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i don't really know i don't know maybe it's just me something fills up with the uh
lighting today everything seems more uh i don't know dramatic effect and maybe it's just how i'm
seeing things through the camera either way that's for the best because when you want to talk about
dramatic uh ongoings so to speak look no further than popeyes because it really doesn't get crazier
than this we know that in the world of fast food everyone is always i mean they're raving and
sometimes ranting sometimes praising all of these various fast food meals that come out
and uh you know it's one thing after the next after the next sometimes it's a um
like a themed meal sometimes it's a celebrity meal etc and a few places have been doing this
especially mcdonald's they were the first that really started this trend over the last few years
you've had burger king that's been doing it and popeyes is another one of those establishments
that also has been doing the whole fast food meal promotion uh obviously you know the sorts
of themed meals and uh like i said popeyes has done this before i'm pretty sure that they did
last year a uh megan the stallion meal so here's the latest one and like i said
everyone's talking about it popeyes has released the idk meal now idk one thing to know about idk
one meaning is that idk um i think this is the one that we all know idk is a rapper and producer
he's got some pretty big hits actually he actually released a new album in may of 2022 called simple
so idk obviously we know that as the name again of a rapper and producer so
first thing that i thought when i saw the idk meal you always think well what are these meals based
on you think oh mute music right music artists so i thought this was going to be themed about
this rapper that this was maybe like his favorite meal but it turns out that it's not
idk is also a three-letter code and it stands for i don't
no so i did a lot of research about this because i was confused at first i thought idk isn't that
about like the the artist right and i researched but actually in this context specifically for
popeyes it is not in reference to the rapper and like i said i think that threw a lot of us off
so this is not a celebrity meal instead this is the idk i don't know meal and the concept
of this is supposed to be so you're ever at the at the the popeye's establishment i suppose
and you're trying to figure out what am i going to order right what am i going to get
i don't know i don't know i guess i showed up here and i don't even know what i'm going to get
which does i mean it happens sometimes it's like yeah i'm kind of feeling
insert establishment but i don't know what i really want to get i just know i want to get
something from them but i don't know well this is the meal for you so i guess if you don't know then
they're going to make up your mind for you and this is what it constitutes it's a six dollar meal
you get a chicken sandwich and lemonade so for six bucks you get a chicken sandwich right here
and lemonade iced lemonade right here and that is the idk meal six dollars so that's it i guess
if you don't know now you know they made up their mind or your mind for you so that is what the idk
meal from popeye's is and i'm just going to try it out we're going to see how is it as a meal
does it taste good but it is of no relation to the rapper
and like i said i was checking twitter and a lot of people were saying is this a celebrity
meal is it a celebrity meal but it's not it's just if you're indecisive but who knows maybe
maybe he likes that meal too who knows so it's a standard it's a very standard concept i would
have thought because you know essentially if you know what the idk mule is going to be and it's
going to be such a um simple concept wouldn't it make more sense to have some true variability and
instead of it being a meal you would have an idk menu doesn't that make more sense
and it would be like if you didn't know and you wanted a surprise then why get the meal
that just has these basic items these two things that you're always going to know what it is
even if you don't know there's the pickles right it doesn't really make a lot of sense
so you would think wouldn't the concept of an idk menu be better you've got like a menu
where there's 10 items and it could be like one could be like two pieces of chicken
and the other can be some chicken strips and the other would be a sandwich etc
and you could just order from the idk menu and they would pick two of those items at random it
would be different each time i don't know that would be that sounds a little more interesting
than just getting a sandwich and some lemonade there's lemonade by the way standard chicken
sandwich a six dollar deal so i'm gonna try it out let you know what it tastes like if it's still
good maintaining the standards and that's all there is so the idk meal from popeye's going in
so
all right so
these days what i do sometimes is i'll uh pause the camera a little bit during the
eating segments sometimes we'll just power through them but either way so the sandwich itself
as you saw in the cross section and you'll you'll see again i'll hold it up
um it's very it's very basic you know it's their basic chicken sandwich and obviously it's the
the sandwich that won the chicken sandwich whereas you know and many um
according to many folks right that um a lot of people say yeah it's a good chicken sandwich
and in the end it is i mean it is a very well known it's an iconic chicken sandwich
but again it's basic the entire meal is very basic and i guess that's the point that's just supposed
to be at you can't make up your mind so we'll just choose kind of like this basic thing for you
but in the end still pretty good it's exactly what you would have hoped for it to be so quality wise
they always have a good piece of chicken with their chicken sandwich that's one thing you
can guarantee uh with popeye's good sized chicken and you could see that the chicken
ratio to everything else on the sandwich is almost unparalleled
good quality chicken juicy tender flavorful it's not some burnt piece of uh
we'll keep the video advertiser friendly like what i got
in that last video from taco bell i don't even
that was just curse that thing was cursed i don't know what else to say but this is actual food
which is good so it tastes good very flavorful has a nice little crunch to it as well um
the mayo on it is just very you know it's just there i always like that little bit of of tang
that the pickles provide and i'll tell you this drink-wise normally when i just get any sort of
item i'm not i'm not very big with the drinks these days i'll usually just go with water at
this point but let me let me tell you i think that the lemonade is a very suitable pairing
for the chicken sandwich it just works and it ties it together so nicely so
i'll give my compliments to popeyes in this regard quality wise everything is fine so there's nothing
to worry about there the chicken sandwich is fine it's your standard chicken sandwich from popeyes
so that in and of itself is totally fine quality wise
the lemonade is good so praise and criticisms um the criticisms i think people would just say
oh this is just another lame meal right this is just what people would be saying again i
saw i've seen i should say people say oh this isn't about so and so wow this is this is
this is just so they couldn't come up with any ideas so they did this oh it's boring etc and
certainly you could say yeah well if i'm all about new items being released right and i'm all about
a new this a new chicken sandwich a new sauce etc then yeah the concept of having a basic
chicken sandwich and some lemonade as a new meal that's getting a big promotion you might say yeah
i'm a bit underwhelmed by that idea so that's the criticism um originality i suppose or lack thereof
praisewise i will say despite any originality again or back thereof which
that's true it it definitely is a good combination and quality wise sandwich is good and pairing it
with the lemonade excellent choice i might say it really just goes so nicely with that sandwich
it really does tie it all together and heck if you don't even bother to go and get this meal just
remember the combination especially as we're in the warmer months of the year just remember that
their lemonade is pretty solid it's flavorful it's it's got the right balance it's not overly sweet
but um it's not it's not too harsh either it's just they've got the right it's it's just got
the right combination it's really it's quite good it's better than i thought it would be
but not only is the lemonade itself good and very refreshing i might add but it ties in so nicely
with the chicken sandwich yeah just remember that combination because it works now price
wise you could say at six bucks what what deal is that at least it's a big sandwich so portion wise
you're getting a good sized piece of chicken and the quantity of the lemonade is pretty solid you
know he said this is a medium looks more like a large to me but i guess they just do it as they do
so all in all um yeah it's not the most original combination but it works
and even though i personally might find it a little silly the idk meal it's simple
it's simple i was going to say simplistic it's simple but hey it works it tastes good
and in the end that's what's important so therefore out of 10 i'm going to make the idk
meal from popeyes i'm going to give it a 7.8 out of 10. everything tastes good and um price is
all right too but in the end as long as you know what you're going to get even if you don't know
what you're going to get you're now going to know what's in the idk meal it works 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