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watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of the running on empty food review series
i'm your host the report of the week thanks for being here thanks for checking in well
let's get right into it i have been dying to review an item like this i mean i really have
i sit here and you know yeah i try the pizzas and i try the burgers and the chicken items and
the things that it's even debatable if they could even be classified as food or not
and you know some of them might be good some of them might be bad but i sit here and i wait and
i wait and you know what i'm going to admit to you right now every review that i've done for
probably the last 11 months or so i've just been buying time i've just been buying time
because you know what fast food fish sandwich season is back and uh boy i can't wait for it
yeah that was um dripping with sarcasm i mean the fish sandwiches they're not my favorite thing
admittedly but i'm willing to give it a give them a try some of them are better than others and we
will see a question though is does anyone is there anyone out there that really gets excited for the
fast food fish sandwiches because to me they always seem like something where it's it's like
all right yeah whatever you know wendy's released a fish sandwich i don't care
or um you know popeyes did this that's fish who cares about fish that just seems to be the
impression that i get from it this one though on the other hand despite my obvious lack of
enthusiasm uh did kind of you know it caught my interest because this isn't any fish sandwich okay
it isn't even any popeye's fish sandwich you know what this is it's a fish sandwich with pickles
and spicy sauce that's right popeyes has released a spicy flounder fish sandwich
i believe last year i tried out the regular flounder fish sandwich which was like all right
i didn't have anything good or bad to say about it pretty much but um this is their
spicy flounder fish sandwich it's available the price of 4.49 so it can be slightly more expensive
depending on your location i paid for instance 5.49 for this fish sandwich and it comes with
wild caught flounder apparently it's actually what they call parking lot flounder that's a
certain style of the fish you could look that up but wild caught flounder the flounder is seasoned
with cajun seasonings it comes with pickles but then and this is where it gets real this is where
it gets real interesting cause i know like right now you know you're on the edge of your seat like
this and you're about to fall off on the floor and you may just well so just brace yourselves
it normally comes with tartar sauce and you can still get it with that but this one this one
comes with spicy sauce i believe the same spicy sauce that's used on their spicy chicken sandwich
and also it's on a brioche bun i know you're on the floor right now
injuries sustained perhaps but think about that brioche bun and the spicy sauce wasn't
wasn't that worth it well it's worth 5.49 or perhaps 4.49 so there's your answer
all right the spicy flounder fish sandwich i'm just kind of sitting here trying to
make a fish sandwich review interesting popeye's bag i got it delivered but just got here it's all
set up before then this says cajun flounder sandwich there i am with the popeyes bag
we've got some cajun instruments there's the tuba right there and um
we got a soccer ball over there too and uh
what else do we have
that's the electric guitar
this is cool actually you know i'll give him credit for this comes in a special little bag
look at that the fish sandwich i do like the branding and packaging admittedly it's actually
cool you know what i'll give him credit for that even if i'm not a big fish sandwich person
credit where credit is due i i like this i i actually do there's a little look at that little
fish right there on the bag this is cool the fish sandwich that's nice get a thumbnail right here
like that i think people would probably care more about this than the sandwich itself quite frankly
because sometimes people they like their branding it's true
sorry to waste your time with this thumbnails no one will watch the
video otherwise so you gotta we gotta do it
all right anyway i've been here doing this enough so let's open this up break it out and take a look
there it is
and i will take it out here so you can get a better look at it
all right so there's the the blessed flounder
there's the spicy sauce looks like they kind of
gave it a little light on the sauce if i must say so myself ah but look we've been taken by surprise
more sauce and those pickles so we've got some spicy sauce on it at least all right
i'm gonna make sure i get some bites in right here so you could definitely see
the spicy sauce i'm gonna get one quick thumbnail in case the one with the bag doesn't work out
something like that all right good enough you know what it looks like you know everything
there is to know about this you even know about this sandwiches uh lost times in vegas and all
that good stuff anyway let's uh let's dig in the popeyes spicy flounder fish sandwich going in
so
we'll take one more bite
not a fan i'm not a fan of this one and the reason is quite simple um the spicy
sauce just doesn't work with the fish it it just doesn't um i remember the last time i tried this
kind of mentioning i believe the tartar sauce and how you know kind of balanced out this very um
very oily and you know heavily breaded uh fatty fash fatty fast food fish sandwich and um
this on the other hand it just doesn't all right here's here's the thing at least the
flounder itself what flounder there is wasn't um it wasn't
a floundering effort the flounder itself was okay in that flounder is supposed to be a very
inoffensive fish and uh you know what is there anyway is this very light it's very flaky you know
pretty inoffensive all things considered um but still it's a fish patty you have to remember that
the ratio of the fried breading to flounder on the other hand look over here for instance there's
more breading right there than there is fish now over here the balance is a bit better but um
i mean you could definitely see in this part of the sandwich and there were certainly bites that i
took where it was like i bite in and i'm wondering where is the fish i believe even the first or
second bite that i took it was just a mouthful of just this oily oily fatty uh breading and no
real fish there all right now that's a complaint that i could have in and of itself even if there
was no sauce on the sandwich but then you factor in the namesake the spicy flounder sandwich right
it's going to be spicy and already i was kind of sitting there and i was thinking i wasn't going
to say this in the review but i was thinking to myself um i don't know how they're going to make
this work maybe they will but i don't really see how the spicy sauce i mean there is spice to it
um don't get me wrong i almost guzzled this down and that sauce it does pack a punch
problem is though is that this spicy sauce that it actually works very well with the spicy chicken
sandwich the creamy spicy sauce um yeah it does a good job for that for chicken but using that same
sauce for fish on the other hand it doesn't work it clashes completely you notice it immediately
the sauce again it does not work with this sandwich which also has a little bit of a fishy
note to it which even though it is fish that's not what you want to see also that's another thing
um so it just doesn't go it just doesn't work it completely clashes it doesn't taste good um
popeyes they do chicken well i like their chicken i usually don't really have any
any problems with it it's pretty good for what it is the chicken sandwich of course iconic
and even some of their shrimp now that's hit or miss but some of the shrimp that they do
is actually pretty it's pretty good um but this sandwich on the other hand it just isn't it i
appreciate what they did trying it out with the spicy sauce but it doesn't work it doesn't
taste good and all you're going to notice is yeah this sauce doesn't go with it at all
and that's a major problem so the pickles are just kind of there the tanginess is nice
but this is too much it's just too much that it doesn't offset anything i would say if
you really want to get the fish sandwich from popeyes go with the original flounder sandwich
avoid the spicy one because you're just going to be disappointed the spicy sauce doesn't work it
clashes with it and also there's those issues that i mentioned with the chicken or not the chicken
i'm so used to reviewing chicken sandwiches the flounder patty to begin with so therefore
i mean this is just a waste of five dollars here so out of 10 definitely a disappointment i'm
going to give this a 3 out of 10. um there really isn't a lot that i could really compliment this on
actually i'm going to even lower this i'm going to give it a 2 out of 10 because when i mentioned
that i was thinking what even is there to compliment it on i guess the pickle was all
right and uh the bun was okay so i'll give it a two out of ten the spicy flounder fish sandwich
not a fan go with the original or maybe just get some chicken from popeyes next time you go
that's all that i have for you i'm your host the report of the week until next time