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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 pleased to be here as always
this is an item that first came on my radar about a month ago but it's finally out it's finally here
and of course I'm finally able to try it out McDonald's they're one of those establishments
that these days they don't make a ton of new releases I think even a few years ago they had
many more adjustments and additions to their menu than they have now so a lot of the time a release
from McDonald's is something to kinda keep your eyes peeled for because you don't see them all
that often in this case this release comes with a tweak that was made to their menu now we all know
a few years ago that chicken sandwiches were and I suppose they still lie the May the see it's so
crazy that I'm even getting tongue-tied I wanted to say the latest or the most amazing that it kind
of got all mixed up anyway chicken sandwiches were such an incredible Trend and still are that even
the thought of a chicken sandwich causes me to lose my composure but every place was doing the
chicken sandwiches and McDonald's made some adjustments with their chicken sandwiches I
think in 2021 well now in 2023 they're making a few changes to their chicken sandwich lineup
first and foremost they have renamed the chicken sandwiches so don't ever utter those sacrilegious
words ever again or uh well they're really not going to care they make their McDonald's they've
got better things to do but you could pretend like something like some curse is going to
befall you should you call it a chicken sandwich because now their chicken sandwiches are called
mcrispy and with the name change they have a new MC crispy sandwich released they had released the
bacon ranch mcrispie on this is a crispy chicken fillet bacon ranch dressing and pickles and it is
available at the price anywhere from around six to eight dollars depending on location I paid
seven dollars and fifty cents for the sandwich by itself so what it is is their chicken sandwich
again with bacon ranch dressing and pickles so the bacon ranch combination we trying that out
today you can see it comes right here in the little chicken sandwich I said it see they're
going to come after me now the mcrispie pouch what does it say flavors to love
very minimalistic the McDonald's arches not golden in this case
there it is
let's take a look
so again chicken sandwich you know all right forget it McDonald's can come get
me I'm gonna call this thing a chicken sandwich
you could see it is a chicken sandwich it'll be crispy
you could see the chicken fillet right there the bacon the bun
it is kind of funny that it's not the crispiest
sandwich in the world despite the implication given by the name you can see those bacon
strips right there and I don't know how well you could see it but there is ranch dressing
both on the top and below the chicken fillet and on the top bun there's that
pickle and you could see the bacon strips you could see all the various components
of the sandwich there's the bun again price of 7.59 so I think you got a little a good look at it
what I'm going to do and this time I actually mean it I'm going to pause the camera while I
eat I still have that temporary crown in my mouth and this time when it's a full-blown sandwich I
just don't think there's going to be any easy way of eating this without having to awkwardly
navigate around the dental work so I'm just going to pause the camera probably going to
wind up cutting the sandwich in half and then I'll go in at an angle but in a moment in just a split
second for you of course I'll be right back having tried this out you'll get a nice cross
section and an assessment we'll be following the McDonald's bacon ranch MC crispy sandwich going in
well
it was what it was that's all that I could really say about it
I'll tell you what the more relies to me about this the most
they they call this sandwich to make crispy now I understand that this is merely a technicality and
the name is just it's just that it's just a name but you know you'd think that if they're going to
call it sandwich the mick crispy then there's at least going to be a little bit of a crisp to it
and there wasn't there was no crisp whatsoever to this sandwich and that isn't even my main
complaint but that's just that's just a little the little cherry on top of it all it's not to
say that this is the worst chicken sandwich I've ever had far from it I've had plenty worse but uh
it's certainly not not what I was hoping for it to be either so I did exactly as I said I cut it
in half and then I kind of angled it in and I was able to take some real good complete bites anyway
but I just wanted to do so with care and regard for where the dental work but anyways you could
see here in the cross section you can definitely get a real good look at it you could see that
um you know in terms of the percentages there's a good mass of the chicken right there and then
above that is the uh I actually use my knife as a pointer the bacon right there you could see the
pickles a line of pickles and then of course the ranch dressing up top and below and again lots and
lots of chicken but again the exterior number one it's not crispy at all it actually is very
