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Food Review!
Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching, or perhaps listening!
This is Running On Empty Food Review. And I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek.
Well, first things first, I
I'm not feeling the best today admittedly. I just want to get that out there right now.
It's just been one of those days. You know? We all have them. It's one of those days for me
where I've just had a
an intensifying
headache. I would I would even call it on the verge of a migraine at this point.
You know, it's just getting worse and worse as it goes on pounding behind the eyes.
But nonetheless, as I said, there's a new item out. I had gotten it and
you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna do what needs to be done and
do a review.
So
I'll try my best and
nonetheless, even if it's not up to the usual standards
I promise you I'll do my best to get an accurate review sent your way.
This is for a new product from Wendy's. It's called their bacon maple
chicken sandwich. The name alone is one of those things that would really throw me off to be quite honest.
I would, I don't know, just part of me inherently wants to call it the maple bacon
chicken sandwich, and I imagine a lot of you
will as well. I know when I went ahead and ordered this I I ordered it the wrong way.
I said, you know, I want to get the maple bacon chicken sandwich, but it's called the bacon maple whatever, you know.
A name is a name. And that's all that there is to it. What does it have on it? Comes with a maple glaze.
So it's supposed to be like a...
Not necessarily just barbecue just a kind of a sweet glaze on this sandwich,
fried
chicken
patty, you know so it's gonna be like a breaded fried chicken patty and it's going to have this maple glaze on top of it.
It's gonna have
three strips of bacon,
some cheese and then it's going to come
on a toasted croissant bun. It's an interesting combination. I have to give them credit for that. It sounds pretty good.
You know, there's some things from Wendy's that I'll,
you know, I'll get up, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I'm not a fan of the idea,
or whatnot, but this one sounds really good.
$5.99. That's the price and we've either
upgraded or downgraded? I don't know whatever you want to call it, but we went over to post-it notes - it's not a post-it -
it's a card,
index cards today.
Nonetheless,
Here it is! Let me turn the,
let me turn, there we go.
I tell you up here it gets a lot colder.
So it stall has some of its heat but don't be surprised if it doesn't look oven fresh because
30-degree air will do that to you.
I can still feel that warmth though, so that's good. Anyway, here's what it looks like. You can see
right there and I turned the focus off. So in due time when the camera wants to it has no other choice.
There you go. That's what it looks like. It's kind of, it's funny,
you could almost, it's indistinguishable quite frankly, the chicken from the croissant. But that you can see there's the croissant.
There's the chicken
patty and the bacon
on top.
Interesting though gotta say.
You can see there's the...
Let's wait for it.
All right.
Let's not. You can see there's the bacon and the,
you know, the cheese and the chicken you can see all of the ingredients that I mentioned. There it is.
There it is.
There I am with it.
So this is what we got: The bacon maple chicken sandwich from Wendy's. It's a very puffy
croissant bun. I got to give them credit on that.
Either way, I'll try it. Let you know what it tastes like and that's all that we have for you. So bacon maple
chicken sandwich from Wendy's going in!
That's what a napkin looks like! Not many people with ever seen one of those things before.
Almost, almost... I knew I was.
The autofocus was just so intense. I just I just had to leave it because I feel that that was more climactic than perhaps
I was
in today's review.
Here's what it tastes like:
I have... I'll keep it short this time around.
I have only one issue and one issue only. I think that
maple
glaze on it is great. I think that's, I think that's a great addition and they did they did a good job with it.
I cannot complain. They did a good job with it.
It just goes really well with the bacon, goes well with the chicken. If the chicken for you ever happens to be a little bit dry,
that will add any moisture and it's delicious. I mean it just has that,
and it's like a like a maple barbecue type of glaze - not overwhelmingly sweet,
not overwhelmingly savory, a good mix in between and just a great a great sauce for this sandwich, ties it all together.
Cheese is fine. No issues the chicken patty.
From Wendy's I always enjoy,
I always like to get the chicken sandwiches when it comes down to Wendy's, believe it or not, more than their burgers.
I like the chicken sandwich. So they did a good job with that, you know a pretty solid
chicken patty. Could have, you know, is a little on the drier side. But again,
That's very likely no fault, but my own
because I had to
get over here and which is very cold cold cold air today. That's why I'm going with the sweater sweater vest today.
But anyway,
so,
everything goes together well. Only issue is the croissant bun, and while it tastes fine,
it just...
It's not as flaky as I think as many croissants are. Like when I whenever I go to Starbucks
I always like to get the butter croissant from there - it's just this flaky buttery
croissant that's great. This on the other hand, was a lot more dense -
It was a lot thicker - and as a result, especially that bottom bun, while it gives the illusion of being nice and puffy and fluffy
It's like there's just more more bread, so to speak, than I would
necessarily want on this sandwich. If they were to cut down on that just a little bit
I think they they would have hit the nail in the head and I would say that it's just a really good sandwich.
I mean, I got to give them credit. It's one of those things that just goes together really well in my opinion and
despite any bun issues, I recommend you check it out. Price for this was around
$6 for the sandwich, which is a little pricey, but it's around your standard Wendy's price. Therefore, out of 10,
I'm going to be giving it... I'm gonna give it an 8.5 out of 10.
Because, if my only complaint is the bun, that goes to show that it's not a bad sandwich at all!
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