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food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone everyone watching right now i was gonna
say listening i guess you would be listening too um but welcome thanks for tuning in to this newest
edition of the running on empathy food review series i'm your host the report of the week so uh
we're going to get right into things there's one thing that i want to preface this review with
and then you know we're just going to try it out and we're going to get right into things
so burger king has a fairly new item out and i don't think i've ever tried this one
before i mean i might have i know i've reviewed a lot of things over the years
i haven't any recollection though of actually trying out this sandwich before so burger king
from what i can discern people either seem to love or hate the sandwich
and either way it's back they have released it and from what i'm seeing online the reactions
seem to be mixed some people are saying you know i'm so glad that this sandwich is back
i wish that was here year round other people are saying oh no not this thing again but either way
burger king has brought back the italian original chicken sandwich here's what it has it has a
long breaded crispy white meat chicken patty so think of you know this long chicken patty
again breaded crispy um it also has mozzarella cheese on top of the chicken and then it is
doused and where'd they even crack me up i don't know it wasn't even a joke
um it is coated or doused in marinara sauce and it is on a sesame seed roll
so this is burger king's take on you know italian cuisine this is their way of saying
you know imagine you don't have to go down to your local pizza place or italian restaurant anymore
for something like this you could just go down to burger king for such a thing
and uh it just is what it is i mean some people seem to like it so we will see so price wise um
i don't recall being this expensive normally i'm seeing people paying anywhere from five to seven
bucks for this which uh that's really something so uh price wise like i said it just is what it is
but that's what we have so it's one of those long chicken sandwiches with an italian flare
burger king's way of doing so so we're going to see how it is
the one thing i wanted to preface this review by saying
in terms of quality i'm not sure and i'm saying that right now because i'm really not sure
i i have two burger kings near me both of them are awful and i am not with no
exaggeration they are terrible um they are the worst burger kings i've ever seen in my life
not only in terms of the quality of the the food received um but the entire experience you would
think that these places should be condemned quite frankly and uh they're so bad as a matter of fact
all the delivery services you know doordash and um grubhub etc they don't even deliver from these
places i mean it's it's that bad they refuse to even to even work with them at this point so
needless to say any sort of undertaking in trying to get this item from these two establishments
was a failure going to another burger king then um
and i could just go on and on about these two burger kings near i mean it's just one thing after
the next after the next it never ends and it's just ridiculous stuff um go to another burger king
and they say well we don't have the marinara sauce and we don't have the mozzarella cheese
we can give you though the chicken patty on a on a bun with nothing else so is that what
you would like and obviously that's that's not going to suffice i want to review the italian
original chicken sandwich so i said you know that i just can't do that and then the guy
the guy got upset at me forever for saying that which um which was just weird but anyway
i should you know i'm not even surprised by this anymore it says burger king doing what
they do i guess either way after trial and error i hope that i have it anyway i really hope if
if it's not if this isn't it this is on me um but there's the burger king bag right there
you know there you have it there's some grease stains on it so maybe that's for good luck
burger king pocket handkerchiefs what you do is you put one in the
pocket there usually if you want to add a little bit of fast food flair to your outfit
i got some fries i mean why not you know burger king's finest right there
well we'll see this says 1979 original chicken so there we go if you ever
obviously it doesn't come in any sort of i guess specific
wrapping or anything but we'll see and now here is the moment of truth
boy well it is this is it looks wonderful still warm still warm i'll give them credit for that
all right i got the right thing at least there it is this is burger king
i don't know am i being too harsh i just think i'm judging a book by its cover too much anyway
all the problems that they got i i don't know
how can i not just i don't know there it is though you can see the mozzarella cheese
right there and some of the marinara sauce there's that chicken patty we're talking about
so there it is
we'll get a thumbnail shot i mean we'll get multiple thumbnail shots just for the heck of it
um here i am with it we'll get one like this
we'll kind of go with the more serious one a little gloomy or something
you know i know i'll be able to make something out of it
what i'm going to do since we could only do the best with burger king i'm going to cut it in half
some people were saying i should have cut the one burrito from taco bell in
half and i think that's a fair point so i'm going to cut this one in half now just did
so there's a cross section for you
you could see the chicken to marinara to cheese ratio mostly chicken
so we'll see a lot of people really seem to like this one and maybe it's better than
uh who knows let's find out burger king's italian original chicken sandwich going in
um
uh you know
it was the experience of trying to get this that frustrated me i try not to i still try
to be impartial i say well look it's just the experience you know the fast food service whatever
