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I'm going to try the spiciest fast food menu
item in all of the USA. But why do this to
myself? Because spicy food has become America's
biggest obsession. Every fast food restaurant is
loading up their menu with some sort of Diablo
this or Fiery that. So, we're going to try every
single famous fast food spot in America their
spiciest item to find out which is the best
tasting and which is the spiciest. Starting with
McDonald's. Welcome to Macd. What's your spiciest
item on the menu? are hot and spicy. This is
called the hot and spicy and it has a flame
on the actual packaging. They're marketing
this to be really spicy. Cheers. Honestly,
it's pretty spicy for McDonald's. Like the spice
is there. It lingers a little which I like. It's
nice. It's like cayenne and pepper. Also, is
that dark meat? I mean, it's nugget meat. First,
we're going to rate this how spicy it is out
of 10, and then we'll give our overall score,
which we'll reveal on the whiteboard. So,
spiciness. I feel like I have a pretty
good spice tolerance. And I'll say I'm going to
try and rate this in a way that very broad, not
just my own taste. But I would give this like on a
spiciness scale like a five for fast food. And I'm
giving this a window for fast food on spicy 1 to
10. This is a four for me. But the question is how
good is it? So let's rate. We're rating this off
of all the general things. Texture, flavor, salt
levels. I'm surprised I wrote this rating. I'm
going to be dead honest with you. 3 2 1. A 5.7.
What am I insane? I thought this was crazy good.
It's above average good, but it's not on its way
to a 10 good. Listen, I'm standing by my number.
My sandwich was freshly cooked. It was crisp on
the outside. The inside was juicy. It was seasoned
really well with salt. And I tasted chicken and it
had a good spice. I mean, I would eat that again.
McDonald's has kind of been popping off lately.
I think they're afraid of losing their spot and
they they've been kicking it up a notch. I used
to always hate their food and every time I go
back, I'm like, is this getting better? This is
a big scoring disparity, but we're moving on. Next
up, the place with my favorite logo of all time,
Chicken Express. What's the spiciest item on
your menu? We have a spicy tender. We'll do um
the spicy tenders. And then do you guys still have
that serendipity hot seasoning? The hot seasoning.
Okay. Cheers. Flavor-wise, not bad. No, it's very
flavorful. Salt's good. Crunch is good. The crunch
is nice. I thought adding the seasoning was going
to make it too salty, but it's not that salty.
It's supposedly just adds a little bit of spice.
A little cayenne. There's almost like a Sichuan
pepperc corn numbing quality. To me, this is like
a three and a half. Three. Four. Almost to a four.
Check out, dude. I would put this almost at a six.
What? 5.5. My bite's kicking. It's in the back of
my throat a little. Spice score down. Now it's
time to rate the overall. All in all, I'm going
to give it a five. It's seasoned nicely, but the
texture is bad. Christian. Christian. I give it a
six. It had a good amount of spice, but it was
addicting and flavorful and crunchy. It wasn't
dry. Mine wasn't. I enjoyed it, but I wish it was
spicier. That's fair. I'll raise mine to a 5.5. I
would go back for another bite. The crisp is good.
Like you get a crunch when you bite it, but then
it goes. A very middle of the ground chicken. Not
our spiciest, not our best. We can find better.
Moving on to Zach's where we pulled up knowing the
spiciest option available. The fabled tenders with
nuclear sauce. Let's taste. Thank you. Appreciate
it, man. I'm kind of scared to see what's in here
because it says F nuclear on the receipt. Why
am I scared? I'm pretty nervous. Oh, dude. The
smell on that. It's hidden. Oh, cheers. That's
not spicy at all. It's not spicy for nuclear.
It smells spicy. It's very acidic. It tastes like
bad barbecue sauce. Spice level, I think, is like
a two. I was going to say two and a half, three.
I can't believe they have that as their hottest
item. We can make it as spicy as you want. What
a load of horseshit. Terrible tender, too. Chewy,
dry, and the texture is that might go into my top
three worst bites of fried chicken I've ever had
in my entire life. I think that's a one. Oh, I was
going to go two and a half. I'll mash here. It's
two and a half. Sure. It didn't taste like gross.
