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Food review. Well, we are here we are back and we are it's a car review. Would you believe it or not?
yes, still still traversing around and there's a new item at there's a brand new a fairly new item and
This one is from Popeyes
Now the last video that I did I was kind of saying that you know while in terms of what's going on in the world
of new releases
There's not a lot. There's not a new there's not a lot of new things going on you had Burger King with their
Spicy nuggets right you had Arby's with their you know cheddar ranch
Sandwich or whatever that one was called
Popeyes has a new one. It just came out. It's just been released. People said this is the item of 2020. I
Saw one person saying that's but there might be another person saying that so that's why I use the plural
It is an item in 2020. So I guess it it could be the item. That's what I'm trying to emphasize
I mean this could be it right this could be it
Popeyes I think I think they've been seeing what these reviews are and I think they took incentive
because at first you see this and you think it's just another item you got to put the pieces together like this is one of
Those items that really makes you think okay. It makes you it makes you it gets those those gears going
Let me tell you because look at this
The first item that was released recently was from Burger King spicy nuggets
I can follow me here chicken item spicy nuggets the second item that was released with some Arby's chicken with ranch
What do we have here there? Buffalo? Ranch tenders Wow. This is incredible
So we're digging deep here. We found the origins
We found the backstory and we know where this came from and I'm I'm just wasting time with that one
No, they just came up with this at the board room and you know people like the Buffalo stuff and this is no exception
So here's what we got just to set up beating around the bush here. Let's get right into it
It's $5 and it's a buffalo ranch tender of meal deal. Alright, so come to fried chicken tenders
Alright, like you're you know, chicken strips right breaded fried crispy, and then it's drizzled with a buffalo ranch sauce
Okay, so in the state buffalo ranch tender it's like whenever I see the name first and foremost
It invokes this image that it's like all right. These are tossed in the sauce, right they get lost in the sauce
They're dripping and drenched with sauce. No
These don't have a ton of sauce on them
But that's intentional you get it and you see how it's just got like a little blotch here and there of the sauce
People will think they did a really bad job. No, this is what it's supposed to be
It's just supposed to have this little drizzle of sauce and you're gonna see in a minute of this Buffalo ranch sauce
And then it also comes with a buttermilk ranch sauce that you could dip it in
Okay
so it's supposed to have a little bit of spice a little bit of a punch and
then that mixture of the ranch maybe to help help cool the the metaphorical flames there and it's a $5 deal and
Available here at Popeye's so that's we've got I'm just trying to find a place to get my little
Paper here we go. Get a sip of water first
Things are already heating up
Let's see what we got
There's the Popeyes box right there with its little uh little design on it was it's a love that chicken. Oh,
There's Louisiana right there. It's a state of
Louisiana no la. So it says right there. There's the chicken
Popeyes Popeye Street, right. That's all the Popeyes are located on famous chicken, okay
All right. Let's see what we have
See I got the fries as the side and right now you can't see the chicken so let's get the fries out of the way
for a little bit
All right
See if I kind of if I balance it and I could figure this out. There you go. There's the chicken right there
see, I always like it when the when the fries are down first, and then you could see the
chicken on top they kind of reversed the order right there instead you get their
Fries the chicken identify. So that's the one thing but I don't know. I don't really care if the product is good
The product is good
I'm not gonna complain about the fact that the fries are on top of the chicken this time and not the other way around just
Makes it a little difficult to get the best
Optimal view but I always try to take that into account. So we're just gonna grab a piece of chicken right now
We're just gonna hold it up
Hopefully you got a good view of the box. All right, there it is right there
You can see
Got a drizzle sauce a drizzle
Okay
Let's try to zoom in and focus on that when it's in the dark
I think it gets a little bit of a better better look at it because you could see that there's some sauce on it
But not everywhere
Not everywhere
it looks like a
like a giant fish
Not really. I don't know where that came from. But now you could just see what it looks like
So it's got a little bit of sauce drizzle on it and we're just gonna see how it tastes
So that's everything that there is to it just a crispy tender got a little tiny bit of buffalo sauce on it
We're gonna see how this tastes. So it is the Buffalo ranch tenders from Popeyes. They're going in
I can kind of see it's it's that's fairly tender. I mean this piece has ripped off real easy
One more bite
I'll tell you right now what disappoints me about this item and
It's not the way that it tastes. That's not what it is
Because to tell you the truth do I think the chicken is pretty good. I do I
Think it's decent. I think the chicken is is you know, it's barely juicy, but nice and crispy
Well-seasoned well breaded. I like it for chicken tenders. They're pretty good
If you're saying oh right well
If it's not the way the chicken tastes and what's bothering you you know, is it like the sauce?
