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 thanks for being here so uh number one
first and foremost a big thank you to everyone out there who gave your well wishes and support
the last video that i did it's much appreciated and just a little update on how i'm feeling
i i certainly feel less sick than i did the other week so that's good things are definitely
going in the right direction um albeit gradually i think the biggest thing right now for me is just
this overwhelming sort of fatigue so to speak i know i could kind of be a bit low energy to begin
with so i apologize if that's just something that you notice but um i want to do my best here and uh
you know try to just get another review out for you so even if it's not the longest video
in the world uh today's video it's going to be all about this place called pdq
and they're not the biggest chain in the world but i've got a few requests for them over the years
and uh people have mixed reactions about them people seem to either really love them or hate
them they have a new item out and again it might not be the biggest release in the world
but it caught my attention and it's something that i want to try out nonetheless so pdq is a
fast food chain they mostly seem to be based in florida however there are some locations in new
york and new jersey i don't know if that's to try to appeal to all the snow birds up there
or what but they do have some locations also in the carolinas they seem to be expanding a bit
uh pdq stands for people dedicated to quality and they largely serve chicken
especially chicken tenders chicken sandwiches you know that sort of stuff fast food chicken
and recently they have brought out i guess just for at least you could say a spicy chicken tender
sandwich so here's what it has on it it comes with a brioche bun two spicy chicken tenders that's why
they call it the spicy tenders sandwich it comes with their famous pdq sauce pickles and lettuce
it was a pricey sandwich though you know for two spicy tenders on a bun you paid seven dollars
25 cents for this so we will see but pdq again a chicken chain people dedicated to
quality one interesting observation about the name is that it's not necessarily implied that
it's good quality it's just quality so it could theoretically be people dedicated to
and then in brackets bad quality but who knows um like i said people have mixed reactions about pdq
some people really like it some people don't i've never tried a chicken sandwich from them
before i've only tried the tenders of theirs and um i kind of glitched out there for a minute
um my reaction was iffy though admittedly there's the pdq bag
though so you know this is the real deal and there's their mascot they call him uh big bob
i just made that up i don't know what they call them to be honest on the back
little inscription there what does it say 100 real so it's good to know that
there's no fake chicken 100 real 100 made to order always fresh chicken
let's open this up now i haven't even seen what it looks like
the chicken tenders
sandwich
i guess it comes in the box and you can look at the lower half of
their mascot yeah we'll see how it is though there's the box let's open this up now
out comes the sandwich
oh there it is all right let's get a uh
thumbnail real quick and then we'll
go into the video the review i mean and i'll just eat it
all right you can see either way that i know i do the silliness with the thumbnails
those are big tenders right there look at the size of those things two of them indeed
um if we just deconstruct it a little bit top bun i guess that's the pdq sauce
two tenders
and then you know at least they stacked the pickles right and that's good
so there you have it that's what it looks like and now
i'll kind of spread them out a little bit like so
let's try this out the spicy tender sandwich from pdq going in
that means two more pipes
i'm actually going to take one last bite over here to really try the sauce
oh no i don't want to do that i accidentally there we go
i adjusted the brightness for a moment instead of the focus
all right a quick assessment and then that's going to be that remember here we're talking
about a 7.25 sandwich um it's got its pros and it's got its cons one thing that i always look for
when i try out a sandwich of any kind especially a chicken sandwiches you're looking for a few things
of course if it has a sauce on it you want the sauce to be flavorful if it has a sort of breading
there on you want the breading to be flavorful but at the same time you're looking for at least
some decent quality chicken that possesses flavor of its own here's what i notice uh obviously the
star of the dish is the chicken you know it's got the two chicken tenders which are bigger than i
thought they would be which is good um the chicken itself is tender uh you could definitely see that
i wasn't really struggling with the chicken itself in terms of consuming it you know it's
really crunchy and crispy on the outside on the inside though um definitely quite tender and uh
definitely fresh definitely fresh um one thing that i did notice though the bun was a bit chewy
it was kind of interesting this uh not in a good way you know i don't really like having to you
know tear the bun out of my uh my mouth and just rip it apart like that um so i would prefer the
bun to be a little less chewy but here's the thing that i notice about the chicken most importantly
is that the breading of the chicken does possess some flavor it's like a black pepper
type of spice that i noticed for the most part but it lingers and it does pack a punch
um not the spiciest i've ever had of course but it definitely lingers and um certainly something
that like i could still feel the spice right now and it's hotter than some of these so-called ghost
pepper types of items that some chains do tout so it definitely has some spice to it and that's good
if they say it's going to be spicy you hope for it to be spicy and like i said it's a lingering spice
something that i certainly would recommend having a cold drink to go along with so the spice is
there that's great um but here's a criticism as for the chicken itself it has the spicy breading
on it but what does the chicken itself taste like it doesn't really taste like all that much i think
in terms of flavor yeah you have the breading and all of that but the chicken itself is actually
on the rather bland side and if it weren't for that breading on the chicken um it would be very
unremarkable and it would kind of be like the um what i said when i tried out the fries it's
just kind of like um you know a few videos back i said it's this kind of matter that you're putting
in your mouth it would be in a similar note to that um so definitely that chicken is extremely
extremely reliant upon the spicy breading um put on it otherwise it wouldn't be all that much
another thing that isn't all that much now some people who you know live by you know what they say
right you live by the pdq sauce you die by the ptq sauce um they might be upset at me for saying this
but um the sauce was a little lackluster admittedly it's like a glorified mayonnaise
in my opinion and there's just not much to say about it you know it kind of it looks a little
more flavorful than it really is you know it's got that kind of orange tan hue to it you can see um
the sauce looks like it has substance but then i tried it you know i tried this big glob of it
i couldn't really notice the only thing it really provided was moisture and that was about it um
so in terms of the sandwich you know it definitely has some positives in that it's
spicy and that's advertised the chicken at least is fresh some of the negatives would be that
um everything else is kind of lackluster that the chicken itself could be more flavorful
the bun again you can kind of see was a bit more chewy than i would have hoped for it to be
and likewise the pdq sauce is just kind of it's basic it's just very basic
not much can really be said about the lettuce and you know the pickles are just there they do add a
little pleasant tang which um kind of moderates some stuff out but definitely the sandwich um
like i said i've seen some people going on about it already that it's the best thing ever
uh i i think that it's a bit a bit overrated in that regard um you know i certainly don't think
that it is it's got some positives but it's certainly got some negatives and things that
could be improved on so maybe it's for the best that when they say people dedicate it
to quality they kind of keep it open-ended and i could say it could go either way um
room from improve room for improvement but certainly not far gone but remember
you're paying seven dollars 25 cents for this sandwich bear that in mind therefore out of 10
all things considered what am i going to be rating the pdq spicy tender sandwich i'm giving it a 5.7
out of 10. because like i said you have some good you have some bad cancels it out and you get a 5.7
out of that that's all that i have for you until next time i'm your host the report of the week