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 to the report of the week breaking out the wind collar and three-piece
suit combination for uh well the release that at the very least has been hyped up a bit uh
although admittedly i am feeling a little degree of uh uncertainty about this one and i'll explain
why you know we'll just cover it all popeyes right popeyes is uh one of those chains that
i think for a while a lot of people were just like yeah it's popeyes you know
fried chicken right whatever then came the chicken sandwich in 2019
and i think that was at least in terms of fast food in terms of different releases
and you know the impact thereof uh the release of their chicken's hand which in 2019
it was a legitimate game changer right it was something that actually did change the landscape
of uh fast food all the other places after the success of the popeyes chicken sandwich
it's like they dropped everything and all were starting to try to be like popeyes and you're
seeing that trend even to this day right you have places like kfc releasing chicken sandwiches
mcdonald's burger king every place is releasing yeah even buffalo wild wings which you know how
that went over and um you know popeyes really did start a trend so you got to give them credit there
and it was enormously successful now as a result i think this is something that popeye's released
maybe in hopes that it would be just as successful as the chicken sandwich at the very least again
i saw the press releases the ads etc this thing is so hyped up
but i started getting nervous because i always do a little bit of research into these items before
i uh i get it and i was seeing that the reviews and the reactions weren't necessarily comparable
to the initial hype that gets me a little nervous but we're going to see how good this is
what is this exactly well i mean you can see the title but popeyes has released new chicken nuggets
and kind of playing along with the hype they even called these game a changing chicken nuggets which
is kind of funny because i know sometimes you know just jokingly i'll call some item game changing
just as a joke like if you get some burger and all it is is a regular burger with extra bacon
you know call it game changing is a joke but they actually did call these game changing
uh what's so special about this these chicken nuggets are supposed to be made with the same
flour and batter as the chicken sandwich so there you go this is like the chicken sandwich
patty or really fillet it's a filet i should stop using that that word that's not right because it's
not what it is a chicken sandwich fillet cut into little pieces and now you have yourself
some chicken nuggets it's available anywhere from a four piece to a 36 piece i got a 12 piece
you can get them by themselves you could also get it with a meal i got it with uh some fries biscuit
and uh some dipping sauces the price was ten dollars for a 12 piece but again some people
are saying you know it seems like they're trying to recreate the hype of the chicken
sandwich and it's just not there so try these out and we'll see there's the bag it says fast
it actually was made pretty quickly i gotta give him credit world famous
that says peppern right and uh louisiana kitchen what else anything interesting and this says no la
and you know they say that because
sometimes you have this concept that like everything is hollywoodized and it's trying
to say no we're just like homegrown we're the real deal no l.a you know this is just
it's a really bad joke it's probably the worst one i've ever done no it stands for new orleans
because it's cajun style cooking etc um this is what the meal looks like it's interesting
that it didn't come in one big box it was just actually just a loose components here
so these are the fries the bisgut and then these are the nuggets in here looked like
it popped open i guess in transit and i got two sauces i just decided to get the sweet heat and
the bold bq sauce so again it comes in the little box let's open the box and let's see what we have
so those are the nuggets that's what they look like um you can see they look like breaded
chicken nuggets let's pull one out it's got a closer inspection
looks like it's crispy they don't look too small um obviously the right item it's not
like we got a burger or anything by accident you can see though yeah
definitely it is resemblance those bear semblance i should say to the chicken sandwich i will get a
little thumbnail right now before we get into it and then we'll just try it out um i'll try him out
with the dipping sauce later but especially want to um we'll get this thumbnail first
and then what we'll do is we'll focus this one more on the nuggets
and uh there we go sorry if i'm a little shaky today had some
coffee beforehand got pumped up you know all right let's just try it out you know what it is i know
what it is there's no real uh nothing more to really discuss here the chicken nuggets are they
good are they comparable to the chicken sandwich we'll see the popeye's chicken nuggets going in
hmm
okay well
they're not bad
but i could see where people are kind of getting some of their criticisms from
definitely can because here's the issue
all right and this is something that you have to be um be aware of
these chicken nuggets i think are trying to be held to the same standard the same level
as the chicken sandwich which that's why i wanted to emphasize at the beginning the chicken sandwich
was by all intents and purposes a legitimate game changer these chicken nuggets are not that
when i when i bite in they're tender they're pretty juicy you know white meat chicken
a nice uh i do like the juxtaposition that you get between the tenderness of the chicken
and the uh you know the the crisp that the breading offers but here's the thing
where's the flavor because i'm not really seeing it to me it's like all right
the chicken nuggets what more is there to say not all that much it's like all right yeah
the chicken nuggets and that's it there's nothing that says wow these are popeyes nuggets these
are game changing i can't wait to get these again these are delicious these you know there's nothing
about these that gives them any sort of unique identifiable characteristics it's like all right
some chicken it that the problem that i'm seeing is that it's not the most flavorful
you look at these and you think there's got to be some flavor here i mean
they look they look pretty good juicy tender you got the breading on them you think there's
got to be something there and you bite in and there isn't saying yourself what's going on
here what's what's the issue what's wrong if these are made from the same breading
the same flour the same components as the chicken sandwich what went wrong
because the chicken sandwich is flavorful the chicken sandwich was a game changer these aren't
that's the problem they're lacking in terms of flavor would i get these again maybe depends if
i'm kind of craving them but it's not something like it's not one of those items that i bite into
and say oh wow oh yeah i can't wait to get these again you know it's it's not like that
these do need a sauce they definitely do i'm trying out the sweet heat sauce
i know i've always been a fan of that one so let's try it
sweet heat is a good pairing got to give him credit on that
this is one of those items and there have been others in the past
on their own it's like don't even don't even really bother these need sauce these absolutely
need a dipping sauce and that's the that that's what if there's a redeeming quality that's it
because on their own they're bland
they're not gross they're not disgusting
they don't taste bad there's just nothing remarkable about them unless they're you
know being used uh with a dipping sauce you know they're bland in this and uh it's what
i'm trying to say and that's disappointing because again it's very clear that they're
trying to capitalize off of the success of the chicken sandwich that just didn't happen here so
moral of the story if you want to get these nuggets
just don't have great expectations for them if you get them by themselves you have to absolutely must
must must get these are the dipping sauce trying the bold bq now it's like a tangy barbecue sauce
considering the differences one is like sweet and spicy the other is a tangy barbecue
both of them complement these nuggets very nicely as a result like i said on their own if you get
these without any sort of dipping sauce i don't think they're going to be particularly enjoyable
get them with dipping sauce any dipping sauce if these just get them with anything get them
with honey mustard get them with um again spicy or sweet sauce or sweet and spicy or barbecue or
you know whatever you have to get these with the sauce that's the redeemable quality but the sauce
they're not bad but the fact that these even need a sauce to be good in the first place is
very telling ten dollars for the meal deal i guess you know these days that price is understandable
um so factoring everything in out of 10 what am i going to be giving the popeyes chicken
nuggets they're not game-changing they need this sauce just to make them passable so as
a result these are going to get a six out of 10 from me they're still edible i mean again
it's just when there's nothing remarkable and they need a sauce this badly that's an issue
so with that that's all that i have for you i'm your host the report of the week
today we tried out the game-changing chicken nuggets from popeyes until next time take care