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well i know what you're thinking right now and i know that it has absolutely nothing to do
with this review right you're thinking about swiss cheese and you're also thinking a little
bit about tortoises i know believe me but you might also be thinking in terms of things that
actually do have to do with at least this channel you might be saying review brah
you blew it i mean you really blew it sitting here i was i was waiting with baited breath
that you try out those wings from taco bell you didn't i was waiting for you to try out
that arby's sandwich and you didn't but i guess you tried out the kfc so there's that
uh yeah the taco bell wing review i mean i was hoping to try that out a minute admittedly but
it just it just didn't work out it's just something that didn't happen uh i tried believe me
i tried to procure them many a time and every time i went one taco bell after the next after the next
didn't have the wings so uh i wasn't able to get my hands on them and the promotion is essentially
over at this point so it's just it's it's done and uh makes me think about the taco bell wing
promotion anyway that i don't think it was really about wings to begin with um because the
establishments were given such a small quantity i think it was just about trying to get more people
to the taco bell in the first place so then you know once someone's there they kind of have a
captive audience and they'll try to get them to buy something either way um the the arby's thing
though i am going to be trying out the very spicy diablo sandwich that'll be coming up um but today
we're here at kfc where i guess this isn't the kfc i mean we could pretend that i am in a kfc i guess
and i think this review is going to be rather straightforward so let's just get right into it
this is a promotion that was released yesterday so this is a brand new item they have brought
beyond fried chicken to the menu specifically beyond chicken nuggets so what these are is um
chicken nuggets but they're not really chicken it's plant-based so these are plant-based chicken
nuggets no meat involved whatsoever but they're supposed to taste like chicken nuggets without the
meat so it's supposed to be an alternative for those who would prefer not to consume
any chicken or meat this is the alternative so very straightforward what i'm really going
to be looking for in terms of this review is just realism here i'm just going to be trying out these
these chicken nuggets we're going to see what they taste like and how closely at least they match to
uh just regular kfc chicken i know you could get these in a six piece or a 12 piece i got them in
a six piece and it's about seven dollars for uh six of the plant-based nuggets and you get them by
themselves mind you so for seven bucks you're just getting six nuggets with no sides or any of that
but it does come with the sauce you can get any sauce you'd like i went with kfc sauce because
uh why not you know it's a namesake so we'll see what that is and how it holds up all right one
quick thought that i have on the beyond foods some people you know they might take this the
wrong way and uh i hope people don't but this is just my impression of it from what i've seen in
terms of the fast food industry and uh and what i've seen how other people react to this as well
obviously the beyond foods you know be that whatever it might be i think i know it's like
a different company but you know you start having these plant-based alternatives back in 2019 you
had burger king that had the impossible whopper and then pizza hut i know they did the beyond
sausage pizza i think it was and now you have kfc doing the beyond um fried chicken
now all those sorts of items i think have their art and supporters you know people that are really
into it and uh and really welcome it but and this is just my take i might be dead wrong here
what i have seen in terms of the fast food market in general and the average fast food
consumer is that these are more or less treated essentially as short-term gimmicks
than any serious alternative to um you know to the existing items on the menu
these just strike me as just even if they're introduced to the menu for a while they're
treated anyway by the companies and the consumers alike as short-lived promotions
and again they obviously have their base that they appeal to but then the broader appeal to um i
think the general public kind of dies down that's just the impression that i get from all of this
i might be dead wrong because like i said i know that these have their fans and the last one that i
tried i think it was the beyond sausage pizza from pizza hut was solid and i couldn't differentiate
it between a regular sausage pizza so take that for what it's worth but um i remember
back in 2019 when they first started introducing this stuff people were very optimistic about it
they were saying this is going to be the future of fast food it's going to replace everything
and i think it has its place on the menu but certainly that broad appeal just doesn't
necessarily seem to be there either way though let's try this out um certainly some people are
happy to have this here and uh let's see let's see how it holds up so there's the colonel's uh
wrinkly face looking at you yeah the colonel you know we got the kernel and all his glory
i'm gonna get a picture for the thumbnail of me with the branding
just a little difficult given the reflectivity
something like that i'm just going to do one more real quick and then i'll quit wasting time here
something like that i think i think just the branding will have the appeal anyway i don't
know it's just one of those things beyond fried chicken made from plants you can see the box has a
lot of green on it obviously to represent all the money that kfc hopes to make from this promotion
let's open this up so you can see though you just have some nuggets in the box
there it is breaded and fried as usual right now you would look at it you think
it's a chicken nugget probably can't really tell that it's plant-based from the exterior
so that said let's just try it out the beyond fried chicken from kfc going in
oh well
this is a problem
i can't bite into it
gotta be kidding me with this
all right i had to rip it apart
doesn't help that i have some temporary crowns in my mouth but
you can see in terms of the consistency of this they're going with the shoe leather
texture in terms of how rough it is how chewy it so that's a problem
