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title: 'I Tried Every Spicy Fast Food Item in America'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=SHhWCS5AKzw'
video_id: 'SHhWCS5AKzw'
date: 2026-07-21
duration_sec: 1650
channel: 'Joshua Weissman'
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# I Tried Every Spicy Fast Food Item in America

> Source: [I Tried Every Spicy Fast Food Item in America](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SHhWCS5AKzw)

## Summary

In this video, the host and his friend embark on a taste test of the spiciest menu items from major fast food chains across the USA. They rate each item on spiciness and overall quality, ultimately crowning Jollibee's spicy chicken joy as the best tasting and Dave's Hot Chicken's reaper tender as the spiciest.

### Key Points

- **Challenge Introduction** [00:00] — The host aims to try the spiciest fast food item from every major chain in America to find the best tasting and spiciest.
- **McDonald's Hot and Spicy** [00:28] — Rated 4/10 for spiciness and 5.7/10 overall. Described as having a cayenne pepper kick, crispy exterior, and juicy interior.
- **Chicken Express Spicy Tenders** [02:00] — Spiciness rated 3.5-5.5/10, overall 5-6/10. Flavorful and crunchy but texture was inconsistent.
- **Zaxby's Nuclear Tenders** [03:01] — Spiciness rated 1-2.5/10, overall 2.5/10. Described as chewy, dry, and tasting like bad barbecue sauce.
- **KFC Hot Honey Sriracha Sandwich** [04:00] — Spiciness rated 4-5/10, overall 7/10. Saucy and balanced heat, but chicken was chewy.
- **A&W Spicy Double Pop** [04:59] — Spiciness rated 1-1.5/10, overall 2-2.5/10. Bland burger with no heat.
- **Five Guys Cajun Fries** [05:43] — Spiciness rated 1/10, overall 2-3/10. Oily, not crispy, and lacked heat.
- **Burger King Fiery Chicken Sandwich** [06:26] — Spiciness rated 5/10, overall 3.8/10. Dry chicken, untoasted bun, inconsistent spice.
- **Dave's Hot Chicken Reaper Tender** [08:22] — Spiciness rated 9-9.5/10, overall 2.5/10. Extremely spicy but flavorless, chewy, and not crispy.
- **Wendy's Cajun Crunch Chicken Sandwich** [10:53] — Spiciness rated 4/10, overall 2.9-4.5/10. Inconsistent, one sandwich was not spicy.
- **Chick-fil-A Spicy Chicken Sandwich** [12:44] — Spiciness rated 5.8/10, overall 7.9-8/10. Well-balanced spice, flavorful, but lacked crunch.
- **Popeyes Spicy Chicken Sandwich** [14:26] — Spiciness rated 6-6.8/10, overall 8.9/10. Great balance of sweet and heat, but undersalted.
- **Jollibee Spicy Chicken Joy** [22:02] — Spiciness rated 5.5/10, overall 9/10. Perfectly cooked, juicy, umami flavor, and balanced spice.
- **Final Results** [26:48] — Jollibee wins best overall spicy item. Dave's Hot Chicken wins spiciest item.

### Conclusion

Jollibee's spicy chicken joy is the best tasting spicy fast food item, while Dave's Hot Chicken's reaper tender is the spiciest but worst tasting. The video emphasizes that spice without flavor is not worth it.

