Raising Cane's vs. Popeyes Taste Test | FOOD FEUDS

let the battle of the chicken houses commence let's talk about that [Music] Good Mythical Morning there are very few reasons I will wait in a line but a fresh and juicy chicken tender is absolutely one of them and you can't go wrong with the chicken tender Kings of the world Popeyes and Raising Cane's yes these two places both require you to keep a folding chair in your car because the lines are so long that you want to be able to sit down oh yeah the food is worth it uh what we want to know is

which place is more worth it and we're not going to make them perform a skit or anything uh we're just gonna taste the food that's right and two things I know for sure the sky is not falling today but one of these fast food chicken joints Will Fall From Grace today it's time for food fuse Raising Canes versus Popeyes all right we're going to taste and rate similar foods from each restaurant the winning restaurant will be dubbed the chick magnet and will win a chance to sponsor a future GMM episo

de cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck hey I'm Raising Cane's cane born and breaded in Louisiana breaded and these are chicken tenders for 199 a la carte and it comes with our signature Mr sauce on the side for dipping able the mascot isn't even a chicken you're always trying to copy me get out of here chicken fight oh my God hey I'm I'm Popeye's able and that's my brother I swear to God he's gonna try to kill me oh my God oh my we're going there yeah heavy-handed we're doing metaphors and this

is our chicken tenders it's 10 for 16.99 it comes with our famous blackened Ranch blackened Ranch for dipping wow so uh first thing is these are smaller yeah like if I if I look at these and look at these wood I mean look at that what happened that finger and then look at look at look at this y'all I mean give me the biggest one you got there you got it you got it very consistent at canes and they're also very limited I feel like we're tasting Popeyes today through the lens of Raising Cane's I'm

going no sauce at first in terms of like the categories because I got more stuff at bye-bye their sauce is magical I love it that's a good Tinder the Tinder is actually tender it better be good it's the only thing they serve basically it's very solid and then you know what they have an interesting origin story link because founder Todd Graves and original business partner Craig silvey submitted a business plan for a chicken finger restaurant while attending LSU Louisiana State University yeah t

he instructor said it'll never work pushing one product like that and gave the project the worst grade in the class this is a failed project guys let that be a lesson to you college students I don't know what it is Popeye's got that signature breading taste also founded in Louisiana by Al Copeland when he was 28 years old of course it was back in 1972. there's a lot more of these in Raising Cane's over 2 000 Popeyes currently worldwide Al Copeland I love the Cajun spice underneath it man in the

breading they put the Cajun spice yeah you got that you got that heat hitting there's something about the raising canes that are just like this homemade vibe this is very kind of like Fast foodie so I I'm definitely um on on team canes for the tenders um I think they're both great chicken tenders but I just really appreciate this Cajun and since it's and it's super juicy they're both pretty juicy yeah they put this in particulars I mean the size of this I I couldn't have told you how much bigger

it is I'm not being impacted by that because you can always just eat more tenders you know that's true that's true I'm gonna give this chicken tender you ready for me to score I'm gonna give that an eight bro I'm getting a seven solid seven over here it's big it's crunchy the sauce is not as good in my opinion as that sauce though I gotta go with the six I think there's a two point differential here I think that the Popeyes are a little bit better but not much so I'm giving them an eight wow ye

ah dude I love it I love the breading man it's magical [Music] hi this is Popeye's fries for 2.79. oh yeah and here is Raising Cane's better and more delicious fries for 272. sorry about my brother sometimes I just want to kill him oh I've heard the story yeah wow now so these are crinkle cut but they're thin they're thin I can't say that I've ever had that anywhere else typically you get a ride-a-sized crinkle cut um not a fan now again we're not eating them directly from the restaurant they ge

t here pretty fast but we take that into account and that's it's the same for both but I don't know I'm just that much better yeah these are horrible I'm just I'm discovering that I'm dipping it in that sauce that I love and now when you've taken that away you're just left with a naked fry they're asking you to do all the work on these now over here in Popeye land which by the way Popeyes um was not named after the sailor man it was named after Gene Hackman's character in The French Connection D

oyle who knew film came out about a year before Al Copeland opened the first Popeye's restaurant um these are clearly better but they're still not they can get sloppy it's not an upper tear fry I like the fact that it's seasoned you don't have to you don't have to beg for a dip to to choke it down I I actually it's getting better actually I like these I like the black pepper on these fries that's nice I'm I'm a black pepper on my fried man no matter where I go I always put black pepper on there

