Eating out...

This is one of current favorite salads. Bacon, cheese, diced tomatoes, eggs, croutons, and crispy fried chicken. Being Hooters, the chicken can be tossed in any of their wing sauces, their hot sauce works very well with a ranch or blue cheese dressing on the salad.

The salad is quite large, and has a great mix of items so that it doesn't get boring.

Wendy's is currently promoting their new salads. Test drove their Chicken BLT Salad, ended up being a disappointment. Featuring cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices, croutons, cheese, extremely tiny bits of bacon, and of course a sliced grilled chicken fillet.

Their lite dressing selections were slim, the packet of lite ranch wasn't quite enough to go around. After munching on mouthful after mouthful of lettuce, I finally concentrated on the chicken and other good bits, and ended up tossing a lot of the remaining lettuce, it had just gotten too boring. The bacon bits were too tiny to even register on the taste buds, and the overall flavor was just lacking.

Picked up one of these today, heard their salads weren't too bad. Not exactly a mistake, but not great either.

The Asian Salad is a mixed green salad with julienned carrots, cucumber slices, a few thin slices of purple onion, mandarin oranges, roasted slivered almonds, wonton strips, chicken (grilled or fried), and asian dressing.

The fried chicken I had, unfortunately, was on the dry side, and the strips were difficult to cut with the plastic knife and fork, I ended up having to pull the strips apart by hand. The dressing was sufficient to cover the salad, but wasn't all that flavorful. The roasted almonds sounded like they would be a nice touch, but roasting in this case didn't add to their flavor, it simply made them dryer and a tad more crunch, but removed most of the flavor they might have added if left alone.

Between the dry chicken and lackluster dressing, the salad overall just wasn't that interesting to eat. My quest for a good lunchtime salad continues...