While I do eat meat and other animal products, I was excited to see how the dish stacked up to KFC classics.
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The chicken chain sent me the 12-piece nuggets in a green box featuring Colonel Sanders, along with four different sauces to sample.
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My first reaction to the nuggets was at their size. They’re huge, up to 2 inches wide and in uniform, rectangular shapes.
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Though the uniformly rectangular shape and size initially threw me, they looked good on closer inspection, with promising, crispy breading.
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I could see hints of KFC’s seasoning on the breading, so I was happy to taste them.
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Of course I prepared my sauces, too.
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The nuggets were slightly too big to fit comfortably inside the sauce container. It’s not a huge problem and is definitely fixable, but it was something I hadn’t anticipated.
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The first bite (tried here by my fiancé Joe) delivered on everything I could want from a KFC nugget: juicy, crispy, flavorful.
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Not only did the texture feel right in a bite, it even looked right.
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Beyond Meat and KFC somehow nearly perfectly recreated the slightly stringy, pull-apart texture of a standard fast-food nugget.
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