You're not like the way the sauce tastes. No, I like the sauce, too. I do
Oh, yeah, you know the Buffalo the Buffalo ranch sauce is a good blend
Not overwhelmingly spicy. It's uh more of like a flavorful spiciness, right? So it's got this tiny little bit of
Spice but then you could really taste the creaminess of the ranch that's in there. That's really the more prevailing thing
It's like mildly spicy even say hot
Then you have that creaminess of the ranch in there, but it tastes good and it works
Well at the chicken it might be saying all right. Well, you just described the item
You said you liked the chicken. You said you liked the sauce and what are you complaining about exactly while you're disappointed?
Because of the design of the item, that's what I don't like
Now, I don't know why they decided to make it drizzled in the sauce. I really don't
But this needs to be one of those items that's covered in the sauce. That's what it needs to be
Because it's like one bite you get this sauce and it's really good. You want more of it?
You want the whole thing to be covered in the sauce, but then the next bite. There's no sauce whatsoever
It's just your plain chicken tenders. They call these Buffalo ranch tenders. You're getting this you want it to be spicy
You want to taste that ranch you want to taste that in every bite? You want it to be flavorful?
perhaps even overwhelmingly so and
Instead you bite into it you get a little bit of a bite here and there with this good sauce. It works
Well, then it's dry then it's dry in the next no sauce no sauce and a tiny little drop of it and that's it
So it's not the people that worked here. It's not their fault at all. This is how they're told to make it
I mean they made it exactly as you see it on their website
Professional pictures maybe one thing if I could supposed to be covered in sauce, and this is what you get
But instead there's a so little sauce on it
Inherently as the design of this item. It's it's flawed and I don't like that at all. You know, it's supposed to
it's supposed to have I
guess you'd say I
Don't even know what they were trying to accomplish here because I like the sauce tastes good
But there's just so little of it and I just don't like that
That's one thing that always
Gets me a little bit
these items
so
Price-wise for this is five dollars five bucks for it. I was looking
And this is just the raw video. So I'm just gonna
Tell it to you straight
No, I don't know if this really comes with it or not, but it's supposed to come with a buttermilk ranch sauce
And I can't seem to find that sauce. I swear I saw it
I don't see that either but right now and maybe I'll just cut in a little a little later
We'll see. I don't know but I'm just disappointed by the fact that the sauce that it comes with that's actually on it
There's so little of it and I am NOT a fan of that at all. It needs a lot more sauce, and I'm disappointed
It's a it's an item that has a lot of good potential, but it's really lacking on that sauce. It needs more of it
That's my biggest complaint
That's why that's all that I've been talking about because I like everything else but it's just it hit a snag there. That's the issue
so right now
Out of ten. I'm just gonna have to give it a four point seven out of ten
It's got a lot of good potential, but when it's lacking
Is in my opinion a quintessential ingredient, that's a big problem
So that's why it's got the rating that it's not that's all that I have for you at the moment
I'm your host to the report of the week and that we tried out the buffalo
Ranch tenders from Popeyes a bit disappointed today, but it's an item that they could fix pretty easily. Take care everyone