Out of all the pieces of chicken that you can eat,
all the different ways you can eat them, I just
wouldn't never ever have this again. Nothing about
it is appealing at all. Moving on. By default,
Zach makes it into the top three because there's
only three so far. Something tells me they won't
be here for very long. On to the next. What's the
spiciest item on your menu? I got like a spicy
sandwich. KFC giving us the hookup. This is the
spiciest sandwich that they offer. Topped with
hot honey Sriracha. Let's see if this leaves a
mark. It's pretty good. There's some There's some
kick. That's like a balanced heat for me. That's a
five on a heat. I'd give it more of a four cuz the
sweetness is kind of dying it down. This is sauced
really nicely though. This is one of the sauciest
sandwiches I've had in a long time, which is kind
of how it should be. Although, the chicken's a
little chewy, though. I'm getting like stringy,
chewy chicken from this, and that is bothering me.
But the salt level is good. The crunch is like 70%
of what I want. Seasoning is nice. KFC kind of
coming up. This could be a big one. I'm going to
stand heavy on this one. Three, two, one. A seven
and a seven. Wow. Above average, above mid. Not in
the territory of excellence, but in the territory
of good. The only thing that was carrying this
sandwich was the honey and the sauce, but the
chicken itself wasn't really all that much better
than anything else. Moving on. And a new leader
at the top. Now for our live check-in on our spicy
leaderboard. Here's our top three now. We'll check
back in later as the competition heats up. Next,
A&W, an unlikely competitor, which begs the
question, can A&W's A2 double spicy pop make an
impact? Yours looks a lot better than mine. Mine
looks pretty. Hey, yours does look pretty crappy
if I say. Let's just go for it, man. It's got
jalapenos and a spicy sauce. Even with a jalapeno,
that's not spicy. Spice level is like a one and
a half for me. Yeah, I'll give it a one on spicy.
On flavor, somehow I taste absolutely nothing at
all. It's a bland burger. This is the most bland
burger I've ever eaten. I'm not even going to pull
my board out. I'll give it a 2.5. I was going to
say to lower. I was say two. Two. For me, it's
disappointing out of two. You I don't want to talk
about this anymore. Moving on. The coveted Five
Guys burgers and fries. Something about Five Guys
feels like you walk in expecting an elevated fast
food experience and what you get is somehow the
same if not below average fast food experience for
an insane price. These fries for a medium fry was
almost $9. There are fast food joints running like
$9, $8 specials for both a burger and fries and a
drink. And a drink. It's okay to price something
premium if the product is truly good enough to
sell for that price. So anyway, let's snack. These
smell very cayenne. It's crazy how they look so
seasoned and yet taste like nothing when you pull
it out. These are hot as and they are. They're
hot. You think they'd be crispy. They never
are. It's just an oily roasted potato. There's
no heat. Spice board one. Yeah, I would say one.
There's There's There's heat and flavor, but not
like spicy. I feel like they used to be really
hot and then they white people it up. Honestly,
I don't even need the white board. That French
fries are two. I'm going to give this a three.
It's a terrible French fry. It's got to be one
of the worst French fries. Moving on. All right,
we're at Burger King. What's the spiciest item
on your menu? Basically, any of our fiery items.
Yeah, we'll do two fiery chicken sandwiches. Yeah,
we Yes. All right. Anything on for you today? Uh,
that's it. Melc, why are you tripping this woman
up, dude? What are you doing? That was so hard to
deal with. Burger King using the American Express.
That's not me. I don't know what you're talking
about. Bing bing bing bing bing bing. Fiery.
So fiery. Oh, thanks. This is my new technique.
Yeah. Hell yeah. That's great. Let's see how fiery
it is. Wo. It's really sweet. On a spicy note,
I think this is spicier than McDonald's. And
there's tomatoes to cool it down. For a spice,
I want to say this is a even five. It's higher
than McDonald's. Yeah, I I'm getting the spice.
It's inconsistently spicy. Some parts are spicy,
some are not. But the ones that are spicy,
I would agree are a five. First of all, this
is dry. Look at how dry that is. I want to be
really clear. This is actually not a patty.
That is breast meat. When I opened it up,
it's like the fry on this chicken might be
one of the worst fries I've ever seen on a
fast food piece of fried chicken. I mean,
the batter has fused with the chicken and
also simultaneously become uncrispy. The bun at
first sight, I was like, "Wow, that's not a bad
looking bun." And then I realized that they
didn't toast it whatsoever. One, two, three,
and a double 3.8. Wa! Holy. And you said 1 2 3
and we flipped threes. I think we need to make out
And after seven spots, here are our leaders on
the best item. Burger King tops the spicy board,
but surely that cannot hold for long with what
might be our spiciest item by far. Coming up,
we're at Dave's Hot Chicken. Could this be the
spiciest one on the list? You're a Hot Ones
uh alum, so you should be
able to handle this. Yeah,
once a month. Have you had it? This? No. I'm
kind of scared. They made a sign a waiver.
