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Fast Food: Wendy's Chili

Wendy's chili isn't much to look at, but it tastes leagues better than Hormel. It's much thinner, but the sparse beef is augmented by plenty of small red kidney beans and pinky-gray pinto beans, and there are cursory bits of tomato skin, onion and, in a huh?-but-harmless touch, celery.

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Have You Tried the Wendy's Breakfast Menu?

Last week, at a Wendy's near New York's Penn Station, I was surprised to see a quick flash on their digital menu boards: Breakfast. Now, Wendy's has been testing a few morning items in very limited markets—but I knew I wasn't living in one of them. What I found? A rogue Wendy's breakfast menu.

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The Best Fast-Food Fried Chicken Sandwich?

In the fast food world, fried chicken sandwiches are the new black. Just about every chain, whether a burger chain or fried chicken establishment, offers multiple versions. But which are the best? We tried the standard fried chicken sandwiches, whether chicken patty-like or chicken fillet-like, from KFC, Popeye's, McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, Wendy's, and Burger King. During the tasting, one thing became very clear: not all chicken is created equal.

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Wendy's Spicy Asiago Ranch Chicken Club: Long Name, Small Changes

New fast food products seem to appear at an astonishing rate these days, but some changes are bigger than others. Like last week's Chipotle BBQ Bacon Angus Burger at McDonald's, Wendy's Asiago Ranch Chicken Sandwich is a spin on existing menu items. Because I'm such a fan of the Spicy Chicken Sandwich, I was excited about the new Asiago—which comes in Grilled, Homestyle, and Spicy Varieties.

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Taste Test: Wendy's New Fries

Go to the Wendy's website, and the first thing you'll see is an advertisement for their "Natural-Cut Fries." Earlier this month, the burger chain began offering a new type of French fry, made with skin-on potatoes and sprinkled with sea salt. Seeing the advertisement for these new fries, the dreamer in me exclaimed, "Wow! Natural products at Wendy's! I can't wait!" But the logical consumer in me reacted differently—"What the hell does Natural-Cut mean?"

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Battle for the Seas: McDonald's Filet-O-Fish vs. Wendy's Fish Fillet

First introduced in 1963, for Catholics who couldn't eat red meat on Friday, the Filet-O-Fish has been a McDonald's staple for years. (One that Serious Eaters have very strong feelings about.) A few years ago, Wendy's added a cod-based "Premium Fish Fillet Sandwich" to the menu. Which is the better of the fast-food fish sandwiches? We wanted to find out.

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Wendy's New Salads: The Baja, the Spicy Chicken Caesar, and the Apple Pecan Chicken

Wendy's recently began offering new salad offerings to complement their existing ones. On a visit this week, I tried three: the Apple Pecan Chicken Salad, the Spicy Chicken Caesar, and the Baja Salad. While all different, the salads share a few things in common—the chicken is in bite-sized pieces, they offer you the dressing (and some toppings) in individual packets so you can put as much or as little as you'd like, and they're all $5.99 plus tax.

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'Consumer Reports' Rates Fast Food French Fries

Unfortunately, Consumer Reports only hits the big three--McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's. The two redheads get "very good" ratings while the King merely receives a "good," with CR saying what I've always thought about BK fries: "coating detracts from the quality and makes texture a little tough, not crispy."...

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Wenarby's? Arbdy's? Arbendy's? Arby's Buys Wendy's for $2.3 Billion

Wendy is totally sobbing into her Frosty right now. The same billionaire company that owns Arby's finally bought her family's number-three burger chain. Ever since that woman in San Jose supposedly found a finger in her chili, it's all been down hill. According to Dave Thomas' other daughter (not Wendy, but Pam), the family is devastated....

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Video: Chicken Commercial Possibly Rejected from Wendy's

The following commercial for Wendy's Four-Alarm Spicy Chicken Sandwich was posted to YouTube by a guy who supposedly worked making ads for the chain. His claim is that they rejected this spot. Maybe, maybe not. In today's wacky world, this could just be an attempt at planting it virally. If so, I'm biting, because is one of the funniest ads I've seen in a while....

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