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newest edition newest review yeah here we are here we are you know it's um i think largely you know
regardless of what your views are i think we could all agree that at least here in the united states
uh it's a hectic week it's a hectic week but no matter what popeyes is entering the game by
surprise and they're saying no matter what happens we got some new shrimp that you can snack on so uh
they're really they're making a move they're making a uh a real power move right there
yeah popeyes has a new item out though uh they are releasing a new batch of infamous shrimp
uh of course the uh the shrimp that you know i have this existing love-hate relationship with
uh that sometimes i think they're the best thing ever and sometimes i'll despise them
and uh i mean they can be hit or miss at times but popeyes you know they still fingers crossed
that these will be good but this is a new item that they have out this is called the twisty
wicked shrimp i guess isn't isn't that like a new england term and they say that's that's wicked
right wicked wicked shrimp i would assume that they call them the wicked twisty wicked shrimp
i assume that wicked is used in the um you know as a positive term that's wicked good you know it's
that's that's wicked cool right rather than saying that these shrimp are just like wicked you know
like the wicked witch you know that these are evil shrimp
but maybe that's that's the case maybe they are evil shrimp i mean i don't know i don't know how
the shrimp were before they wound up at popeyes so they might be good behaved shrimp they might not
be we really don't know until we try them uh now regardless of you know the shrimp's temperament
here's what we know about them for sure the twisty wicked shrimp uh come with a blend of
you know it's all in the seasoning this time around uh they're breaded
right they're crispy and in that breading is salt pepper onion garlic cayenne pepper
sriracha the big emphasis here with these shrimp is that they're going to be a little spicy
but there's going to be garlic as well it's going to be like maybe hot garlic in a sense
where again there's going to be that spice there's going to be garlic as well
and they serve it with a new smoky garlic tartar sauce on the side so garlic is the emphasis here
garlic a little bit of spice on these shrimp it's a five dollar meal deal you can get the box of the
shrimp which i think like 14 or so come in you get a side and you get the biscuit as they say
for the price of five dollars i got the meal deal that's what we have so far um my mouth is doing
a bit better you know silver covering there's still some pain from the operation and everything
um but i could talk much more fluidly now but i still can't eat properly i have to eat on the
other side of my mouth still but i'm glad i can kind of get the words out a bit a bit smoother
than in the past which is good which is very good um before we get into the review real quick
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here are the shrimp in the shrimp box um you can see this close-up view right now
that you know they are on the crispy side well breaded i would assume well seasoned as well
but they have almost like an orange hue not quite as orange as the box but you can
definitely see there i am with them you know kind of trying to get the good shot right there but
you can see they have that orange type color you can see the biscuit in there that is not actually
um a gibbous moon but that is a that is a biscuit i guess might be more of a full moon
and there's your shrimp up close and personal we got some fries as the side
but you know crispy shrimp very crispy and then we also have
the sauce as well which is interesting usually i thought they just put it in its own little
thing but they put it in a little container this time usually comes in its own
pre-packaged contraptions so to speak so i'm going to be trying this out now the one thing
and i i hope i mean maybe later in the video i'll just do it for the fun of it um but because this
is so crispy as you can see i really really have to be careful when i eat this because
i still have a surgical dressing and everything on this side of my mouth so i'm going to pause
the camera while i eat because i just don't want to rush it and accidentally bite down where i'm
not supposed to and really screw everything up really bad so i'm going to pause the camera i'm
gonna try it and we're gonna see how good uh these shrimp are all right so without further
ado it is the twisty wicked shrimp from popeyes going in are they wicked good let's find out
all right coming back from a time jump you can see uh the shrimp are smaller you know they're
definitely look it's even having trouble focusing on the shrimp there we go though for a little bit
of a close-up there you can see there's not a ton of meat very crispy though for what they are
and uh yeah i don't know if you would i've heard the term popcorn shrimp used before though that
just might be a made-up term you know that one of the establishments will come up with
uh so far so good these are very crispy shrimp um so i had to be careful eating them but one
thing that is uh worth mentioning is that they weren't you know it wasn't really a detriment
and i know it's not going to be uh to you when you eat the shrimp you know they're gonna be crunchy
they're gonna be crispy but then once you make it past the breading it's really soft on the inside
um really soft really tender and i always like that about the shrimp that you get this little bit
of a balance you get a crunch on the inside but they're just so tender on the ins and the crunch
on the outside tender on the inside that's what we're trying to say um it's all in the breading
it's all in the breading for sure what i like is that you get this little bit of a spice not much
i didn't even need any water it's not any sort of like real overwhelmingly uh hot spiciness
that's in the shrimp but it's just enough just enough from those um from the cayenne pepper
that it's noticeable it's there get away you fly but then what really comes your way is the garlic
you get the garlic that's in that that breading and you really taste it and the garlic i don't
know just it just works it just works it's not overwhelming garlic can be very potent
a lot of the time they try to do garlic this garlic that it just gets too much it just gets
annoying your breath stinks um but in this case it's like the perfect balance like the perfect
balance of some spice uh you can taste even some of the pepper a little bit of saltiness but not
overwhelmingly i can't really taste the onion but the spiciness and the garlic is definitely there
all balanced and very nicely with the crunch and then the tenderness of the shrimp itself now
you know you might be saying i want to live on the edge a little bit i want to go all
out well you can because you could also have smoky garlic tartar sauce as well so
we're just gonna we're just gonna take that leap right now and you better believe it when i opened
up that little that little receptacle this wave of garlic just hit me i'm like oh wow this is
this is potent stuff right here so you can see there it is and i'll humor you
if you want i will take a bite and then i'll pause it a little bit so let's try this out
i don't think i needed to pause it up but you see how slow i had to chew there
that's why i mean the video will take forever i know he stretched things out a lot usually but
it would just be too much speaking of too much i gotta tell you this right now
some of you might like the smoky um the smoky garlic tartar sauce i'm not really feeling it
i am not remember how i was just saying before i tried it that garlic can really be overwhelming
i think in this instance it kind of is there's already garlic in the shrimp to begin with
and i don't know i just think it's like the right quantity that's in the shrimp it just works it
works very well with everything that's there now maybe if you're a real garlic fanatic you know
you want more i'd say you know why not it comes with it anyway just get it and try it for yourself
but thing is for me with the sauce it's like too over the top it's like too garlicky now
and i don't know it's just like you're eating not a whole clove of garlic but it sure it sure
feels like it's just too garlicky um it actually just drowns out the really really nice flavor
and balance the shrimp already has and now it's just like all right i'm eating tons of garlic and
that's it so i mean if you really like it that's one thing but i think in general the garlic sauce
is actually a little overwhelming it's a little too much but it comes with it and it's not already
on it it's purely optional but uh i think that's a little overwhelming but overall the shrimp as they
are are good i'm a fan of them uh i like them and yeah popeyes you know there's at one time where i
tried them and they were really really bad i think they've learned from their mistakes they have seen
the error of their ways and um i think they've really they've really rectified those issues
so all things considered out of ten what am i going to be rating the what do they call it
the twisty wicked shrimp from popeyes um you know i'm gonna have to give it an eight point two five
nine to ten eight point two five out of ten um because again they're pretty good for what
they are by no means are they perfect but i think they really have a nice balance down and i think
it's an enjoyable item all things considered so that's what i have for you good value two
five dollar meal deal and uh with that that's all that i have for you ladies and gentlemen
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