{"id":6417,"date":"2010-05-12T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:22:50","slug":"review-wendys-spicy-chipotle-boneless-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/12\/review-wendys-spicy-chipotle-boneless-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Wendy&#8217;s Spicy Chipotle Boneless Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/4596627945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/images\/wendyschipotle1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Wendy&#8217;s has recently added a new flavor to their line of boneless chicken wings \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Spicy Chipotle.  Their website describes them as &#8220;made from 100% all-white meat chicken breast, delicately breaded and hand-tossed in a sauce made with real chipotle peppers, dark chili powder, and a touch of amber honey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before even trying these &#8220;wings,&#8221; I have a bone to pick (queue laugh track) with this product.  First of all, fast food establishments are notorious for offering &#8220;spicy&#8221; menu items that are, well&#8230;not spicy.  I guess they figure the American public can&#8217;t handle anything with more kick than a slice of pepper jack cheese.  Second, I am soooo over chipotle.  Like pomegranate, it&#8217;s one of those tired foodie trends that every chef on the Food Network loves to trot out and explain in detail, like you&#8217;ve never heard of a dried jalape\u00c3\u00b1o pepper before and it&#8217;s going to BLOW YOUR MIND.  Thirdly, there&#8217;s no such thing as boneless chicken wings.  You know what a boneless chicken wing is?  It&#8217;s a chicken nugget.  You can&#8217;t fool me, Wendy&#8217;s.  I was going to make a tasteless zombie Dave Thomas joke here, but he always seemed like a pretty cool guy, so I guess I&#8217;ll just leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p>When I first tasted these chicken nugg- chicken boneless wings, my first thought was, hey, at least the chicken&#8217;s not bad.  I&#8217;d rank it above some of the other fast food chicken nuggets I&#8217;ve had.  My second thought was, I can barely taste the sauce.  Half of my &#8220;wings&#8221; were glopped up with the sticky stuff, and the other half looked practically naked.  And not the good kind of naked, like doing an innocent Google image search for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Padma_Lakshmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Padma Lakshmi<\/a> and getting more than you expected.  Luckily, there was a bunch of it gathered in what I can only describe as a thick sea of slime at the bottom of the tray, so I could smear my naked nuggets around in that, like two ladies wrestling in a tub of half-melted Jell-O.  Maybe Padma Lakshmi and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aida_Mollenkamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aida Mollenkamp<\/a>?  Only because I&#8217;d like to see Padma beat the pretty out of Aida.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/4597247746\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/images\/wendyschipotle2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My third thought, after I&#8217;d gotten a decent amount of sauce and also guaranteed at least one of my laptop keys would now stick forever (from the sauce, pervs), was that I wasn&#8217;t actually sure I&#8217;d gotten the right flavor of boneless wings.  Wendy&#8217;s offers two other flavors \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Honey BBQ and Sweet &#038; Spicy Asian \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and as I sat here, I honestly couldn&#8217;t tell what flavor I&#8217;d gotten.  I&#8217;ve never had the two other products, but all three have a distinct &#8220;sweet and spicy\/smokey\/spicy and smokey&#8221; vibe, and that&#8217;s pretty much all I could tell about the flavor of this sauce.  It was a little sweet.  It was&#8230;maybe a little smokey?  Did I detect what passes for spicy somewhere in there?<\/p>\n<p>I figured I&#8217;d check the receipt to see if it at least said I&#8217;d gotten the right menu item, not that it means anything.  I looked in the bag&#8230;no receipt.  I was on my own.  I dredged my finger along the bottom of the tray, pulling up a big glob of the sauce.  It was dark orange, with some little speckles in it&#8230;could that be the chili powder?  I sucked the sauce off my finger, trying to forget my earlier Jell-O wrestling comments.  With no chicken in the way, I definitely detected more spice, a little smokiness, and a sweet honey taste.  Okay, I&#8217;m pretty sure I got the right stuff.  And I don&#8217;t mean The Right Stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine a sauce with chipotle, chili powder and honey in it, that does indeed have elements of spice, smokiness, and sweetness, could be bland, but Wendy&#8217;s Spicy Chipotle sauce manages to accomplish this feat.  The chicken itself is actually of quite good quality for a chicken nugget (or boneless wing), but I&#8217;d rather be dipping it in something like a spicy mustard than have it covered in gooey, uninteresting chipotle sauce.  The flavors just aren&#8217;t bold enough to pop, and the texture is a little off-putting.  Overall, it&#8217;s a disappointing addition to Wendy&#8217;s menu.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Nutrition Facts &#8211; 10 boneless wings &#8211; 500 calories, 180 calories from fat, 4 grams of saturated fat, 20 grams of total fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 80 milligrams of cholesterol, 1,640 milligrams of sodium, 48 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of dietary fiber, 10 grams of sugars, 33 grams of protein, 20% vitamin A, 25% vitamin C, 4% calcium and 8% iron.)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><b>Here are other Wendy&#8217;s Spicy Chipotle Boneless Wings reviews:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/screwattack.com\/blogs\/Mishens-Fast-Food-Reviews\/Wendys-Spicy-Chipotle-Boneless-Chicken-Wings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mishens Fast Food Reviews<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/animmovablefeast.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/fast-food-review-wendys-spicy-chipotle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Immovable Feast<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b> Wendy&#8217;s Spicy Chipotle Boneless Wings<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b> $3.99, or so the Internet tells me.  I have no receipt to prove that.<br \/>\n<b>Size:<\/b> 10 boneless wings<br \/>\n<b>Purchased at:<\/b> Wendy&#8217;s<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b> 4 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b> Chicken was pretty good quality.  GISing Padma Lashmi.  Quite a few wings for the price.  Jell-O wrestling.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b> Sauce was too bland.  Aida Mollenkamp.  Half my chicken was naked.  Feeling uncomfortable about sucking goo off my finger.  Claims of spiciness that don&#8217;t deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy&#8217;s has recently added a new flavor to their line of boneless chicken wings \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Spicy Chipotle. Their website describes them as &#8220;made from 100% all-white meat chicken breast, delicately breaded and hand-tossed in a sauce made with real chipotle peppers, dark chili powder, and a touch of amber honey.&#8221; Before even trying these &#8220;wings,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1477,1526],"class_list":["post-6417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-fast-food","tag-wendys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16182,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/24\/review-wendys-spicy-chipotle-crispy-chicken-sandwich\/","url_meta":{"origin":6417,"position":0},"title":"REVIEW: Wendy\u2019s Spicy Chipotle Crispy Chicken Sandwich","author":"Jeff","date":"January 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"There is not much you can buy for a dollar. 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