would you put more black pepper on these they've got a lot of Blackness no they've done it for me okay and that's that's knocking me up at least a point okay um these are just not a great fry I don't want to hold too much against it because you need to have a fry fresh out of the fry but I'm gonna say I can't imagine these being better than a five I'm not gonna hold back I'm giving them a three because and that's assuming the best version of these because there's nothing done to them they're rel

ying too much on the sauce up your game cane and I'm gonna go with a solid seven on these um I'm I'm only gonna give it a six I agree that I wouldn't they're not going to be in the top five fast food fries but still pretty good [Music] and now the round we've all been waiting for the slaw round oh yeah this is our Cock-A-Doodle delicious coleslaw for 135. it's a secret recipe but if I had to guess probably got Mayo in it yeah yeah okay it is white it's very white sure is yeah you know what else

has a secret recipe whatever he's made out of his mom and dad's worst DNA [ __ ] you [ __ ] you it was a cluck with the scene don't put us in the middle okay yeah uh okay so this is our coleslaw for 279 and the website says it's a crisp cool Tangy treat the website you've been on the website yeah yeah she gets all her information from the website it's the only place that they can go as employees on the internet you ever just walk up into a fast food restaurant and get the slaw and Justice law no

um but slaw with fried chicken is a good thing I mean when KFC started well not when they started but because they did that it's kind of the thing to do um this is a very run-of-the-mill right down the middle slaw it gives you a nice break from all of that friedness I don't think I've ever been excited about slaw I I like the KFC I'm actually not excited about this long that one looks very hot it's not bad though I I like the fact that everything looks like your mom could make it well this one'

s flatter this one's more like daily slaw there's something interesting in there though they've decided to put a flavor in there maybe a little mustard or something I immediately like it better this is better you know this is just so I don't know I just feel like the fact that it does feel like something you get at the family reunion is not great it's I I would say it's authentic and it's salty I like them both I'm torn um I'm giving this a six I don't eat it without having some fried chicken st

ill in my mouth that can be arranged I'm gonna give I'm gonna give it a seven and then I'm going to negate my contribution to this round by also giving this a seven um I think that they're even they're different but they're even well I'm also going to give this one a seven because I gave this one a six and I think this one's a little bit better seven okay okay so long I just have more of the tenders kind of neck and neck here [Music] as you know this year we're doing something special the mythic

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ted the whole battle Yeah they they wait in line for the bathroom to throw it up that's what they oh smack talk because this is our chicken tender in a bun with the sauce and the lettuce for 7.99 you're gonna like it a lot better so the way they make a sandwich is by putting tenders on a sandwich and I've never ordered it this way I've had this many times now they're okay there's some sauce on there and make sure they just take it let's take a closer look get rid of this open this thing up three

tenders what happened to the they kind of skimp with the sauce it's not a lot of sauce and then well there's more sauce on the bottom and there's a nice fresh Little slice a little cabbage it's like looks like a cabbage it's become cabbage no pickles none that I can see no pickles no pickles but it's got that sauce baby okay that good salt if you like their tenders better I'm gonna light the sandwich more as well I think that you are the CR I'm missing the crispiness that's actually something I

didn't even talk about on the tenders the Popeye's breading is crispier which I think is really good on a sandwich it's great on the tender but it's really good on a sandwich because you need something to break up the consistency of the bread like oh I hit the chicken you got to know when you hit the chicken you know what I'm saying the thing about having tinders on a sandwich Zaxby's used to do this and then with all the chicken sandwich Wars they came out with an actual chicken like filet rig

ht to replace it because you're eating off on one side of it oh and you're losing us you're losing it hate to see it you're losing it tender I mean that can hit the floor that just made me want to eat this it doesn't feel like a chicken sandwich it feels like you put Tenders in a bun and it never came together now we got pickles on this we've got spicy mayonnaise and uh you know the Bun's good we've had this bun before and you got that crispy chicken oh this one's also falling apart the crunchy

on that breading it makes a difference man if I don't eat a tender I don't want it nestled up against two other ones in a bun I want to dip it and eat it I feel like they've just decided to try to compete with everyone else but they weren't willing to go all the way and so putting the tenders on a bun is kind of a poor attempt at competing with other chicken sandwiches yeah in this day and age he can't do it he just gave it a five I agree I'm giving it a five I just want the tenders on their own

over here this may not be your favorite chicken sandwich but you can't deny this is one of the best like I'm tempted to give it a 10. I'm just gonna I'm gonna back off a little bit to a strong nine and I am going to give it a nine as well I think a man just pulled away we are having so much fun doing this we interrupt this episode of Good Mythical Morning to let you know that this past weekend we released a video on the red Link channel we'd love for you to wash it I don't think link knew he wa

