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and everyone watching this is running on empty food review i'm your host the report of the week
welcome one and all to this newest review number one let's just get the elephant out of the room if
during the course of this review at all you hear a little bit of like a low pitched humming noise
they're just doing some work outside so it's just you know the equipment and stuff that's all that
there is to that but if you want to like have some fun with it and pretend you're aboard some
alien spacecraft or something and you know i don't know you're watching this review
you do whatever you want with it have fun with it that's that's all that i can say
you're not going to believe what i'm reviewing today you're going to look at the title you're
going to look at the subject matter your your jaw willingly or otherwise
is going to begin to unhinge itself and the mouth will progressively become more a gape
and you're going to shake your head you're gonna say no way
no way is this possible
i've never heard of such a concept i've never heard of such an item from a place like this
how is it possible
i turned the light off for dramatic effect burger king has released a new chicken sandwich
there now you know let the head shaking begin yeah burger king they released a new chicken sandwich
and no one cares no one knows and uh who knew you know by a show of hands it's like how many people
knew that burger king released a new chicken sandwich now i think some people say oh they've
had chicken sandwiches on the menu before indeed they have i've actually reviewed a couple you know
i think they've had some like dollar menu chicken sandwiches they had a crispy chicken sandwich
did you know they released a new chicken sandwich this year as a matter of fact about a month ago
did you see the commercials for it did you see the press releases for it i didn't
i i knew around new year that they were going to be releasing a chicken sandwich
and then i heard nothing about it ever since until i finally looked at their menu i realized it's out
i mean they released this with no publicity with no marketing with no advertising nothing
and that seemed very strange to me that's why i was kind of playing this up so much obviously
people they do like their chicken sandwiches and while sometimes i might think that the chicken
sandwich is a concept that is you know being done endlessly these days evidently people still like
the chicken sandwiches and the proof of that is in the increase in sales they have garnered from kfc
and mcdonald's so obviously people still get hyped up by it they still want to
you know try them out there's still excitement so why on earth did burger king which obviously
has a huge budget you know they have an advertising team a marketing team
all of that stuff how could they release a premium chicken sandwich and not even bother to promote it
it's like do do they not want people to know about this sandwich or are they going with an approach
where it's like we're gonna be we're gonna pretend like this is some sort of super secret item
and try to play some sort of reverse psychology on the consumers and that's gonna get them to buy it
i just don't i don't understand why don't they want you to know about the sandwich that's what
what beats me but anyway it's a pretty basic sandwich but it's supposed to be a premium
one you know to compete with popeyes chick-fil-a mcdonald's kfc and all the other establishments
um releasing the chicken sandwiches this is called the hand breaded
crispy chicken sandwich all right it's a pretty basic sandwich it has your chicken patty pickles
and a special sauce so it looks like the hum stopped i guess the spaceship has landed and
it's available the price of 5.82 cents this is supposed to be a bigger chicken sandwich
in like their trippy 70s you know kind of lsd trip writing it says ultra crispy
but it's actually called the hand breaded crispy but i guess it's supposed to say that it's ultra
crispy but you could see there it is that's what it looks like comes in its own little um pouch
hand breaded for next level crispiness do not microwave this bag you can get it in classic form
which i did you could also go get it uh in spicy or like a premium with some lettuce and tomato
unravel it i'm just gonna be a little sad if this turns out to be a really good
you know chicken sandwich why uh
well
what on earth did they give me
what is this
you know they might have given me the wrong item i'm gonna
i'm gonna pause this for a minute and we're gonna figure this out because i ordered
and see this is the thing you know i just kind of i get it and i set right
up and review it i ordered the hand breaded crispy one this has some lettuce tomatoes and
something on it so i'm just going to have to pause this because they might have given me
the wrong item so i'll be back in a minute okay so sorry about that i had to pause the camera
look on the computer and figure out what it is that i even got i had to examine it because they
have this lineup of chicken sandwiches already and then they have these new the famous unknown
chicken sandwiches and you know i i ordered the original crispy sandwich and i look and
i see these tomatoes and the lettuce and all that so i was able to discern i did
i did get one of the new sandwiches i didn't get the one that i initially ordered but that's fine
uh this this is life the show goes on so i got by accident i suppose
the spicy hand breaded crispy chicken sandwich you know the spicy deluxe one so
what the spicy one the spicy deluxe comes with is you're supposed to get you know the juicy
crispy chicken fillet etc um but then it comes with iceberg lettuce tomato instead
of the pickles you know and something fell then instead of the spice being in the chicken itself
which is what they have in their non-premium sandwich there's a spicy sauce