It looks harmless. It really does. It
doesn't look that bad. Okay. Cheers.
It's spicy. Need salt. Oh
yeah. Oh my god.
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Oh my god, dude. What the spicy score? I've
had some pretty spicy stuff. If my chicken
sandwich was a 10, I feel like this is like a
I'll give it a nine. It's a nine. Dave's Hot
Chicken Reaper. That's a nine and a half. It's
by far the worst tasting chicken we've had all
day. It's the same problem that Dave's Hot Chicken
always has, which is it lacks in crispiness. What
should be a nice crispy crackle is instead of
hard bark. Not in a good way. Not like brisket
barbecue bark. Their breading is always tough
and chewy. Completely flavorless. No salt at
all. Didn't taste like chicken. All I tasted was
spicy hot Carolina Reaper. And it's burning my
mouth. Did they succeed in making it spicy? Yes.
Did they succeed in making a good tasty piece of
chicken? No. Horrible. From what I remember, it
wasn't crispy. It wasn't juicy. It was chewy. I
tried to focus on that before the heat. Then the
heat just took over completely. I don't think
I'll ever eat that again. 3 2 1. Now you might be
thinking, "Oh, but you guys rated it poorly cuz
it's so spicy." Honestly, no. If I remove spice
completely from the equation, my score remains the
same. It is by far the worst piece of chicken
that we've ever had. It is not good. It every
time we've come here, I've been disappointed. If
you're Dave's Hot Chicken, I understand that it's
not supposed to be the best fried chicken in the
world, but it should be good. More importantly,
should at least be able to be Burger King. But you
know what's a whole lot better than this chicken?
Mine. The one that I made on my second channel.
Yes, we now have a second channel. What for?
For recipes only. You missed the recipes, go over
there, give it a subscribe, check out that recipe.
The links in the description. Moving on. and
Daves by a large lead. Hops the spicy leaderboard,
but bottoms the overall leaderboard. Yeah, it was
spicy, but it also sucked. Will we find a spicier
item? And will it be more balanced? Only one way
to find out. We're here at Arby's. Can we do two
quarter pound smoked brisket sandwiches with the
spicy? How far do we run out of these spicy one?
Maybe. Let's just like go to a different Arby's.
Hi. Do you guys have the spicy sauce? I apologize.
We've now gone through two separate Arby's. And by
the way, there are not very many Arby's in Austin,
Texas. We've gone to two, which might be all of
them. There may be one more. I don't know. Arby's,
you're cut, dude. You're cut. Oh god, Wendy's.
Hi. What's the spiciest item on your menu? A spicy
sandwich. What's the spiciest item you have on
your menu? Okay. When is spicy? Anything else? Uh,
do you guys have the Cajun crunch
chicken sandwich? The new the Cajun
crunch spicy chicken sandwich. Is Spice get home
chicken? Yeah. Get this sandwich. Two of them,
please. I don't think we're going to get at all
what you ordered. She did say Cajun one time,
though. Oh, look. Spicy Cajun. Let's go.
Let's go, dude. Chicken. Oh my god. Vic. Holy.
They're definitely not on there anymore. The
drive-thru people are watching us right now. Like,
they're they're all piled up at the window
watching us. Watching you slap the ads first was
probably what it was. Like, who's getting shot out
here? It did show a couple times. Handshot. Yeah,
we are at Wendy's. Our chicken looks different.
Mine is red and yours is not red. I wonder if they
gave you the wrong chicken. Let's find out if it's
spicy or not. Cheers. Oh yeah, mine's spicy. It's
got like a peppery bite to it. It's got some
sting, but it's also a little bit of warming
aftertaste and then it subsides pretty quickly.
I'll give it a five on the spiciness. It's middle
of the ground, but it's hotter than I expected.
The only thing spicy I taste is the onions,
that Cajun crunch. This is honestly a a four flat
on spice for me. Flavor-wise, this is like the
most flavorless chicken I've had in a while.
