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 i couldn't figure out what to do with my arms for a second
but i suppose i have now all right let's get right into things a new review for you from
popeyes they have released a new chicken sandwich now as a matter of fact they advertise this with
the implication given saying that they're trying to reignite the chicken sandwich wars
i don't know if that's actually going to happen or not because i know a lot of people kind of
feel like the chicken sandwich wars you know it's kind of been dragged on a bit but i mean it does
keep going and going and going somehow so who knows maybe maybe not either way this is a new
sandwich that i am excited about uh it does it does look pretty interesting so let's take a look
it is called the buffalo ranch chicken sandwich so the name is very straightforward right you
think all right buffalo it's got buffalo meat on it and then ranch like you're out at the ranch
where you'd be getting the buffalo meat from and the chicken is thrown in to confuse you either
that or it's a chicken sandwich with a buffalo ranch sauce on it i mean we'll find out for sure
i suspect the latter though yeah here's here's what they say though it's got a new sauce so
it's all in the sauce it is as they describe it anyway a creamy herb buttermilk ranch sauce with
zesty buttery buffalo sauce i feel like they're running out of adjectives here they're just
they're going all out then it comes with chicken so the sauce is obviously on chicken
because otherwise you know you just got the sauce on a bun and after that there's some
pickles and it's on a brioche bun but again the big deal was the sauce it's supposed to
be a buffalo chicken sandwich with a new buffalo sauce a buffalo ranch sauce that is specifically
i believe that's the sandwich
all right let's look oh look it's got the sticker it's got the sticker look at that
we've got sticker action going on right now confirmed confirmed sticker action
so that's
the ch sandwich right there i believe this the same chicken sandwich pouch
that they normally use love that chicken sandwich
it went flying out of my hand did you see that you know i didn't even drop it that's just the
power of the sandwich that's the power of the the creamy zesty buttermilk ranch sauce
all right and here it is look at that there it is chicken sandwich
we'll get a couple thumbnail shots right here well you get a good look at the sandwich
since we don't know whether it's going to be good or bad yet we get thumbnails for all locations
i don't know why i did that one would have to be really something special for that but
uh first impressions looks a little light on the sauce if you ask me
nice big piece of chicken though okay there's some more sauce there let's uh de-bun it real quick
a little bit of sauce there that's that's the sauce they're all talking about
it is more like a drizzle of sauce on the top though
the bottom a little better but still more like a drizzle of sauce i would say
but either way we can't judge a book by its cover if it's good it's good if it's bad it's bad we'll
find out it's all in the sauce though so i'll try to get a couple good bites with that sauce
therein all right the popeyes buffalo ranch chicken sandwich going in
sorry about that rather and now we'll turn the auto focus off sorry about that
rather inexplicable cut where i was making that silly face two two interesting things
actually happened there number one some of the sandwich was kind of falling down on the t which
i mean that's irrelevant secondly though and most importantly i looked at the camera and there was
some sort of battery issue going i think if i left it running probably would have shut off on me so
i had to fix that while i was doing that though i kept eating the sandwich a little bit so i took a
an extra like two bites out of it so we'll get one more cross section and then we'll just get
into the assessment because i was already able to taste a decent bit of the sandwich but um
there's an additional look at it all right so the pros and cons of the sandwich
overall it's a pretty solid sandwich and i will say that um for the most part i'm happy with it
and my main complaint of it actually stems not really even from um anything that tastes
bad it's just something that i wish could have been done a little differently
so number one we'll get into the chicken first you could see that it's a decent piece of chicken
and what i like is that there's some mass to it sometimes you know you can look at this
piece of chicken when before you bite into it you could think wow this thing is like a behemoth it's
massive you know it's absolutely massive then you bite in and you realize it's almost all breading
and there's very little chicken this on the other hand yeah there's plenty of breading but you could
see there's plenty of chicken as well and the chicken quality is good very tender very flavorful
i would actually say though actually i'll take back the one thing that i said earlier the one
the one issue flavor-wise that i have the chicken tastes great uh the chicken itself that is i do
think that the chicken was in the fryer a tad too long not for very long but um maybe just like a
couple seconds too long it's just starting to taste especially the breading itself just
a little overdone not a ton nothing to the point where it detracts at all but it's just something
that i notice and that's an issue with my sandwich obviously not everyone's is going to be this way
but that's what i noticed there but for the most part the chicken is fine and i'm quite happy with
the amount included in the sandwich all right now here's what it comes down to with the sauce and
like i said it's mostly good i have one complaint so here goes the buffalo sauce is good it's nice
and creamy and indeed it's it's zesty it's got this nice little kick to it and um a decent amount
of spice it's nothing crazy it's like it's not like my eyes were watering and i was having some
sort of breakdown because the sauce is just that spicy that i couldn't contain myself otherwise um
no there's a little bit of spice it works very nicely with the chicken though and um likewise
the pickles actually complement the sauce quite nicely so it goes together very well there's a
bit of a nice a nice bit of spice to um the sauce now here's the thing though and it goes two ways
number one i wish there was more sauce on the sandwich you can kind of see when i was showing
it to you that it did it did look right away that there was a mere drizzle of sauce on the sandwich
and it didn't look like there was a whole whole lot of it i mean sure there was some but when
you look at this big piece of chicken you think yeah maybe it could use a little bit more sauce
that is absolutely correct and i mentioned that because the sauce itself while it's good you know
that some sauces are stronger than others and some are weaker some the flavor is really really potent
and it lingers and it leaves this aftertaste on and on there was some item that we tried out
i couldn't even i don't remember what it was but it was really spicy whatever it was and i
remember it left the aftertaste oh yeah it was that taco bell thing and uh it left the spicy
aftertaste on and on and you could really taste it like a little bit of that sauce went a long way
this sauce on the other hand it tastes good but it's not very strong in terms of its potency
right so all right it's good very flavorful some nice spice complements the chicken quite well but
it doesn't stick around a bit so when there's not enough of that salt there to begin with
it leaves you wanting more and you think i wish there was more sauce on this you know
it's missing out if it had more sauce it would just take it to the next level so that's something
to be aware of now again i don't know if the amount of sauce that's put on this sandwich
maybe they just do the same thing for yours you know maybe they just kind of drizzle it on
if that's the case i don't know if they would adhere to this request but ask for extra sauce
on the sandwich because otherwise you might be a bit disappointed and again you'd think well
the sauce they've got a good thing going with it but the sandwich would definitely need a bit more
to really get that full experience that i think you would be hoping for and quite frankly popeyes
would be as well most likely but in the end it's a good sandwich the sauce is good i like it for a
new sauce it's it's quite nice solid and again my one complaint it could just use a bit more sauce
it's still good but if it had more sauce on it again i'll just take it up to the next level
now price for this sandwich on average it's around five dollars a five dollar sandwich but again
hey you're getting a decent sized piece of chicken bear that in mind and it tastes pretty
good at that so it's a five dollar sandwich taking everything into account therefore i'm going to be
giving this sandwich a 7.6 out of 10. if there's more of that sauce and it's just you know a bit
more flavorful in that regard i'd definitely bump it up a point and it would get that 8.6
so just know you're looking at a good sandwich here it tastes good and just be mindful of the
sauce and the amount there on that's all that i have for you i'm your host the report of the week
until next time a quick review of popeye's buffalo ranch chicken sandwich that is all