The chicken was spicier than most of the others I’d had - not in a red pepper way, but more like black pepper hints. I passed on the bonus tenders (sorry Kevin!), got my four chicken bites, thought about throwing my own pennies at the drink machine, then settled in. And then I asked for my bites, and was told that they only had four left, and the very pleasant counter guy (also named Kevin!) asked if I wanted a “sh*tload of bonus tenders”. To set the mood, I went to my normal KFC/Taco Bell joint and watched a particularly disheveled woman wearing a towel like a cape throw a bunch of pennies at the drink machine. Tasting notes: Considering KFC was the winner of my chicken sandwich taste-test, I had high expectations coming into this. The build: Premium 100% breast meat, freshly hand-breaded and served with your choice of creamy ranch, honey mustard, BBQ, or creamy Buffalo sauce. Of course, the chicken inside looked like shredded coconut, and that was somewhat off-putting, the BBQ sauce seemed more like ketchup with onion and garlic added, and the honey mustard was a brown color that made me nervous, and almost tasted like almonds, and isn’t it when you taste almonds you know you’re poisoned or something.? BUT STILL, let’s not put a damper on an underdog moving its way up the ladder, okay?!!? Kevin Alexander They have a crispy, almost hash brown-esque breading, and a subtle heat, which is also the tagline of the Miami basketball team’s marketing and publicity strategy this year. But these nuggets really kind of did it for me. Tasting notes: Well isn’t this just a pleasant surprise? Jack in the Box tends to finish in the bottom-half of these tastings, as they have positioned themselves as the food of people who want to eat a lot at 2am for various reasons that may not be medicinal, and those people tend to just want weird foods. Choice of barbecue, honey mustard, Frank’s RedHot Buffalo, sweet & sour, or teriyaki. The build: “Crispy white meat chicken nuggets”. Stick to the cheese curds and root beer floats. The BBQ sauce was thick and overpoweringly smoky, sort of like KC’s Masterpiece, and the honey mustard’s faint creamy mustard flavor faded away almost mid-chew. There was just too much breading, they lacked punch or spice, and they tasted more like nuggets you might find in my high school cafeteria or a Greek pizza place in suburban Boston. And also, I wasn’t originally going to include them, but they were right next door to the McDonald’s I was going to, and, man, it JUST SEEMED LIKE FATE, OKAY?īut fate did not smile upon these things when I tasted them. These things are tenders, and, as such, may get short shrift. Tasting notes: Few caveats here, before we get into the taste: first, they don’t technically have nuggets. I’m abstaining from making Latin Biggie Smalls jokes right here. The build: Three 100% all-white meat chicken tenders, which come with a choice of “signature dipping sauces” - ranch, BBQ, honey mustard, and “spicy papa”.
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