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"Lani and Jesse compare the various kinds of chicken a person could get around our neighborhood. Which chicken do you think should come out on top?!"
It's to the point now where a Team Four Star food video is basically an insta-watch for me. I mean, what other food comparison video is going to have multiple random references to the The Blair Witch Project, for example (which itself was due to a semi-unrelated tangent from Nick about Denny's and IHOP)? This is another video that Scott/Kaiser probably wisely decided to avoid.
So, yeah, anyway, this is my own experience with chicken nuggets/tenders. The last time I personally bought fast food chicken nuggets, which I'm pretty sure I've mentioned in this blog before but I don't feel like looking it up now, was when I bought a 30-piece McNugget thing from McDonald's in something like 2010 or so (let's go with 2010, sure), and that was my entire lunch for that day. It took me pretty much the rest of the day to finish that shit. And I have never again wanted to eat McDonald's Chicken McNuggets after that.
Beyond that, and only slightly more recently (i.e. these were pretty much the last meals I ever ate in my old condo back in Redmond, WA, prior to moving out and returning to NC for good in like Feb 2014 or whenever), the only nuggets/tenders I've had were some microwave meal shit, like Banquet shit. Banquet chicken nuggets are probably better than McDonald's McNuggets, but only just barely. Banquet nuggets are way better than Banquet chicken fingers, though. (Banquet fish sticks are fucking god-tier compared to their chicken nuggets/fingers, though that... isn't saying much, really, but still.)
As for the rest of the stuff they sampled, I don't have an opinion on it because I've never tried any of it.
Only thing I ever got from Jack in the Box (and I got it a lot considering that I used to live almost directly across the street from a Jack in the Box, back when I lived in Redmond, WA, circa 2004-2013) was the Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger. Basically Jack's equivalent to the Wendy's Baconator. I think the BUC was a bit better than the Baconator, though. Closest Jack in the Box to me now is apparently in Concord, NC, about 80 miles away. I'm not driving 80 miles for a Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger when I can go about 10 miles to Wendy's for a Baconator (which even that is a bit far, unless I'm already going to Food Lion or something anyway, since the Wendy's is only 3 miles farther than the Food Lion is). As for actual chicken stuff, the Wendy's Classic Chicken Sandwich is actually pretty good. It's no Chick-fil-A or anything (but then, what is?), but I'd still say it's fairly high-tier for fast food shit.
Never heard of Raising Cane's prior to this video. Closest one to me is around 75 miles away, down in Chapel Hill, so that's pretty much out, too, same as Jack now.
Same with Whataburger, though I think I had vaguely heard of that before now, at least, maybe? In any case, the closest one to me is apparently 170 miles away, in Boiling Springs, SC, so yeah, shit on that.
I've had KFC and Popeye's and Burger King chicken sandwiches, but not their nuggets/tenders. They were all passable, I guess. Though I stopped going to KFC altogether when they got rid of their Doublicious and replaced it with the Zinger or whatever the fuck. I'd have to drive like 30-40 miles to Greensboro or to Eden to get to the closest Popeye's and it's really not worth it. And Burger King's Original Chicken Sandwich is about the most basic-ass chicken sandwich you can get at a fast food place. That said, of the three, I'd probably choose the BK OCS over the other two.
In conclusion, I think they need to do something like this again, but with french fries instead of chicken nuggets/tenders.
