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We are here
We have ventured into the wilderness the great unknown on a rather pleasant day, you know, it's a little cloudy a little overcast
But I always liked those days because it's not oppressively hot
It's easier on the eyes. It's such a pleasant day. You can tell the wildlife is happy
They're out there making their noise. You have some traffic no annoying music yet. Last time I was out here
There was we're gonna keep our fingers crossed. But if there is we're gonna make lemonade out of those lemons and
We'll have a music session. I'm just gonna I'm gonna jam out to it this time if that happens
But either way, we're trying out Arby's
You know
This is the first review that I have done
there any sort of Arby's item for a long time and I'll tell you why it's not like I have
Any sort of adversity
Toward you know RVs. It's not like oh
I hate Arby's I'm never gonna try that
Disgusting Arby's or anything like that because I don't hate our beets as a matter of fact
I have a couple items from there that I like
It's just that in the past there were so many things that were getting released by other places
Our beast just wasn't high on that list of things to prioritize but now with everything's still going on with places not releasing anything
Arby's is one of the only probably if not in aside from Burger King, really?
One of the only places that is actually releasing new menu items in this day. So we're trying them out
So they have a new one out a new sandwich will fairly new but you know what, I mean?
It's gonna this big day today
I'm going with my space shuttle tie also for the big rocket launch that I will hopefully be a big big success later today
So I'm just fueling up first on some Arby's
specifically their new cheddar
chicken ranch
Sandwich, that's what it's called a cheddar chicken
ranch sandwiches on their website they say quote it has everything right?
So everything good bad, you know if it's not everything it's got some feathers from that bird that's making a noise in the background
It's got a little scrap of this paper. It's got one of my eyelashes, you know, it has everything
Wait, I was there that was one of the worst jokes. I've done in a while
No, so it doesn't have everything everything in the metaphorical sense mind you
But here's what it does have
it has as a describe verbatim a
sharp
cheddar cheese slice so none of that dull cheddar cheese
None of that, you know semi sharp. I mean the sharp sharp cheddar cheese
Sharp, you know
It also has a parmesan pepper ranch sauce lettuce tomatoes chicken strips and a bun
So again, it's a cheddar chicken ranch sandwich. It's supposed to have again your crispy chicken strips
It has a special ranch sauce slice of cheddar cheese and on your sesame seed bun
It was affordable as four dollars for the sandwich, which is a pretty good deal. Got it to go
in the Arby's bag
There I am with it with my Arby's
I'm not very good with my knowledge of Western hats. I don't know that a Stetson or is that a
10-gallon hat or what type of hat is that I just called the Arby's hat
But um, you got that meat craft right meatcraft. They got the meats. They're crafting things with them meat craft, right?
Turkey chicken roast beef bacon corned beef and ham those are their wares that they list
Right there right what you can see
Well, why not we have some time to kill they have a little you know Arby's inscription right there
Sure, it may start with the promise of a perfect sandwich, but for us it goes beyond that
It's a matter of pride and I guess it looks like they're just going off of why you know
They feel they do a good job
let's get some good now here is
Arby's box
Right there
More meat craft and crafted meat concoctions
And there it is
Alright, let's see what we got here. Let's see what this is looking like
There you go, you see it's got two chicken strips on it you can see the lettuce
Tomato and a big cheddar cheese slice and at the bottom right there. That's where the ranch sauce is. Okay
There you go. Wow, that is that is like a giant
Slice of that cheese right there, they're not kidding when they say cheddar. So that's what it's got
Yeah, look at that
But I could probably fold it up. Put it in my suit pocket make it like a
like a cheddar cheese pocket square I
Wouldn't do that, but you could if you wanted to
And you got your crispy chicken strips
So that's what it looks like. That's what it is pretty straightforward
Chicken sandwich with them. Yeah cheddar cheese and a
special you know parmesan pepper ranch sauce
$3.99 seems like it's a pretty good deal. So we're just gonna try it out
Well, let you know what it tastes like and there you have it cheddar chicken ranch sandwich from Arby's it is going in meat craft
