In my recent visit to McDonald’s, I took a look at one of their Real Fruit Smoothies. In addition to my smoothie, I also added in a meal. I didn’t want a burger and I was already feeling snooty since I ordered a smoothie at McDonald’s (LOL), so I decided to order a sandwich from their Premium Chicken line.
What I Got: Premium Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich Combo $6.15 (large sized for 80 cents more)
The Premium Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich is made up of a grilled and seasoned chicken breast filet, hickory smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato, melted swiss cheese, and mayonnaise, all served on a honey wheat roll that was shaped somewhat like a mini sub sandwich.
When you order grilled chicken instead of fried chicken at a lot of fast food establishments, they will dry it out. Thankfully, McDonald’s did not do this. The breast’s flavor was tender and delicious and also had a mild peppery bite to it as well, so that was wonderful. The bacon was soft and chewy and since I prefer my bacon that way, I really enjoyed that. If you prefer crispy bacon over chewy bacon, you may not like this. When they combined these two meat ingredients with the melted swiss cheese (it was extremely warm, gooey and awesome), it was a truly winning flavor combination.
The rest of the sandwich consisted of the bread, produce and mayonnaise. The bread was fine and you could taste the honey flavoring, but it was a little hard for my liking. The lettuce seemed slightly aged, but the tomato was fine, so the produce didn’t really add or subtract from the sandwich in any way.
The sandwich did have one negative though and that was the mayonnaise. I don’t mind mayonnaise and I usually order my sandwiches without it for dietary reasons, but in this instance I decided to leave it on the sandwich and that was a mistake as there was WAY TOO MUCH on there and I actually had to open up the sandwich and scrape it off. It seemed like they put an entire tablespoon on there. Gross.
Would I Buy It Again? Absolutely. I don’t ordinarily go to McDonald’s for anything other than breakfast, ice cream or coffee, but this sandwich may have converted me back to ordering other things off the menu. The only problem I had with sandwich was with the mayonnaise, so next time I will make sure to ask them to take it off.
Quick rant here: McDonald’s fries have the reputation of being some of, if not the best, fries in the fast food business and I just don’t get it. I think they are vastly overrated and I personally consider them to be mediocre at best. Whenever I order them, they are never crispy, they are always too greasy and their flavor is exceptionally bland. I always have to use a ton of salt just to give them some flavor and I almost never do that with fries when I order them at other fast food joints. Oh well, despite their blandness, at least they are better than Burger King’s (LOL, I had to work a Burger King fries blast into this post somehow).
-IndianapolisEater
