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review series i'm your host the report of the week and thank you for tuning in and checking in
this is a big day and you could tell with actually the shaking of the hands
uh this is a huge day this is a momentous occasion and a very special day
we all know what today is today is the day that mcdonald's is releasing their
new chicken sandwiches and let me tell you this is something that has never been done before
they're releasing really three different types of chicken sandwiches but two of them
are very very hyped up i mean you have right now you look at any mcdonald's massive lines huge
demand as a matter of fact there is actually like a special drawing that you could enter
for a chance to even uh be able to taste one of these chicken sandwiches a day early um but
this is really groundbreaking lots of people are really hyped up about it they're wondering well
what do these sandwiches taste like um you know is this a sandwich that's worth standing online for
hours for um you know is it good is it bad what does it taste like what's so special about it etc
i was able to get two of their chicken sandwiches their crispy chicken sandwich
and their spicy chicken sandwich and it's a pleasure to be able to try them for you today
so uh yeah the chicken sandwiches i guess the chicken sandwich wars continue these chicken
sandwiches are being described as a way some have said it's mcdonald's way of trying to compete
with chick-fil-a so these are going to be in that sort of style now let's let you know let's see
what these are exactly we have the crispy chicken sandwich which features a chicken fillet crinkle
cut pickles and it's on a potato bun again similar to the original chick-fil-a chicken sandwich you
know to the extent that again the chicken fillet the pickles the bun right not an extremely you
know advanced sandwich so to speak no frills but perhaps good then they also have the spicy chicken
sandwich which is very similar except this one comes with the chicken filet the pickles the bun
and a spicy pepper sauce so the spice would be in the sauce that would be on the sandwich now the
price for these sandwiches does vary i got these for about six dollars each some people have said
that they've gotten them actually at the five dollar range and others have even said at the
seven dollar range so you know price wise um i'd say between five and seven dollars per sandwich
let me tell you it's an exciting day though and i've been up
gosh i've been up i think for 36 hours because normally i just take uh a nighttime schedule i'm
a night owl but i wanted to be up in the morning so i can get these you know real quick before they
sell out so you know i just said look i've been up this long and um it's it's for the greater good
it's for the chicken sandwiches so here they are by the way in this bag the um the golden rainbows
these are the famous chicken sandwich napkins that everyone's talking about too and here they are
so this is i always like it when they do this they come in their own little packaging
again this is similar to chick-fil-a
in that you know how chick-fil-a they have the sandwiches in their own little individual thing
well these have that as well um you can see that's the spicy one with the little flame
and then that's the regular one with some sort of blob and then a green a green cucumber slice
there i am with them holding them up like it's some sort of trophy yeah chicken
so we'll try out the crispy one first give a quick assessment of it it says crispy right there
it's a chicken sandwich all right you could see it lurking in there
and that's what it looks like the crispy chicken sandwich i would say the patty is of a decent
thickness and we'll see how crispy it is but again you know you can see there's that pickle
there's the bun like a basic sandwich i would wager you know look seasoned
and uh we'll just try it out so we know it's on you know what's on it we all know
what's on it and the camera doesn't want to focus properly but it just did
very good so we'll try it out we'll see how good this is the crispy chicken sandwich from
mcdonald's is it worth the hype does it live up to the hype let's find out it's going in
the phone's gonna ring a while but just take it as some of the ambiance
who knows maybe that was chick-fil-a corporate frantically calling you know
maybe it was just a phone call who's to say
sorry for that small cut when i was originally holding it up i turned
the camera off by accident but it's back on and here we are no time has really been lost at all
you can see in the cross section right there you can see the pickles you can see the um
the bread and the chicken of course so here's what i notice this item is very reminiscent
and i don't know how many people are familiar boy this isn't working out all that good is it
i'm not sure how many people are familiar with this item from mcdonald's because it
was released about a decade ago i know i remember it very fondly it was one of my favorite items
from mcdonald's at the time and i would you know i went there quite a bit like back in 2009 or so
mcdonald's had this item called the southern style chicken sandwich very similar to the
crispy chicken sandwich i think it was created to try to compete you know with chick-fil-a
this is very very reminiscent of it
and i like that quite a bit because the southern style chicken sandwich was one of my favorites
it's something that i would come there for quite a bit you know this is just chicken sandwich is
