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 thereportoftheweek thank you for checking in i was doing some research
as i always do you know i always try to look out for new things to review um new items
that are out there and i found out about this really i would describe it i think the only
way to describe it really is a new and inventive concept and it combines a series of ingredients
never really seen before and the way that it works is you take
a piece of chicken oftentimes breaded occasionally fried and you place it between these two
um slabs i guess of bread and you name it a chicken sandwich and all of these places have this
thing and that was a really stupid introduction but either way i tried i tried to make a chicken
sandwich sound a little more interesting than it is because i i still don't understand why
it's such a big trend it's a very simple item but every place does the chicken sandwich and maybe
that's why um because it's simple but it could be good but you know back in 2019 you got the iconic
chicken sandwich in places still do this buffalo wild wings so they say we've got a new chicken
and sandwich out and this might be the best one they say look just try it you're going to be blown
away because it's not just a chicken sandwich it's not a crispy chicken sandwich it's a saucy
chicken sandwich this is a premium priced sandwich 10.50 cents for this it is a hand
breaded chicken filet and it has sauce on it and some pickles hence the saucy chicken sandwich so
saucy obviously that could imply one of two things either a the sandwich could have a degree of sauce
thereon or it could have some attitude problems
and if i open the box i'll get hit with a round of smack talk as they say because it'll be saucy
buffalo wild wings comes in this box just got it delivered and there's the bun looks like it
could barely be contained so let's open it up now they have 26 different sauce flavors
i got you could get any sauce you want on this i went with medium sauce because when i usually
get my boneless wings from buffalo wild wings i always get medium sauce on it because i think it's
a pretty savory flavorful sauce but it has some spice to it as well so i think it's like the ideal
buffalo sauce plus that's what's really in the ad all right saucy chicken sandwich there it is
well we've got some sauce action going let's get a better look at this
it's a big sandwich i'll give them that
what i necessarily describe what i'm seeing though is particularly saucy
you look at the ad but you know this isn't just a criticism of buffalo wild wings you look at the ad
and you'll see for yourself there's some sauce on the top gun
there's a piece of chicken i'd say it's lightly sauced it's definitely not dripping in sauce as
the uh and no sauce on the bottom not dripping in sauce like how it's portrayed in the ad
and there's some pickles right there i guess i'll rearrange this pickle i'll put it
put it here so we can get a little bit of pickle in every bite
but there you have it
like i said definitely breaded crispy chicken and you can see the sauce on it but again for a
sandwich of its size i wouldn't say it's saucy would you call this just by default a saucy
chicken sandwich i wouldn't so that's one thing it's not as saucy as you'd think
but we can't judge a book by its cover all right real quick i'm going to cut it in
half and then i'll try it out so i'm going to pause it while i uh cut it in half one moment
all right the halving has been completed that way you could get a better look at it so that's
what the inside looks like all right there's the chicken pickle and the sauce pretty basic sandwich
pretty straight forward so i'm going to try it out now and i'll let you know what it tastes like
the saucy chicken sandwich from buffalo wild wings going in
one more bite
so when it comes down to the sandwich there's a few things that i want to take into account
here a few um you know variables and factors to note you might say all right first and foremost
do i have any problems with it the way that it tastes no i don't actually i've had some
items from buffalo wild wings before that have been very very disappointing just in general
based on their taste or lack thereof where i will have pieces of chicken from buffalo wild wings
that seem to be very dry flavorless aesthetically speaking it might look good like i remember a
few weeks ago when i tried out the bird dogs from buffalo wild wings those i mean they were horrible
they looked good but they weren't you know that's the thing the sandwich on the other hand is kind
of like the opposite of that does it look like the ad right does it look like what you would envision
a saucy chicken sandwich to be i wouldn't say so at least in my case not but when i tried it out
taste wise it's not actually it's not that bad um but it definitely missed the mark in some areas
now chicken wise right that's the most important thing here uh we're looking at the chicken quality
you're getting a good piece of chicken on the sandwich and you can definitely see that
a nice thick chicken fillet but it's still breaded has a crisp to it
and uh it's pretty juicy pretty flavorful definitely it's it's definitely juicier than the
last time i tried any chicken from buffalo wild wings that time it was very dry very flavorless
this is definitely an improvement in that regard definitely a solid piece of chicken and again
for what it is you're getting a decent amount of chicken as well so that's great it's good to see
that the chicken quality is all right this time around and that's what we want to see ideally
in any chicken sandwich but like i said there's other things that come into play here as well
and that's where the issues are just because the piece of chicken is good
like i said there's other things to this this is called the saucy
chicken sandwich and we're paying a premium right this is ten dollars and fifty cents here
why should i go and spend ten dollars and fifty cents on this sandwich when like the other review
that i did and this is just an example um that came to mind i could go to popeye's get the idk
meal for six bucks get a chicken sandwich that the chicken quality is just as good if not better
um and a drink tacked on as well for again not quite but almost half the price why why should i
spend all this extra money on this what brings it above and beyond and the answer to that is nothing
um like i said right chicken's all right the sauciness though of the sandwich really lacking
in the sauce um i already described how the medium sauce is supposed to taste but there was so little
of it on the sandwich that you're factoring in okay i'm biting into this there's all this chicken
there's the bun and there's the pickles that tiny drizzle of sauce you really can't taste it at all
i tasted maybe one a tiny little spicy hint but what should be like i said a pretty saucy sandwich
certainly isn't and when you see in the ads and when the implication from researching this item
you're led to think that all right this is going to be dripping in sauce because that's how it's
portrayed the sauce just literally dripping onto the plate when you don't get that when it's just
a light drizzle that's disappointing it's an issue that could definitely be fixed very easily right
just put more sauce on it and it's as easy as that because otherwise it defeats the purpose of this
item it's supposed to be very heavy on the sauce and as you could see for yourself it was very
light on the sauce if anything so the sauce didn't really have any sort of effect on the sandwich the
bun is very doughy and the pickles themselves they have a tendency to slide around a bit
but they do have a nice little tanginess to them and those always work they work quite nicely
with any sort of chicken sandwich but the most disappointing thing about this item
is the lack of sauce needs more sauce if it wants to kind of live up to that name
and even if they got everything right though i still wouldn't say that this justifiably should be
a ten dollar and fifty cent sandwich i can't find any incentive as to why you should be paying that
for an item like this so that's another problem that i have in the end
it's not a perfect item it has a few good things about it but it's got a few bad things as well
and when you're factoring in what the item is supposed to be sure the chicken is totally edible
and it's fine in that regard however factoring in what it's lacking the price
the fact that it doesn't live up to its name even in the most basic of ways
as a result i'm going to be giving the buffalo wild wings saucy chicken sandwich a 5.9 out of 10
just shy of that 6 out of 10 range there's some things that they got to work on here but if they
make a few easy tweaks and adjustments could definitely be a much better sandwich thanks for
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