News: Sonic Brings Back Sweet Potato Tots and Introduces Spicy Popcorn Chicken

Sonic adds a new spicy version of their Jumbo Popcorn Chicken and returns Sweet Potato Tots for a limited time.

New Spicy Jumbo Popcorn Chicken features bite-sized piece of white meat chicken with a spicy fried batter shell. Along with the chicken, Sonic is introducing two new dipping sauces: Creamy Chipotle and Berry Spicy.

News: Arby's Testing Hash Brown Sandwich

Arby's is testing a Double Down-style sandwich using their potato cakes (i.e. hash browns) as buns. The new sandwich is part of a value menu test they're calling the "Snack 'n Save" menu. The test has been underway since, at least, January in Evansville, Indiana.

The hash brown sandwich is called the Bacon Cheddar Potato Cake Melt and is simply built with two halves of a slice of cheddar cheese and thick-cut pepper bacon between two Potato Cakes.

Custom Order: McDonald's Quarter Pounder Mac Style

Say you wanted a Big Mac from McDonald's, but preferred that it were meatier and easier to cram in your burger hole. Also, it'd be nice if the middle bun didn't threaten to escape every time you bit into it. With that in mind, I tried to order a Quarter Pounder Mac Style i.e. with Mac sauce and shredded lettuce instead of ketchup and mustard.

A Quarter Pounder goes for $3.29 at my local McDonald's and they charge 30 cents extra for shredded lettuce (bringing the total to $3.59), but here's the difficulty with custom ordering:

News: KFC Now Offers Original Recipes Bites with Gravy

KFC is offering a special, limited-time combo featuring their Original Recipe Bites (first introduced last year) and their signature gravy. The combo is priced at $3.99 and features 6 Bites, a side, and a drink, along with your choice of dipping sauce.

Sauce choices include gravy, Creamy Buffalo, Honey BBQ, Ranch, and Honey Mustard.

Apparently, the Original Recipe Bites have been doing quite well: KFC claims to have sold over 300 million of them.

News: McDonald's Introducing Egg White McMuffin in April

McDonald's is slated to introduce an egg-white version of their popular Egg McMuffin nationwide on April 22, according to The Daily Meal.

They're calling it the "Egg White Delight" and it features egg whites cooked on the grill similar to McDonald's scrambled eggs, rather than cooked in a ring like for the regular Egg McMuffin.

Review: McDonald's Hot 'n Spicy McChicken Sandwich

McDonald's Hot 'n Spicy McChicken is a recent add to their value-priced Dollar Menu. It features the same bun, shredded lettuce, and mayo as the standard McChicken, but comes with a spicier chicken patty.

I picked one up for $1 at my local McDonald's

News: Denny's Brings Back Baconalia

Denny's once again offers their annual Baconalia menu (stylized as "Baconalia!") for a limited-time with a full line-up of 12 bacon-ful menu items (and 2 non-bacon items). The name "Baconalia" is a portmanteau of bacon and Bacchanalia (a drunken revelry named after the Greco-Roman god of wine, Bacchus).

Highlights on this year's menu includes a maple bacon shake, as well as a maple bacon sundae.

Here's the full menu in all its bacon-y glory:

Local Review: Grill 'Em All - FTW Cheeseburger

Grill 'Em All's simply-named FTW (it stands for "For the win") burger is made for purists of the meat and cheese set as that's about all there is to this burger.

$6 gets you a half-pound beef patty and American cheese (or another cheese of your choice) on a bun.

News: Burger King - 2 for $5 Signature Sandwiches

Burger King's latest, limited-time promotion is an offer for 2 for $5 on Signature Sandwiches.

The chain's Signature Sandwiches include the Whopper, the Original Chicken Sandwich, and the Premium Alaskan Fish Sandwich (formerly the BK Big Fish Sandwich).

News: Caribou Coffee - New Biscotti Mocha and Milan Latte

Caribou Coffee ushers in the Spring with two new, limited-time coffee beverages: Biscotti Mocha and Cafe Milan Latte.

The coffee chain is marketing the new drinks as "the perfect complement to embracing life's simple moments" and has rolled out new cups, napkins, and other in-store decoration to reflect that theme.

News: Town Names Itself "Reubenville" for 5000 Free Sandwiches

The town of Coeymans (population: 7,418) takes up the name "Reubenville" for the month of March in answering Arby's "Reubenville Challenge" and they have the signage to prove it!

The spoils for answering the challenge? A cool 5000 coupons redeemable for a free Arby's Reuben sandwich each. Of course, that leaves 2,418 people out in the cold (and judging by the picture, it looks quite cold there!)

News: McDonald's - New Hot 'n Spicy McChicken on the Dollar Menu

McDonald's adds a spicier version of the McChicken to their value-priced Dollar Menu with the new Hot 'n Spicy McChicken. The sandwich offers the same shredded iceberg lettuce, mayo, and hamburger bun of the original, but with a spicier chicken patty with a redder hue to it.

The sandwich is available for $1 in most markets.