basic but sometimes simplicity is key sometimes simplicity really does lead to a good item
you bite in the only criticism that i could really think of right now is simply in the name
i wouldn't describe the sandwich as overly crispy uh when you think crispy chicken sandwich you know
you're biting in you have this crunch this crisp um this firmness in the breading that
you're able to physically discern that i do not see here um you know instead
it's tender it's juicy it's very flavorful i have to say that um you know the chicken is lightly
seasoned lightly seasoned but it's just mostly it's just a good quality i think cut of chicken
again a little thicker as you could see compared to like the mcchicken sandwich today
but overall it's just good quality very flavorful juicy chicken you could taste that meaty flavor
there um the pickles are also nice it seems like you might have to reposition them a little bit
but i was able to get a bite of pickle you know in every bite that i took which was nice as well
only one other thing that i could just think of is that again the chicken to bun ratio you can
see the top of bun gets a little big at times and can kind of be a little spongy but aside from that
i'd say it's still pretty decent for what it is um definitely though if you could if you remember the
southern style chicken sandwich from again about a decade ago very very similar item to that i'd
say if you like that sandwich you'll like this one and again in regards to the uh yeah in regards to
the quality i'd say it's pretty good um just can't really taste the crispy you know the crispy nature
of it too much but still it's a decent it's a decent sandwich decent chicken sandwich um tastes
pretty good so all things considered i would rate the crispy chicken sandwich out of 10 a 7.5
it certainly is something that i would get again though now next up i want to try out the spicy
crispy chicken sandwich right there again with the red red flame this one we're mostly just
going to be checking for spice since we already kind of went over what it's supposed to taste like
so you can see that this one again just looking at this you can see that's some of
the spicy sauce right there and again it's got the pickles the spicy sauce
and all of that since i didn't get a thumbnail of the original one i'll just take a thumbnail shot
of me with it right here just like this you know you want to get it close to the camera
you know something like that right we'll do this also and yeah thumbnails are an important part
of the video so that's why i sometimes have to take the time to do it you know
we'll do that we'll do that i'll figure something out but again you could see it you could see the
sauce and all of that and we'll just try it out so the spicy
crispy chicken sandwich from mcdonald's now that's going in let's see how hot this is
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now this spicy sandwich in comparison to the um spicy chicken sandwich from chick-fil-a the
spice here is exclusively in the sauce not in the breading as it is in the chick-fil-a derivative
one more bite
didn't want to do too detailed to focus because of the disaster the last time
so real quick i just wanted to say in terms of the flavor of the chicken
identical to the previous one so nothing to really address there although the chicken in
this one is actually a little bit more tender than the other one so that's just something to
bring up there overall though very spicy um definitely one of the spicier chicken
sandwiches that i've said i've had before um it's in that sauce there's a good amount of sauce on it
it's like this creamy almost buffalo type sauce but it's spicier than that i'm not sure what
pepper is in there um they didn't really state it but this sauce it has spice to it so i would
definitely say if you're going to get this it actually is a legitimately spicy sandwich get some
water or something to cool the flames with that sauce that was creamy it has a little tang to it
a whole lot of spice and it really i mean it spreads throughout your mouth with every bite
so it definitely is a spicy chicken sandwich true to its name and a good amount of heat there is as
well i'd actually say i like this it's a flavorful spice but good um definitely went above and beyond
on the spicy one so i would give this an eight out of ten so with that on a final note um and again
i'm sorry i had to restart the camera just not my day today you know it's just these sandwiches i
think are decent for what they are um is it worth waiting like three hours in the snow online for
i mean that's up to you if you're really dedicated and really excited in terms of trying this out
then maybe but aside from that you know i'd say they're still good for what they are though
um again my favorite is the spicy one compared to the crispy one so of these two i think i'll be
getting the the spicy one again you know probably more often than not going forward so i hope you
found this review to be informative and at least you're able to see what these sandwiches are what
they're all about and hopefully how they taste but again pretty good quality all things considered
so with that that's all i have for you ladies and gentlemen i'm your host the report of the week
and today we did two for one we tried out the crispy chicken sandwich from mcdonald's and
then the spicy crispy chicken sandwich thanks for watching take care and wish you all the very best