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and everyone watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of the renault empty food review
series i'm your host the report of the week thanks for checking in always a pleasure to be here
you know if you watched the last video that i did it was a real letdown granted of an item and i
mentioned at the beginning that the way things go with the uh you know the world of fast food
uh obviously it's a cycle in terms of the releases the amount that comes out etc there are a few new
items on the horizon i believe from burger king and from taco bell so there's going to
be some stuff coming up in that regard in the meantime though before these items get released
i always say well if there's not too much to do i'll start branching out and i'll try out some
places that perhaps i normally wouldn't so we did the culver's review and today
we're trying out a new release from buffalo wild wings this release is going to blow you away
you're going to see the name of this assuming that you haven't already
somehow seen the title or description of this video but you're going to see the name of this
and you're going to be shaken to the core quite frankly your mouth is going to
your jaw is actually going to physically unhinge itself and i'm just saying this because you
got to be ready for it otherwise you know it's going to be too much
and willingly or otherwise you're going to say to yourself what how so i'm just i'm just
giving you that heads up an item this momentous i think needs a special introduction
so to try to make things a little easier to digest i'm going to hide behind those
balloons there and then i'm going to come out and uh and we'll go from there so get ready
are you ready
buffalo wild wings has released bird dogs
so there you have it now you know obviously you're in the process we described so uh well
there you have it as your jaw is unhinging and you're saying what how let's explain what these
bird dogs exactly are this is a new item that was added to the buffalo wild wings
happy hour menu but it can be ordered at any time doesn't just need to be during said happy
hour and what it is you may say okay is there bird meat and is there doug in here as well um
well we'll find out so number one the name is bird dog it has a w in it so
i don't care what people say i'm going to emphasize that w all the way it's d-a-w-g-s
and you could get three types of bird dogs and what they are essentially is it's like a chicken
tender in a hot dog bun so that's what it is so you got the chicken tender that's the bird and
then you have the bun and that's the bird dog is what they say so there's three types of bird dogs
you have the loaded bird dog and in that is a chicken tender beer cheese and honey mustard sauce
you have the honey barbecue bird dog which is what i'm going to be reviewing here
that has fries honey barbecue sauce slaw ranch green onion and then you have the buffalo bird dog
which has ranch slaw and buffalo sauce now of these three types the price for
them because buffalo wild wings is usually a more expensive chain it's actually pretty reasonable
um price for one bird dog is around the five dollar mark but the size of them
they actually are bigger in reality than they are in the uh the ad which is a shock
i got two of the honey barbecue bird dogs and um price for that i think was just ten bucks
for two of them uh with some fries as well as a side so there they are in a special bird dog box
i suppose you could also say bird dogs but i don't know i just wanted to go all out with a w
the name is silly i'm kind of having fun with it but in the end they actually look pretty good
uh one thing though is that you could really smell the onion that's what i notice here
because like i said the honey barbecue one has what's supposed to have fries in it
it's supposed to have some slaw ranch dressing and green onion i think
though uh well let's see what do what are we seeing in here let's take a look
this i guess is supposed to be a little more gourmet than um
you know you're just your standard wings and stuff
all right so that's what it looks like you can see it's a decent sized chicken tender in the
bun with the honey barbecue sauce
one thing though i mean like i said it looks good i'll tell you that i don't know if it
has what it's supposed to have though because again it's got the sauce it's got the chicken
i swear though
this is that all is that the slaw are those the fries it's not as loaded as um the picture implies
that's just a slaw you know what i'm a little confused right now not in a not in a way that
i have been with some um buffalo wild wings items but i do strive in these videos to try to deliver
an honest and accurate review and what i'm going to do real quick is i'm going to pause the camera
i'm just going to go right over to my computer and i just want to look this
up for certain because the research that i did indicated that this item is supposed to have
fries on it the slaw ranch dressing and the green onions and i see the onions i could smell them i
can see the slaw and i could see the barbecue sauce but i can't see any of the fries or ranch
i just want to see was there a mistake on my end or um this is actually how it's supposed to be or
what's going on so excuse me for one second i just want to get the right info for you okay i just
wanted to make sure because again i don't want to be giving you false information here and if
i made the mistake you know i would just own up to it and say i got the stuff wrong um but looking at
the pictures looking at the websites and looking at the press releases indeed these are supposed to
have fries um ranch dressing as well so it is missing two ingredients here and um i thought
something was wrong like it still looks good but it is missing ingredients and that's a problem
uh it's not as bad as the time when i got the chicken sandwich from buffalo wild wink and
it was just a chicken tender on a on a plain bun but um obviously it's still a problem when
you're getting an item and it's not necessarily as advertised because that will affect the review
obviously um but that does need to be mentioned i caught that and so that's important so we're still
