![]() ![]() It’s part of the reason why I disliked Lay’s Chicken & Waffles chips. In general, I like my savory and my sweet separate. But I’ve had fried chicken and I’ve had waffles, and it just doesn’t seem like a combination I’d like. I’ve never had actual chicken and waffles, which means I should probably shut my mouth right now. I have to admit, I came into this biased. Pretty ingenious, right? Okay, maybe not ingenious, but at least not outright lazy. What this basically means is that the tenders are dipped in waffle batter instead of traditional egg wash before they’ve been coated with Popeye’s signature seasoned coating and fried up. According to their commercial, Chicken Waffle Tenders are all white-meat tenders marinated in Louisiana spices and hand-crafted with a light, crispy waffle coating. Oh, sure, they could have just chucked a few pieces of waffle in with their chicken, but Popeye’s got creative. ![]() They’ve taken a pre-existing platform – their chicken, as opposed to something like chips or syrup – and added the waffle aspect in a rather unique way. I give kudos to Popeye’s for this concept. But here we are, with chicken and waffle-flavored chips (which lost Lay’s Do Us a Flavor contest but are now back on shelves – don’t even get me started on that), Torani Chicken ‘N Waffles Syrup that you could theoretically put in your coffee or on your ice cream or whatever you want to turn disgusting, and now Popeye’s Chicken Waffle Tenders. ![]() If I had to pick an iconic American food that would suddenly enter the junk food hype machine, I would have never guessed that chicken and waffles would be the next Big Thing. ![]()
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