## Transcript

I'm going to try the spiciest fast food menu  item in all of the USA. But why do this to   myself? Because spicy food has become America's  biggest obsession. Every fast food restaurant is   loading up their menu with some sort of Diablo  this or Fiery that. So, we're going to try every  
single famous fast food spot in America their  spiciest item to find out which is the best   tasting and which is the spiciest. Starting with  McDonald's. Welcome to Macd. What's your spiciest  
item on the menu? are hot and spicy. This is  called the hot and spicy and it has a flame   on the actual packaging. They're marketing  this to be really spicy. Cheers. Honestly,   it's pretty spicy for McDonald's. Like the spice  is there. It lingers a little which I like. It's  
nice. It's like cayenne and pepper. Also, is  that dark meat? I mean, it's nugget meat. First,   we're going to rate this how spicy it is out  of 10, and then we'll give our overall score,   good spice tolerance. And I'll say I'm going to  try and rate this in a way that very broad, not  
just my own taste. But I would give this like on a  spiciness scale like a five for fast food. And I'm   giving this a window for fast food on spicy 1 to  10. This is a four for me. But the question is how   good is it? So let's rate. We're rating this off  of all the general things. Texture, flavor, salt  
levels. I'm surprised I wrote this rating. I'm  going to be dead honest with you. 3 2 1. A 5.7.   What am I insane? I thought this was crazy good.  It's above average good, but it's not on its way   to a 10 good. Listen, I'm standing by my number.  My sandwich was freshly cooked. It was crisp on  
the outside. The inside was juicy. It was seasoned  really well with salt. And I tasted chicken and it   had a good spice. I mean, I would eat that again.  McDonald's has kind of been popping off lately.   to always hate their food and every time I go  back, I'm like, is this getting better? This is  
a big scoring disparity, but we're moving on. Next  up, the place with my favorite logo of all time,   Chicken Express. What's the spiciest item on  your menu? We have a spicy tender. We'll do um   the spicy tenders. And then do you guys still have  that serendipity hot seasoning? The hot seasoning.  
Okay. Cheers. Flavor-wise, not bad. No, it's very  flavorful. Salt's good. Crunch is good. The crunch   is nice. I thought adding the seasoning was going  to make it too salty, but it's not that salty.   pepperc corn numbing quality. To me, this is like  a three and a half. Three. Four. Almost to a four.  
Check out, dude. I would put this almost at a six.  What? 5.5. My bite's kicking. It's in the back of   my throat a little. Spice score down. Now it's  time to rate the overall. All in all, I'm going   to give it a five. It's seasoned nicely, but the  texture is bad. Christian. Christian. I give it a  
six. It had a good amount of spice, but it was  addicting and flavorful and crunchy. It wasn't   dry. Mine wasn't. I enjoyed it, but I wish it was  spicier. That's fair. I'll raise mine to a 5.5. I   would go back for another bite. The crisp is good.  Like you get a crunch when you bite it, but then  
it goes. A very middle of the ground chicken. Not  our spiciest, not our best. We can find better.   Moving on to Zach's where we pulled up knowing the  spiciest option available. The fabled tenders with   nuclear sauce. Let's taste. Thank you. Appreciate  it, man. I'm kind of scared to see what's in here  
because it says F nuclear on the receipt. Why  am I scared? I'm pretty nervous. Oh, dude. The   smell on that. It's hidden. Oh, cheers. That's  not spicy at all. It's not spicy for nuclear.   It smells spicy. It's very acidic. It tastes like  bad barbecue sauce. Spice level, I think, is like  
item. We can make it as spicy as you want. What  a load of horseshit. Terrible tender, too. Chewy,   dry, and the texture is that might go into my top  three worst bites of fried chicken I've ever had  
in my entire life. I think that's a one. Oh, I was  going to go two and a half. I'll mash here. It's   two and a half. Sure. It didn't taste like gross.  Out of all the pieces of chicken that you can eat,   it is appealing at all. Moving on. By default,  Zach makes it into the top three because there's  
only three so far. Something tells me they won't  be here for very long. On to the next. What's the   spiciest item on your menu? I got like a spicy  sandwich. KFC giving us the hookup. This is the   spiciest sandwich that they offer. Topped with  hot honey Sriracha. Let's see if this leaves a  
mark. It's pretty good. There's some There's some  kick. That's like a balanced heat for me. That's a   five on a heat. I'd give it more of a four cuz the  sweetness is kind of dying it down. This is sauced   really nicely though. This is one of the sauciest  sandwiches I've had in a long time, which is kind  
chewy chicken from this, and that is bothering me.  But the salt level is good. The crunch is like 70%   of what I want. Seasoning is nice. KFC kind of  coming up. This could be a big one. I'm going to   stand heavy on this one. Three, two, one. A seven  and a seven. Wow. Above average, above mid. Not in  
the territory of excellence, but in the territory  of good. The only thing that was carrying this   than anything else. Moving on. And a new leader  at the top. Now for our live check-in on our spicy  
leaderboard. Here's our top three now. We'll check  back in later as the competition heats up. Next,   A&W, an unlikely competitor, which begs the  question, can A&W's A2 double spicy pop make an  
impact? Yours looks a lot better than mine. Mine  looks pretty. Hey, yours does look pretty crappy   if I say. Let's just go for it, man. It's got  jalapenos and a spicy sauce. Even with a jalapeno,   that's not spicy. Spice level is like a one and  a half for me. Yeah, I'll give it a one on spicy.  