going to try this out but understand that the ones that i got are missing two important ingredients
it's missing the fries and it's missing the ranch bear that in mind that's a problem but i get what
i get all right that said honey barbecue bird dog from buffalo wild wings going in
i think that tiny drop right there might be a tiny amount of uh ranch dressing you can see that
they are a little messy there's a lot of sauce on them so that just needs to be made note of
all right taste wise what's there to say about them um again obligatory i wish that
the fries were on them so i could give you the full assessment as you would likely get them
when you go to buffalo wild wings um all right it's a gimmicky item and obviously
it has a silly name you know the bird dog but uh in the end here's what's to be said about it
substance wise there's more to it than i thought that there was so that's a good thing um secondly
price wise when we're talking about buffalo wild wings here and the prices that we normally get
um price wise it's it's actually pretty solid as well you can get a pretty good deal
two of these a good amount of food you're getting a decent sized chicken tender and
you could definitely see that that you know these days it's actually a bit of a shock um
you're not getting some microscopic glorified chicken nugget there actually is some substance
to it the chicken itself was on the juicier side and it was it was like fairly flavorful i would
i would describe it as um i will say though here's my observation in terms of the chicken
while it was juicy it was very salty a bit more salty than i would necessarily prefer the other
thing that i noticed with the chicken is that it's a little chewy like a little
a little rubbery not that it's to the point where it's inedible obviously because i could certainly
consume it i could chew it i could swallow it but it's definitely a little on the tougher side
so quality wise the chicken is definitely whacking a little bit
again not that it's not necessarily flavorful but it's a bit saltier than i would have liked it and
a bit on the chewier side as well so that's definitely something to be made aware of
now the other thing to note the honey barbecue sauce is solid but it's definitely a potent
sauce it's one of those sauces that the honey is definitely the strongest thing like sometimes
you'll get these honey barbecue sauces where um it's like the sweetness in it is is like it's
an afterthought and they'll say that it's honey barbecue but you can't really taste much of the
honey or again it's like an afterthought this on the other hand the sauce is definitely sticky
there's a good amount of it but i could still feel it like on my fingers so it's a sticky sauce and
that honey is definitely what you taste first so it's a very sweet sauce
now while it complements the chicken all right the issue that i have is when you
have so much saltiness in the chicken and so much sweetness in the sauce they add to each
other but is it necessarily in a good way i wouldn't in this case anyway i wouldn't say so
the other problem that i have is that the sauce is so potent you can't really taste too much else
it's like all right i could taste the chicken i could taste the sauce but can i taste the slaw i
think maybe there was a tiny tiny little bit of ranch dressing on the bird dog but can i really
taste it no i couldn't unfortunately again it's that sauce and the saltiness of the chicken that
really overrides everything else i couldn't really taste the bun not that i don't think
there was really much to taste there nor could i taste any of the green onions which is odd because
i could still smell them when you first get these odds are you're really going to smell the onions
and you're going to think wow that's potent i bet i'm really going to be able to taste those onions
but then it's going to be a bit strange when you can't so that's one other thing to be aware of
uh of course it also it also should be mentioned it's disappointing that the fries weren't on these
and uh you know so again this wasn't the full item as intended but like i said in the end i
just wound up getting what i got and that's just how it is that we need to understand
so final thoughts price wise it's all right at least you're getting a good amount of food
the sauce is okay on its own but this is one of those items i think the idea is solid like i said
yeah it's a tacky item the name is silly etc but aesthetically speaking it looks good and i could
see there being a lot of interest in this portion psi is a good portion but when everything actually
comes together you could have a good item a good appearance and again a very good core concept but
when the execution is a bit off uh that's where the problems arise and the issues here where again
wasn't what i what i was supposed to get in terms of missing ingredients but likewise the sauce was
just a bit too strong and the chicken was just a bit a bit tough and too salty so when all
these factors are combined it leads to a subpar experience but this is definitely one of those
items with a little bit of tweaking a little bit of improvement um could definitely turn
into something pretty good so i would say the bird dogs from buffalo wild wings they need some work
they definitely need some work but i think they could be improved i see a lot of potential in this
and um definitely if some tweaking is made they could definitely be taken up to that next level
and they could be quite a good item i also got some boneless wings from buffalo wild wings
and i think buffalo wild wings is one of those chains they do a certain item good me personally
i like their buffalo uh their boneless buffalo wings and i'll be enjoying those as for this i
think i'll pass on it so that's what i have to say for you there that said has potential but as it is
not the best item in the world therefore out of 10 i'm gonna give the bird dog especially the uh
specifically the honey barbecue bird dog from buffalo wild wings a 5 out of 10 but again
with some tweaking i could definitely see this getting to an 8 out of 10. need some work bear
that in mind maybe pass on it this time around but um who knows what the future holds thanks
for watching that's all that i have for you until next time i'm your host the report of the week