Foodie Spotlight | Crunch Time Nuggets

The Chicken Nuggets is a quintessential snack that was invented in the 1950s and has been a very popular fast food restaurant item, as well as widely sold frozen for home use. It is clearly the snack most kids order at one of the most popular fast food restaurants in the world, which is why most adults make them as a viand for their lunch meal. 7 Eleven’s Crunch Time doesn’t only serve chicken, but also they have other items other this branding and one of them is the ever popular chicken nuggets that is also way sold out during the peak of at lunch hour. But sometimes popularity doesn’t come in the form of why it’s always sold out. Sometimes it’s the only option in the menu that flies off the glass display.

Originally, the Chicken Nuggets was invented by a Food Science Professor named Robert C.Baker Cornell University in the US. It became a staple food item consisting of a small piece of deboned chicken meat that is breaded or battered, then deep-fried or baked. This bite-sized piece of chicken, coated in batter and then deep fried, was first called the "Chicken Crispie" by Baker and his associates in the 1950s.

There have been already a variant of the Chicken Nuggets, but the original remained the same with minor changes in the ingredients, which depends where you are in the world. They come in various shape and sizes, but the standard nugget remained to be served the way you expect they are anywhere that has become a favourite.

Extrea Tiny Bite-Size

The version at 7 Eleven is what you always expected in their advertisement differs from the actual product. They either served with or without rice, but Filipinos are more wanting to have anything they have as part of their rice meal. Even a side dish becomes a viand despite not knowing it’s only a side dish becomes their lunch.

It is still packaged in a box like their fried chicken, but you know when you open it sometimes the expectation for a surprise can be turned down by the visual reaction and for this one it did not go well with how it looked. You got used to have their oversize-up fried chicken in it until it was the nuggets were packed with it.

Not Enough Nuggets

For a price, the box overwhelms you that you’re expecting more. But then again, the tiny little nuggets were not enough despite being good at how they are. This is the part you try not to compare it with other leading fast food restaurant that serve their version of the chicken nuggets.

They say, “it is for what it is…” in terms of food portions and the best part is the nuggets did not disappoint in taste it’s in their size and shape that was underwhelming for all the reasons why it was sort of challenging to accept the way it was presented.

Overall it is what you get and the size was the one that made it underwhelming with no choice to add more since they are only serving five pieces. Nuggets are made to be snacks not for lunch, but majority of Filipinos would disagree about having it as a snack when you can add rice and make it into a lunch meal.

• Food Quality: 3 out of 5
• Affordability: B-
• Overall: Too Small for Nuggets, and no options to add more.

Crunch Time Nuggets (5 Pieces with Rice) | Retailed at: ₱ 70.00 Pesos [$ 1.81 AUD | $ 1.26 USD]**

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