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Fast food sneaks into the grocery store with varying degrees of success. Taco Bell\u2019s range of products, from shells to sauces, are mostly fine. Arby\u2019s frozen curly fries? Awful. In olden times, before I got sober, it was pretty hard to beat White Castle\u2019s frozen cheeseburgers after a night spent over-imbibing. (The real thing would be the preferable choice, obviously, but we haven\u2019t had them in my market for a couple of decades now.)<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never been a regular consumer of Wendy\u2019s chili. I\u2019ve had it a few times on top of a potato, sure, but it\u2019s never anything I\u2019ve specifically set out to consume. But now that it\u2019s available in canned form, I felt like I needed to have both. And that I should taste them side-by-side. Blindfolded, in fact, to see if I could tell which was which.<\/p>\n
Is a blindfolded taste test a little elaborate for a can of chili? No. No, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n
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The first one I tried was thick and meaty. There were plenty of beans and a moderate amount of seasoning. It was salty, but not unbearably so. There were no discernible chunks of tomato, but the base was plenty tomato-y with a slight tang. If you\u2019re into heat, this one won\u2019t do much for you; I\u2019ve received kisses from my grandmother that were spicier than this.<\/p>\n
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The next chili was much thinner than the first. Soupy, even. The meat chunks were few and far between. There were large, acidic pieces of stewed tomato. The base was sweet with just a little hint of heat. Despite nearly everything else being entirely different, the beans were identical to the beans in the first bowl.<\/p>\n
So, two very different chilis allow me to say this: if you dislike Wendy\u2019s chili, you might still like the canned version. Conversely, if you love Wendy\u2019s version, don\u2019t necessarily<\/em> expect to love the canned variety, too. You might, you might not.<\/p>\n But the moment you\u2019re all waiting for \u2014 which chili was which? The first chili \u2014 the meaty, seasoned one that I enjoyed quite a bit \u2014 was the canned version. The runny bland one was the ACTUAL Wendy\u2019s chili.<\/p>\n Is this a shocking revelation? Perhaps not. Handmade chili from a human Wendy\u2019s person is liable to vary in quality; AI chili made by a robot and canned by a machine is bound to be more formulaically standard. But this isn\u2019t a bad thing. I\u2019d definitely buy the canned chili again, but the other one? I feel no such compulsion.<\/p>\n Purchased Price:<\/strong> $4.42 Fast food sneaks into the grocery store with varying degrees of success. Taco Bell\u2019s range of products, from shells to sauces, are mostly fine. Arby\u2019s frozen curly fries? Awful. In olden times, before I got sober, it was pretty hard to beat White Castle\u2019s frozen cheeseburgers after a night spent over-imbibing. 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\nSize:<\/strong> 15 oz can
\nRating:<\/strong> 7 out of 10
\nNutrition Facts:<\/strong> (per 1 cup) 280 calories, 12 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 65 milligrams of cholesterol, 1040 milligrams of sodium, 26 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of fiber, 6 grams of sugar (2 grams of added sugar), and 17 grams of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"