When McDonald's ditched Chicken Selects in 2015, many mourned the loss of the dish.
For the past two years, customers at the fast-food chain haven't had anything but the McNugget for their chicken-dipping purposes.
That just changed.
McDonald's recently launched the Buttermilk Crispy Tenders — a new take on the chicken tender.
At a chain with such an iconic chicken dipper already, the tenders have a tall order to live up to.
We decided to try the Buttermilk Crispy Tenders ourselves in an effort to see how the new menu item stacks up against the ghosts of chicken tenders past.
We got a 10-pack of the tenders for $9.10 from a McDonald's in New York City. They come in their own — impressively weighty — box, stuffed with chicken.
As two people who can easily down 20 McNuggets each in one sitting, we appreciated the heft of the tenders. The look was also pleasing, with a pleasant golden brown color, a crevice-filled breading, and appealing pepper sprinkled throughout. The tenders also do not have a uniform size, adding a "natural" homestyle feeling that the McNugget sorely lacks.
Digging in, we found an impressively moist tender enclosed in the nice crunchy exterior. There's a great balance of white-meat chicken to breading here, with the two complementing each other well. There's no spice as promised by the little dots of pepper in the breading, but the richness of the experience does not demand it.
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