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 report of the week thanks for checking in it's been a little while I know I
do the reviews when I do them and you know there's usually a little bit of a space between each
upload but in this case there were a few extra days and I'd actually like to get to that uh
why there is that little bit of a break in uploads right away and then we'll just get into the review
so for the last week I think it's actually been a little bit more than a week at this point I've
been very sick and uh not with a not with a typical you know cold or or flu or you know
covet or any of that but in this case what had me down for the count was food poisoning
and I think you know where I'm going with this that item that I tried out in the last review
that Italian sandwich from Wendy's that's what did it so you got to uh you got to to witness
the food poisoning it was right there on camera for your viewing pleasure but
that sandwich that I tried that Italian sandwich
the title is not an exaggeration that was easily by far uh the worst item from Wendy's
I've ever had and quite frankly I mean considering you know the after effects
and what it did for me what it did to me and believe me when I say it I was down for the
count I was not in good shape for uh for a while all right that was one of the worst things ever
considering that sandwich was rotten in every possible way you know it just I would avoid it
quite frankly I know that not every Wendy's you know is going to have those issues but it's just
I have nothing good to say about it at this point any redeeming qualities that that sandwich had
just went straight out the door that thing is is is dead to me but uh anyway I've been I've been
you know feeling getting a bit better the last few days and I wanted to get back into things I wanted
to get the uh get the reviews going once again and I was looking around I was trying to figure out
all right getting back on my feet what's uh what's been released in the meantime and uh what should
I what should I try out and you couldn't believe my enthusiasm when I found out that Burger King
was releasing a sandwich that looked just like what I had tried from Wendy's
and knowing what that did to me all I could do is I was just sitting here thinking to myself I guess
Burger King is is going to finish what Wendy's started and uh I mean obviously you could tell how
motivated how motivated that made me to to want to try that out so then I started looking around
because quite frankly the motivation was just too much and I thought I don't want to overdo it so
I was looking around some more and then I finally found that Wingstop has released a new wing flavor
and I thought yeah what the heck at the very least hopefully this won't kill me or anything and uh
at least I could give myself a little bit of a break from the poisoning so that's what I'm trying
out today Wingstop has released and they released this about a week ago I'd say they've released
their new Carolina gold barbecue sauce now this barbecue sauce you can get in a variety so you
can get it on a variety of their items you can get it on their wings of course it could have it as
a Winger sauce you could have it on their chicken tenders or you could have it on a chicken sandwich
and they've really been promoting in the ads the sauce being on a chicken sandwich so that's the
approach I'm going to be taking as I review this so here's what they say the Carolina gold barbecue
sauce here's what it entails they say that it's supposed to have various notes of mustard vinegar
and brown sugar so it's supposed to have a little bit of a a potent sharpness perhaps a little bit
of a bite with a hint of sweetness as well it's going to be interesting so I got it on the chicken
sandwich again I've got the sandwich right here the chicken sandwich for the most part is pretty
straightforward I've tried it out before and you have the chicken fillet some pickles a bun and
then the sauce of your choice is then drizzled on top of the chicken price for this six dollars and
40 cents for the chicken sandwich with again the new Carolina gold barbecue sauce drizzled there on
now being that I've already reviewed the chicken sandwich itself of course I'm still
going to assess the quality of it and make sure that it's meeting the meeting maintaining or
hopefully exceeding the standards but mostly I want to try out that sauce and see how does it
complement or detract from the chicken sandwich so anyway comes in the little receptacle there
and opening the receptacle up you can see there it is let's get a good look at it
if you look at the picture
for the ad you know you know these places they always kind of
exaggerate what the product looks like but
you should check out the picture that they used for the ad because they you know it's obviously
photoshopped and edited and whatnot as they all are but they added like this filter to it that
makes the sandwich look like it's like it's gold in color and uh obviously as you could see it is
and it just looks like a standard chicken sandwich but not bad not uh not discerning
any sorts of prominent notes that looks like a good chicken fillet you could see thoroughly
coated in the sauce there a little crisp to it the one thing I kind of say this just
almost in a way to remind myself is that looks like they forgot the pickles oh no no
they did though they oh well it is what it is
that's just you know it's that's a standard fast food experience yeah you could see no
pickles are to be to be seen there aren't any on the bottom bun either oh well just is what it is
so anyway the one thing I just have to remind myself of is just because the experience I had
last week was so ungodly bad and I know I'm kind of taking it out on Wendy's right now but I can't
help it that uh I just have to remind myself my expectations are just so Rock Bottom at this point
that I'm just hoping this doesn't this doesn't make me sick because like I said my expectations
are just so low at this point and I have to remind myself maybe just you know try to have
them a little higher than that perhaps anyway so no pickles but it is what it is let's just
see how the sauce is let's see how the sandwich is again six dollars 40 cents for the item so
let's try it out the new Carolina gold barbecue chicken sandwich from WingStop it's going in
love love
foreign
let's get straight to business it's one of those items where there isn't a ton to say
so it's not going to be the biggest assessment in the world all in all
I'm fine with it and and that's good and it's not like I said I kind of reminded myself don't
