Apparently people were most interested in Domino’s Specialty Chicken. Which makes sense, because that chicken is pretty good.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,000 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 50 trips to carry that many people.
This Buzzfeed article is a good opportunity to review new fast foods that I’ve tried during the year. Running through the list:
1. 7-Eleven Doritos Loaded – I intended to write a review for this, but then got too busy doing work at work, never got around to it, and then after a while mistakenly assumed I had already written up the review and moved on. Anyway, these are wonderful. Probably the best food that 7-Eleven makes, although I suppose that isn’t particularly high praise. If you’ve ever had fried mac and cheese bites, these are similar, but greatly improved by the Doritos crust. Highly recommended, and at $2 for a 4-pack, probably the cheapest weird fast food around.
2. Taco Bell’s Waffle Breakfast Taco – I reviewed it here. This is bland and skippable.
3. Subways Fritos Chicken Enchilada Melt – I reviewed this on Facebook before I started the blog, so I’ll copy-paste the facebook post here. (I’m glad Facebook now has a search function.)
“Meh.” By trying to split the difference between Subway and Taco Bell, they end up with something that is less than either of them. Also either they didn’t toast mine long enough, or they added enough cold stuff that the entire sandwich ended up cold. So I won’t be ordering this again. Either I’ll get a better sandwich from Subway, or I’ll get a better enchilada-like-food from Taco Bell.
4-8, 10, 12, 15-16, 20. 23-26, 28, 32-33 Domino’s Starburst Chocolate Lava Cake, Pizza Hut Doritos Crust Pizza, McDonalds Black & White Pie, KFC Crispy Cheese Chicken, Burger King Burger Topped Poutine, Pizza Hut Surf & Turf Pizza with Dessert-Stuffed Crust, KFC Popcorn Chicken Nachos, Pizza Hut Chili Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza, Burger King Premium Berry Burger, KFC Dipping Fries, KFC Creamed Corn Chicken Sandwich, Domino’s Subwich, McDonalds McSbrinz Burger, KFC Double Down King, Pizza Hut Sausage Roll Crust Pizza, Pizza Hut Quesadilla Burrito & Nacho Pizzas, Tim Horton’s Buffalo Crunch Doughnut – These are all foreign offerings that I haven’t had an opportunity to try.
9 – Carl’s Jr Bisnut – Somehow I missed this one, even though I regularly eat at Carls. I have tried Jack in the Box’s cronut, which is decent but not amazing. It takes like a cross between a fast food donut and a fast food croissant.
11 Jack in the Box’s Hella-Peno Burger – I haven’t tried these, though the other offerings on JitB’s late-night stoner menu are pretty good.
13-14, 17-18, 31 – Papa John Frito Chili Cheese Pizza, Taco Bell Starburst Strawberry Freeze, Church’s Chicken & Waffle Bites, Del Taco Bun Taco, White Castle Waffle Breakfast Sandwich – I haven’t had the chance to try these. The Frito Chili pizza and Chicken & Waffle Bites sound good. The others not so much.
19 – Dominos Specialty Chicken – Review here. This is one of the best fast-food offerings I have ever had.
21 Carl’s Jr Double Loaded Omelet Biscuit – This is just the regular loaded omelet biscuit with twice as much stuff. It’s a pretty good fast-food breakfast sandwich, though this is too much food for me and I would prefer the regular biscuit. (Although I rarely order breakfast sandwiches from Carl’s, as I prefer their burritos or biscuits and gravy. But that’s just a personal preference. The regular omelet biscuit is my wife’s favorite fast food breakfast of any chain.)
22 Jack in the Box Chick-N-Tater Melt – Another offering from their late night stoner menu. This is pretty good. The chicken, tater tots, bacon, and sauce mix well. I wish they offered this all day instead of just late nights.
27 – Pizza Hut Pretzel Piggy Pizza – I haven’t had this particular pizza, but I have had the Pizza Hut pretzel crust. I prefer pretzels to regular pizza crust, so this is an improvement. But it doesn’t make a huge difference. It only matters when you get down to the ends, which at lot of people don’t eat anyway.
29 Taco Bell Quesarito – Review here. This is pretty good, and I like it better than Taco Bell’s similarly priced burritos.
30 Subway Flatizza – I reviewed this on Facebook before I had this blog:
Mediocre. You can’t really mess up a flat-bread pizza, since it’s just flatbreat, cheese, pizza sauce, and toppings. But there wasn’t anything particularly good about this. It’s probably a step below TV dinner flatbread pizza. I won’t get this again.
In addition to being a movie lover, I am also a connoisseur of fast food. So I was excited to learn about Domino’s new “Specialty Chicken.”
I first heard about it in this Buzzfeed article, written by someone who hadn’t tried it and erroneously called it “fried chicken crust.” And I realized I had to try it myself.
First off, they have nothing to do with pizza. Get that notion right out of your head. They’re chicken tenders covered in toppings, which include a bit of cheese. They’re available in four flavors: Classic Hot Buffalo, Sweet BBQ Bacon, Spicy Jalapeno-Pineapple, and Crispy Bacon & Tomato.
I tried the Sweet BBQ Bacon and Spicy Jalapeno-Pineapple. I figured that Classic Hot Buffalo would just be the same as boneless buffalo wings. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but you already know if you’ll like that. I wanted to try something novel. And I’m personally not a big fan of tomato, so I didn’t try the Crispy Bacon & Tomato flavor.
Appearance:
Here’s the picture that Domino’s food stylists are using:
Here’s an actual picture I took:
So appearance wise they don’t look that great, and they were slightly burnt on the bottom. I don’t know if that’s just something that happened with my order, or if the way they prepare these necessarily leaves burnt bits on the bottom. To clarify, it wasn’t the actual food that was burnt. It was just some burnt bits (most likely cheese) that were stuck on.
But you don’t order Domino’s for its visual aesthetics. You care about the taste.
Taste
The BBQ-Bacon version is pretty tasty. Domino’s chicken tenders (which they refer to as “Boneless Chicken”) are already decent. When you add cheese, sweet barbecue sauce, and bacon, that improves them enormously. We had ordered ranch sauce on the side, but ended up not using it because the chicken, cheese, barbecue sauce, and bacon already combined their flavors perfectly, and the ranch would only upset the balance. I would definitely order this again.
The Jalapeno-Pineapple was amazing. I would say that this is by far the best item on Domino’s menu. You can’t see it from either of the photos above, but in addition to pieces of actual pineapple and jalapeno, it’s covered in some sort of pineapple-jalapeno jelly that’s incredible.
One word of warning: When they call it the Spicy Jalapeno-Pineapple Specialty Chicken, they aren’t kidding about the spicy part. It was fine for me, but my wife found it too hot for her to keep eating. (And that was after her first words upon tasting it were “Holy crap this is good!”) So if you’re sensitive to spicy foods, you should stay away from this. Which is a shame, because you’re missing out.
In conclusion, Domino’s has hit this one out of the park, and I will eagerly order these in the future.
(Until Domino’s decides to discontinue it, because they always seem to have an unfortunate tendency to mess with everything good on their menu.)
Cinema Badger 