See the bird
Well there you see what it looks like
What I might do a little later is I cut it in half for a cross-section
Here's what we got
With every sandwich there's various components, you know
You got certain things that um that make the sandwich you got certain things that give it its character
You know put it to that next level and then you get the ingredients that are just like man
It's it's it's there. You know, it's not like
This is what makes it like this is what I'm raving about or anything
If I were to describe the sandwich right now, I would say it's average its averaging so much that
What I mean, I'll finish it. Yeah, sure
Doesn't bother me any but it's not something that I'll be revisiting and being like oh man. I know I'll never forget the time
I had my first cheddar chicken ranch sandwich from Arby's
Yeah, I was back in the late spring of 20 right and you know
I'll be talking about this and like 2050 or something and still talking about it. No, it's not. It's not at that level
it's like this is
Okay
It meets the expectation but there's not much to rave about that's what I'm trying to say
Where it's like, okay
the sesame seed bun for instance is
You know, it's just there just holds it together right
It does its job but it's not like it's something that oh, yeah, I'll never forget that
The chicken itself is crispy, but it's a little on the dry side. That's what I noticed
it has a nice crisp to it and
I could taste a little bit of that black pepper that's in this in the breading of it
So it's got a nice crunch to it, but it's a little on the dry side. I just noticed this dryness to it
The cheddar cheese is very it's very flavorful. It's very potent. It definitely tastes that cheddar cheese
But again, it's not like there's much moisture to its you taste the cheddar cheese and you taste the chicken
But there's this persistent dryness to it the lettuce and tomato is kind of just there
So the one thing that it relies on is that parmesan pepper ranch sauce. Now the ranch sauce does a good job
Because it gives it that little extra kick and I can definitely taste the parmesan that's in
that ranch sauce, but I really like that a little bit of a
Little bit of a boost almost a little bit of a tang that the ranch sauce adds to it because that's what this sandwich
absolutely needs if it didn't have that ranch sauce, it would be like
This isn't good. It says to dry. It says to bland so it's very very reliant on that ranch sauce
So any bite that you take that has that ranch sauce in it. Okay. Yeah, it's pretty good
Takes it up to that next level. But otherwise, it's very basic if not mediocre sandwich
So definitely if you get it
Make sure you get that ranch sauce on it and the truth be told because it's a very dry sandwich. Otherwise
Even though I myself don't really like things that are totally slathered in the sauce. I
might not even hesitate if I were you to ask for extra sauce on it because it's one of those sandwiches where
The sauce is what is essential that if you want it to taste good if you want it to be good if you want it
To be on that
That level that you expect it to be on it
needs the sauce and I would say like this one for instance that I got needs even a little more up every bite that has
The sauce is good. And that's what ties everything together, but there were a few bites that I had at first
That didn't have any sauce and it was extremely dry. So, um
Heck if I were you, you know again, I might just get it with a little bit of extra
extra sauce, you know, that's just what I would
consider, you know, there's my recommendation to you now price-wise again was
$3.99 which is a pretty decent. I wanted to cut it in half just so you could get a proper
Cross-section of it which you can see right there
Again, though, you can see there's not a ton of sauce on it
That's why it needs a little bit more like you can see the chicken right there
Isn't teeming with any sort of juice so that's why I just think it needs a little bit more sauce for them
For what it is
But overall it's at a good price
I'm glad it has that sauce, which does make it and again, it's not the best thing
I've had not the worst thing that I've had so I'm out of ten
I'm gonna give it a five point nine out of ten
That's a five point nine on this scale five if it's average so, you know slightly above average just because of that sauce
But again, it's more of like a middle of the road type sandwich. I don't hate it. I can't say that
I love it either. But certainly I again I'll finish this
This will be my meal for the day and you know, it's not like I'll be punishing myself by eating this a something
That's all that we got for you
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