On flavor, somehow I taste absolutely nothing at  all. It's a bland burger. This is the most bland   burger I've ever eaten. I'm not even going to pull  my board out. I'll give it a 2.5. I was going to   say to lower. I was say two. Two. For me, it's  disappointing out of two. You I don't want to talk  
about this anymore. Moving on. The coveted Five  Guys burgers and fries. Something about Five Guys   feels like you walk in expecting an elevated fast  food experience and what you get is somehow the   same if not below average fast food experience for  an insane price. These fries for a medium fry was  
almost $9. There are fast food joints running like  $9, $8 specials for both a burger and fries and a   drink. And a drink. It's okay to price something  premium if the product is truly good enough to   sell for that price. So anyway, let's snack. These  smell very cayenne. It's crazy how they look so  
hot. You think they'd be crispy. They never  are. It's just an oily roasted potato. There's   no heat. Spice board one. Yeah, I would say one.  There's There's There's heat and flavor, but not  
I don't even need the white board. That French  fries are two. I'm going to give this a three.   It's a terrible French fry. It's got to be one  of the worst French fries. Moving on. All right,   we're at Burger King. What's the spiciest item  on your menu? Basically, any of our fiery items.  
Yeah, we'll do two fiery chicken sandwiches. Yeah,  we Yes. All right. Anything on for you today? Uh,   that's it. Melc, why are you tripping this woman  up, dude? What are you doing? That was so hard to  
deal with. Burger King using the American Express.  That's not me. I don't know what you're talking   about. Bing bing bing bing bing bing. Fiery.  So fiery. Oh, thanks. This is my new technique.  
Yeah. Hell yeah. That's great. Let's see how fiery  it is. Wo. It's really sweet. On a spicy note,   I think this is spicier than McDonald's. And  there's tomatoes to cool it down. For a spice,   I want to say this is a even five. It's higher  than McDonald's. Yeah, I I'm getting the spice.  
It's inconsistently spicy. Some parts are spicy,  some are not. But the ones that are spicy,   I would agree are a five. First of all, this  is dry. Look at how dry that is. I want to be   it's like the fry on this chicken might be  one of the worst fries I've ever seen on a  
fast food piece of fried chicken. I mean,  the batter has fused with the chicken and   also simultaneously become uncrispy. The bun at  first sight, I was like, "Wow, that's not a bad   looking bun." And then I realized that they  didn't toast it whatsoever. One, two, three,  
and a double 3.8. Wa! Holy. And you said 1 2 3  and we flipped threes. I think we need to make out And after seven spots, here are our leaders on  the best item. Burger King tops the spicy board,  
but surely that cannot hold for long with what  might be our spiciest item by far. Coming up,   we're at Dave's Hot Chicken. Could this be the  spiciest one on the list? You're a Hot Ones   uh alum, so you should be  able to handle this. Yeah,  
once a month. Have you had it? This? No. I'm  kind of scared. They made a sign a waiver.   It looks harmless. It really does. It  doesn't look that bad. Okay. Cheers.
It's spicy. Need salt. Oh
yeah. Oh my god.
