hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome one and all to this new edition of the running on empty food review series i'm
your host the report of the week all right a new review please to be here as always we all like a
meal deal right a package bundle you can get this this and this at what would usually be considered
a lower price sometimes you'll have a celebrity's name slapped on it i mean who doesn't want to eat
whatever your favorite rapper claims to usually get from this fast food establishment right i mean
we all we all like doing that obviously mcdonald's has a new fast food meal deal out a lot of people
are talking about this i got some requests for it so i want to try it out for you here today
so today i'm going to be trying out the new five dollar crispy chicken sandwich meal deal from
mcdonald's it's going to be running now until september 4th so really for the month of august
it's a pretty straightforward meal so let's get down to it the meal itself again they say in the
title it's available for the price of five dollars and it comes with three components
a crispy chicken sandwich which i think makes sense i mean it would be one thing if they called
this the crispy chicken sandwich meal deal and then it came with a big mac instead a medium fries
and a medium soft drink of your choice although by and large they usually go with sprite so i got
a sprite for the sake of this review although you can get any sort of soft beverage you wish
so you get those three components and they say it's five dollars so you might think to yourself
first and foremost okay that seems pretty straightforward right five bucks you get the
sandwich you get the fries and you get the drink here's something that needs to be mentioned though
there's a few things for clarification that that need to be brought up first and foremost
number one this has no association with any sort of celebrity or public figure or any of that
i mean not that that really matters in the end but that's something that
i guess psychologically speaking if everyone's favorite rapper you know again usually gets this
people will see the name the recognition they might see the special branding etc
and they might be more inclined to go check this out so there's none of that the main
focus point is that it's a chicken sandwich meal deal now secondly they say this is new
really it's just a bundle of the same the same old items that have been on their menu
for a while so that needs to be established as well third point that needs to be brought
up they call this the five dollar meal deal yet i wound up paying eight dollars before tax for
this so um i guess it's actually the five dollar meal deal that's actually eight dollars or so
because again that's what i paid for it and i got everything the same the medium fries the medium
sprite and the chicken sandwich but it was three dollars more expensive in my case than the the
actual name implies so that's another thing you need to be aware of uh the fourth thing they say
that you need to download the app for this so if you want to get your five dollar meal deal that
you're actually going to be paying more than five dollars for then make sure you download their app
you have to or do you because you could also just go ahead and even though they say you can't you
can just go and order this in person or as a matter of fact you can use a delivery service
like doordash or grubhub etc and believe it or not you could actually use those services just
on a desktop or a laptop computer so you don't need to download an app to use these uh sorts
of delivery services i know a lot of people do on their phone but that's not necessary so they say
you need the app to do this but you could actually just work around it and not download the app just
a heads up there because i certainly don't like downloading the stuff if i can avoid it and
the fifth and final point it's 1am right now and for this meal there's a big thing in the picture
that says not available after midnight yet it's 1am and i still got it so that's another thing
availability may vary they say it's for the app but it might not actually be 100 they say it's 5
but it might actually be 8 but in the end well i guess they're keeping things i guess they're
keeping things interesting right i know i'm on the edge of my seat right now and this is like
the most action-packed review i've ever done in my life because there's so many twists and turns here
you think well wait a minute you know this is this is the epitome i think of of modern day action
it's five dollars no wait it's eight dollars it's available after midnight no
actually it is so one thing after the next either way i got my hands on it right here got the meal
some fries medium fries
chicken sandwich
and some sprite so taking a look at the meal some nice cold sprite right there
got your standard mcdonald's fries right there and i got their standard crispy chicken sandwich
which is pretty basic i've reviewed these before and looks like it comes with
again your crispy chicken fillet and some pickles so that's what it looks like those
are the components of the meal now what i want to do knowing that i think we know everything there
