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you are about to hear may very likely be the greatest story you've ever heard in your life
uh no exaggerations it has it all uh it's going to have twists and turns it might
make you cry it might make you laugh uh you know you might be doing both simultaneously
you're probably going to feel every emotion conceivable and you're also going to be slightly
better informed about the deep fried turkey club sandwich from arby's as well here we go
thanksgiving 2020 obviously it's not your standard thanksgiving obviously things are
a bit different this year and i think a lot of people are contemplating well uh you know what
should even be done for thanksgiving this time around should there be uh the traditional family
gathering should there be that traditional feast should there not be a lot of folks are conflicted
and we have a nameless individual meant to represent the common person people
just like you sitting alone in their room lost what is going to happen this thanksgiving
decisions decisions and there's this order of understandable sadness all of a sudden the door
which was closed by the way i don't know if it was locked that's not really relevant to the story
swings open as a matter of fact it swings open so hard it actually it falls off the hinges
and in emerges this you know obviously corporate manufactured uh creature which is rep which is
meant to represent arby's as a company uh maybe in a future commercial something like a mascot
it's not a person and don't think of like something like bigfoot
think of it like the loch ness monster it's like it's slithering in
and it screams if you could imagine this fear not we have the meats
arby's is saving the day ladies and gentlemen that's right
arby's is releasing or re-releasing i should say uh they're deep fried turkey club sandwich
they're saving thanksgiving i think that's a bit extreme but that's actually how they they
are advertising it not with any sort of silly sort of you know creature i don't know why i
even made that garbage up um but they are saying look thanksgiving might not be normal this year
uh we have these alternatives they even say look this might not be your aunt's thanksgiving dinner
but maybe that's a good thing you know they're kind of taking some shots at it uh but they're
saying look thanksgiving's different we know that but we have these alternatives here if you want to
give it a try it's there if you want to you know it's up to you they've released two sandwiches
for thanksgiving and today we're going to be trying out the deep fried turkey club sandwich
now they've had this in years past and i i've never tried it out so it's going to be interesting
especially i think more folks this year are going to be getting perhaps you know different sorts of
take out on thanksgiving as opposed to years previous so uh we're going to see if this is
going to be a suitable thanksgiving uh alternative or feast or dinner or whatever you want to call it
but here's what the deep fried turkey club sandwich from arby's has on it it comes with
pepper bacon cheddar cheese your deep fried turkey breast tomatoes lettuce mayo on a star-cut bun
price for this is five dollars if you want the sandwich by itself if you want it as a meal
which comes with your soft drink it comes with your curly fries and the sandwich can
get the meal for nine dollars and i went with the meal today it's feeling a little more
a little more peckish as they say i got the fries and i got the drink
i actually i can use a straw now my mouth is actually i went to a um another appointment
they said it's healing up great so i could even drink through a straw now which is fantastic
reusing the straws best to my ability
to my part but you know i'm glad i'm glad to be able to use the straws again that's that's always
a good feeling but yeah we have the sandwich here we're just going to see if it's good you
know we're just going to see if it's a good um holiday-esque turkey sandwich so let's change the
sitting position to the eating stands now as they say guess i'm sitting so you know what i mean
here it is in the arby's box whereas some say rvs there it is with the hat the famous hat
there it is you can see that cheddar cheese um on it already you get the you get the turkey
looks like a piece of turkey actually kind of fell off so let's debun it let's get the goods
back on here is that a piece of turkey yes it is a piece of turkey with a blob of cheddar
on it uh this is what it looks like you can see the big glob of mayo there and then some more mayo
and you know everything is kind of stacked on top of each other you know so it's like
you can't see all that much but you can see you got the turkey there you got the cheddar cheese
um you've got the mayo i see a tiny piece of bacon in there i don't really see tomatoes
but i think there's probably one hiding in there somewhere uh so that's what it's got
we're gonna see what it tastes like we're gonna see how good this is hey is this
is this going to be what saves thanksgiving we will find out um before anything else
if you've watched enough of these videos you know what's coming right now let's do a quick
shot for the thumbnail before i i sink my my teeth in here so let's get something like this you know
like that you get a little bit of a close-up shot
kind of hunching over a little bit but it is what it is we'll be fine we'll figure it out
so the deep fried turkey club sandwich from arby's let's see how good this is it's going in
an almost frantic search for a napkin
because we want a little bit of turkey with that mayo take uh one more bite
i'm looking around i can't say i really just want to bite into
this and just get an entire mouthful of mayo i really i don't want that tonight
well here's what we've got there's some good things about this and some bad things
they were right in terms of the ad this is definitely not you know your aunt's
uh thanksgiving dinner it's not a traditional thanksgiving feast by any means
i think some people will really like this uh some won't it's definitely one of those sandwiches that
i'll explain what's you know what there is to it what you might like uh this won't necessarily be
for everyone and it's not necessarily for me but i do have a personal bias uh in terms of mayo and
granted the preparation here which i will you know clearly state all right number one let's just talk
about the most important thing the deep fried turkey breast how is it there was a good amount
of it on the sandwich at least it's cut into little pieces um chunks so to speak but you get it
i like that the meat is actually a little on the juicier side turkey meat i have found
can occasionally seem very dry very lackluster uh this is some of the more flavorful turkey i've had
so honestly the turkey quality is pretty good i gotta give him credit on that
and there's there's a bit more of it than i anticipated honestly
so that's the good thing the star of the show the turkey is pretty good
there's a good amount of it tastes good so if you're looking for that a double thumbs up
if you like mayo and you like tons of it the more mayo the better all the mayo all the mayo that you
could ever conceive on a sandwich uh this has your name on it because that's exactly what we've got
i don't like that one single bit but i know a lot of folks out there they like their mayhem
i just don't like mayo yeah it adds moisture to the sand which i get it but i don't like biting
into something and having a mouthful of mayo and very little else i really really don't like that
at all um but for those of you who like mayo then you're going to like it a lot because
there's tons of it on this sandwich the cheddar cheese is there it adds a little bit of flavor
one here's two things that i just have a complaint about there's only a tiny tiny tiny bit of bacon
on this i wish there was more i could barely taste any and when i looked there's barely any
tiny little bits of it it seemed i don't even think one whole bacon strip at all it's like
half of a strip of bacon on this so not much bacon at all in terms of what was there and
there were no tomatoes some people think that's a good thing that's fine you like what you like
um but i just you know i like getting the full experience uh no tomatoes on this sandwich now
that's an issue with preparation that's not arby's fault as a company it's just the one that i got
so it's a mixed bag of course again the main thing the deep fried turkey is pretty good
everything else is a standard at best if not below average so out of 10 i'm going to give it
a 5.5 out of 10. now if you really like all of these components you might think of it
a bit higher but for me it has the one good component the turkey and everything else is
just a bit lackluster uh too much mayo for me that kind of ruins the sandwich a bit
the cheddar cheese is kind of just there um not enough bacon no tomato
so that's why i feel the way that i feel about it again one good thing um and everything else
again is bad or lackluster so that's what it comes down to that's what we've got for you
yeah it's certainly not your aunt's thanksgiving dinner it's a turkey sandwich um the turkey is
good everything else uh so-so is really all that we've got so that's why it has the rating that it
has again kind of average if everything else was better it would have been a much better rating
but uh you know luck of the draw that's what it comes down to with that that's all that i have for
you ladies and gentlemen i am your host the report of the week that's all for today's review thank
you be safe be healthy wherever you are i wish you all the very best until next time take care