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It's all about the Chicken Wars! @Official Rob Glasser and Caren engage in a lively discussion about the age-old rivalry between KFC and Popeyes in their latest episode of "The Taste." They provide background information on both fast-food chains, discussing their origins, franchising history, and global reach. Rob prefers KFC's tenders, while Caren enjoys the experience of eating fried chicken with bones. They taste and compare the chicken from both restaurants, with Caren favoring Popeyes for its crispy coating and larger portions. They also analyze the nutritional differences between the two, with Popeyes having higher calorie, fat, and sodium content. Overall, they conclude that Popeyes offers a better chicken experience.
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0:00:00 Introduction to the chicken wars between KFC and Popeyes
0:00:57 Background on KFC and its history
0:02:30 Background on Popeyes and its history
0:04:08 Discussion on the impact of time on popularity
0:05:08 Comparison of fried chicken and chicken tenders
0:06:45 Personal preferences for fried chicken and tenders
0:09:05 Comparison of KFC and Popeyes chicken taste and quality
0:13:01 Discussion on KFC's decline in quality
0:15:48 Comparison of prices between KFC and Popeyes
0:17:40 Nutrition comparison between KFC and Popeyes chicken
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okay who has the better chicken KFC or
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Popeyes
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let's discuss
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[Music]
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I love it Robin we're calling this
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chicken Wars I love it chicken wings
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yeah yeah I apologize my screen's a
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little laggy so if I look like I'm
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puffing
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okay cool all right guys so KFC versus
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Popeyes probably one of the oldest
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rivalries since I don't know McDonald's
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and Burger King maybe
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um I will caveat I'm going into this
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with a bias so we'll see if you know it
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happens
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um but I guess to start off let's do a
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little bit of the background for both so
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the KFC one we know by heart because
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thanks to History Channel it's always on
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TV but for those who don't know Harlan
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Sanders the face behind KFC officially
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started back in 1930. now if you guys
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didn't know this he actually didn't own
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anything because of the fact that he
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didn't have enough money to keep it up
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he actually had to sell KFC off almost
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immediately however those guys asked him
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to stay on as the face because they
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wanted the
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Sanders really did not make a dollar off
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of this which kind of sucks however we
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now have his 11 herbs and spices as they
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say and fun fact I think somebody on
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YouTube apparently made KFC chicken so
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it's no longer a secret but that's for
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another show
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um so back in 1952 is when they first
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started franchising and that's when we
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got the first taste of KFC chicken now
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at that point it was strictly the
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chicken breast and the wing of course
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now we have the tenders we have the
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nuggets and all that stuff as well there
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are more than 600 KFC locations in the
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U.S and Canada and that all began in the
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1960s so you can only imagine at this
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point there's probably even more
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and for two million dollars he sold KFC
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to today that's not a lot but I guess at
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the time being it probably was maybe
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right as an entrepreneur and as you are
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I don't know if I'd want to give up my
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thing that easily you know but hey you
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got to do what you got to do for that
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so while as KFC started way back when
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Popeyes didn't start actually until 1972
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and whereas Kentucky Fried Chicken was
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in Kentucky Popeye started in Louisiana
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and that's the difference here Kentucky
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Fried Chicken is made differently than
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Louisiana we will note probably later
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that Popeyes does different seasonings
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because in New Orleans they are big on
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you know the spice the grilled the fried
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onions yeah the Creole it's spicy it's
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got that really good
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it's good I Gotta Give Them credit they
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they definitely do chicken very well
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um so that was back in 72 all right come
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on let's here we go so the traditional
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chicken was served and it was called
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Chicken on the run before it was chained
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it to Popeyes
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um once they added red beans and rice
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jambalaya and gumbo they actually
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changed it to Popeye's chicken and
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biscuits in 1976 and then in 1993 a
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company called favorite chicken that
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also owns Church's Chicken and if you
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guys are actually local to La you know
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that's like a big deal over here
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churches right they bought they're under
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the same companies Popeyes and in 1993
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Popeyes became what it is today
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um today there's more than 3 000
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locations over 30 Nations so not just in
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America if you've watched other shows on
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YouTube you know that the UK has one I
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think Japan might have one a lot of
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countries now have a pop ice so that's
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the basis behind it we'll go into more
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as we talk obviously but I'll ask you
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off the bat obviously there was a what a
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40-year difference between Popeyes and
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KFC KFC had 40 years ahead of Popeyes
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right do you think though I mean and
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I'll give you my answer do you think
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though that it really doesn't matter the
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time if you're good at what what you're
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doing you're going to get popular anyway
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or do you think KFC had a upper hand
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well I mean they were around longer so
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they had the name recognition but it as
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you just said if the chicken tastes good
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it will it will create a following for
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it and then it doesn't really matter I
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mean again and as we're going to taste
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it we do know that it has different
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tastes and you mentioned because of the
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seasonings and stuff like that so I I
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think I stand alone all by themselves
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so there we go so all right so we're
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going to caveat here again uh we're
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gonna do different you are more of a fan
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of fried chicken I'll ask you why in a
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second I'm doing the tenders personally
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and the reason why I'm doing tender is
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just easier to eat I think I in my
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opinion I know they're not as healthy
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because there's more Fry on it but I
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think there's more actual filling for me
