hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen
and everyone watching welcome one and all to this newest review you can tell from some of the noise
in the background we actually have a little bit of ambient noise some traffic i think there's even an
airplane a little bit of wind and there's a reason for all this noise there is so much hype right now
for this chicken sandwich the entire population of the world is on their way to burger king just
to try this i'm getting in on the latest craze and uh that's why this is you you are witnessing the
single largest mass migration in history everyone is taking themselves to burger king to get
the ch cha the king sandwich and that's what i have here today
now you might be saying to yourself wait a minute wait a minute you recalcitrant slimeball you
didn't you just review the sandwich from burger king what's going on
so here's the story behind this one burger king did release a chicken sandwich they were kind of
they were very gradually releasing it over the course of 2021. some locales even reported
getting this sandwich all the way back in like february and march of this year and it was just
a very gradual rollout well in early june i guess the burger king corporate decided okay now we're
going to formally roll it out we're going to start the ad campaigns etc and um now it's really being
promoted i tried to get this sandwich i think it was in late may or maybe very early june
and i wanted to get the original chicken sandwich you know the brand new one because they released
this big chicken sandwich to compete you know with popeyes and kfc and you know chick-fil-a
and mcdonald's and all that stuff i mean you know the way it goes with these chicken sandwiches
and i didn't get the original one there was just a mistake at the burger king they gave
me like the spicy deluxe instead of the original and i just reviewed that instead
and also i originally said that i think it was burnt but i think the oil was old and either
way just tasted horrible so uh i wanted to just get the original one because i never tried it
and that's where we are today uh now that i think more people are familiar with it it even has a
name now and um that's where that comes comes in so i just want to try out the original i did
open it and just verify that i got the right one which i did and that's what we're at so
when i tried this out a couple weeks ago it didn't have a name yet it was an unnamed sand which was
called the hand dreaded crispy chicken sandwich well they said you know that that name is for
losers and we're going to call it something better now so it's called the chicken sandwich
that's in writing ch apostrophe king um so it's the cha king sandwich and you might say no it's
not you say chicken chicken chicken chicken you know like burger king chicken but i i disagree
with that because for those of you who like your vocabulary here's a new word you can see cha king
right so it's chuck king sandwich and it's a noun and it has four definitions uh the first one
actually you know what let's just say what's on the sandwich first before we kind of
screw around any longer um what is it exactly it's a uh of course a white meat
chicken breast you know chicken fillet i should say that's incorrect on my part
um you know a chicken filet it's got it's crispy it's breaded um comes with pickles
a special sauce it's supposed to be real crispy so that's what it is it's available at the price
of five dollars and 82 cents so that's what it is um but exactly in terms of the definitions right
there's four definitions at least publicly uh it's a freshly hand breaded in our kitchen it says
their kitchen not mine thick cut delicious white meat chicken juicy crispy and crunchy your way way
better so those are the four formal definitions there actually is a fifth definition that isn't
on the bag uh now many many centuries ago you have to go all the way back to the medieval era
um it was more of like a phrase that you can use if you're frustrated with someone um but nowadays
you know that's not used anymore it's just for a name of a chicken sandwich so that's why it's
not on the bag but there's some interesting history about this word it goes it goes way way
back that's why linguistics it's an interesting thing let me tell you yeah the chicken sandwich
let's open it up and take a look it comes in its own little chicken sandwich pouch
and then inside of the pouch it's in its wrapping and then inside of the wrapping it's the sandwich
let me tell you boy this one was a it was tough to get so you know i have a couple burger kings
near me you can see it's exactly as marketed big chicken patty a secret sauce
and then more sauce in your two pickles
really smell those pickles let me tell you and then more sauce under there so you can see that's
what it looks like i'll get a thumbnail and then i'll tell a little story so there i am with it
get something like that and then i'll get another one
maybe like this focus more on the sandwich
and i'll get a third one just like this for the fun of it all right anyway i know i'll be able
to work with something all right as i eat it i'll tell a little story about how it was to get this
uh the uh actually i'll take a cross section i'm gonna do that instead so
you know there's a lot of burger kings nearby it's not just one
right go to the local burger king to try to get the sandwich to chicken the sandwich
only to find the place is like the most decrepit looking burger king i've ever seen in my life so
run down it was just falling apart pretty much obviously closed so go to another one and that
one's closed too it's not a nothing really going on today but just they're all run down it's like
i don't know what's going on with burger king all right going in i'll tell you more in a little bit
these two burger kings which are usually open and
you know they do run a good business i don't know they just look like they're all falling apart
so i don't know if they're operated by like a franchise and maybe the same guy owns both of
them and it's just shutting them down i don't know i don't know what's going on they were both closed
i had to go pretty far to get this one but i was on a mission gotta get the
sandwich
hmm
i'm just going to a tiny taste of the sauce directly
no worries my hands are clean so that's good there good news
unlike the first time i tried this out where it was had this awful burnt taste it doesn't have
that um i think i got this as as it's supposed to be which is good i would just have to describe
this sandwich as remarkably average um honestly it's about as average as it gets quite frankly
there is literally nothing that you know strikes out to me overwhelmingly good or bad i would say
that this is like right in smack dab in the middle you're going to get what you expect but it's not
going to be something that's going to knock your socks off nor is it going to be something that's
going to make you put a second pair of socks on that's the funniest joke i've ever heard
no that was terrible i'm just adding an even worse joke to a bad one um oh it's just very average you
know the chicken is just unremarkable um it's not bad you know it's just like it's there could be
a little juicier you would expect for like a big you know a thick um piece of chicken like that to
have a little more juiciness to it and it doesn't but you know it's still it still tastes all right
um it's not burned it's not overdone not under done the breading has a little bit of a you know
a nice crunch to it as well um it's all balanced out with a little bit of a tang not only from the
pickles but the special sauce itself it's like a tangy mayonnaise really that's the best way to um
to describe it you know it's just like mayo with a little bit of zestiness to it a little bit
of tanginess very similar to the pickles both of them kind of just blend together and are extremely
similar in that regard um but that's all that there really is to it it's just a basic chicken
sandwich no there's no real prevailing flavors otherwise it's got a little bit of that chicken
a little bit of that meaty flavor a little crunch from the breading not the most flavorful thing and
the most noticeable characteristic is just that tanginess from the special sauce and the pickles
which do help balance everything out and do add a little bit to the sandwich but that's really
the most defining characteristic of it all good amount of the sauce uh it's not it wasn't too much
probably uh actually very happy with the amount of it considering the chicken is a little
on the drier side so all things considered it's an average sandwich um just one of these things
that's like yeah yeah kind of feeling burger king today want to get a chicken sandwich
and i'll go here give it a shot you know again it's like i would say this is a very safe bet
you're gonna get what you get some chicken a little bit of tanginess and that's about it not
overwhelming not underwhelming not extremely you know extremely good not extremely bad
it's just like this is probably one of the most average items i've ever reviewed quite frankly
um but it certainly is a big improvement from the one that i tried previously
so as a result what am i going to be giving the king sandwich out of ten um
on my rating scale a five out of ten is average that's the midpoint and uh this is going to get
a five there's certainly some things i wish it were a little more flavorful you know
but it certainly could be worse is this total middle of the road item you get what you get
and uh certainly some room for improvement but not the worst thing i've ever had either so there you
have it again it's just like i think from burger king i like the walker the best and um next time
i go to burger king i probably just got a burger that's just my take but you know that's what it
is it's an inoffensive chicken sandwich so finally he was able to try out the chicken sandwich from
burger king and uh finally able to see what it's all about and with that that's all that i have
for you thank you for watching today's review i'm your host the report of the week until next time