Tried their new chicken sandwich. Pretty tasty though I wish it had more than just a couple of pickles and the bun with it. I've tried all the new chicken sandwiches in the last month, and while this is larger than previous offerings from KFC, flavor-wise, it still comes in second to Popeyes if you get a hot version of the Popeyes sandwich. If you're going for a Popeye's chicken sandwich, I've found you really need to go at a rush hour in order to get one right out of the fryer. If you get one where the chicken has been sitting for 10 minutes before they make the sandwich, it's not worth going there.
Re-visited again April 14 & 15, 2021. Ordered 5 chicken sandwiches. Size of chicken was exceptional in all sandwiches. Chicken wasn't greasy, was fried to a nice crispy crunch when you bite into it, and had a mild, tasty flavor. I still would rate this location's Crispy Colonel chicken sandwiches 5 stars, even though the bun that this delicious sandwich is contained in is really pretty awful. It's like they wrapped up a Bugatti with an old worn out napkin. On the same day, also visited a Burger King to try their new hand breaded just released chicken sandwich. In reverse order, their bun was excellent, probably the best bun on any fast food item I can remember eating. Light, tender crumb, with a hint of a butter, really exceptional, nothing at all close to the standard fast serve burger bun. On the other hand, the fried chicken itself was the worst piece of chicken I've been served at any fast serve restaurant in the last couple of years. Dry, over fried, to the point that about 1/3rd of it was inedible. I won't mention the name of the BK location, since I don't think it's fair to leave a terrible review based on one experience, but check it out later, as I will return to the same place to see if I got the one in a million horrible piece of chicken, or if this is what BK thinks is going to compete with KFC and Popeye's. Now if KFC could by their buns from the same supplier as BK, and use that bun on their new chicken sandwich, they will have rung the gold bell. But the KFC chicken is so big and tasty, it's worth getting even if you throw the bun away.
April 23rd. OK, one last edit for this review: Had a taste test with 3 friends of the KFC's, McDonald's, and Burger King's newest chicken sandwiches. The surprise for me was the chicken sandwich from KFC had a brioche bun, and that's different from the last time I received the "new" fried chicken sandwich from this location. After a little research and a discussion with the manager, it turns out that the last time I received this sandwich, someone used the wrong bun - not the new brioche bun, but a standard white bun, which was the reason I previously commented on the terrible bun that came with the new sandwich. The sandwich we just taste tested had the correct brioche bun, and the bun was delicious as was the chicken.
Moving on, we ordered 2 chicken sandwiches from each chain, one as normally prepared, and one plain with the bun and chicken in separate packages, and cut them all into 4 portions. In order of unanimous preference by the 4 of us, here are the results: Bun to bun, KFC first, BK second (but very close to KFC - both were delicious), and McDonald's a distant 3rd. Chicken to chicken: KFC 1st, Burger King 2nd (if you wait 10 minutes, they'll fry it fresh for you, and it's a world apart from the previous inedible chicken I obtained from the same location during a normal drive thru), and McDonald's a distant 3rd.
When eating the sandwiches as normally prepared, the results were the same: KFC first, BK 2nd, and McDonald's a distant 3rd (all of us noticed what we guessed was a strong celery taste to the McDonald's chicken seasoning).
Plain bun and chicken combined by weight: KFC, 205.4g, BK 193.8g, and McDonald's 172.3g. Photo left to right, McDonald's, BK, KFC.
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