Oh my god, dude. What the spicy score? I've  had some pretty spicy stuff. If my chicken   sandwich was a 10, I feel like this is like a  I'll give it a nine. It's a nine. Dave's Hot   Chicken Reaper. That's a nine and a half. It's  by far the worst tasting chicken we've had all  
day. It's the same problem that Dave's Hot Chicken  always has, which is it lacks in crispiness. What   should be a nice crispy crackle is instead of  hard bark. Not in a good way. Not like brisket   barbecue bark. Their breading is always tough  and chewy. Completely flavorless. No salt at  
all. Didn't taste like chicken. All I tasted was  spicy hot Carolina Reaper. And it's burning my   mouth. Did they succeed in making it spicy? Yes.  Did they succeed in making a good tasty piece of   chicken? No. Horrible. From what I remember, it  wasn't crispy. It wasn't juicy. It was chewy. I  
I'll ever eat that again. 3 2 1. Now you might be  thinking, "Oh, but you guys rated it poorly cuz   it's so spicy." Honestly, no. If I remove spice  completely from the equation, my score remains the  
same. It is by far the worst piece of chicken  that we've ever had. It is not good. It every   time we've come here, I've been disappointed. If  you're Dave's Hot Chicken, I understand that it's   should at least be able to be Burger King. But you  know what's a whole lot better than this chicken?  
Mine. The one that I made on my second channel.  Yes, we now have a second channel. What for?   For recipes only. You missed the recipes, go over  there, give it a subscribe, check out that recipe.   The links in the description. Moving on. and  Daves by a large lead. Hops the spicy leaderboard,  
but bottoms the overall leaderboard. Yeah, it was  spicy, but it also sucked. Will we find a spicier   item? And will it be more balanced? Only one way  to find out. We're here at Arby's. Can we do two  
quarter pound smoked brisket sandwiches with the  spicy? How far do we run out of these spicy one?   Maybe. Let's just like go to a different Arby's.  Hi. Do you guys have the spicy sauce? I apologize.  
We've now gone through two separate Arby's. And by  the way, there are not very many Arby's in Austin,   Texas. We've gone to two, which might be all of  them. There may be one more. I don't know. Arby's,   you're cut, dude. You're cut. Oh god, Wendy's.  Hi. What's the spiciest item on your menu? A spicy  
sandwich. What's the spiciest item you have on  your menu? Okay. When is spicy? Anything else? Uh,   do you guys have the Cajun crunch  chicken sandwich? The new the Cajun   crunch spicy chicken sandwich. Is Spice get home  chicken? Yeah. Get this sandwich. Two of them,  
though. Oh, look. Spicy Cajun. Let's go.  Let's go, dude. Chicken. Oh my god. Vic. Holy.
They're definitely not on there anymore. The  drive-thru people are watching us right now. Like,   they're they're all piled up at the window  watching us. Watching you slap the ads first was   probably what it was. Like, who's getting shot out  here? It did show a couple times. Handshot. Yeah,  
we are at Wendy's. Our chicken looks different.  Mine is red and yours is not red. I wonder if they   gave you the wrong chicken. Let's find out if it's  spicy or not. Cheers. Oh yeah, mine's spicy. It's   got like a peppery bite to it. It's got some  sting, but it's also a little bit of warming  
of the ground, but it's hotter than I expected.  The only thing spicy I taste is the onions,   that Cajun crunch. This is honestly a a four flat  on spice for me. Flavor-wise, this is like the  
seasoned nicely, but that's all I taste is just  salt. Everything else is absolutely trash. I don't   trace the mayo. I don't taste anything. Let's give  it a rating. One, two. A 4 and 1/2 and a 2.9. Wo,  
you're really low. One inconsistency dropped  it. I didn't get a spicy burger. The only thing   I enjoyed was the crispy onions. Everything else  was flat. If this is the bottom and this is mid,   this chicken sandwich is like right here.  Moving on. Wendy's a mid sandwich and a mid  
spot on the leaderboard. On to the next. Welcome  to Chick-fil-A, guys. Do two spicy sandwiches,   please. Thank you. Have a good day. You, too.  My pleasure. Cheers. That's pretty spicy. This   is way spicier than I remember. I'm really happy  with that. That is seasoned really well. I will  
