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Ruffles Crunch Teen Burger at A&W

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Ruffles Crunch Teen Burger at A&W
Location: 1130 Dundas Street East, Mississauga
Website: https://web.aw.ca/

The Ruffles Crunch Teen Burger at A&W is a standard A&W bacon cheeseburger with a bunch of chips in it.  The end.

Oh, I guess I should write more?  I’ll write a bit more.  But that pretty much covers it.

Ruffles Crunch Teen Burger at A&W

The burger, as per A&W’s website: “A perfectly seasoned grass-fed beef patty topped with Ruffles Cheddar & Sour Cream chips, lettuce, onions, tomato, bacon, cheddar cheese and a creamy garlic and jalapeño aioli, served on a freshly toasted sesame seed bun.”

It’s not bad.  The fat stack of Ruffles adds a decent amount of crunch and some nice zippiness from the seasoning.  They make for a decent burger topping, but I think it’s unlikely anyone will walk away from thing thinking that chips should be on all burgers.  There’s a reason chips aren’t on all burgers.  They’re a bit overwhelming as a topping.

Ruffles Crunch Teen Burger at A&W

I’ll admit that I didn’t even realize the sauce was supposed to be a creamy garlic and jalapeño aioli until I started writing this review.  There wasn’t really enough there for any of the flavours to stand out; it tasted like plain mayo to me.

The rest of the burger is what it is.  The patty was a bit dry, but it’s tasty enough.  It’s fine.  The whole thing is fine.  It’s a fast food burger with chips in it.  It’s not one of those things where you’re like “wow, this is so much better than I was imagining!”  It’s exactly what you’re imagining.

Lay’s Bar-B-Q Tenders at KFC

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Lay's Bar-B-Q Tenders at KFCLocation: 3015 Winston Churchill Boulevard, Mississauga
Website: https://www.kfc.ca/

Coating a piece of fried chicken in flavoured potato chips is pretty bizarre; it’s also obvious enough that I’m surprised KFC or some other fast food chain hasn’t done it sooner.  This is particularly odd in a post Doritos Locos world, where mashing up two seemingly disparate but complementary flavours has revealed itself to be a gold mine.

Lay's Bar-B-Q Tenders at KFC

Anyway, KFC has finally done it, and yeah, it’s good.

The Lay’s Bar-B-Q Tenders, according to KFC: “Canadian farm raised chicken tenders coated in Lay’s sweet and smoky Bar-B-Q potato chips”.

Lay's Bar-B-Q Tenders at KFC

The flavour is pleasingly familiar, with a nice balance of sweetness and tanginess; if you’ve had Lay’s BBQ chips, then it tastes as you’d expect.  The whole thing is exactly what you think (and hope) it’s going to be.

I will say, however, that these taste like they were made with plain chips and then seasoned post-fry.  This is mostly not an issue, aside from the fact that the seasoning is a bit uneven.

Lay's Bar-B-Q Tenders at KFC

Still, it’s a good quality chicken strip; the BBQ flavour complements it well, and the chip pieces add a nice crunch.  It’s one of those things that sounds weird on paper, but mostly just tastes pretty good (i.e. it’s not a Double Down, which is a fun gimmick until you actually eat it).

This is entirely down to the luck of the draw, but my order was hot and fresh, which definitely helped.  The chicken could have been a bit more tender, but for white meat, it’s not bad.