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for fried chicken personally the bone
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the all that stuff it's not really my
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cup of tea so why is fried over just
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pieces of chicken better for you well
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because Fried Chicken is an experience
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you know it's an experience you some
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people I pick it up even though you know
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most people when you eat chicken you use
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a knife and fork right but Fried Chicken
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you pick it up in your hands it's an
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experience and so let me get real for a
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second here I'm gonna I'm gonna get a
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little real and kind of ranch for a
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minute but I will got to say because the
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thing that differentiates or doesn't
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differentiate is the fact that the word
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tender nugget and peace is used
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repeatedly for so for instance you can
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go to KFC and get either tenders nuggets
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or popcorn chicken if you were to KFC
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get tenders and Nuggets now when we talk
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about the nutrition we're going to go
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over this but I do want to caveat that
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another place called Cane's Chicken the
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tenders at those three places somehow
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have the same nutrition value and what I
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read was that really the chicken tenders
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made one way you have the piece of
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chicken which legally I think has to be
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from the inside of the chicken breast
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it's called a tender yep and the only
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difference between the places is really
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the seasoning so we'll go into that
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later but I wanted to kind of get real
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for a minute because whereas Fried
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Chicken you kind of do it one way
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tenders literally is only one way to do
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it you can
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mix and match you know but what do you
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think I mean for me it's a big deal
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because I I eat tenders all the time and
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if you were to put down you know Popeyes
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versus maybe like a Red Robin versus
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something like that other than maybe the
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visual piece I probably couldn't tell
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you the difference of who it was because
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to me other than a little bit of spice
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tenders or tenders right and and chicken
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though and we're gonna talk about that
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because right before we went on I was
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showing you the size difference in the
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chicken breast right so when you get
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tenders they're generally a tender as a
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tender it's a particular size it comes
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from a particular part of the breast
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um it might be slightly larger or
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smaller depending on the breast size but
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what's interesting is again I talk about
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the experience I like having the bones I
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like eating the chicken off the bones I
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like pulling it I mean it's an
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experience and
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um you wanna you know for me I mean I
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will literally eat that bone clean and I
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know there are people that will eat
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chicken and leave Chicken on the bone
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and they're happy and they're satisfied
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so I think it's an experience in
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whatever experience you have
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um which one do you want to eat first
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because I actually want to show the
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difference between okay so I'm going to
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start with the KFC because it's a little
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lackluster to me on my side and I think
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it's a little a lot cluster on yours as
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well yeah yeah well the big difference
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here is you can buy okay that's a tender
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I'm gonna pull out the breast
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um the first thing that I'm noticing
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with with the breast on the bone is it's
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kind of um wet and mushy on the bottom
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yeah and I don't know if it's just
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sitting in the grease that's in there
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but you their skin now do tenders have
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skin
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that's a really good question
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um I don't think they I think that's
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what they have to have to fry it but
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maybe they just fry the chicken I don't
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know I don't just put the breading on so
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there's no I don't think their skin on
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on tenders literally cutting the chicken
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out of the breast but
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in a chicken breast their skin which I
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know is the least healthy part of the
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entire thing right it's the best
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now honestly obviously it's been sitting
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for a minute so it's a little bit cold
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right but
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because when we went to go grab it and
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oh I will also say too I'm a little
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concerned is that why it's open at 10
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A.M who's buying a chicken like nine
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o'clock in the morning that's a little
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weird well apparently you now have
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chicken sandwiches for breakfast
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that is true yeah so I will say
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the KFC
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if I remember it right it tasted much
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more greasy and artificial this one here
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actually tastes more chicken than it
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used to so maybe they changed their I
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don't know
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I've got this so I just pulled the skin
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off it really the skin is great I mean
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if you like if you like fried food KFC
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does a good job I mean the seasonings
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are great
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um the chicken is kind of I'm gonna eat
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chicken I'm just gonna take a bite
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actually
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but it's chicken it's it's chicken
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it does come so we got it for me we got
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a chicken uh breast and a wing
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and again I want to show you the size of
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this this is what they're calling a wing
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it's a chicken leg
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I just want to point this out
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then Rob I'm laughing because you said
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that to me you know sometimes they just
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throw the wrong pieces in and you know
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when we ordered we did say it however
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they didn't actually like confirm they
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just said okay two pieces of chicken
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cool here's your this is the total go to
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your next window so even if you do ask I
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don't think they necessarily like