i'm not going to go on a full-blown tirade like i did in the last video
you know it's just one of those more i don't want to say lackadaisical days but
you know i don't expect anything these days so it is what it is
i mean i'll tell you what you know taste wise yeah tastes like chicken but um i mean it's like it's
made out of rubber so sure it could taste okay but what's the point um people were probably thinking
why don't you just try another maybe there's something wrong with that one maybe you're right
this is the problem though you can't really bite or chew or separate at all let's take a bite here
now
same problem
inedible totally inedible wow
it's disappointing but let me tell you something these days with the fast food
what do you expect right so it's like i'm not even going to bother going on a rant anymore
we'll just outline the criticisms call it a day because this is what you get these days
yeah that's a bummer that's a bummer you can kind of get a cross-section of it but i i hope you know
i'm not trying it's i'm not just like let me tell you this in terms of texture just trying to eat it
um it's not like i'm just going to sit here and just put it in my mouth i'm trying to rip this
thing apart and it's just not budging at all i'm going to take another another attempt here
finally got that piece separated
very greasy as you can kind of as you can tell greasy and oily
yeah i mean
look taste wise because taste and consistency two different things
taste wise they're all right um one thing that i've noticed with the beyond products before
is that they do a good job mimicking the actual flavors here and uh this is no exception certainly
in terms of what it tastes like um yeah they've got it all down they use the same exact type of
breading and batter that they usually do with of course the super super secret um herbs and spices
and all of that good glorious stuff that they have on their uh their you know their chicken so it's
flavorful it's greasy tastes okay and indeed as you're eating it and you let the flavors kind of
really settle in um yeah it's indiscernible in terms of uh the differentiation between you
know the chicken nuggets and the uh plant-based stuff um but i think the clear problem here that
you know doesn't even need to be mentioned really because you could hopefully just see it is um the
texture in that these things are rubbery they're um essentially inedible so how can you really
enjoy it when you can't realistically consume them that's the problem it's like yeah all right what
you can separate after putting a lot of effort forth i mean i guess you can get a knife and fork
and just cut these up into tiny little pieces but who wants to eat a chicken nugget that way right
um not me so that's a problem obviously it's like this is so ridiculous i can't even i can't even
get upset about this stuff anymore you know you get the chicken nuggets or the the plant-based
ones from kfc and these wind up being so so rubbery you know like they're made of shoe
leather or something you know you can't make this stuff up it's just too it's too good it's too good
you can't make this stuff uh stuff up if you tried you know you think how could they
actually go ahead and ruin these ruin these things they actually find a way to do it
you can't make this stuff up let me tell you
you know who would have thought you're biting into this stuff again you know after one bad
review after the next after the next thing i've been doing you know i've been doing the um
the taco bell thing with the you know toppings and you get the little caesars thing with the
you know where they messed up with the pepperoni but then you get this one
where they get the uh you're trying to bite into this you can't even you can't even take a bite you
know because the thing is so rough and rubbery and tough and um it's like this is like a piece of uh
albeit decent tasting rubber but uh rubber nonetheless
now i would hope granted that this is just an issue in terms of preparation in my uh
my kfc um i would wager that maybe they because i don't really know how the plant-based stuff
reacts to the fryer and all of that um if i had to guess though i would imagine they overcooked these
hence the the issue in terms of the consistency and the rubberiness thereof i'll tell you what
though if you get these and they're normal um as they should be which these aren't granted
they would probably be all right because like i said the main point of this review was to attempt
to understand all right do these match the flavor of what the actual chicken would be and indeed
these do so if you get these and they cook these normally and it's you know it's all right um
i think you'll be happy with them i think you will be they're uh indistinguishable from the regular
chicken chicken nuggets they're flavorful still um well breaded well seasoned all that good stuff so
yeah they attained the goal in terms of i think what they hoped but mine were ill-prepared which
is a problem uh i don't know just dunk this what do you want me to do or should i just
suck the sauce off of this and see how that is or what should i do i guess i guess so
i managed to bite
kfc sauce goes well
actually goes well with it nice little tang
so assuming that yours are made correctly and don't have these issues where they're
completely inedible based on how overcooked they are um if they're normal and they're actually you
know they're tender and they're juicy and all that good stuff um these i would say would be
about seven out of ten nuggets the ones that i got i'm going to give a 0.5 out of 10 because if
you can't even eat the damn thing then how can you give it a rating any higher than that so the ones
that i got specifically absolute bottom of the barrel stuff because they're inedible granted but
in the case that they're not um like i said a much higher score because the end game of having
that realistic result was indeed attained but you could obviously see the issue that i got in terms
of mine and uh let me know let me know in the comments i'm curious how did yours turn out were
they just as bad were they inedible too is this a chain wide issue or iraq did this just am i just
getting bad luck this year so far in terms of in terms of fast food so let me know what you think
all right that's all that i have for you hopefully we'll try that arby's thing soon and it'll be good
i will i'm hoping i'm hoping that it will be that said that's all that i have for you it is
what it is the usual these days until next time take care i'm your host the report of the week