Honestly, the salt level is good because it's
seasoned nicely, but that's all I taste is just
salt. Everything else is absolutely trash. I don't
trace the mayo. I don't taste anything. Let's give
it a rating. One, two. A 4 and 1/2 and a 2.9. Wo,
you're really low. One inconsistency dropped
it. I didn't get a spicy burger. The only thing
I enjoyed was the crispy onions. Everything else
was flat. If this is the bottom and this is mid,
this chicken sandwich is like right here.
Moving on. Wendy's a mid sandwich and a mid
spot on the leaderboard. On to the next. Welcome
to Chick-fil-A, guys. Do two spicy sandwiches,
please. Thank you. Have a good day. You, too.
My pleasure. Cheers. That's pretty spicy. This
is way spicier than I remember. I'm really happy
with that. That is seasoned really well. I will
say I think Chick-fil-A is showing off one
thing, which is balancing spicy. And by that,
I mean most people want to enjoy their meal and
have a level of heat that's just enough to excite,
but not so much that it stops you from taking
the next bite. That is balancing spice. And
it's really hard to do that because everybody has
different quantities they can handle. Chick-fil-A,
they balance their spice really well. I got
to say on a spice level, this is like a 5.8.
It's almost a six for me. On the point with
balance, I don't think this is going to be like,
oh, I would say honestly, it's like a 5.8.
This is one of the spicier items we've had,
but it's perfect. My biggest complaint, as usual,
it is lacking crunch. The edges have crunch,
but the interior just lacks breading. And the
problem with that is really hot fry oil gets to
the muscle and it fries up the muscle and then
you get this like stringy chewy band around the
chicken. That's why it's important you have the
protective outer layer of the breading. And also
I want to be crunchy. Let's give it an overall
rating. Overall rating in 3 2 1 a 7.9 and an
eight. Woah. Real close. I didn't want to cross
into the eight threshold. I was like it's even. I
wanted to finish the whole thing. It's delicious.
The keyword was balanced. Most Chick-fil-A I want
sauce. I don't think that needed sauce. That's
a good point. The balance of the spice really
made this sandwich special. I will say it put it a
higher rating for me, too. I would have gone into
the eights for this sandwich had it been breaded
better. That's literally all it needed. You saw
mine. Mine was crunchy. I had better breading and
I'm basing it off my sandwich. If you had mine,
honestly, I think you'd put it in the eights.
Inconsistent sandwiches give inconsistent
scores. Moving on. And just to check it in on
our spicy leaderboard, Chick-fil-A enters as a
not so close second place onto Poo Comparero.
Every time we've gone here, we've been both
surprised and also let down. I have a good feeling
about this one. What's the spiciest item on your
menu? I have the spicy sandwich. Okay, cool.
Can I get two of those? Anything else, guys?
Poo compar. We're back. Here we go. Cheers. This
is not spicy at all. The sauce is got a little
heat, but the bread and butter pickles kind of
kill the spice immediately. So, you don't really
even get to experience it even if you do get
the sauce. I'll give it a one. Pat me at one
and a half for spice. Honestly, it's a very sweet
chicken sandwich. I don't know why it's so godly.
sauce and the seasoning and also the bread and
butter. Everything's sweet about it. Just sweet
on sweet on and the bun's sweet, too. The chicken
is underseasoned by about 25%. I would say it
needs salt. I don't taste any flavor on it much. I
know exactly where this sandwich is. Do you? Yeah.
3 2 1 A five and a 4.3. Yeah. Not Not too far. I
like the bread and butter pickle edition. It adds
a little bit of sweetness. The chicken itself
was good enough that it brought it up to mid.
I like a good sweet chicken. Like I love a good
orange chicken, but this wasn't the sweetness I
was going for. It was a little overly sweet for
me, so it cut it down below mid for me. Honestly,
mid sandwich, mid chicken. This place has been
mid over and over and over. Moving on. I don't
want to eat any more chicken sandwiches. Culver,
please do something else spicy, please. Culver's.
Hi there. What's the spiciest item on your menu?
The spicy crispy. Um, it comes with lettuce,
tomato, pickles, mayo. Yeah, I'll do it. I'll do
Culver's fried chicken. This looks very overfried,
but I could be wrong. They gave me one pickle.
