Tuesday, September 3, 2013

T/A's Buffalo Chicken Sandwich

So a month or two ago I tried the Buffalo burger from T/A and was unimpressed, to say the least. Well, most items (save one or two) on their special menu has a flip side, and that is..with chicken! So, willing to give it yet another shot and try to find a winner I decided to flip the special menu over and try the Buffalo Chicken sandwich.



Did they give me the right sandwich? Wait let's check the receipt. Buffalo chicken sandwich, yep that's right. Okay, well, hmm, here it is! A juicy chicken breast coated in Frank's hot sauce seasoning with blue (bleu if you're French or a food snob) cheese dressing with lettuce and tomato and fries also seasoned with that special tasty Frank's hot sauce seasoning.

...are you sure this is the right sandwich?
Juicy chicken breast, check.
Coated in Frank's hot sauce seasoning, un-check.
Blue/Bleu cheese dressing, sort-of check.
Lettuce, tomato, check.
Fries seasoned with Frank's hot sauce seasoning, half-check.

So let's go over what was good first since that's the shorter of the two lists. The chicken breast was juicy.

Now let's get to the negatives:
First, Frank's Hot Sauce seasoning, or lack thereof. Coated? No. Sprinkled with? Maybe. Could you taste it? Not at all. It tasted to me like a plain chicken breast, which again made me question if they made the right sandwich.

Blue cheese dressing. I don't think it's supposed to be that runny. Hard to pinpoint if it's either cheap ingredients or thinned out to last longer.

Seasoned fries: uh, nope. They weren't seasoned.

If you want to judge this as a regular chicken sandwich with some lettuce, tomato and blue cheese dressing, it was nice and hit the mark perfectly (not counting runny dressing). As I said, the chicken breast was cooked just right, it was juicy and wasn't over cooked and dry. If you want to judge this based on what it was supposed to be, it missed the mark entirely.

Scorecard:
Buffalo burger - 1 (which I reviewed earlier)
Buffalo chicken - 0

1 comment:

  1. When I hear buffalo anything I immediately picture a nice bright read sauce...not a sprinkle of seasoning. And if they are going to use seasoning they should use enough to make it visible!

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