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a new review in what may quite possibly be the most intense video i've ever done
i think you've heard of spicy food right that's the concept of a an item which you can consume
upon which the spice is hotter than the surface of the sun and it's supposed to
provide a scorching inferno in both the literal and metaphorical sense in every conceivable way
and that's what spicy food is supposed to be of course there's a hierarchy though right
you have spicy ketchup and then you have black pepper and then you have jalapeno pepper which
up until around 2012 that was supposed to be the hottest pepper in the world yeah i couldn't
even keep that that bad joke with a straight face anyway let's let's stop uh beating around the uh
the bush here a burger king has released some new spicy nuggets i think people do though i mean in
all seriousness people do like their spicy chicken nuggets though they like their spicy wings their
spicy sandwiches you know spicy this set and the other thing people do like a little bit of heat
with their food burger king realizes this and likewise you know when they say that
it's supposed to be really really hot uh of course that attracts attention and people start you know
how hot is this really right well burger king has released some ghost pepper chicken nuggets
this is gonna be it right here i mean this is going to be that point where
this might do me in i you know i can't even what i always like doing when i do these
reviews i really try to play up the spice in this case i mean i'll i'll tell you this
ghost peppers and all that sort of stuff with fast food are not new um you've had so many
places over the years that i've reviewed that have had they say it's ghost pepper
this it's ghost pepper that ghost pepper wings ghost pepper nuggets ghost pepper sandwich etc
and then for a while back in like 2019 there was that trend with the carolina reaper peppers
but same exact type of thing so burger king released the ghost pepper chicken nuggets
and of course the ghost pepper is supposed to be really really spicy not the spiciest pepper in
the world but you know it's up there i mean it's supposed to be very very spicy and they have these
chicken nuggets that just supposed to have flavor and heat they said with a ghost pepper spice added
an eight piece of these nuggets is a dollar forty nine four piece is one dollar you can
get it with a dipping sauce on the side so i got some buffalo sauce with mine just because you know
i'm really out there so i decided to go ahead and get some extra spice honestly though there's not
a lot to say about these nuggets they're just supposed to be their regular chicken nuggets
just extra spicy you know some ghost pepper on it maybe mixed in and that's what it is
well i went ahead with the four piece today because i just wasn't feeling very um didn't
have too ravenous in appetite you can see though all right you can see there's the burger king
name in between the two orange half moons right there
so inside you can can you see the steam coming out of this look at all that steam coming out
that signifies and see now i only have one eye that's the power of the spice right there
um you can see them lurking they're lying in wait they're ready to take me out
a lot of the time though you know i do these sorts of um of reviews of the spicy stuff that
they say oh it's ghost pepper etc it's never really that spicy i mean it's maybe marginally
spicier than what it usually is but it's never actually spicy to the point where i'm
i have no sort of composure whatsoever i'll get a little thumbnail like this first
and i'll get one a little closer kind of like this
you know i'll do a silly face
that's i don't think i'm going with that one but anyway you can see what it looks like
looks no different than a spicy chicken nugget you could see some of the black pepper seasoning there
a little crispy too um but that's what it that's what it looks like so you know what it looks like
i think we all know what's in it i know what's in it you know what's in it etc so let's try it out
the ghost pepper nuggets from burger king let's see how hot they really are they're going in
it's not it's not that it's not that hot now
assessment
this is one of those items that you know you kind of struggle for things
to uh to really say about it and i know that i can be notoriously
long-winded but um honestly i think this is going to be a quick one
there's a little bit of spice to it but it's not bad at all i mean i'll tell you what i think back
to the the spiciest wings that i ever had now great i know that these are nuggets and these are
you know nuggets wings etc but in terms of spicy sauces i remember there was this regional chain
up north and it was called planet wings and they had these really really spicy wings and of course
they were the hottest on the menu when i tried them out you know the spice was immediate and
the real hot stuff i mean it hits you on a whole nother level um unlike any sort of spicy
nuggets or spicy sandwich or just regular even just hot wings the spice it just hits