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does yours come with um mashed potatoes
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that was actually funny because we on
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the site when you look it says no matter
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what you have to get a thing but when we
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went there they said do you want the
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tenders by themselves or with a combo
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and I'm like oh okay by themselves
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because obviously we don't have so much
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food so even though the menu says it has
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to be a combo if you go to get it you
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can just say I want two or three pieces
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of chicken and that's it however for
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some reason on your KFC they didn't give
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us that option for the fried chicken for
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the tenders interesting all right like
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when I got the KFC chicken tenders they
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said oh you want those just the tenders
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and we're like Okay cool so the question
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I have is are the tenders greasy
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not as bad as I thought and I'm looking
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at the paper and I was expecting it to
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be kind of wet and stuff
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I don't think and I I see and again this
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this is just probably the dude I know
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how when they kind of mass cook it and
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they kind of have it in a thing it might
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have already been maybe made a few
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minutes prior so maybe it'll be dried
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out a little bit because I did eat it
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and I did feel a little bit dry chicken
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so that could be yeah I'm curious what
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our viewers are thinking um do you have
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a do you eat KFC guys do you eat Popeyes
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let us know in the chat I think we're
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gonna move over to the uh
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Popeyes now remember I said the size of
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that breast what you saw it look at the
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size of this breast
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and and I will tell you because I've
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watched many of a thing on on people
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eating Popeyes and they are generous
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like they are look at this it's like
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it's like night and day they are
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generous with their food I will tell you
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that so I'm gonna I'm gonna take a bite
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again because I started with the skin on
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the other one so and this is really
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really crispy so that's the big
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difference right off the bat Popeye has
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really really crispy
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[Music]
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coating it's crunchy I mean I can
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literally hear it crunch
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and after sitting for a minute it still
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has a crunch
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the chicken looks the same
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let's take a bite
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can you taste the difference on yours
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I think because it's tender not so much
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but
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as far as the crispy and the cook on the
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Popeyes
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it tastes a little more out of the oven
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immediate yeah
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I've had yeah so much better Popeyes is
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so much better the the chicken isn't
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greasy it tastes and I wonder I don't
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know if you've heard this or not but a
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lot of people are oh it looks like
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Krista
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so that's actually a thing people are
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saying a lot of people feel that KFC has
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kind of dropped the ball because they've
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been around so long and they kind of go
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you know a certain Kentucky chain is
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kind of losing its grip because they're
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they're sliding so much right so I feel
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like
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KFC is fine KFC works
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but as far as quality and standards
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other chicken places like Popeyes like
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canes like all that stuff right I think
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they are becoming the better
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this is an actual Wing there you go see
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it compared to
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KFC wing which is also known as
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a leg
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oh my God it is so ever
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it's still greasy everything is greasy
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oh my God
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oh
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okay
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so I'm you you started the show by
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saying rob you already had a
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preconceived what you thought was I'm
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curious so what was it curious
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uh Popeyes
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um
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as Krista mentioned we just went back
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recently I think last time I had Popeyes
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before this before we went probably a
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while ago because there wasn't really a
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Popeyes nearby right but
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going back in I think we got the Nuggets
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because they have really good nuggets
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that you can get again just pieces of
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tender nothing different
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and quality wise it is good now the KFC
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I will excel you I thought it was going
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to be much worse than it was it's not
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bad but KFC is more it's kind of like
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frozen Market tenders like when you go
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and you get like Tyson and again there's
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nothing to get and actually I was going
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to bring that up too because you do have
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companies like Tyson that make chicken
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tenders none of that is bad but if
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you're looking for chicken
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you only in my opinion you can only get
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it at so many places that actually give
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chicken and if you're gonna put your
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name on it from like a state right you
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kind of have to back it up and for some
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reason when I eat Kentucky Fried Chicken
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I don't feel like Kentucky would be
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happy with Kentucky Fried Chicken
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you know and again maybe Popeyes
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wouldn't be either but at least Popeyes
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to me seems like they give more of a
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damn to their chicken I'm curious at any
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of these because the new thing now is
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that we a lot of US Air fry our Fried
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Chicken right we don't put it into all
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that oil and the grease and whatever I
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don't feel like we get as much grease on
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the Pint on the Pioneer I'm sorry on the
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uh Popeye's Chicken it doesn't seem as
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greasy I mean in fact I stuck it on a
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napkin and there was nothing came off on
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the napkin on the other hand I put um
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the Kentucky Fried Chicken on a napkin