Here we go. It's pretty spicy. It's really heavy
on the pepper. It's almost like a country
chicken fried steak. I give it a spice of
5'8. Mine's pretty spicy. I was going to say
right below a five. Like 49. 49. That said, it
didn't really help the flavors. This is a pretty
flavorless fried chicken sandwich. It's like,
yeah, it was peppery, spicy. I like the texture
kind of. I just didn't like the tomatoes and
the whack lettuce and the one or two pickles and
the bread was whack. Overall, I think I know it's
rating. 3 2 1 4 to 3.9. An edible sandwich. And
that is all I'll say about it. Moving on. Culver's
cracks the top three on spice, but it's barely a
competition. Will we find something spicier than
Dave's? because I really I really hope not. That
that was horrible. Next on to Texas's favorite
and quite literally my least favorite fast food
restaurant, Waterburger. What's the spiciest item
on your menu? Probably the pico deayo. What? I
like the pico de gallo burger. Yes. In a sea of
spicy chicken sandwiches. A spicy burger emerges.
I'm so sick of eating chicken. But unfortunately,
it came from Waterburger. Hands down the most
overhyped fast food restaurant in human existence.
But maybe this is good. Maybe this will turn the
tide because of the creaminess. I don't think
there's any spice in there. That's a one on the
spice level. There's no spice at all. Literally
zero spice. I like the sauce. It's like a creamy
sort of jalapeno sauce. It's got like a peppery,
creamy, mayoy taste. Salt levels were lacking.
50% of where it should be. The beefy flavor was
somewhat evident. I didn't taste the cheese.
It's all just turns into one texture that not
that exciting. All I smelled was Texas toast kind
of vibe. Just butter and bread, which is cool,
but there's no spice, no pepperiness, no vinegar.
I think the sauce was the standout for me. And
not even the pico de gallo for the pico for the
names sake. The sauce. Ready? 1 2 3. A 3.8 and a
4.6. Oh, you went kind of high. I think I was
enamored by that it wasn't a chicken sandwich,
but it's still below mid. Still below mid.
Moving on. Coming up, we can have a new top spicy
contender with the Diablo. El Diablo. Perfect.
Can I get two of those burgers, please? Thank you,
too. Take it easy. Two Diablo. Diablos. This could
actually be spicy because you got jalapeno poppers
on the top and jalapeno on the bottom. Jalapeno
business. Cheers. Spice levels. It's hot. I mean,
it's not killing me, but I mean, it's spicy. I
think the jalapeno, like the pickle jalapeno,
juiced up in my throat, and that's what's kind
of burning right now. I was going to say four,
four, five. There are moments where it's a
four and then it swings into a four five. So,
I think we call it a four five. 4.5 on spicy. It's
up there. I wouldn't have expected Carl's Jr. to
actually step out like this. My thought is a lot
of these fast food places won't really make their
stuff spicy because they want everyone to come
and buy it. They don't want to turn people away.
They also definitely don't want people complaining
like, "This is too spicy." That said, can we talk
about how dry this patty is? It's so dry, it's
almost white. I think if you took the patty out,
this burger would be quite literally virtually
identical and probably better. It tastes good
because I'm tasting jalapeno, bacon, and bread.
So, this might as well be jalapeno bacon sandwich,
which would be good. A solid grilled cheese. Yeah,
actually, this would be a great grilled cheese.
Take the patty out and throw it away, which is not
a good sign for a burger. Shall we rate it? 1 2 3
4 and 5.2. That was a slightly a hair above
mid just because overall the patty was dry,
but everything else kind of gave it a little
bit of life. I enjoyed the spice. I enjoyed
the flavors. Texture was a little weird, but
it was slightly enjoyable. I'm very much of a
principal guy. What I ate wasn't bad, but it
just it wasn't the burger that made it good.
I ordered a burger and the worst part of it was
the burger. Moving on. Carl Jr. takes our number
five spot for best overall, but it doesn't make
a mark on the spicy leaderboard. Let's see if
our next spot will. We're back at Churches, the
place that did shockingly well on our chicken
video. But the question is, are they consistent
enough to do shockingly well again? And also,
how spicy is their spiciest chicken? It doesn't
look spicy at all, but I mean, just cuz it doesn't
look spicy doesn't mean it isn't. I don't judge
books anymore. I don't read. Cheers. It's got a
little bit of heat to it, but it's more of like a
black pepper spicy, not a cayenne or like a sharp
spice. It's like a slow creeping warmth. It's
like a 2.5 on the spicy for me. It's a three
for me. You know what's funny about this chicken?
It's seasoned really nicely, but I don't get much
other than like chicken salt and MSG, which is not
necessarily bad, but I'm not getting a bunch of
like spices that would really leverage the flavor
here. But it tastes pretty good. That said, it was
crispy, but it's not the crispy I'm looking for.
