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 the report of the week always a pleasure to be here
hope you're doing feeling all right well we are in the month of october we we are at least as far as
i'm concerned and i'm pretty sure the calendar is correct so welcome the month of october is
uh a month that i do indeed like and there's a lot to it i think when you think of october
you know that's one of the quintessential fall months you know you start thinking of halloween
right that'll be coming up at the end of the month and you start thinking of maybe the weather starts
getting a little cooler and you think about the leaves perhaps changing colors etc and with the
arrival of fall of course you have certain fall foods right like how starbucks is they usually
bring back the uh you know the the renown uh pumpkin spice latte this is even bigger than that
buffalo wild wings has released a uh a new uh i can't even say that with a straight face
buffalo wild wings has released a new wing flavor though and that's what i'd like to
try out today admittedly i actually am a little bit nervous i have to i have to confide that
um indeed i am maybe those of you who are watching remember this maybe you don't
the last time i ever had buffalo wild wings was a couple months ago maybe like two months ago
when i got their chicken sandwich to review and needless to say this was just a one-off experience
and that's we'll leave it at that it was just a one-off experience but that had to be the worst
chicken sandwich i've ever had in my entire life um nothing else even comes close to that
as a result though such an awful experience has in a literal and metaphorical sense
has left a bad taste in my mouth so i kind of have a feeling of apprehension
toward buffalo wild wings this time around because to me it's like
what am i going to get this time around i really don't know i'm hoping for the best but
i'd be lying to you if i said i wasn't expecting the worst because i i just can't i i can't i
can't not well either way we'll find out we'll be impartial and if it's good it's good if it's
bad it's bad and that's all that there is to it you know i don't want to be that guy that just
sits there and hates on buffalo wild wings all day plenty of items on their menu that i like but like
i said if it's a bad item it's a bad item and i'm not going to hold back if it's good i'll give it
all the praises as well so this wing flavor it's called the doritos spicy sweet chili flavor wings
so they've teamed up with doritos these wings you can obviously get them bone-in or bone out
here's what they come with they're supposed to taste like a combination of soy sauce brown sugar
onion garlic and paprika and they are seasoned with little crumbles of doritos spicy sweet chili
chips so some of the blessed doritos chips will actually be sprinkled down
on the wings themselves akin to an early autumn frost so uh that's where that stands
these wings do come with a dollar up charge so regardless of how many you might be getting
you have to pay an extra dollar for them because they say it's a premium sauce
you know that those chips they don't come cheap so that's why they charge what they charge
in my case i got six wings and they charged about 10 bucks and you know wings themselves
are a little pricey so i know how it is admittedly i ran into a little issue when i first
ordered the buffalo wild wings they told me that they don't have any bone-in
wings at this establishment anymore um i i believe that that's just a one-off thing
at the one that i went to but they they didn't have any they didn't have any bone-in wings so
i had to settle for the boneless ones which i know people say either they're glorified
chicken nuggets etc and indeed boneless wings are what they are but in this case
i'm more or less here to assess the sauce the quality thereof and if it tastes good
and i really don't think it'll make much of a difference uh whether the wings are boneless or
we're not you know or if they have actually double bonds that's a that's a trend recently so yeah
we will see we'll just see what they taste like and go from there as i said i got the six piece
you can see for verification purposes boneless and that's the buffalo wild wings insignia right there
there i am with the box let's open this up see what they look like
they i guess i just threw that in oh okay see what this is so these are some extra chip crumbles i
don't know if they all come with that but these are little see these are the little crumbles in
there those are the doritos we were talking about although it appears as though there are some on
the wings as well some of these almost look like bone-in wings but i think they are boneless um but
you can see right there it's got like a glaze it looks like a thicker sauce you know like a
you'd almost think of her honey barbecue in a sentence um and you can see again especially
on that wing right there those are the little chip crumbles on them um but that's what they look like
they look good i can't really smell too much they don't really give off too much of an aroma
but again they look pretty decent obviously we can't judge a book by its cover
um but we'll try them out and we'll see what they taste like i'll do this as a thumbnail first
we'll get a happy one and a neutral one
lately i've been going with the thumbnail style where i kind of hold it up to the camera like that
because i don't know people seem to like it it gives a good view of the food and all of that so
what i'll do for the heck of it we'll go ahead with a fork and uh give it a shot
so you know what's on them i know what's on them we all know what's on them and look
we'll just see what they taste like if they're good they're good if they're bad they're bad