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and it's like soaked through so if I
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would have to vote I would totally be
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voting well I do have to vote because
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it's the taste I am voting my my
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preference is for Popeyes
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um I also like the fact that they didn't
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make you have to buy mashed potatoes and
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a muffin or a biscuit along with it you
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were able just to get chicken for for
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those of us who just want to eat chicken
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curious if you guys picked up the
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chicken was there a huge difference in
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price
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um yeah I believe the KFC was somewhere
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around 20. the Popeyes was somewhere
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around I think 25 26. interesting
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I mean we did get a little extra because
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she got some as well so maybe if you
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minus wine it would maybe be so maybe
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three maybe I think Popeyes is a little
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bit more uh expensive but I think it's
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higher quality you know it's worth it
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it's totally worth it you get bigger
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pieces of chicken it's gonna feed
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I mean I'm not a huge eater so I could
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probably share that I know I know guys I
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could probably share that though
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um because it's huge the the Kentucky
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Fried Chicken one probably not and it's
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in because it's made a huge difference
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on the size and besides it's slipping
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right off my hands I'm trying to figure
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out what to wipe them on right now
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kind of gross
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yeah kind of gross so Rob I know we have
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some really cool things
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to share
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right so we're going to go over the
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nutrition I believe next yep so let's
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put this up
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and I'm gonna put us like this and get
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rid of that screen because I can do that
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right
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um right
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all right
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so you see Popeye's at the top left KFC
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at the top right and we have the first
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of fried chicken two pieces which were
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the ones that I ate both a breast and a
17:07
wing however we know that the KFC was
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the breast and a leg but I find this
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fascinating okay so the calories
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for the Popeyes which is so much bigger
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anyways right we know it's bigger is
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1100 almost 1200 calories think about
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that for a second that's a lot of
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calories for two pieces of chicken fat
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70 grams sodium
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2260 milligrams of sodium that's a lot
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now compare that with the fried chicken
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from KFC
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300 calories less but it's smaller and
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the fat is 47 grams and the sodium so
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everything is smaller but I have to say
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even being small it's not that much
17:49
smaller so uh Popeyes is has quite a bit
17:53
more calories and fat and sodium in it
17:56
now your chicken tenders rub I mean you
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can see the difference it's all the same
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both sides 224 calories you know how we
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could eat like and how many tenders came
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in there two pieces uh so this one came
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with three but I think it's two or three
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tenders depending on where you where you
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pick it up all right so 224 calories
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that's almost nothing and so if you are
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as you said you get more filled up on
18:16
these things and you can eat more if you
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wanted to Max it out only 12 grams of
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fat
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which is pretty crazy considering I
18:25
think boneless wings are more calorific
18:29
and they're smaller than tenders so I'm
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not really sure how that I'm not really
18:34
sure either you know
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and the calories I mean obviously just
18:38
half of it it's it's or a quarter of it
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actually no I'm sorry my math is bad a
18:43
third of it the third of the calories
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I'm not good in math
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um uh but you know these are some
18:49
interesting choices so you're either
18:51
going to go for taste
18:52
maybe maybe if you really like the
18:54
Popeyes and have one piece rather than
18:56
two right right
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uh which would help with with the
19:00
calories but if you're going to spend
19:01
the calories you might as well get
19:02
something that you really like that's my
19:04
feeling if you're gonna eat fast food
19:06
eat something at least tastes good and
19:08
doesn't leave you going
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that's a technical term rub look in the
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cooking world right yeah in the cooking
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world
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all right so we want to share a couple
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of it we gotta let's see here um still
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weird yes I'm gonna put you up it's the
19:25
same across isn't that it is weird I
19:27
don't even know how that works but it it
19:29
did it totally works all right so let's
19:31
take a look at some of our taste swag
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um we have the unisex tri-blend t-shirt
19:38
Rob I think you have one coming in the
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mail
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so we're going to be able to show
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everyone what this looks like
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um it's great the the quality of the
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t-shirt is great it has a great feel to
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it check it out also for those of you
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who cook a lot or maybe don't even cook
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a lot maybe you do arts and crafts and
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you make a mess all the time you might
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want to get yourself an adjustable apron
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which has the taste on the front of it
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which I really like and of course the
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water bottle because we all can't we can
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never have too many water bottles I
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think and this is coming for me I will
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have my coffee mug each the next time
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that we see you
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um because I'll be drinking coffee in
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the taste contrast coffee mug check out
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these items
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what else we have anything else Rob
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um
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um no I think I'm gonna take a nap
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because there's a lot of chicken
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I think I'm gonna go rinse my mouth out
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yes
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maybe maybe uh yeah well we we want to
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thank we if if you had a chance to go
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ahead and scan those QR codes you put
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the links in the in the chat as well to
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go pick up some of those items we thank
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you for joining us on this tasty Journey
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that we're on
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um I have no idea what we're doing next
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but I'm sure it's going to be fun it'll
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be surprised for all of us I guess it
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will be nice yay all right guys go ahead
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and give somebody an awesome day see you
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next time on the taste
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