KFC Combines Two Fast Food Favorites and Kicks Them Up
As we head into the new year, KFC is expanding its line of wraps with another one that will bring some burn. That chicken fryer already had the Spicy Slaw Wrap and the Mac & Cheese Wrap, and now they are combining those together into the Spicy Mac & Cheese Wrap. This new addition to the lineup has an Extra Crispy Chicken Tender, spicy sauce, Mac & Cheese, and three-cheese blend...
New Hot & Spicy Fire Wok Ramen Packets from Nissin
Nissin has come up with two new flavors in its Hot & Spicy Fire Wok line and these will be sold in packets instead of bowls. The new offerings are Torched Teriyaki Chicken and Screamin' Sichuan Beef, and these come with chili-infused noodles and seasonings along with hot sauce packets. The company rates the heat level based on a scale of one to six chili peppers with the Teriyaki...
Taco Bell Kicks Up Its Nacho Fries Again
Taco Bell is offering a new variation on its popular Nacho Fries by giving them a grilled cheese twist and a little kick of smokey heat. These include a three-cheese blend, fries, nacho cheese, choice of meat, and creamy chipotle sauce. After assembling the fries, they are grilled up and then served hot and ready to go. These will be available on November 16th and should stick around as long as the Nacho...
Paqui Has Not Discontinued its Haunted Ghost Pepper Chips
The Haunted Ghost Pepper Chips from Paqui have been hard to find of late and they are not currently showing up on that company's website. This started shortly after a tragic incident when a teenager died after doing the Paqui One Chip Challenge (which is a different and much hotter chip). Apparently, as all the legal implications are getting worked out, the company decided to de-emphasize...
One Pepper X to Rule Them All
Step aside Caroline Reaper, there is now a hotter chili pepper in town. And it comes from the same guy who brought us the Reaper in the first place. Ed Currie of the PuckerButt Pepper Company has just claimed a Guinness World Record for a new chili he cultivated known as Pepper X. That one has an average rating of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), which is quite a bit higher than the 1.64 SHU average for the...
The folks at Paqui are at it again and the One Chip Challenge for 2022 is now available. For those not familiar with it, this is a single chip that is packed with seasoning from the hottest peppers in the world and the challenge is to eat the whole thing and see how far you can go without eating or drinking anything for relief. According to the scale on their website, if you only go one minute, you are Powerless. Ten minutes means you are...
The Chicken Sandwich Wars have definitely been heating up and it looks like we have a casualty. According to the Eat This Not That website, Burger King will be pulling the Ch'King sandwiches--including the spicy version--from its menu in the coming months if not weeks. Those were introduced last year and were compared to the Popeyes line of premium chicken sandwiches (Burger King went after the Popyes business while McDonalds...