all right you can see a little bit of that spicy sauce on the bottom bun right there
and then we take the top bun and you see this the spicy sauce mixed in there with their
signature sauce and a better look at it of the chicken patty itself
shows that the spicy sauce is kind of already soaked into the patty now i had to pinch off a
little piece right here just to take a little bit of a nibble because in order to verify that this
is the new sandwich and not the existing spicy sandwich if there's always been on their menu um
you know because the difference is that the spice is kind of in the breading on their old one
like they're verifying no this is the new one so that's that's good at least a little bit of a
little bit of confusion but it's still a new chicken sandwich so we'll be able to try it
out people were more excited about the spicy one anyway so you know hey it's it worked out for the
best uh let's get that thumbnail shot there i am with it big smile i'll get one where the sandwich
is a little closer to the camera and i'll poke my head to the side and then i'll do a quick review
something like that that's a new one right there but uh
again i'll just do one last thumbnail like this real close
all right so and now i'm trying out the spicy deluxe hand breaded crispy sandwich going in
well i'm going to keep eating but i'm going to tell it to you straight
burger king is not gonna like this and so be it you know if an item is good it's good if
it's bad it's bad this may be more as an error on the individual preparation um but this was
probably cooked a little too long and as i'm eating the breading and you know it's nice
and crunchy and everything but i'm tasting this burnt flavor in it and that i mean that really
really really takes away from experience and it's not pleasurable to eat at all
take a couple more bites but it's not
as you can see there's a good amount of chicken
and you know the chicken itself is is okay i mean you are getting
a nice amount of chicken which is good to see a nice thick chicken patty and there's a good amount
of spice um i can see why people do like the spicy sandwich that spicy sauce a little goes a long way
and it kind of soaks into the chicken and it's like a pepper i don't know the exact pepper but
it's so it soaks in there it might be a little chilly based i'm not sure they didn't say
but it just soaks in there and i feel like there's still a lot of spice in my mouth that spicy sauce
does good the tomato especially gives a little bit of cooling moisture helps kind of moderate the
spice so it's not overwhelming but it definitely is one of the spicier chicken sandwiches from a
mainstream establishment like i said a good amount of chicken but you could tell that this is a
sandwich that was just a little overdone in terms of being prepared and that really is a huge huge
detractor it just doesn't make it enjoyable at all because you have this burnt flavor
just prevailing over everything else that kind of ruins what would otherwise be a good thing
in your case assuming that it's not burned and overdone
it's not bad i think a nice premium chicken sandwich that spice again is good nice blend
of the chicken the lettuce tomato good amount of chicken all ties together nicely it would
be a good sandwich if yours isn't burnt i would definitely say this would probably be in the high
seven range you know so just bear that in mind i would recommend you get this if you
want it's a little pricey again 5.82 cents in my situation though it's uh it's burned not enjoyable
sorry the camera ran out too ran out of memory i guess this is not my day today
um just one thing that i wanted to mention like i was saying if you get this normally
i think it would be a pretty decent sandwich one other note is that their signature sauce
it's there you could barely taste it it's just it's like a glorified mayo and bear that in mind
you know it's just they they in the pictures and everything they show a lot more on the sandwich
than what you really get um this is one of those items preparation is key and obviously if they
do it right it's gonna it's gonna be a pretty decent sandwich that's why i'm just trying to
i'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here but just some you know small mistakes you know
leave it cooking for a little longer than it's supposed to be or whatever it might come down to
uh will cause issues and uh the sandwich that i got and reviewed today is probably more along the
lines of a 2 out of 10 because it has these decent characteristics but the main prevailing thing
chicken patty when there's those issues there's that burnt overtone
it just takes a good thing and ruins it but your mileage may vary like i said you get a properly
cooked one it's going to be decent and i don't understand why they aren't promoting this more
because this definitely has the potential of being a decent sandwich
this is just a one-off thing yours probably isn't going to be burnt mine was so that's why
i didn't like it but this is a fixable error it's something that could easily be fixed
so bear that in mind all right so i'm giving this a two out of ten the one that i got but
in general providing that it's not burnt it would again be more in the upper seven maybe like a 7.8
out of 10 range that's the difference and this just goes for all food not just burger king
that's the difference between something being overcooked versus done right or undercooked you
know same type of thing that's the difference it could make in terms of the enjoyment and
the quality and experience so that's what i have for you today we tried out the um
i guess the spicy deluxe sandwich from burger king um that's all that i have so thank you for
watching sorry for this piecemeal review it kind of didn't go as planned but we got it done anyway
thanks for watching and take until next time take care i'm your host the report of the week