say I think Chick-fil-A is showing off one  thing, which is balancing spicy. And by that,   I mean most people want to enjoy their meal and  have a level of heat that's just enough to excite,   but not so much that it stops you from taking  the next bite. That is balancing spice. And  
they balance their spice really well. I got  to say on a spice level, this is like a 5.8.   It's almost a six for me. On the point with  balance, I don't think this is going to be like,   oh, I would say honestly, it's like a 5.8.  This is one of the spicier items we've had,  
but it's perfect. My biggest complaint, as usual,  it is lacking crunch. The edges have crunch,   but the interior just lacks breading. And the  problem with that is really hot fry oil gets to   the muscle and it fries up the muscle and then  you get this like stringy chewy band around the  
chicken. That's why it's important you have the  protective outer layer of the breading. And also   I want to be crunchy. Let's give it an overall  rating. Overall rating in 3 2 1 a 7.9 and an   eight. Woah. Real close. I didn't want to cross  into the eight threshold. I was like it's even. I  
wanted to finish the whole thing. It's delicious.  The keyword was balanced. Most Chick-fil-A I want   sauce. I don't think that needed sauce. That's  a good point. The balance of the spice really   made this sandwich special. I will say it put it a  higher rating for me, too. I would have gone into  
the eights for this sandwich had it been breaded  better. That's literally all it needed. You saw   mine. Mine was crunchy. I had better breading and  I'm basing it off my sandwich. If you had mine,   honestly, I think you'd put it in the eights.  Inconsistent sandwiches give inconsistent  
scores. Moving on. And just to check it in on  our spicy leaderboard, Chick-fil-A enters as a   not so close second place onto Poo Comparero.  Every time we've gone here, we've been both   surprised and also let down. I have a good feeling  about this one. What's the spiciest item on your  
menu? I have the spicy sandwich. Okay, cool.  Can I get two of those? Anything else, guys? Poo compar. We're back. Here we go. Cheers. This  is not spicy at all. The sauce is got a little  
even get to experience it even if you do get  the sauce. I'll give it a one. Pat me at one   and a half for spice. Honestly, it's a very sweet  chicken sandwich. I don't know why it's so godly.   sauce and the seasoning and also the bread and  butter. Everything's sweet about it. Just sweet  
on sweet on and the bun's sweet, too. The chicken  is underseasoned by about 25%. I would say it   needs salt. I don't taste any flavor on it much. I  know exactly where this sandwich is. Do you? Yeah.   3 2 1 A five and a 4.3. Yeah. Not Not too far. I  like the bread and butter pickle edition. It adds  
a little bit of sweetness. The chicken itself  was good enough that it brought it up to mid.   I like a good sweet chicken. Like I love a good  orange chicken, but this wasn't the sweetness I   mid sandwich, mid chicken. This place has been  mid over and over and over. Moving on. I don't  
want to eat any more chicken sandwiches. Culver,  please do something else spicy, please. Culver's.   Hi there. What's the spiciest item on your menu?  The spicy crispy. Um, it comes with lettuce,   tomato, pickles, mayo. Yeah, I'll do it. I'll do  Culver's fried chicken. This looks very overfried,  
but I could be wrong. They gave me one pickle.  Here we go. It's pretty spicy. It's really heavy   on the pepper. It's almost like a country  chicken fried steak. I give it a spice of   5'8. Mine's pretty spicy. I was going to say  right below a five. Like 49. 49. That said, it  
yeah, it was peppery, spicy. I like the texture  kind of. I just didn't like the tomatoes and   the whack lettuce and the one or two pickles and  the bread was whack. Overall, I think I know it's   rating. 3 2 1 4 to 3.9. An edible sandwich. And  that is all I'll say about it. Moving on. Culver's  
cracks the top three on spice, but it's barely a  competition. Will we find something spicier than   Dave's? because I really I really hope not. That  that was horrible. Next on to Texas's favorite   and quite literally my least favorite fast food  restaurant, Waterburger. What's the spiciest item  
on your menu? Probably the pico deayo. What? I  like the pico de gallo burger. Yes. In a sea of   spicy chicken sandwiches. A spicy burger emerges.  I'm so sick of eating chicken. But unfortunately,  
