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by asdff 2348 days ago
Name a fast food chain besides popeyes that can pull off a better spicy chicken sandwich. Even chick fil a's isn't heavenly (my preference is for a thai take on the sandwich from a local place albeit 3x the cost), but it is head and shoulders above any other chain in that market.

There is also something powerful about the spicy chicken sandwich in particular. Every brewpub offers some nashville styled whatever cut of chicken these days. Popeyes is still selling out their sandwiches a half year after release. Howling rays is still getting people to wait for over an hour for a chicken sandwich, and crashed the postmates website when trialed delivery for one day a few months ago.

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> Name a fast food chain besides popeyes that can pull off a better spicy chicken sandwich.

shrug... every other chain that offers one? I guess this is all subjective, but I don't taste any quality difference between Chick-fil-A and other fast food chain chicken sandwiches. It seems like hype to me.

Chic fil a offers actual chicken cuts. The nuggets and tenders are actually ripped pieces of breasts, the sandwiches are actual filets that are seasoned and breaded in the store the day you ordered it.

You go to a wendys or a mcdonalds and order a dozen nuggets, you will see they come in exactly 4 shapes—ground whatever parts of chicken pressed into a mold of one of 4 randomly chosen shapes, breaded and flash frozen at a factory, and flash fried in store. Taste is subjective of course, but the quality of meat difference here is actually pretty objective.