the logistics etc maybe issues that could be fixed maybe issues outside of one's control
be that mine or burger kings right sometimes things just happen i say well maybe it's still
going to be a good sandwich right maybe it's still going to be decent maybe it's still going to um
to taste all right i mean people were saying that they really liked this thing and that they um
that they're glad that it's back here's a common problem with fast food though and um
if you've ever had fast food before and chances are you have if you're watching this
you know the way it goes where
if you if an item is brought back i'm trying to say it might have been good
five years ago or two years ago etc is it going to be just as good though when it's
brought back you would hope but is that always the case you know it's not and um i try to sit
here as i took that first bite i'm trying to think what did people like about this so much
um because i can't tell you i really can't i'm gonna take one more bite but i'll tell
you this right now i do not like this um are there some redeeming qualities there's one
or two but i will just tell you right now i'm not a fan of this it's a second bite
like you could see again a little cross section there
so what's the issue then you know you said you don't like it what's the problem exactly
so here's my here's my concern
it's it's a huge issue and it's one of those things that it might be so simple but it can
easily ruin an entire sandwich or item or meal or whatever it is so here goes it's way too salty
it's so salty as a matter of fact that i could only even get myself to swallow it after guzzling
down a nice big sip of water um this is one of the saltiest items i i've ever had and that's a huge
issue and you know how it is it's such a simple thing but too much salt can ruin something um
you know it's just so overdone it's to the point i don't even want to have this in my
mouth anymore you know it's like it's it's just too much too much uh the problem is that number
one the chicken itself is extremely salty now the chicken is on the drier side i mean there still is
a little bit of moisture in there but um i think that's to be expected with burger king chicken
though especially you know their less premium chicken patties they're not really known for
being the juiciest um you know cuts in the world perhaps so the chicken is is you know again kind
of dry but it's very it's the chicken itself is salty you've also got this kind of salt and like
pepper seasoning there on it as well especially in the breading so number one chicken is salty
then you have the mozzarella cheese and then the marinara sauce and for some weird
reason that's salty as well i was hoping that the marinara sauce was going to be
what balances all of this out and instead the marinara sauce it just tasted weird it just tasted
it's it's like you couldn't even really taste much tomato in it at all i thought
that was going to be what's going to balance everything out and um all i taste is this salt
i don't know what's going on here i feel like it would maybe taste this way if you got a
salt packet tore it open and just dumped the whole thing on the area that you were to bite beforehand
and then took a bite right then i would expect such a thing but in this instance
it's just bizarre it's bizarre and it's not good so huge problem right there
i i kind of had a feeling that there might be some issues with this one because like i said
just given how the burger kings in my area are um what more can i really say about it i mean
is there anything italian about this from what i can discern no
chances are if you want to get something like this i would say go to a local italian
restaurant support your small businesses go to a mom and pop place that you know will do a good job
and you know get an italian sandwich from there or from a deli or something
um this just as as one would say casually this ain't it maybe it's just on my end but
when i do these reviews i try to just say i'm just a consumer i'm just hey i saw this you
know in a commercial or on an advertisement let's go down to the local bk and try it out
that's what i did and i am thoroughly disappointed with this there's nothing italian about it all i
taste the salt a little bit of chicken the bun is uh is very chewy as well the roll i guess
you would you would say and uh yeah there's a little crisp to the chicken but what's the point
in having a crisp or not when all you can taste is so much salt to the point where you can't even
swallow it unless you have to guzzle down a ton of water and then on top of that for some of you
to have to pay seven bucks for this not a fan burger king is known for their hits or misses
um they've had some good items some bad items this one isn't good and uh that i'm disappointed with i
mean at least i've got some fries i can snack on but uh yeah i'm i'm disappointed by it you
know that's not to say that i hate burger king i don't i used to have a much more greater disdain
for them it's just these days you know they have some good items they have some bad items this one
just not enjoyable in my case so did i just get a bad one i mean maybe but this is what
i got so as a result out of ten um the italian original chicken sandwich from burger king i'm
really sorry to everyone out there who is really looking forward to this one and i was hoping for a
higher score and maybe it'll be all right for you i don't know but reviewing what i got um this one
is getting a two out of ten the only reason it's not it's not getting a one out of ten
uh is because the chicken itself by itself was okay it's still edible but is it pleasant is
it enjoyable no i rarely ever give scores this low rarely do i ever so people might
say too but that's still a two yeah but that's extremely extremely well all things considered
so a disappointment but the good news i guess is that burger king releases a lot of items and
hopefully better things will be on the horizon so trying out the italian original chicken sandwich
from burger king thanks for watching until next time i'm your host the report of the week