Here’s a complete surprise I stumbled upon during the last family outing at our Fenton, Missouri Buffalo Wild Wings location… spicy ice cream! With my youngest son, Kevin in tow, we knew this was just something we had to try as soon as I spotted it in a special menu insert.
If you can’t find this frozen wonderment at your local B-Dubs, it’s in all likelihood that this is a test program that’s only available in select geographic areas…
Here’s a complete surprise I stumbled upon during the last family outing at our Fenton, Missouri Buffalo Wild Wings location… spicy ice cream! With my youngest son, Kevin in tow, we knew this was just something we had to try as soon as I spotted it in a special menu insert.
If you can’t find this frozen wonderment at your local B-Dubs, it’s in all likelihood that this is a test program that’s only available in select geographic areas…
Chick-Fil-A’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich It all started with viral marketing. I don’t remember where I first heard of this online – Twitter, perhaps? Word spread and I was lucky enough to get caught in the knowledge flow. Don’t you hate it when some time sensitive promotion gets out and you don’t hear about it until it’s over? Thankfully I caught wind of it and was able to take advantage of it./
In a nutshell, the operation was carried out like this: Go to http://www.getspicychicken.com, find your local Chick-Fil-A restaurant, and fill out an online form to receive one of their new Spicy Chicken Sandwiches for free at the location you choose and at a specific date and time frame. You would print out a coupon, go in at the predetermined time and get what hopes to be chilehead gold…
It is almost time for the first Chilli Festival in the UK for 2010, at the end of the month we have the Fiery Foods UK Chilli Festival in Brighton, at which Both Darth naga and myself will be attending to assist in the events and report on what happens. This year the BBC will be coming along to make a program about Pleasure and Pain, so we hope to get involved if we can.
The past month has been as busy as any I can remember, we have had over 100 sauces in for review since the new year and they still keep coming, with 5 more arriving today.
We did finally get our hands on the new UK version of the Pringles Xtreme, and they did not win much praise here at the ChileFoundry HQ, Our favourite snacks are still…
Left to right: Me trying to quickly chew wing meat; finishing the last wing; posing with the Buffalo Wild Wing’s bison mascot.
Okay. Admittedly a large number of hardcore chileheads and elite wing fanatics would not think that the Buffalo Wild Wings Blazin’ Challenge is much of a chore. It’s deemed more of an arduous task by the general populace who may look up to this as the pinnacle of a gutsy soul possessing true bravado, taste buds of steel and a Teflon stomach. Flame fans in the know certainly know of far more serious and hotter contests much as the infamous Defcon Deathmatches, which make the fiery Blazin’ Sauce used in BWW’s contest look like Tabasco in comparison.
But for me, this was more symbolic than anything. As a burgeoning chilehead in 2004 – 2005, I quickly got myself acclimated to Buffalo Wild Wings’ searing heat. At the time I thought the estimated 200,000 – 350,000 Scoville Heat Units was mind-blowing for a heavy wing sauce, and always prided myself in finishing a dozen traditional or boneless wings drenched in the stuff (in BWW’s restaurant lingo, they were ordered “extra wet”). Around the time I conquered this “milestone” I became interested in trying my hand the Blazin’ Challenge. Much to my dismay, the St. Louis metro-area BWW locations sharply discontinued the Challenge right around the same time frame, and victory over this vanished from my reach…
The spice invasion has begun. Oh, you as a hot sauce fan may think that the current trend of fiery fast food sandwiches are a feeble attempt at best at approximating the capsaicin-heavy, tongue-scorching food items we all know and love. The spicy chicken sandwiches at Wendy’s and McDonald’s, the Angry Whopper at Burger King, and the Buffalo KFC Snacker, plus many others, may have disappointed heat lovers, but at least the foot is in proverbial door. A pair new sandwiches, the Domino’s Sweet & Spicy Chicken Habanero Oven Baked Sandwich, and the Subway Buffalo Chicken Sub have furthered the push of spicier fare into the mainstream, but are they worthy of your money?
Sizzlin’ it up with a fiery new edition of The Burn Buzz, where I list hot n’ interesting links about spicy food and BBQ that have been floating around on the intertubes lately…
Hot Sauce Banned From Show – The 10 Minute Burn Extreme Hot Sauce was removed from sale at the Brighton, UK Fiery Foods Show
American Royal Barbecue Winners – From the 30th annual BBQ competition held in Kansas City, MO
Peppers Can Help With Neuropathic Pain – Maybe, a Little
USDA to Block Dutch Peppers Via Canada
Illinois Real Estate Agent Wins World Chili Cookoff in Charleston, WV
TACO BELL® RAISES THE STAKES ON VALUE WITH THE BLACK JACK TACO
New Twist On An Old Classic Will Have Consumers Doubling Down on Taco Bell®
Irvine, Calif., October 14, 2009 – Winner, winner taco dinner. Starting today, taco lovers can hit the jackpot with the new 89-cent Black Jack Taco from Taco Bell®. It’s a new limited-time-only addition to the 79¢-89¢-99¢ Why Pay More!® Value Menu and a fresh twist on the classic Crunchy Taco that’s a sure winner.
The Black Jack Taco comes with a new, eye-catching black taco shell filled with seasoned beef and topped with zesty Pepper Jack sauce that kicks the flavor up a notch. This new tasty taco will be available at…
Dishin’ it out in another edition of The Burn Buzz, where I list hot n’ interesting links about spicy food and BBQ that have been floating around on the intertubes lately…
ChilliPepperPete Naga Tested at 85,540 Scoville Units higher that current world record holder – This cultivar may be hotter than the Naga Bhut Jolokia.
This Chile Pepper Sets Souls Afire – More on the bhut jolokia chile…
Buffalo Wild Wings has recently introduced two new flavors to their signature wing line. In this recent case, it is one dry rub seasoning – Desert Heat, and one liquid sauce – Pepper Infusion. This past Thursday I ordered wings with both flavorings, and in the interest of minimizing the mess, I acquired the boneless “wings” which can be eaten with a fork. The following is my review…
At participating locations, Buffalo Wild Wings is debuting two new sauce flavors – Desert Heat™ and Pepper Infusion™. The first one, Desert Heat, is not technically a sauce but a dry seasoning that by it’s description sounds like an intriguing chipotle-based flavoring. The Pepper Infusion sauce’s depiction is a little more vague but is probably draws a lot of it’s taste from chiles, and might be quite a bit hotter than Desert Heat. I’ll let you guys know what I think of each when I try them later this week.
Both are available for a limited time. If you wish to sample them yourselves, you can find the location of your nearest Buffalo Wild Wings here.
I came across this link and found it rather interesting. A Kansas writer grades spring football players on how “hot” or “mild” their playing is, all based on the current line of Buffalo Wild Wings sauces, with Blazin’ being the hottest, then Wild, Mango Habanero, and so on. While the article is ultimately about Kansas college football – something in which I have very little interest – the implementation of the sauce scale is novel and may goofily carry over to uses in other areas of life. If you’re a BWW fanatic like me, you’ll know exactly where each sauce would fit in just by the mention of its name.