is to know about it we know the back story of the meal we know all the twists and turns
yeah we even know the unfortunate things the mule was doing before the uh before it got over to me
and we know everything the good the bad the ugly and anything else about it we know now i'm gonna
try it out gonna see what it tastes like and we're gonna find out is this a good meal deal and is it
worth your while going to find it out going to try a little bit of everything let's do this
the mcdonald's five dollar crispy chicken sandwich meal deal that's actually eight dollars going in
what did one chicken sandwich say to the other chicken sandwich
i'm a chicken sandwich
so looking at the quality of this meal it has its ups and it has its downs so here's what needs to
be um needs to be addressed in terms of what we've got for this meal obviously in terms of what it
actually is we know that there's a few issues here and there a few discrepancies and a few things
that might be a little bit confusing when it comes down to the name the availability all those sorts
of things it's just not the most straightforward thing in the world quality wise i think the most
that i have to say about is uh the chicken sandwich so real quick the sprite is totally
fine has a little bit of a um a little bit of a bite to it heavily carbonated but it is refreshing
very um very citrusy just has that bite to it but not bad usually i avoid carbonated beverages these
days but it's still all right for what it is fries as well salty little bit of a crisp not overdone
personally i'm happy with the way the fries are no issues there all right the chicken sandwich all
jokes aside um it has some good and it has some bad you can see that there's some substance to
it you can see that it's got a good amount of the pickles on it and you can see that it's a pretty
basic chicken sandwich all things considered so it has all the necessary components um chicken wise
again you can see it has a good amount of of the meat on it and the meat itself is pretty flavorful
it is pretty juicy i would say and the pickles always complement the sandwich quite nicely
however one thing that does need to be mentioned
if you look at the back of the sandwich and i think you'll see this pretty clearly
um well maybe you'll notice that i'm not sure how the camera will show it
if it looks a little dark to you that's not just the camera it's not just your eyes and it's not
just the lighting um it is slightly overcooked not to the point where you know the interior is any uh
you know is adversely impacted at all but you could tell that it was just left a little too
long um it just cooked a little too long and there's a little bit of a char on the outside
of the chicken fillet so as a result you do taste this little bit of a burnt flavor on the sandwich
nowhere near as bad as i've had in some circumstances but it's just noticeable it's one of
those things that that sort of burnt char flavor is always very strong it's always very potent
and as a result you can always taste it again there have been instances where it's been much
stronger than this but in this case i can still discern it i can still make it out and that's
just something that you need to note here your sandwich may be a little variable in that regard
as it may have like i said it's mcdonald's it's fast food and consistency isn't always guaranteed
so in my case i would say that my chicken sandwich a little subpar i've had worse but i've most
definitely had better still flavorful but that burnt note definitely i mean you can't ignore it
it's there in every bite so that's the thing sure i could sit here and i could wash it down with all
the sprite that i want and that can help in that regard however it still doesn't change what i got
so factoring that in quality wise is about average though i would say average with the
fries and the drink slightly below average when it comes down to the chicken sandwich
so all things considered i'm a little disappointed with this meal deal if it were straightforward and
it was just five bucks and it were available in all circumstances and there wasn't all of this
sort of guesswork to it and it wasn't actually more than the five dollars the price was absolute
and the quality was a little higher i'd be a bit happier with it but i would say for a meal deal
the premise makes sense but i think the execution was a bit flawed if you ask me so definitely take
into account there's no special branding here there's no theme it's going to be priced higher
than what they say it's going to be priced for the most part and the quality may be a bit variable
as well like i said i did all this and i'm not really that happy with the chicken sandwich all
things considered not the biggest fan of this meal deal it's hit or miss we'll see what happens the
next time mcdonald's say do a lot of meals and deals and all that good stuff so i'd pass up on
this one but we'll see what happens down the road therefore out of 10 i'm just going to be giving
this a 5 out of 10 rating not the happiest with this but on to the next i say that's all that i
have for you thank you for watching and until next time i'm your host the report of the week