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Food Review! Well, hello ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching. This is Running On Empty Food Review.
I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek.
So welcome to another food review. Happy October!
Let's hope this will be a wonderful month for all of us! And to start off
the new month is a review for an item that's been out for a couple months already, but forget about that, right?
McDonald's is everywhere!
Today's review is for the
bacon smokehouse
chicken well actually, it's, it's an artisan chicken. It's the bacon smokehouse
Let me just find the name of this thing.
The Bacon Smokehouse
Buttermilk
Crispy Chicken Sandwich. What a name I tell you.
Oh gosh, alright, what does it have on? Because we have the title, you know what it is, comes with applewood smoked bacon,
bacon onion sauce,
real white cheddar cheese,
also comes with a sweet mustard and
onion strings. I wrote them down
on a piece of paper so I can
keep track of them, but it's certainly a sandwich that has quite a lot.
You might say, you know that name sounds somewhat familiar. Did you review
anything of similar nature
perhaps
days of
old?
And the honest answer to that is yes indeed. I have indeed. I actually reviewed the burger version of it.
Of course, it's an artisan sandwich.
So, you know they try to, they try to just make it a little bit more fancy. They try to,
you know, have the presentation make it more restaurant-esque. You know, you want your Big Macs and all that. That's fine, too!
But if you want to kick it up a notch,
so to speak, you want to get what some would deem to be a higher quality product
that's where this artisan line of sandwiches comes from. And
of course they are available in three variants:
burger form,
also available in
buttermilk crispy chicken form, and then in grilled chicken form.
So, you know, I figure I may as well give the chicken one a try. I've been craving
McDonald's lately, I didn't really have a problem with the burger one
so I thought well sometimes changing it to chicken can do it a lot of good or a lot of bad and
We'll just find out!
Signature crafted recipes and the signature crafted recipe box.
There I am looking soulless
into the camera with the signature crafted recipe box positioned here. So you all got a good view of that!
Okay, here is my sandwich you can see right now we have a bit of a mustard,
mustard, I don't want to call it a landslide but...
mustard avalanche I suppose? Or is it is it the sweet mustard?
That's a sweet mustard
avalanche. So, my apologies. I want to make sure I get the vernacular as on point as can be.
And we also seem to have
you know, some drippings, but it's contained but here's what the sandwich looks like. It actually does look as advertised.
You know, this is what it looks like. This is what they this is what they show on the website.
You can certainly see.
Gosh, I don't know why my memory's bad today.
I'm just gonna take this piece of paper and I'm just gonna put it up right here, so I'm forced to look at this silly thing.
non-stop.
Ugh so yeah, so these are...okay. There's the bacon onion sauce
right here.
That's the sweet mustard on the top in between that is the real, and they had to call it "real" white cheddar cheese.
Onion strings and bacon are kind of up there. I'll de-bun it in a second. Then you can see the chicken patty.
So.
top bun going down you can see onion strings right there.
Then,
proceeding downward, is
kind of everything else right? You can see there's that chicken patty.
The
bacon onion sauce.
Bacon on the top, the real the real cheese, and then the chicken. All right. Well, we know what's on it.
Sorry that my memories kind of giving out on me today. But I
tell you my
one complaint just is that this sandwich is such a mouthful of words in regards to its actual name,
let alone the ingredients. So...
That's my only complaint so far, but you know what?
Forget about all that! As long as it tastes good, it doesn't matter what they call it! You know? They can,
They can make a 500-word long name
And if it's really good, a committed few will get it. But, most people will say it's still too long! Onto the review...
Let's try this thing out!
I'll let you know what it tastes like. So it's the chicken variant of this - The Bacon Smokehouse Buttermilk
Crispy Chicken Sandwich. I gotta just write that on the board a hundred times to remember the name. Going in!
Want to hear the most dramatic thing you've ever heard in your life? Get ready! So...
It's Monday morning, the first of October.
Your stomach is growling and grumbling! And...
there is this
insatiable hunger
that is just it cannot be satisfied! You're trying everything: doughnuts,
pancakes.
Let's not even talked about the pizza!
But then you see it on the horizon -
a glimmer of hope,
a beacon of light,
the golden arches from McDonald's!!
You know right then and there this is where I need to be.
And...You go there. You're crawling in on your hands and knees!
And you look at the menu board. And...
You're looking at what they have.
And you say,
(Because I forgot the name already!), "I want to get the artisan
chicken sandwich
smokehouse one!"
They serve it up, it's hot it's fresh.
This is gonna be it!
You bite in.
The chicken is on point - tastes good. It's juicy!
It has that thickness to it. There's substance.
It's not overcooked. It's not overly crispy, but it has a nice crunch to it -
delicious!
You made it over the first hurdle.
Now come the toppings:
Applewood smoked bacon, a couple pieces on there. I could definitely taste that bacon!
Awesome!
That white cheddar cheese blends in great with the chicken. And I can tell you that that is, indeed,
Real! (as they said on the website)
None of that fake white cheddar cheese.
But is this still gonna cure your hunger? You keep devouring the sandwich. Onion strings dead ahead!
They're crunchy. They're flavorful. Blends together good. No problems. Then the bacon onion sauce comes.
Not a single issue with that either - has this just nice honey barbecue-esque flavor.
It just blends everything together. It's a delicious sandwich. You can't stop yourself!
And then you hit a wall!
Sweet mustard!!
You had such high hopes.
You thought this was gonna be the one thing that
cures your Monday morning hunger!
And as you ate this sandwich,
one ingredient after the next, after the next, after the next,
seemed to prove
and validate that point.
And right now you're sitting there in disbelief.
Tears are streaming down your face and you don't know what to do next with your day and with your life!!
Because you put all your hope, all your faith, in this sandwich!
And it rose your spirits so high that you thought was gonna be the one!
This is going to be the sandwich that finally does it: The Perfect Sandwich - that has that blend of both the,
just the flavor of the chicken, the bacon,
and heck even the onion!
The bacon onion sauce - that sweetness - so delicious, so wonderful!
And it's just crashing down in flames and it is just crashing and burning
because of the sweet mustard sauce!! That cancels out everything and doesn't belong there!
AND that's the review really!
I told you it's gonna be the most dramatic thing you've ever heard. The sandwich is great. You saw me,
I probably took more bites from this one than normal.
And it's a great sandwich just completely goes in line with my viewers for the burger as well.
But the one thing, it's a wonderful sandwich,
tastes great.
My recommendation: Get it without the sweet mustard because that tanginess that the mustard has is so off-putting.
It just doesn't...
There's there's no rationale as to why it's there.
It's all that I can tell you. The price for the sandwich is it's about five dollars.
The rating for this sandwich, therefore, is going to be a 7.2 out of 10.
It's a great sandwich. If it didn't have that sweet mustard, I would have given this probably a 9.7.
Get it without the sweet mustard. You will be very pleased with that decision
because it's an excellent sandwich. Otherwise, I highly recommend you get it,
but without the sweet mustard! The same goes through the burger variant.
The chicken variant is wonderful.
But please hold the sweet mustard, my recommendation, if you want to have a most pleasant eating experience!
Well again, I hope you all have a pleasant month of
October!
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