it came from Waterburger. Hands down the most  overhyped fast food restaurant in human existence.   But maybe this is good. Maybe this will turn the  tide because of the creaminess. I don't think  
there's any spice in there. That's a one on the  spice level. There's no spice at all. Literally   zero spice. I like the sauce. It's like a creamy  sort of jalapeno sauce. It's got like a peppery,   creamy, mayoy taste. Salt levels were lacking.  50% of where it should be. The beefy flavor was  
somewhat evident. I didn't taste the cheese.  It's all just turns into one texture that not   that exciting. All I smelled was Texas toast kind  of vibe. Just butter and bread, which is cool,   but there's no spice, no pepperiness, no vinegar.  I think the sauce was the standout for me. And  
not even the pico de gallo for the pico for the  names sake. The sauce. Ready? 1 2 3. A 3.8 and a   4.6. Oh, you went kind of high. I think I was  enamored by that it wasn't a chicken sandwich,   but it's still below mid. Still below mid.  Moving on. Coming up, we can have a new top spicy  
contender with the Diablo. El Diablo. Perfect.  Can I get two of those burgers, please? Thank you,   too. Take it easy. Two Diablo. Diablos. This could  actually be spicy because you got jalapeno poppers   on the top and jalapeno on the bottom. Jalapeno  business. Cheers. Spice levels. It's hot. I mean,  
juiced up in my throat, and that's what's kind  of burning right now. I was going to say four,   I think we call it a four five. 4.5 on spicy. It's  up there. I wouldn't have expected Carl's Jr. to  
stuff spicy because they want everyone to come  and buy it. They don't want to turn people away.   about how dry this patty is? It's so dry, it's  almost white. I think if you took the patty out,  
this burger would be quite literally virtually  identical and probably better. It tastes good   because I'm tasting jalapeno, bacon, and bread.  So, this might as well be jalapeno bacon sandwich,   which would be good. A solid grilled cheese. Yeah,  actually, this would be a great grilled cheese.  
Take the patty out and throw it away, which is not  a good sign for a burger. Shall we rate it? 1 2 3   4 and 5.2. That was a slightly a hair above  mid just because overall the patty was dry,   but everything else kind of gave it a little  bit of life. I enjoyed the spice. I enjoyed  
principal guy. What I ate wasn't bad, but it  just it wasn't the burger that made it good.   I ordered a burger and the worst part of it was  the burger. Moving on. Carl Jr. takes our number  
five spot for best overall, but it doesn't make  a mark on the spicy leaderboard. Let's see if   our next spot will. We're back at Churches, the  place that did shockingly well on our chicken   video. But the question is, are they consistent  enough to do shockingly well again? And also,  
how spicy is their spiciest chicken? It doesn't  look spicy at all, but I mean, just cuz it doesn't   look spicy doesn't mean it isn't. I don't judge  books anymore. I don't read. Cheers. It's got a   little bit of heat to it, but it's more of like a  black pepper spicy, not a cayenne or like a sharp  
spice. It's like a slow creeping warmth. It's  like a 2.5 on the spicy for me. It's a three   for me. You know what's funny about this chicken?  It's seasoned really nicely, but I don't get much   other than like chicken salt and MSG, which is not  necessarily bad, but I'm not getting a bunch of  
like spices that would really leverage the flavor  here. But it tastes pretty good. That said, it was   crispy, but it's not the crispy I'm looking for.  It was more of like a really oily sort of tempura-   like crisp. I got a really satisfying crunch.  Check that corner. That's shattering crispy,  
which I I enjoy. 3 2 1 A 6.8 and an 8.3. You went  You went a little high. I had a really good piece.   My chicken was juicy. The meat was seasoned.  I think it was above acceptable. It was great,   but not amazing. It's good. It's not great.  It's not going to win our competition. Moving  
on. There's a vibe at this Freddy's. I feel it.  What's the spiciest item on your menu? Well,   I don't really have any spicy items. We're really  I appreciate it. Freddy's, for some reason,   every time I roll up to it, I'm like, this doesn't  need to exist. I'm not cutting it for that reason.  