tell it like it is there's a little bit of a close-up of it and uh we'll go from there
so the doritos spicy sweet chili-flavored wings from buffalo wild wings are going in
you can see that these are indeed boneless wings
this wing they nicknamed this wing the the kingpin
you can see it right there i'll just take a bite of that then we'll get on with the assessment
so observations
number one just in terms of the wing quality itself because i think that would actually go by
rather quickly in terms of any sort of flavor in terms of the chicken it's fine you know you
have it's very crunchy on the outside but it does have it is tender and juicy on the inside
and the meat itself is fine no issues with that tastes just as you would expect any wing to taste
you know it tastes fresh quality and no problems in terms of the chicken itself so from the basic
base right the boneless chicken of the uh the boneless wing or whatever you want to call it
no issues no issues to report there so that's good that's that's a good thing at least so we
have a decent base to to build off of i'll tell you what though in terms of the flavor of um
of the sauce i don't know how i feel about it you know
it's one of those you ever get something where it's like it's not bad it's not bad
but it's not necessarily something that you would eat in a large quantity either it's like all right
it's all right but if i were to get a dozen of these i don't think i'd be very happy and uh i
don't know if my body would really be either something like that where one or two wins on
their own are fine but in a large enough quantity i think it might start getting you might start
getting some issues i'll explain why number one in terms of the the chip seasoning i mean
i mean i guess i could take a little pinch of these doritos right here
see the doritos themselves you could really taste almost the chili flavor there on those
chips way more than you can on the wings it's like a totally different thing um i would be
willing to say that the chip garnish on the wings is totally decorative you're really not
going to taste anything from there now like i was saying the issue that i have though is the sauce
the problem with the sauce is that it's very salty and it's sweet also to the point of excess
i could really really taste the soy sauce in this i mean that is extremely extremely apparent it's
very potent um like i said it's at the precipice of being overwhelming not in and of itself but in
a large enough quantity definitely um these wings though it's just it gets like really really salty
you have the sweetness mixed in with the saltiness and like i said the problem is that on its own the
first couple bites it's like all right yeah you know i can i can start getting behind this there
really wasn't much in the way of spice though that's one thing i said these are spicy sweet
if they called these salty sweet wings um that would be more of a fitting name they
didn't notice too much in the way of spice um but the problem like i was saying the first few bites
you could be feeling it it's like yeah this is this is all right but then as you begin to get
to that fifth bite or however many it is and you start getting onto the second wing you're like
wow this is this is getting really salty i mean this is getting really salty really sweet i mean
i need to drink something right now and that's why i was saying if you were to get a dozen of these
i i just don't see myself being in that good of a spot if i were to eat 12 of these that's
just what i would have to say so that's the thing in small quantities and small amounts
these wings aren't that bad but once you start eating them the flavors just really begin building
up and it starts getting to the point where it's just overwhelming and um it's like too much of a
not a good thing but too much of like a fair thing i guess in that sense and that's the one issue
that i notice so the big takeaway the sauce isn't really spicy it still it tastes good and it works
but it's potent it's good in small quantities but beyond that it just gets too much to again the
point where it's just it is unpleasant in a way because there's just so much of it um so again
if you get these wings you're going to really taste the soy sauce you're really going to taste
probably the brown sugar as well they're really sweet and salty
not bad but again they're not necessarily what they would be described as either so you kind of
get this weird middle ground where like i said they're not good to it to an extent they're not
bad either they just kind of fall somewhere in the middle maybe around average at best
um so out of 10 as a result because in terms of an item and a hallmark of a good item it's something
ideally that you would like to eat a little bit of and not have that feeling that it's overwhelming
so out of 10 i'm going to give these the doritos spicy sweet chili wings from buffalo wild wings
a 5 out of 10. like i said they could be worse they could initially just taste bad but there is
room for improvement a few things that they certainly could build uh build off of i'd
like to like to taste more of that spiciness and something that again doesn't get too overwhelming
so with that said 5 out of 10 rating is what i'll be giving these and again price wise was 10
for six of these wings so in the end could be better could be worse but at least they're not
as bad as that chicken sandwich so i guess that's a good thing in the end that's all that i have for
you ladies and gentlemen today we tried out the gosh i have to keep looking at the name i'm sorry
the doritos spicy sweet chili wings from buffalo wild wings and that's all that i have for you
thank you for watching i'm your host the report of the week until next time