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Boy we're wheeling and dealing with another food review because you can't live without those food reviews! And...
We're back at it again with another one.
This one is
for probably the
most, I would say, most original and unique release I've seen of the year thus far.
KFC is releasing this new thing that I've never heard of it and I've never reviewed it before called chicken tenders
believe it or not and
it's some pretty crazy stuff!
And apparently not only do they have these
alleged chicken tenders, but they're also coming out in a flavor that they describe as "Hot Honey".
Actually, they just call it their hot honey chicken.
It's marketed, well, just as that. They're not they're not trying to play games with you.
They're not trying to make the name sound like it's some innuendos remark or anything close to that.
It's literally just supposed to have as described verbatim quote sweet heat unquote.
That's what it's supposed to be just, you know,
honey-esque that that very sharp sweetness
I'd suppose and then of a little bit of spiciness added to that as well and they come in in three forms. Now
Yes, two of those are sandwiches, but the one that they're mainly
focusing their advertising and marketing on is
chicken tenders. It comes in the crispy kernel sandwich, we've already reviewed one of those in the past, the chicken littles,
I know I've reviewed those, but it also comes with the, or as I should say, the extra crispy chicken tenders.
That's what we have before us. Hopefully that's what I'm reviewing.
We've got a three piece of them the price for that $5.49
So...
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So chicken tenders are what these are and,
you know,
these these last few I'll admit I was being semi
sarcastic at the beginning of this one, but this has convinced me, you know the first time when I reviewed the chicken tenders
from gosh
Burger King right Burger King had the chicken tenders that were out and
McDonald's had the chicken tenders that were out. You know, those two were making me question things a little starting to scratch my head
Starting to look around a little more pay attention to certain things. But this is the one that did it!
This is the one that convinced me of what the trend of
2018 officially is
Because I was fully convinced before then that 2018 was the year of the slinky!
But I was dead wrong.
It's the year of the chicken tenders apparently
because everyone has it everyone's reinventing them or you know doing doing their own thing and
You know now of course KFC would have done this many times before but they're trying to do it again. Alright, here's an up-close-and-personal
view. If it's too personal for you, so be it, that's just what KFC wants.
This is a life that they live and this is a three piece of the chicken tenders there. I'm hiding behind it
So it focuses in good you can see it comes with
Pickles as well and you know, you can see that they are covered in the sauce. I should add
it's an oil-based sauce. I don't know if you could really see I really don't want to spill this.
But what's right in there right in there is this reservoir.
It's kind of hidden by the lip of this container.
But this reservoir of oil that I guarantee you if I spilled that on my suit,
This would be ruined completely! There's no way that's coming out of any clothing.
So I'm actually gonna make sure I have a better grip on this because I don't I really don't want to foreshadow that.
Anyway, all that out of the way. Now, this is what it looks like
More closely
You can see actually interestingly enough, you know, there it is with the breading though
This side really doesn't have as much breading as you would expect
But either way you can't judge a book by it's cover
We're just going to try it out. I'll let you know what it tastes like and we'll go from there.
It's the hot honey chicken tenders from KFC they're going in.
That's who too small.
I'm just doing that because I think it looks cool.
Now we're living! Look at that! I submerged it in the oil reservoir and
Now now we're really gonna be we're gonna be trying this out full-blown!
So
The three basic criteria, I think just need to be met with this one, you know, this isn't one of those items
where
That's just a combination of 25 flavors or anything it's very basic.
Right? And here are the three criteria that I'm just gonna judge it on:
The number one is common sense.
Is the chicken edible or not, right?
Because the the the the seasoning and the sauce and everything on it can be great
But if the chicken is terrible here, there's no point. So number one, is the chicken edible? Number two,
Is there that spiciness and number three is there that sweetness?
Criteria number one: Is the chicken edible? It actually is believe it or not. I know I've given KFC quite the
quite the hounding
in days of old.
I even had a
an interesting little nickname for them though. There's some good days right there.
You can go back and check my catalog for that, but they don't deserve this
this
This harsh rebuke this time around because believe it or not the tenders were actually alright.
Yeah, I haven't any complaints the chicken was juicy. You can see was kind of just falling apart there, which is good
It's not like this, you know tough piece of jerky or anything, right? It's actually edible. It was it was good.
I can't complain about the actual flavor of the chicken. So criteria number one is met it's edible tastes good. No problem there.
Criteria two: Is it spicy? It sure is and this is where I'm just gonna kind of blend them together
because it's really supposed to be you know, they just call it the "Hot Honey" chicken.
Well, the first thing that really hit me was the spiciness and it's lingering on. It's a peppery
spiciness! Now, I'm no pepper connoisseur. So I can't go ahead and tell you which one it is nor did KFC actually specify it.
But it definitely is a pepper esque
spiciness there that hits you immediately and it lingers on as a spicy aftertaste as well.
So as you are eating these you're gonna have the spiciness that's going to be lingering through the entire duration of
your your tender consumption experience.
The one thing, however,
Right. We know that the spiciness is there. It's not overwhelming.
I recommend you have a drink. You saw me sipping at the water though
I'm not doing so profusely but it could definitely build up. I imagine if you're really just, you know downing these things
You know, if you're just gulping them down in some way I could see how you could get a little overwhelming.
So perhaps get it with a drink? The spice is there! Here's the one thing though: It has that little bit of sweetness to it.
You know, it has a little bit of sweetness that kind of its secondary and that's the one thing that was a little disappointing
Because you look at the advertising campaign really have the the kernel creature.
That's not even it's it's a living supposed to be an inanimate object
But they have the kernel that's in the shape of like the you know, the little bear
That's supposed to represent, honey.
You can see where they're putting the focus on it.
Except it's only a mild mild sweetness. That's put really second behind the spiciness.
So because of that with their advertising they're making it seem like this thing and you know that honey is a very very potent
extremely sweet substance..
You would think that it's just something that would really just be there.
But instead it's not, you know, you bite in the tenders taste pretty good. You have that spiciness that's definitely there.
There's a little mild sweetness, but that sweetness is by no means
anything that's that's the primary focus.
So with that keep that in mind if you're looking for something that's like really sweet like a real honey barbecue,
This isn't gonna be it. It's definitely about that spiciness. It's alright, but they could definitely make these a bit sweeter
considering their line of marketing and advertising
and simply the name. Keep that in mind, but in the end these were certainly edible and they had a nice spiciness to them.
I just wish they could be a bit sweeter. For the price again,
This is around five dollars and you know, it'll vary region to region, but I would estimated around five dollars
30 40 cents with that the rating for these is going to be a 7.0 out of 10 flat again.
They just need to improve on that sweetness and then it's good to go after that.
That's all that I have for you , ladies and gentlemen, I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek.
Today's review was for the hot honey chicken tenders from KFC.
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