soggy it just kind of falls falls right off very very easily as you can kind of see right there
all right now the second thing about the sandwich that I'm just not a fan of is the consistency of
the chicken you might be looking right here and you might kind of think to yourself as uh and you
know when you cut a lot of chicken sandwiches in half they take upon the same appearance but
you might look and you might think that chicken looks like just like a singular block of chicken
and as I bite into this and as I try it out and I take that bite into the chicken it feels like I'm
biting into a large singular Block it's very chewy it's very firm it's very tough and and that makes
things very very complicated in terms of being able to eat or let alone enjoy the sandwich or
the consistency of the chicken is just it's not enjoyable in the least as I said I'm here just
chewing and chewing away on it as if there's like rubber in this it's just really chewy it's not all
that flavorful there's no crisp to this sandwich whatsoever as for the chicken quality itself
tastes all right you know there is some flavor to it but again as far as the whole experience of
being able to even eat the chicken and you're just chewing away and chewing away and and chomping on
and on at this it doesn't it it doesn't make it worth it you're not sitting there thinking wow
this tastes so good it's all this is all worth it no you're just thinking you know I could go
to a Chick-fil-A get something that's going to blow this thing right out of the water they call
it the crispy it's not even crispy and then a real disappointing thing as you could see
there's a good amount of ranch dressing on it again on the top right there and on the bottom
you're getting ranch in every single bite and obviously the ranch dressing it's not supposed
to be the uh you know the most potent sauce in the world but it's definitely supposed to have
some sort of flavor to it well as I'm trying this I thought to myself did they mess up did they put
mayo on this instead of of ranch so uh you know I took the the bun off I inspected it I tasted it
and I know this is indeed ranch dressing but oddly enough this ranch dressing used on the
sandwich tastes incredibly watered down and it's some of the least flavorful or the most flavorless
Revenge dressing I've ever had Believe It or Not wherever I could barely discern any flavor
whatsoever from this ranch dressing despite there being so much of it and the pickles themselves
sure they have a little bit of a Zing into them a little bit of a Tang that they contribute the
bacon is all right bacon is nice it's flavorful has a good crisp to it but everything else it's
just they're saying okay this is just going to be a bacon ranch chicken sandwich now I've had
plenty of those before I don't have a problem with them they could be a pretty good chicken sandwich
if I may say so myself as a matter of fact back in 2010 or so McDonald's used to have a bacon
Rancho sandwich I think on their menu before and I would get it all the time I thought it was great
so trying this out and comparing it to similar sandwiches I've had even from McDonald's or from
other establishments I just don't know how they how they achieved this result given the
ingredients it's a pretty easy thing to do the ingredients are supposed to complement each other
quite nicely but how they got the chicken to be as chewy as it was and the ranch is flavorless as it
was is really disappointing and I just I I would have hoped that there would have been better of
course I could give McDonald's the benefit of the doubt and say well it was just a sandwich
that I wound up with but um you know as for these reviews I just get what I I get I try to review
what whatever it is that's presented here and in this case uh this was disappointing no maybe
again given that it's McDonald's your mileage may vary you can take that into account if you'd like
maybe your sandwich is better but in this case again I spent seven and a half dollars for the
disappointing chicken flavorless Ranch and just a sandwich that that leaves me uh disappointed
and again despite the name the outside of it is uh just covered in just this uh really just
soggy mushy sort of uh breading and there's no real crisp or Crunch at all it's just chewy
and uh and really just lacking so much as far as flavor goes this
was a disappointing one McDonald's you know they have hits and they have misses
this at least given the sandwich that I had was unfortunately a miss so as a result out of 10
I'm going to be giving the bacon ranch mcrispie sandwich a 4 out of 10. this one was just really
disappointing to me but you know I look forward to seeing what McDonald's what their next release
is going to entail I'll certainly try it out and I also know going into this stuff these
establishments they have the good days they have the bad days maybe the one you wind up with would
be better if you're feeling adventurous hey give it a shot maybe you'll get into four of us some
better luck than what I wound up with here but as far as I'm concerned disappointing that's
all that I have for you until next time thank you for watching I'm your host David poet of the week