been traveling all day going to fast food places  back to back. I'm not doing this one. Freddy's   are off the list. You failed us today. So, we are  back at Shake Shack. I'm a fan of this place. And  
apparently their only spicy item is spicy fries.  And I will say though, these fries look spicy.   They're caked. Ooh, cayenne. Cheers. Cheers. It's  got some heat, but it's not like killing me. I do   feel a little tingle, a twitch on the tongue. It's  mostly warm spice though and it's not killing me.  
After not eating one for a while and talking, it  stays. I hate saying this now cuz I say it a lot,   but it's like a hot Cheeto spice now. It lingers  and I want more, but not as bad. It is one of the   spicier ones we have. The more I've sat with it,  I'm getting that salivating response. I'll give  
it a 5.8. I was going to give it an even six on  the spice. I'll bump up to a six. We're heating   up over here, guys, with the French fries. We  forgot the words again. I'm going to give it   a five. The fries were incredibly mid. They were  not crispy. They were not salted that well. Sorry.  
Mid spice is a six. I wish I had more crunch, more  seasoning. That's a 4.9. I feel like fries you   really have to nail at a fast food joint because  it's like the one thing people are relying on that   love them. But this one wasn't hitting. Moving  on. Despite not being that great in slotting  
into our number six spot on the best overall item,  Shake Shack makes the top three on spiciest items.   But what we're searching for is a good balance of  both, and I have a feeling we're going to find it   soon. Moving on. Next up, Taco Bell, where their  only spicy item listed is a spicy potato taco.  
And to make things fair, we max it out with some  Diablo sauce. Let's taste. Honestly, I'm going to   be real with you guys. Let's move this along and  get to something interesting. These sucked. A 3.5   and a.5 on spicy and a two and a half and two  on overall score. Not even worth talking about,  
but hey, we tried it. So, let's make some room for  the big dogs. Jolly Jolly. It's actually been a   minute since I've had the spicy chicken joy, so I  don't remember how spicy it is, but I do know it's   going to being delicious. And I'm going in with  no bias. I'm just going in with an expectation,  
which means that they could underdel. Look, look,  they got flames on the spicy chicken joint. Really   making a point on making this spicy. If there's  no flame, I'm not game. Always a good day when   Jollibee's involved. Wow. Okay. Well, that's a  good sign. Cheers. I mean, that's crazy. Listen.
Wow. It's honestly a little spicier than I  remember. The chicken itself isn't as spicy   as I remember, but the skin is spicier. My mom  would not be able to tolerate this. I'm going   to put this at a 5.5 on the spicy scale. I agree.  I was going to say even five, but it's starting  
to linger more than like the McDonald's one did.  So, 5.5. That said, the flavor, I mean, the umami,   the salt level is perfect. It's cooked perfectly.  It's juicy, but it's not just juicy. It's also   cooked long enough that the meat like falls  off the bone and it's super tender. Let's rate
Yeah, I know what he's doing. He's giving it a  nine something. I'm willing to bet. 3 2 1. You   lied. It was It was soing good. I mean, it's a  nine, dude. How does Jollibee keep doing this?   It's just every time I go, it's so perfect. If  you haven't gone, go. For sake, go. I'm not even  
trying to be biased. I'm not even trying to be  biased. It's like I want to go in and I want to   scrutinize and I put it in my mouth and I'm just  like, "Oh." So, Jollibee looks like they could win   this, but there could be someone to dethrone the  one and only Jollibee. And there's only one way to  
find out. Moving on. Onto our second to last item.  Jack in the box. Could we have an underdog on our   hands? What's the spiciest item on your menu? Said  a sour patch. What? I'm sorry. Do you mind just   pulling the second window? I can't even hear you.  Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. No worries. I said  
worse. I'm so cool. What's the spiciest item on  your menu? We got a spicy chicken sandwich. It's   pretty spicy. Like it's almost southern spice.  Like the Louisiana cayenne, dry cayenne. That's a   four on spice for me. It's like a stinging heat at  maybe a four. It's not dry, which I'm happy about.  
