified as a matter of fact chilled to the bone and fearful for the
the essence i'm just trying to say they're scared for their lives but i was trying to
make it sound nicer than that but i couldn't come up with anything so there you have it arby's is
releasing the diablo dare sandwich and uh you can just tell by the name they're not bleeping around
this time this time they really aren't the diablo dare sandwich is described by arby's as being
perhaps the spiciest fast food item ever it's a sandwich of course so it's not like they call it
the diablo dare sandwich and there's actually a bowl of soup in there this really is a sandwich
so no false advertising yet here's what it has on it that makes it so spicy
it comes with diablo barbecue sauce which is a barbecue sauce with a blend of habanero
chili cayenne and chipotle peppers it also comes with fiery seasonings sprinkled on the sandwich
encompassing cayenne pepper and red pepper as well as habanero powder and capsaicin it comes on a
diablo bun which has chipotle pepper flakes packed inside it comes with ghost pepper jack cheese as
well as diced jalapenos available at the price of six dollars you can get it in either chicken
form or smoked brisket form i went with brisket today and they said that it is so unbelievably hot
that you've got a complimentary milkshake to cool the flames so i am going to be true to
arby's in this one there is no water to be seen anywhere i've just got this milkshake
this uh this is going to be the difference between life or death and this is either going to be
saving me or you're going to see my my lifeless self hunched over this plate in a few minutes
and let's see it all rests on this milkshake it was free i went with a vanilla milkshake so
every sandwich comes with a free milkshake because it's just that hot now speaking of
things that are hot look at that triangle on the bag right there isn't that something
that's a triangle and you could see this is the new logo because you could see there's three
points right there and when you connect the three points write a has three points as well
and a is the first letter of the alphabet and a also stands for arby's with the three points
so you could see that's what really goes into that there some really genius marketing
got some napkins they gave me some extra i guess the diablo barbecue sauce
and here is the sandwich
you have the meats
so the goal of this review is to attempt to discern if the sandwich is spicy or not
that's the end game here
now it should also mention that it does come with some lettuce all right
there's the sandwich i'm gonna
get a thumbnail shot this one's looking pretty good
i'm do i'm trying to do one where i come a little you know not perturbed but a little apprehensive
something like that i mean i know i'm going to make something of this this is fine
you can see that's the diablo barbecue sauce right there as well as you could see some of
the jalapeno i suppose that's the ghost pepper jack cheese likewise the brisket front-end center
you could also see again some lettuce look at it shake like that
doing the lettuce dance there's that bun we were talking about
we'll get one more thumbnail and then we'll just eat it
and a real quick one like this
all right thumbnails are important one little tip if you ever want to
do youtube remember the thumbnail is one of the most important parts of the video
in terms of viewers and viewership and people seeing it remember the thumbnail does matter
thumbnail and title that's uh that's some of the important stuff right there okay one final thing
you can see i don't know if you could really see but there's a little bit of the seasoning at the
bottom of this anyway let's see how spicy this is i'm i'm excited i feel like uh i'm going to be
fine with this though because if those you know should i even say it if the beyond the nuggets
from kfc didn't kill me then i think i'm quite invincible to tell you the truth so let's give
it a shot the diablo dare sandwich from arby's let's find out how spicy this is it's going in
oh yeah it's hot yeah definitely there's spice there is spice the effect is immediate it's going
for that second bite now yeah immediate wave of spice um definitely they're not lying when they
talk about the spice so so far though this is this is good this is what we want to see continuing
i'm going to take a bite right here i really want to try that sauce
i'm going to take one more bite i'll show you the cross section there that i am indeed eating the
sandwich i know i don't take the world's largest bites but i still try to eat as much as i can
it's just how my jaw is and all of that
i'm just going to take one more bite
i'm not going for the shake just yet because i really want to
remind remember the main goal here is to assess how spicy this is
so i'm just trying to deal with the spice so i could just fully get that experience
i'd say that i have now i'm going to take a sip of that shake i'll tell you this right
now the aftertaste is way spicier than when you're actually eating this my mouth at the moment is on
fire at this point and with every word i enunciate the spicy aftertaste actually is amplified
so the more i talk the more the burning sensation in my mouth uh increases very spicy as far as fast
food goes because one thing that you know if you've had enough of this stuff you know that
you know the spicy stuff that they say the ghost peppers right
it's uh it's never that spicy it's just as mild as it gets this on the other hand i commend
arby's because it's actually a legitimately spicy fast food items so props to them
now let's see the cooling properties of the milkshake
smooth cool vanilla
the effect is immediate
