{"id":105,"date":"2008-04-23T05:46:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2008-04-23T05:46:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T13:46:53","slug":"close-but-not-close-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/close-but-not-close-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Close but Not Close Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/cfa-chicken-sandwich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-106\" title=\"cfa-chicken-sandwich\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/cfa-chicken-sandwich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I went through a McDonald&#8217;s drive through for breakfast yesterday and I saw a very intriguing sign for a new sandwich: the Southern Style Chicken Sandwich.\u00a0 On first glance it looks strikingly similar to my beloved Chick-Fil-A.\u00a0 I looked it up and all of the press information confirmed my suspicion that this sandwich was created to directly compete with CFA.\u00a0 I decided that we would come back here later for dinner to try it.\u00a0 I knew it could never replace CFA, but if it was at least close enough to substitute from time to time I&#8217;d be happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I told my wife about it and she agreed we could go there for dinner.\u00a0 Pulled up to the drive through and ordered 4 sandwiches, 2 with pickle (for her), and 2 without (for me).\u00a0 They told us it would take about 6 minutes to cook up (must not be a big seller if they cook it to order).\u00a0 We pull around to the parking lot and about 10 minutes later our food comes out.\u00a0 Now for the taste test and results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First, my wife loved it.\u00a0 She thought it was a terrific sandwich and close to the original and for her would certainly work as a substitute.\u00a0 For me, not nearly close enough.\u00a0 Even though the sandwich has no pickles, they use dill juice as part of their seasoning because the whole sandwich had strong dill flavor to me.\u00a0 I think this is probably because McD&#8217;s uses lower quality pickles and wanted to supplement that flavor.\u00a0 Ok, if you like the pickle flavor.\u00a0 Beyond the dill, the breading wasn&#8217;t nearly the fullness that CFA provides and fairly plain.\u00a0 The chicken itself was tender white meat and did compare to CFA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, my wait for a Chick-Fil-A to come to Vegas will still be met without any substitutes; although I&#8217;m truly happy that it will work for my wife and I can find other things at McD&#8217;s if she is ever craving a Southern Style Chicken Sandwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/close-but-not-close-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went through a McDonald&#8217;s drive through for breakfast yesterday and I saw a very intriguing sign for a new sandwich: the Southern Style Chicken Sandwich.\u00a0 On first glance it looks strikingly similar to my beloved Chick-Fil-A.\u00a0 I looked it up and all of the press information confirmed my suspicion that this sandwich was created [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/close-but-not-close-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}