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 repor of the week always a pleasure to be here well you could
obviously see I'm changing things up a little bit doing an outside review this time around
early evening sun is starting to set at this point and I thought this setting was going to be perfect
for a review like this it's dinner time at least again the time that I'm filming this decided to
put on a suit for this one this is fine dining and again even though you could get this item
at different times of the day this is high class stuff that I'm trying out today so as a result
when you think of like really formal gour main meals I think we usually associate that with
dinner time so that's exactly what I wanted to do here this is like a nice fancy dinner I'm out
here got some some Ambiance going I've got the suit and I'm trying out popey's because Popeye
said this is high class stuff this is Gourmet Cuisine right here and you're going to see why
in a minute you see Popeyes has just released a new chicken s sandwich but it's not just a
regular chicken sandwich they have released their spicy truff chicken sandwich wow here's
what it has it has their trademark crispy chicken filet it has pickles on it and this is where it
all changes it also has a spicy truff mayo what it's supposed to be is a blend of red
jalapeno and black winter truffle so they are incorporating a sort of uh truffle sauce into
their chicken sandwich they're using again a brand of it that's called truff hence the
name it's kind of like a corporate collaboration and they said this is going to change everything
this is taking it to the next level and I'm trying it out you could get the sandwich at
the price it it fluctuates I was able to get this sandwich by itself for the price of $8
some people though have said that the sandwich is more along the $7 range some people said around
$9 but generally speaking uh I've mostly seen the sandwich going between the 7 and $8 range
so that's just something to mention as far as the price and a little bit of fluctuation uh regarding
that there's a special bag that it comes
in and now let's get a closer
look this is this is Gourmet stuff right here we have a pickle attempting an Escape right now so I
have to I have to put it in its place because we can't have that we can't have any pickled
escapes here we
go
the bun doesn't have much in the way of structural Integrity which is why
I'm kind of holding it if it seems a little awkward that's why but it looks like your
standard chicken
sandwich but I could definitely smell even out here with that little breeze I could definitely
smell a difference that you know that definitely does have that truffle sauce on it so what I'm
going to do you know what's on it again it's mostly just a regular chicken sandwich with
this spicy sort of truffle sauce there on I am going to try it out now see how good
it is and and then that'll be that so the spicy truff chicken sandwich from popey's it's going
in
all right so as you could see I really attempted anyway to make some good work of this sandwich
again the bun was a little difficult to maneu but I was able to consume a decent
amount of it and you know I have to say I'm a bit disappointed not that it tastes bad because I need
to emphasize that it doesn't but the problem is the taste I was I was looking forward to seeing
how they would handle this I thought okay it's supposed to have some spicy notes I was looking
forward to hopefully tasting in maybe some of those earthy Notes too where that bird was not
happy with what I was about to say I was really hoping to taste some of those earthy notes from
the Truffle sauce I thought this is going to be really interesting I was looking forward I was
thinking to myself gee I wonder what popey how they're going to do this you know I could smell
the Truffle sauce I knew that this was going to be that I got the right sandwich right I
smell those sorts of notes that I knew this this is this is the sandwich I take a bite I
taste the chicken as you know as would be the case in any sort of chicken sandwich of theirs
very you know it's it's greasy it's oily it's fast food mind you though crunchy the chicken
quality I should add is fine yeah it's Popeyes it's fast food but it's still tending juicy
and flavorful has that nice ju position between the crunch on the exterior and again the tender
really succulent meat on the interior chicken Fila is good good quality pickles could taste
that nice tanginess there too works very nicely with the chicken but this is all standard you know
if you like the combination so much said may as well just go and get a uh chicken sandwich from
Popeyes but I didn't order a regular chicken sandwich I ordered this special spicy truff
chicken sandwich right so sure a regular chicken sandwich is one thing that's totally fine but I'm
looking for those other notes and let me tell you this they are not to be found I don't know if the
issue was the fact that they maybe were so that they they put such a little amount of the sauce
on it I could certainly smell the sauce more than I could taste it but I mean I'm looking let me
let me show you this you could see it's still on the top bun right there maybe it's not totally
saturated but you know it's definitely absorbed in okay sauce is there here is the chicken sauce
is there too bottom bun little soggy but evidence that there's sauce there as well which makes me
think okay it they definitely put the sauce on it I could smell the sauce I can't taste it and
that's really disappointing I can't taste a single spicy note to this I can't taste a single earthy
note to this it's like the sauce doesn't even exist that's a shame it's like they just gave
me a regular chicken sandwich which isn't bad their chicken sandwiches are good I like them
they're of decent quality but this wasn't marketed as a regular chicken sandwich it was marketed as
the spicy truff sandwich and I wasn't just once I realized wait a minute something's not right
here I'm not able to taste any of the sauce that's on this I started okay I'll I'll rip a
piece of the cuz now I was thinking I just want to taste the the sauce I just want to taste it
you know just to see what it would even taste like if it tastes like nothing with everything
all together so come on I just want to taste I just want to find out what this sauce tastes
like right right is that too much to ask so I ripped off a piece of the bun and I ripped off
a piece of the chicken and was trying it here and there and I can't taste anything and I know for
a fact it's not just my my taste buds that are off because I could taste the chicken you know
I could taste it I could taste the tanginess of the pickles I could taste all of that I know it's
not just me as a matter of fact in addition to this I actually got some of their wings
too too I already reviewed those you know they were covered with the sauce and the sauce was
flavorful and very potent I know it's not that problem it's a problem with the sauce it is so
mild and so weak and so essentially flavorless that I can't even tell you what it tastes like
I could smell it right now but I can't taste it there's nothing to taste there's no spice to
this there's nothing spicy about this sandwich there's no note about this that says this is a
truffle sauce nothing couldn't even tell you you wouldn't even aside from the fact that there's a
little more moisture couldn't even tell that there's any sauce to this whatsoever no it's
real disappointment this one hits this one it's a real let down honestly when you know you got
the right item when you know that they prepared it adequately at least so it seems and then you
can't even enjoy it because what's what is there to enjoy I can't even taste the sauce very very
disappointing this is a case where the product itself isn't bad it's a good chicken sandwich
chicken's good quality but if I wanted the chicken sandwich I would have just gotten their chicken
sandwich real let down waste of money it was a good idea but something is very wrong in
the execution of this when I couldn't even I can't even tell that this is spicy so much
for the Jalapeno in there when I when I can't even taste it so I don't know what happened
here I don't know what's going on with this I don't know what went wrong but something
clearly did because there's nothing I could say about this there's nothing that I could
tell you that oh this is a truffle saw so this is I can't say anything cuz I can't taste it I
could smell it but I can't taste it huge let down Pop Eyes I I really hope you're able to
do something about this and um improve on this going forward I think it's a cool idea I know
I poke fun at it a little bit you know I can be a little silly and whatnot but look it's a
cool idea it's a cool combination to actually incorporate those elements in a fast food meal
yeah you know give it a shot right go for it it looks like a fun idea try it out and
uh huge let down very disappointing doesn't taste bad but they really missed the mark on
this so as a result because it is nothing even remote Ely close to what it was advertised as
being I mean it still tastes good but it's not what I was hoping for it to be therefore
I have to give it a four out of 10 it's a nice chicken sandwich but there's nothing to it as
far as a Spicy truff sandwich goes oh well look of the draw right on a final note just wanted
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