i feel like this is like the antidote and i was just eating some sort of no that's a bit you know
that's a bad example my nose is running a tiny bit it's going to say i feel like i'm eating
some sort of poison and this is the antidote and it offsets it immediately so here's what
here's what you need to know about this sandwich though
it is spicy it's legitimately spicy and that's a good thing they market this as being spicy
that's what i was hoping for and finally finally i think for the first time this year
i finally had an item that isn't a lie that isn't terrible that isn't just an utter piece of trash
finally something that's actually what they advertised it as being
it's a sad state of affairs that i'm actually this relieved
to finally have an item like this but i am nonetheless yeah in terms of spicy fast food
items this is definitely one of the spiciest i've had um in terms of the flavors themselves
honestly the novelty of this sandwich more so is just the fact that it's spicy as opposed to
tasting good no mind you understand this there are various novelty items out there where it's like
it should be edible but mostly you're just getting this for a different reason than
actually for this to just be a good sandwich so taste wise it is what it is you're actually not
going to be able to taste all too much because the spice is going to be the strongest thing
and it's going to completely override everything else so all you're going to notice is spice
the brisket is fine though tastes good nice nice quality meat very juicy quite tender
and good quality arby's they do the meats actually very nicely if i may say so myself but um
gave me a runny nose the one thing i'm not a big fan of is the the pepper jack the ghost pepper
jack cheese that on the other hand seems to be um it clashes very much with the other flavors in the
sandwich so that's a bit off i mean the sandwich actually doesn't even taste that good but it's
insanely spicy as far as fast food goes now like i said don't think that this is the spiciest thing
in the world it's not and i guarantee if you go to a local place specializes in hot wings etc
you're going to get something much hotter than this but as far as the mass-produced
fast food goes um again you have these places that release ghost pepper this
ghost pepper that and never spicy this is an item that's legitimately spicy
and expect this in terms of the effect of the spice to be a slow burn in that um it's going
to hit you immediately you're going to notice this wave of spice right off the bat and i can't really
tell which particular peppers are stronger than the others all you you
taste is this almost blinding spice and it's going to hit you immediately
then it's going to seem to wear down a little bit and you're going to be eating it and you're
going to be like this doesn't seem as spicy as i thought it would be i mean it's hot but not
that hot then once you stop eating the sandwich this spicy aftertaste is really going to come in
and it's going to persist and it's going to linger and it is going to build by the second
um i would definitely recommend having that milkshake at hand or a cold drink or something um
that will definitely help if the spice gets a bit much just sip on this and it should most certainly
help but i guarantee for a few minutes after eating this your mouth is going to be burning
a bit you're really going to be feeling that spice and especially when you exhale or enunciate
you're really going to feel it and you'll definitely be wanting to sip on this milkshake
for a couple minutes and probably have a little bit of a runny nose like me so uh in the end
the taste wise the sandwiches may be average with again the pepper jack cheese is seeming a bit off
but this is largely a novelty item it's just one of those things where it's like yeah
it's uh it's mostly there to just see how hot it is as opposed to actually being a good sandwich
if you want to just get something that tastes really good from rvs just go with one of their
signature roast beef sandwiches i would say but if you want something just for a lot of spice
just for the heck of it for the fun of it then get this one six dollars but it stays true to its name
they were really marketing this as saying this is going to be a really hot sandwich so be wary
of that and that's what you should expect and indeed it is it's spicy it lives up to the name
and um for that they they hit the nail on the head so taste wise average may be slightly below
average but spice wise meeting or exceeding expectations and since the main emphasis
is on the spice i'm going to be giving the diablo dare sandwich from arby's a 7.4 out of
ten it's a seven point four cause again they said it was spicy it is spicy so a big thumbs up there
this i don't know they just gave me some i guess this is the spicy barbecue sauce i'm
just gonna dip a piece of this bread in it and just try it for the fun of it why not
i i don't even know what this is this doesn't even usually come with it they just gave me this let's
let's just try it for the heck of it i guess this is the spicy sauce maybe that comes on it
this is just a cup of the spicy barbecue sauce
on the sandwich boy i really am feeling that i just had a lot of that directly yeah
very spicy
that's all that i really have for you i probably shouldn't have done that
so that's all that i really have to say just know it's hot and um
i'm gonna be guzzling down the remnants of this shake now yeah i really felt that i probably
felt that more than i did the sandwich all right i'm gonna try to cool down now just know it's a
spicy sandwich they said it was it is be wary and sip on that milkshake that's all that i
have for you until next time i'm your host the report of the week urgent cool down in process