Hello everyone, this is Running On Empty...
...Food Review!
Another food review, ladies and gentlemen.
This one's for a new Wendy's release,
and... hey, let's just wheel and deal.
We all love the food reviews so we'll just get into it.
Especially because I think I had too much coffee today,
so I'm really jittery and bouncy,
but let's just convert that energy instead of...
you know, accepting the fact that it's excess caffeine in my system,
let's just say, "Man, I'm so excited about this Wendy's release.
I've been waiting for decades for this thing.
I'm just so pumped up. I'm bouncing in my seat because of this."
Let's just pretend like that and not too much Starbucks. But anyway...
I even went ahead... I was so excited about this that I I marked everything down on a Post-it note.
And then I lost the post-it note. I don't know where it is.
So I'm just going off of what's on the receipt.
This is the new Buffalo Ranch Crispy Chicken Sandwich from Wendy's,
an addition to their dollar menu.
If they don't have a dollar menu it's still worth one dollar.
What's on the Buffalo Ranch Crispy Chicken Sandwich?
Well, it's supposed to be, as I said,
lightly breaded yet somewhat crispy chicken sandwich.
So it's not, you know, don't expect it to be like this huge,
mutated, gargantuan...
...colossal chicken patty.
Instead expected to be, you know,
expect it to be more of like a thinner chicken patty.
On it is gonna be from Monterey Jack cheese, I believe, lettuce,
again, I had this all down on a Post-it note which, again, I don't know what happened to it.
I guess I used the invisible Post-it note instead of the regular one.
And then it's also supposed to have this Buffalo Ranch Sauce on it.
Not just Buffalo Sauce and Ranch Sauce,
they're going to combine the two into this...
...elusive...
...one-of-a-kind Buffalo Ranch Sauce.
Now keep in mind it's a buck so there's not really much it can lose when it comes down to a dollar.
This is it.
Says, " 100% ALL-WHITE MEAT CHICKEN".
there is me with the wrapper.
It's not quite as big as my head this time around.
Nah, not quite. I was hoping for it,
but what can you do?
Here it is.
So, let's see what we got.
Isn't that beautiful? Wow.
Absolute insanity.
Alright, so there's the bun. This is what they call a dollar menu bun.
Slab of... actually multiple slabs of lettuce.
When we peel off this...
Oh no.
Oh man.
Alright, that was close.
That was close.
Let me tell you what just happened.
I bet the stupid bun...
And I'm so thankful that this happened the way it did, okay?
I'm thankful for that piece of lettuce, okay?
They put two pieces of lettuce on it.
I'm... you know, call it an outtake, whatever you want to call it.
So this piece of lettuce fell off,
but thankfully the side of the lettuce that had all of the sauce on it landed upright.
So this the piece of lettuce had to throw it in the bag,
but it wasn't the disaster that it once was.
Anyway, lets us put the bun right there and let's pretend that never happened.
And there's the piece of chicken.
You can see the cheese on this side, chicken on that, bottom bun.
Well, thank you, Wendy's gods. At least you got a second piece of lettuce.
And plenty of sauce on the top.
Look at that. There's that beautiful sauce that we didn't lose a drop of thankfully.
Disaster was averted.
Maybe the Wendy's fast-food gods are on our side today.
Let's just hope.
But I told you this is the release of the century.
Only time in this channel's history that I ever actually dropped the damn sandwich.
But that's just because I'm so excited about it,
because they've never had the sandwich before on the dollar menu.
It's incredible. That's all I have to say.
But we know what's on it. You know, again just the lettuce, the chicken, the cheese,
and then the Buffalo Ranch medley as they call it.
We'll try it, I'll let you know what it tastes like, let's do this.
What do they say this is called...
The Buffalo Ranch Crispy Chicken Sandwich from Wendy's, going in.
There's one thing I learned about...
...doing this for...
thank God, seven and a half years now.
You just go with it. you know, you knock the water over you just go with it.
You drop the sandwich and It's still edible, you go with it.
You drop the sandwich, now it's inedible, you go with it.
That piece of lettuce that just sprouted wings and just flew off but the sandwich has been preserved.
So we'd continue on the show. Saying goes "Show goes on."
Yeah, we'll take one more bite.
What does it taste like?
Yes, that's why you're watching this... I don't know.
It's a dollar menu sandwich, alright?
Anything that's from a dollar menu you have to keep this in mind:
It is not going to be of that same high quality—
let's assume— that the standard menu like a four, five, six dollar sandwich is going to have.
A dollar menu sandwich is always going to be of substantially lower quality
in terms of the ingredients, the meat, the presentation and the size
compared to its more expensive counterparts.
With that understanding,
keeping that in mind, you have to have a certain set of expectations,
when you get a dollar menu item.
You can't get a dollar menu sandwich,
and then all of a sudden be upset
that this was not of the same level and same par and same tiers that six dollar...
...Crispy Spicy Chicken Sandwich is.
That's simply not fair,
and that's not the right way to look at things.
That's said, you have to understand that the chicken quality is similar to that from the McDonald's McChicken Sandwich.
You know competition and all that.
But it is very very similar to that where it's a thinner piece of chicken.
The chicken meat is...you know, it's somewhat flavorful. It's mildly flavorful. That's what I would call it.
But it is not as juicy or as succulent or as large in terms of its...
...physique as...
Again it's more expensive counterparts will be.
So compare it to a McChicken sandwich in terms of how it tastes,
the lettuce is what it is. It's not...
again, anything serious. Just a little piece here.
The cheese again, wasn't the most flavorful in the world.
I think someone described this sandwich is being mildly flavorful,
and I would concur with that.
The most important thing is the sauce that's on it—Buffalo Ranch Sauce.
You can't really taste the ranch dressing unfortunately.
You can taste a little bit of that buffalo sauce,
but overall it's more of a watery sauce than anything else.
Keep that in mind. And again, it's a mildly flavorful sandwich.
It has a little bit of spiciness;
I couldn't really taste the ranch; the quality of the ingredients isn't the highest.
For one dollar however, there isn't much to lose.
Therefore out of 10 I'm gonna be giving this sandwich a 6.8 out of ten.
And well with that I kind of just sped through it
because again the weather is starting to turn on me here,
and just wanted to wrap things up.
But that's just a very quick assessment of it, but I find it to be an accurate one.
Don't expect too much; a little bit of spiciness.
I wish there would be more ranch in there considering that they called the Buffalo Ranch Sandwich.
But what can you do? Again it's just a dollar.
That's why the rating is what it is.
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I hope you enjoyed the calamity that happened with the lettuce, the Great Lettuce Landfall Of...
The Great Lettuce Landslides Of 2018, I suppose.
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