It was more of like a really oily sort of tempura-
like crisp. I got a really satisfying crunch.
Check that corner. That's shattering crispy,
which I I enjoy. 3 2 1 A 6.8 and an 8.3. You went
You went a little high. I had a really good piece.
My chicken was juicy. The meat was seasoned.
I think it was above acceptable. It was great,
but not amazing. It's good. It's not great.
It's not going to win our competition. Moving
on. There's a vibe at this Freddy's. I feel it.
What's the spiciest item on your menu? Well,
I don't really have any spicy items. We're really
I appreciate it. Freddy's, for some reason,
every time I roll up to it, I'm like, this doesn't
need to exist. I'm not cutting it for that reason.
And I'm cutting it because he quite literally
said they do not have any spicy items. We have
been traveling all day going to fast food places
back to back. I'm not doing this one. Freddy's
are off the list. You failed us today. So, we are
back at Shake Shack. I'm a fan of this place. And
apparently their only spicy item is spicy fries.
And I will say though, these fries look spicy.
They're caked. Ooh, cayenne. Cheers. Cheers. It's
got some heat, but it's not like killing me. I do
feel a little tingle, a twitch on the tongue. It's
mostly warm spice though and it's not killing me.
After not eating one for a while and talking, it
stays. I hate saying this now cuz I say it a lot,
but it's like a hot Cheeto spice now. It lingers
and I want more, but not as bad. It is one of the
spicier ones we have. The more I've sat with it,
I'm getting that salivating response. I'll give
it a 5.8. I was going to give it an even six on
the spice. I'll bump up to a six. We're heating
up over here, guys, with the French fries. We
forgot the words again. I'm going to give it
a five. The fries were incredibly mid. They were
not crispy. They were not salted that well. Sorry.
Mid spice is a six. I wish I had more crunch, more
seasoning. That's a 4.9. I feel like fries you
really have to nail at a fast food joint because
it's like the one thing people are relying on that
you kill. This was a bit of a disappointment. And
I love the Shake Shack, guys. I really do. I do
love them. But this one wasn't hitting. Moving
on. Despite not being that great in slotting
into our number six spot on the best overall item,
Shake Shack makes the top three on spiciest items.
But what we're searching for is a good balance of
both, and I have a feeling we're going to find it
soon. Moving on. Next up, Taco Bell, where their
only spicy item listed is a spicy potato taco.
And to make things fair, we max it out with some
Diablo sauce. Let's taste. Honestly, I'm going to
be real with you guys. Let's move this along and
get to something interesting. These sucked. A 3.5
and a.5 on spicy and a two and a half and two
on overall score. Not even worth talking about,
but hey, we tried it. So, let's make some room for
the big dogs. Jolly Jolly. It's actually been a
minute since I've had the spicy chicken joy, so I
don't remember how spicy it is, but I do know it's
going to being delicious. And I'm going in with
no bias. I'm just going in with an expectation,
which means that they could underdel. Look, look,
they got flames on the spicy chicken joint. Really
making a point on making this spicy. If there's
no flame, I'm not game. Always a good day when
Jollibee's involved. Wow. Okay. Well, that's a
good sign. Cheers. I mean, that's crazy. Listen.
Wow. It's honestly a little spicier than I
remember. The chicken itself isn't as spicy
as I remember, but the skin is spicier. My mom
would not be able to tolerate this. I'm going
to put this at a 5.5 on the spicy scale. I agree.
I was going to say even five, but it's starting
to linger more than like the McDonald's one did.
So, 5.5. That said, the flavor, I mean, the umami,
the salt level is perfect. It's cooked perfectly.
It's juicy, but it's not just juicy. It's also
cooked long enough that the meat like falls
off the bone and it's super tender. Let's rate
Yeah, I know what he's doing. He's giving it a
nine something. I'm willing to bet. 3 2 1. You
lied. It was It was soing good. I mean, it's a
nine, dude. How does Jollibee keep doing this?
It's just every time I go, it's so perfect. If
you haven't gone, go. For sake, go. I'm not even
trying to be biased. I'm not even trying to be
biased. It's like I want to go in and I want to
scrutinize and I put it in my mouth and I'm just
like, "Oh." So, Jollibee looks like they could win
this, but there could be someone to dethrone the
one and only Jollibee. And there's only one way to
find out. Moving on. Onto our second to last item.