The crunch is real nice on mine. Salt level's  good. Flavor is okay. It's like kind of chickeny,   it's just always nasty. I know they're cooking  back there with oil. It's been recycled like 45  
times, and it's really ruining it for me. I got  mine right out of the gate, dude. I know exactly   what this is. 3 2 1 A 6 and 5.2. Close again,  dude. We're really lining up here. It's the bare   minimum above mid because it's an average chicken  sandwich with a little bit of spice. Moving on.  
Just another drop in the bucket on this journey.  Now on to our final contender. Popeye's. What's   the spiciest item on your menu? Their signature  Halloween that has the ghost pepper challenge as   well. The signature hotter than ghost pepper. Yes.  This is a serious contender. We're at Popeye's.  
have been times where I've been blown away by how  beautifully breaded and crispy their fried chicken   is. They do have a leg up here. Is Jollibee  really going to take the crown? That's my question   one is the best is what will be entered in the  competition. But I will let you know the spicy  
scale on both. Of course, this looks delicious.  I'm going to give it get some sauce on there.   Dude, this looks spicy. That's delicious. That  is so good. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. And   it's pretty spicy. Oh yeah. Honestly, this is one  of the hotter ones I've had in a while. It's that  
oil too. It lingers. They said this is hotter than  the ghost pepper. This is very cayenne forward.   I'm going to give this a six on the spicy scale.  It's just teetering on the edge where if it went   to a seven, it might be a little hotter than I  want. I think it could handle a.5 up of heat.  
But I'm pretty happy with this. Again, we're going  back to that balance. I'm not a huge sweet heat,   but there's a perfect amount of sweet to balance  that heat. That's a six 6.8 on the spice for me.   have the ghost pepper, so we will find out if  that's hotter or not. This looks great. Oh, it  
smells spicy. It does smell spicy. I'm not going  to lie. That is flavorful, but not as spicy as the   signature hot. Honestly, this isn't spicy at all.  It's spicy. Like a five. It's like a four five for   me. This is a really good sandwich, I will say.  But the wings were better and they were spicier,  
so we're rating the wings. I agree. This could go  a lot of directions. This was a bone in crispy,   juicy, spicy, addicting wing. It all comes down  to this, our final competitor. Many fast food   items have come and gone in our search for the  best, but none have gotten closer than this.  
Will Jollibee hold its lead and claim victory for  best spicy fast food item, or will Popeye's come   in and burn it all down? All right, his ears are  plugged. Listen, I gave it an 8.9 for one reason,   one reason only. Everything was perfect except  it was pretty tremendously undersalted. And I  
like it was it was was literally missing salt  pretty significantly to the point where if it   was salted properly, it might have been perfect. I  might have given it a 9.5, maybe even a 96. Like,   it was a perfect win, I tell you. Perfect. This  can still win if he gives it a high enough rating.  
I gave it a specific score, a flat score, but  then with salt into consideration, I docked it.1. That was exactly the same thing that I did.  That was the same thing I did. You know what  
that means? The winner is Jolly B. Boy, I'm  shocked. Honestly, Popeye's really kicked it   up a notch with this one. I'm I might even come  back here. It was a close close call between   Popeye's Jollibee. Jollibee took the crown.  But we have one other winner for the spiciest  
fast food item by far goes to the one and only  Dave's Hot Chicken. It's in the damn name. If   kind of ended up being that. But best spicy item  has been found. Love you. Subscribe. Bye. [Music]