just say good things about it because it's better than that pile of that I had last week
you know just try to try to have your sights a little higher than that so indeed number one
at least it's edible which is good that's what I was hoping for at least you know the chicken
tastes like chicken which is what you hope it doesn't just taste like some salty blob
and that's good it's tender it's juicy I think the quality of the chicken fillet is
actually better than what I had the last time I tried out the chicken sandwich which is good
obviously it's missing the pickles and that's a little disappointing the pickles are always a
nice note to have on the uh the chicken sandwich so I'll get to that in a minute but quality wise
the chicken is good flavorful tender doesn't taste you know overtly off or any of that which is good
nice crisp to the outside obviously breaded fried Etc so it has that little bit of that crispness
to it now through the sauce I like the sauce actually it's there's certain characteristics
of it but definitely are much uh I guess much more strongly emphasized than others
one thing to note with Wingstop is that these places have various types of of sauces or Not
Just Wing Stop any Wing establishment is what I'm trying to say and Wingstop is known for having a
very oily sauce so a lot of the time they saw us people might think of it as kind of runny as a
result it'll kind of coat the items but you might not get a ton of the sauce on it because again
some people view their sauce as being watery and runny Etc so here's the interesting thing
the sauce that they have on the uh the sandwich here again the Carolina gold barbecue sauce
doesn't fit that profile it does not fit the profile of a standard Wingstop wing sauce it's
a much thicker sauce much thicker definitely doesn't quite have the the consistency of
honey but it kind of is comparable to that in a way where it's much thicker
not oily not runny but it's sticky and again thicker so as a result though as you're biting
into this you're going to have more there's going to be more sauce sticking to the surface
of the sandwich than just sliding off of it which is good because it allows for there to
be more flavor more concentrated flavor on the sandwich so I like that I like that this sauce
is not as oily or runny as some of their other Wing sauces are and likewise in terms of eating
it it doesn't get on your hands as much which is good so now that we know that those you know
that's how the sauce is that's what the sandwich is on a final note let me get a sip of water here
what can be said about the sauce itself mentioned that there were a few notes that were stronger
than others and indeed the first thing that I could taste for sure is the mustard it has that
you definitely think like if you if you ate this you'd almost think if you didn't know the name
let me just adjust something with the camera real quick sorry about that I needed to check
the lens real quick so anyway what I was just mentioning in terms of the train of thought
if I didn't know the name of the sandwich before I was trying it out so if this was just put in front
of me and I didn't know the name I didn't know that this was going to be called the Carolina
gold barbecue sandwich and I were asked all right what what do you think this flavor is right what
would you say that this is I would say oh this is a honey mustard uh sauce isn't it because that's
what you think where you could most definitely the first thing you could taste is that sharpness from
the mustard in the sauce followed by that very honey-esque sweetness not necessarily brown sugar
that's the interesting thing I wouldn't really say I'm getting very many brown sugar nodes but more
and maybe it's just this the stickiness that the sauce has as well that it just conjures that image
when I taste the sweetness here it seems almost more like honey ask compared to anything else
now the final note of the sauce that they mention is the vinegar and this is where I was going on
with the pickles you could definitely taste that that almost acidic uh bite that tanginess that you
could taste in the vinegary notes of the sauce as a result though I'm sure that would be Amplified
if the pickles were actually on the sandwich which uh normally they should be but it complements the
chicken very nicely and likewise even though there weren't any pickles on my sandwich
that note in the sauce pretty much was a was an adequate substitution for pickles it had all
those notes that the pickles would have added to the sandwich you know it was still there despite
there not being any pickles which is what I'm trying to say so I think that if pickles are added
to the sandwich it would only amplify that note a little bit further but I don't think that it would
be excessive the one good thing is that while all of these notes in the sauce have that potential
they have that possibility they're being very strong very overbearing uh overpowering in a way
because with all these things like I said some places they just don't get it right and you try it
out and it's just too much of this it's too sweet it's too Tangy it's too sharp Etc these are all
some very powerful flavors but Wingstop did a good job here they made sure to moderate everything out
everything is balanced out good very nicely I should say it complements the chicken nicely all
of these various notes in the sauce work together it Blends well and again one note does not cancel
out the other nor are they overwhelming or overbearing so everything's balanced out I
think they got the levels right like I said it's got those sharp notes it's just like pretty much
it's like a honey barbecue a honey mustard not a honey barbecue I just I looked at the they saw
barbecue it's what's got me thinking about that it's kind of like a honey mustard sauce but it's
good I enjoy it it complements the chicken nicely and I'm happy with it so quality wise
pretty good good quality chicken the sauce is decent as well happy that again the sweetness
too is just right and like I said that tanginess provided with vinegar note of the sauce is good
and if the pickles are on it I think it would only be Amplified further so factoring everything in
price is six dollars 40 cents out of ten I am going to be giving the Carolina gold barbecue
sandwich from WingStop I'm going to be giving it a 7 out of 10 flat pretty good for what it is so
don't hesitate to check it out if you have the opportunity to do so with that that's all that
I have for you thanks for watching and until next time I'm your host the report of the week