Jack in the box. Could we have an underdog on our
hands? What's the spiciest item on your menu? Said
a sour patch. What? I'm sorry. Do you mind just
pulling the second window? I can't even hear you.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. No worries. I said
worse. I'm so cool. What's the spiciest item on
your menu? We got a spicy chicken sandwich. It's
pretty spicy. Like it's almost southern spice.
Like the Louisiana cayenne, dry cayenne. That's a
four on spice for me. It's like a stinging heat at
maybe a four. It's not dry, which I'm happy about.
The crunch is real nice on mine. Salt level's
good. Flavor is okay. It's like kind of chickeny,
but what I don't like is that bitter oil,
man. Every time I go to Jack in the Box,
it's just always nasty. I know they're cooking
back there with oil. It's been recycled like 45
times, and it's really ruining it for me. I got
mine right out of the gate, dude. I know exactly
what this is. 3 2 1 A 6 and 5.2. Close again,
dude. We're really lining up here. It's the bare
minimum above mid because it's an average chicken
sandwich with a little bit of spice. Moving on.
Just another drop in the bucket on this journey.
Now on to our final contender. Popeye's. What's
the spiciest item on your menu? Their signature
Halloween that has the ghost pepper challenge as
well. The signature hotter than ghost pepper. Yes.
This is a serious contender. We're at Popeye's.
They have surprised me in two ways. There have
been times where they've been horrible and there
have been times where I've been blown away by how
beautifully breaded and crispy their fried chicken
is. They do have a leg up here. Is Jollibee
really going to take the crown? That's my question
cuz these wings and the chicken sandwich look
phenomenal. We're going to taste both. Whichever
one is the best is what will be entered in the
competition. But I will let you know the spicy
scale on both. Of course, this looks delicious.
I'm going to give it get some sauce on there.
Dude, this looks spicy. That's delicious. That
is so good. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. And
it's pretty spicy. Oh yeah. Honestly, this is one
of the hotter ones I've had in a while. It's that
oil too. It lingers. They said this is hotter than
the ghost pepper. This is very cayenne forward.
I'm going to give this a six on the spicy scale.
It's just teetering on the edge where if it went
to a seven, it might be a little hotter than I
want. I think it could handle a.5 up of heat.
But I'm pretty happy with this. Again, we're going
back to that balance. I'm not a huge sweet heat,
but there's a perfect amount of sweet to balance
that heat. That's a six 6.8 on the spice for me.
These are phenomenal, but I can't rate these
until we try the sandwich. And that one does
have the ghost pepper, so we will find out if
that's hotter or not. This looks great. Oh, it
smells spicy. It does smell spicy. I'm not going
to lie. That is flavorful, but not as spicy as the
signature hot. Honestly, this isn't spicy at all.
It's spicy. Like a five. It's like a four five for
me. This is a really good sandwich, I will say.
But the wings were better and they were spicier,
so we're rating the wings. I agree. This could go
a lot of directions. This was a bone in crispy,
juicy, spicy, addicting wing. It all comes down
to this, our final competitor. Many fast food
items have come and gone in our search for the
best, but none have gotten closer than this.
Will Jollibee hold its lead and claim victory for
best spicy fast food item, or will Popeye's come
in and burn it all down? All right, his ears are
plugged. Listen, I gave it an 8.9 for one reason,
one reason only. Everything was perfect except
it was pretty tremendously undersalted. And I
don't mean that in the sense of like, oh,
Josh always wants things super salty. No,
like it was it was was literally missing salt
pretty significantly to the point where if it
was salted properly, it might have been perfect. I
might have given it a 9.5, maybe even a 96. Like,
it was a perfect win, I tell you. Perfect. This
can still win if he gives it a high enough rating.
I gave it a specific score, a flat score, but
then with salt into consideration, I docked it.1.
That was exactly the same thing that I did.
That was the same thing I did. You know what
that means? The winner is Jolly B. Boy, I'm
shocked. Honestly, Popeye's really kicked it
up a notch with this one. I'm I might even come
back here. It was a close close call between
Popeye's Jollibee. Jollibee took the crown.
But we have one other winner for the spiciest
fast food item by far goes to the one and only
Dave's Hot Chicken. It's in the damn name. If
only their chicken was good. Unbelievable. This
is not supposed to be a chicken competition. It
kind of ended up being that. But best spicy item
has been found. Love you. Subscribe. Bye. [Music]
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