s going to say anything we'd love for you to watch it now we're digging a hole that's what we're doing well they're digging of the hole that ain't nothing I guess a whole really is something Battle of the breads let's get it here is Raising Cane's Texas toast for 135. that's pretty man yeah I'm just gonna stay here that passive aggressive stuff you've been saying it's not gonna fly with me you think you're the only one who could do puns huh all right this is Popeyes biscuits for 89 cents each ve

ry cookie cutter let's just go ahead and start there like literally maybe maybe they use a cookie cutter well maybe a biscuit cutter this is pretty though we got a sweet spot for biscuits we do but I love some Texas toast and this is like almost like pound cake you know what I'm saying like it's got a pound cake shake this is the superior bread for a chicken tender this is a strong statement once you eat it I know it's you can eat it with like steak and stuff I think this let me put it this way

it is the best thing to pair with Texas toast a nice juicy chicken tender because it's long you can put it on top it's just you know what you should have made their sandwich out of this yep one tender two of these you can do that on your own though it's like a little sub these are scary because they they just doesn't well they're small I mean it it's so it's there's some uniform that it it makes it feel it's not very flaky they're more uh powdery that kind of like a microwave biscuit taste it do

esn't taste bad but biscuits can be so much better than this you know what I'm saying biscuits can be so good yeah this is a bad biscuit and yeah I'm gonna compare it to Bojangles it sucks compared to Bojangles it's not nearly as good as Bojangles it's a biscuit okay I can order a light biscuit at Bojangles and I'll get one these are all the same I think that the bread round has been a solid showing for raising canes this isn't good bread eight solid eight I agree you know what screw it nine thi

s is they've done they've done the best thing right there that's the best thing they've done the best thing you've done Raising Cane's is your bread um I'm not gonna go all the way down to like a three I'm gonna say certain man I don't want the bread round to be too um determinative I'm going to say it's a five I'm disappointed it doesn't taste horrible but I have to give it a four I gotta give it a four where does that leave us it leaves me eating more of this chicken sandwich [Music] I need to

wash down all this chicken with something all right it's time to end things with Popeyes sweet tea for 2 49. I'm thinking of ending things too with Raising Cane's sweet tea for 249. yeah you want to end things yeah it's time okay who who could have seen this fight coming no buddy crack oh cruel fate enjoy oh he said no we didn't choreograph this we're gonna say crack cruel face yeah crack because you're winning he cracked her neck you know who has a better logo Popeyes Raising Kings Raising Can

e's has got a good logo that's actually one of the things they got going for him look at that a tea a tea is pretty good pretty sweet pretty nice it's pretty sweet it's leafy you can taste the leaves that's really solid tea and then over here pretty sweet too very sweet they're both equally quite as good there's more flavor to it it's just do I like the flavor more it's more tea flavor yeah but I don't think that's why I drink too tastes more of the leaves I don't drink tea to taste tea I drink

tea it takes sugar now that I go back here it just tastes like water because this one's wow that is what happened isn't it I like this tea until I had that tea and now this tea tastes like water I'm glad we tasted this tea first or else we'd be saying this too just tastes like water it sucks but now we're like this tea tasted great until I tasted this so what are we going to do with that Louisiana tea if you keep drinking it the Popeyes gets better and better it really does two boys drinking tea

this tea is not great now this season six I mean it's not bad because if I was only drinking it I would think it was great I know I thought it was going to be a seven should I go I think I'm gonna go all the way to five yeah I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with six I'm going with six and as Carolina boys we've had a lot of sweet tea uh sweet tea gets better than this and you know who makes it better bojang Bojangles makes the best sweet tea if you're going if you're going seriously South yeah and you

want to know what sweet tea is supposed to taste like just get the Bojangles sweet tea but this is good seven I agree I'm giving it a seven so if we look at the totals across the board we have raising canes with 75 and Popeyes pulling away with the wind 82 and we got to keep in mind we actually judge Popeyes on Raising Cane's terms Popeyes has a lot of other stuff they got the bone-in chicken right we didn't even taste shrimp they got shrimp we're just tasting the things that compare to the stu

ff at Raising Cane's right and it took it home my last ticket home sorry Kane so congratulations to Bojangles yeah even though you weren't pertinent to this conversation you're the real winner today you're the real winner in our minds all right Popeyes you win a chance to sponsor a GMM episode and you are the official chick magnet yes thanks for subscribing and clicking that Bell you know what time it is I'm Rebecca from Northwest Indiana I just got home from the summer after my freshman year of

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