Regardless, I headed down to my local Arby's to give them a try. But they didn't carry them. I inquired about the product and was greeted with the same hemming and hawing that I've come to interpret as "I have never heard of that before but I don't want to say 'I don't know.'"
The other night, Elizabeth and I headed down to Arby's to get some popcorn chicken, which is one of our favorites. And we found that they no longer carry popcorn chicken, it has been replaced by the chicken tenders. So we decided to give them a try. We placed our order, told it would be a six-minute wait, and sat down.
About fifteen minutes later we received our food. (Two-and-a-half times the quoted wait is normal at this Arby's, a slightly frustrating phenomenom, although I will say this: their food is always hot and fresh out of the fryer, it's not sitting around under heat lamps.) As soon as I saw the chicken tenders I smiled. They looked exactly like the popcorn chicken, only slightly larger.
In fact, let's take a look at two pictures:
The top picture is a prime-cut chicken tender I ate the other night, dunked in buffalo sauce. The bottom picture is a popcorn chicken I had three months ago, dunked in Arby's Horsey Sauce. Do you see any difference?
Now, as I wrote, Arby's popcorn chicken is (er, was) delicious, so the fact that the chicken tenders are merely larger versions of the popcorn chicken is not a bad thing. It's more of a confusing thing: why did they change them? Was it just so they could charge more? I have no idea.
In short, the prime-cut chicken tenders are good, just like the popcorn chicken used to be. I will certainly eat them again.
what kinda sauce is that orange stuff, pp?
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