your entire body and your entire felt like my face was rushing with blood you know and
and it just lingers and lingers and lingers the spice and the aftertaste and all of that you
know it just it hits you hard and then it lasts that's what the real spicy stuff actually does
none of that was to be seen with these ghost pepper nuggets not that i i expected that i
honestly would have been my jaw would literally be on the floor and you'd see this black
gaping maw taking up the entire screen um should that have actually happened because i would have
been that shocked that a fast food chain would release something of that caliber they say it
goes pepper nuggets right don't don't expect really any sort of significant spice to this um
basic spice basic spice it really tastes no different than just a spicy chicken nugget
that has the black pepper seasoning on it um i'm obviously able to just sit here and talk and
and no issue in terms of having to go for the water or the milk or or you know open
up my shirt collar and just start dousing that with milk i know they do that sometimes if it's
really spicy as well but no need for any of that this time around like i said the spice is marginal
there was a time i believe when burger king did release
spicy chicken nuggets these are no different than them whatsoever they're actually completely
indiscernible for the most part only thing i could tell you number one out of let's say on a one to
ten scale in terms of spice you know five being average with maybe like that being like hot wings
i'd say these are maybe a four out of ten in terms of the spice level not the rating for the item
itself just in terms of spice so they're not that spicy there's a little lingering spicy aftertaste
that i notice with these uh nuggets that's the one difference between their regular spicy nuggets
and these but in the end um the spice it hits you but it's really just a pretty mild spice
it's not pronounced it lingers a little bit but it is of of no no detriment whatsoever
you wouldn't need a a drink or any of that with this i don't think unless
you're extremely extremely sensitive to spice but i'll say myself i'm not sitting here eating
hot peppers or anything all the time and uh i mean there's really no no real impact here
otherwise in terms of the nuggets themselves i mean they're your basic burger king nuggets what
what can you really say about them not too much in terms of substance and actual flavor to them
i.e the meat it's just like it it is what it is they're actually a little juicy which was
kind of surprising because i've had my share of nuggets that are quite dry so uh yeah a
little a little a little juicier than i thought they would be but not the most flavorful in the
world again you can taste a little bit of that meaty flavor it's balanced out with a little bit
of a crisp though from the um from the breading the spice is exclusively in the in the breading
mind you and again it's really just like a black pepper spice that's what it tastes like to me
i imagine there's like a tiny tiny tiny absolutely minuscule amount of ghost pepper you know per a
large batch so they could theoretically say yeah it's got the ghost pepper ghost pepper nuggets
but it's really nothing to um this is nothing really remarkable about them they are what they
are just treat these burger king spicy nuggets they call them ghost pepper nug nuggets but
they're they're really just spicy nuggets eight piece a dollar forty nine four piece one dollar
i don't think these really need um sauce but for the heck of it we'll try one bite of the wing what
am i saying i guess with buffalo sauce and you think of wings when you see that but of a nugget
and just take a tiny bite here
buffalo sauce provides a creamy accompaniment and if anything the buffalo sauce is almost
spicier than the nuggets themselves which is kind of fascinating to me so maybe if you do
want an extra bit of spice with these with these nuggets um get the buffalo sauce on the side
and that might you know amplify so to speak your eating experience all right that said what am i
going to rate these nuggets out of ten well you have to consider the following they taste average
no real complaints in terms of how they actually taste but the name ghost pepper nuggets gives the
implication that these are extremely extremely spicy i think that's the reason why people might
actually want to go and get these right where they somehow think these are halloween themed
but either way the implication is provided that these are very spicy which they aren't so all
things considered i'm going to be giving the ghost pepper nuggets from burger king
i'm going to give them a 5.4 out of 10 just because they taste average but do they live up to
their name do they live up to the implication no they don't that's the main selling point of these
and they don't meet that standard again like i said if they're even a little spicier than normal
i would give them a higher rating but they aren't if anything they're just
like your basic spicy nuggets nothing special about them so that's all that i have for you
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