# Fast food chicken sandwiches **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768 "2014-09-07T14:37:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/21 "2014-09-08T14:36:32Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I do like the asiago chicken at Wendy’s. Expensive, and uses “real” chicken breast. But all the other toppings make it ok. That’s the only one I eat. I’m not being snobbish or a food bore, I just stopped eating fast food for a couple of years, and now McD’s and BK taste bad. Wendy’s asiago chicken ranch sandwich is the only one that tastes ok. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/22 "2014-09-08T15:31:10Z")
Chick fil a sandwich is more expensive than little chicken sandwiches like the McChicken but it’s cheaper than the big sandwiches like the Wendy’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich (the best fast food chicken burger) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@The\_Wino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wino)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/23 "2014-09-08T16:35:08Z")
In the 90’s I loved Wendy’s Monterey Ranch chicken sandwich. It was real chicken breast with Monterey Jack cheese, bacon crumbles, some kind of ranch spread (not dressing), lettuce & tomato. It was perfect stoner food. I’ve seen the little cheap sandwich they’ve had off and on under a similar name but I can’t get the various-parts patty down. It grosses me out if it think about it too much. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/24 "2014-09-08T16:52:44Z")
Chick-Fil-A’s is probably my favorite of the fast-food bunch, but I’ve warmed up to White Castle’s deluxe sriracha slider after having a so-so experience the first time with it. It’s been years, but I also remember enjoying one of Popeye’s spicy chicken sandwiches, too. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/25 "2014-09-08T16:57:23Z")
I think Chick-fil-A puts out the best product, one that tastes very close to homemade. Their spicy is also excellent. Everything else is generic fast food chicken to me, with the exception of Zaxby’s. I just wish they wouldn’t use chicken fingers on their sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/26 "2014-09-08T16:59:28Z")
Wendy’s spicy. I did prefer BKs spicy Tendercrisp, but the bastards cancelled it, so always Wendy’s now. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/27 "2014-09-08T17:08:30Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] People like grease. A natural breast fillet doesn’t absorb as much tasty grease as the more porous formed patties, especially if it doesn’t have a coating. [/QUOTE] Not just that, but a whole chicken breast tends to be dry. If you know how to cook them, they don’t have to be dry, but thanks to “ZOMG! Salmonella!” they generally get cooked to death. Dry, pasty, chalky death. I would love to see someone put out a chicken thigh sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/28 "2014-09-08T17:14:38Z")
Burger King Original Chicken Sandwich – yum! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/29 "2014-09-08T17:19:11Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > I would love to see someone put out a chicken thigh sandwich. You know, I could have sworn that one of the fast food chicken places had a sandwich that allowed you to choose between white and dark meat, but I can’t find any evidence for it on current menus. Did I just dream this? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/30 "2014-09-08T17:34:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > People like grease. A natural breast fillet doesn’t absorb as much tasty grease as the more porous formed patties, especially if it doesn’t have a coating. I’m a Chick-Fil-A die hard, (Umm, too soon?), but I love your reasoning on this. If somehow you’re proven wrong, and people don’t like grease, I still love it. I prefer mac 'n cheese from a box, and my scrambled eggs powdered, so I can’t claim my refined palette leads me to like Chick-Fil-a so much. It’s mostly that it’s tasty chicken, with no gloopy sauce or weepy lettuce getting in the way of that chicken (I even take the pickle off). Add that I’m a sucker for their waffle fries, and they almost always get my chicken sandwich dollar. I miss the Krystal Spicy Chick sandwiches. Even though you only got three of them instead of four when you got burgers, I loved them. I was very surprised when I found out that they didn’t sell them in Kentucky when we visited there (they only sell the non-spicy ones), and I was sad when all the locations here closed. \ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/31 "2014-09-08T19:51:35Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > I love your reasoning on this. If somehow you’re proven wrong, and people don’t like grease, I still love it. Consider: Do people really buy French fries for the potatoes? Or are fries just handy matrices to hold grease? Mmm… Grease matrix… ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/32 "2014-09-08T20:29:20Z")
My standard road food is a spicy Wendy’s sandwich. It has two benefits: 1. It’s pretty tasty for fast food (I can’t stand the patties, not because I’m a Sooper Food Elite but because they’re icky). 2. Since they’re spicy, I don’t have to feel bad about eating the whole thing and not giving tidbits to my daughters. Eat your own damn food, kids! ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/33 "2014-09-09T09:40:49Z")
Burger King–but not the original. I can’t remember the exact name but it’s something like a Tend-R Crisp chicken sandwich. It’s really, really good. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/34 "2014-09-09T09:59:42Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > You know, I could have sworn that one of the fast food chicken places had a sandwich that allowed you to choose between white and dark meat, but I can’t find any evidence for it on current menus. Did I just dream this? Well, if you visited one of the[Ya Ya’s](http://www.yayas.com/index.html) in Michigan, they offer a choice of white or dark meat. Tim Horton’s grilled panini Tuscan chicken is good. I really like their multi-grain bread, it’s nice and chewy. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/35 "2014-09-09T12:06:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Does Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s have processed chicken sandwiches now? Dunno about now, but 1988-1992 or so (my years working there), there were fried chicken patties, grilled chicken breast patties (pre-marinated in something, I thought they were pretty good and they became my go-to until I went vegetarian), and even small fried chicken patties for breakfast sandwiches. Plus chicken sticks we used for a short while in experimental sandwiches alongside being a competitor to McNuggets (wraps nearly 20 years before the McWrap, for instance). Unfortunately, none of the fried patties or sticks were made on-site, despite us simultaneously doing Roy Rogers fried chicken laboriously by hand. I bet we’d have had a killer product if we were dunking/dredging/frying chicken sandwiches by hand to complement the Roy Rogers brand. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/36 "2014-09-09T16:45:43Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Burger King Original Chicken Sandwich – yum! I’m kind of mad that they stopped double wrapping and cutting the sandwich in half. When I was a yute, I really thought it was special to open the outer wrap to find the inner, wrapped and cut sandwich. Now it’s just one wrapper and no cut… sad. But they’re 2 for $5… happy! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/37 "2014-09-09T17:22:28Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > Dunno about now, but 1988-1992 or so (my years working there), there were fried chicken patties, grilled chicken breast patties… Huh. The '80s is when I remember Carl’s Jr. introducing chicken sandwiches, and I remember going to Burger King because the only ones Carl’s Jr. had were natural breasts. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/38 "2014-09-09T17:54:47Z")
Arby’s! I love the Arby’s fried chicken sandwich. It’s a piece of real chicken (although God knows I love a greasy little processed puck of chicken stuff as well), deep fried, greasy, oh so good. It’s by far my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/39 "2014-09-09T18:08:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > People like grease. A natural breast fillet doesn’t absorb as much tasty grease as the more porous formed patties, especially if it doesn’t have a coating. But it’s slurry. Yuck. I prefer whole muscle. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768/40 "2014-09-09T18:16:49Z")
Don’t think of it as slurry. Think of it as _paté_. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fast-food-chicken-sandwiches/697768.md?page=3)