Month: November 2022

Ben and I went to Chilis for dinner the other night.

I was eagerly anticipating my usual, the original chicken crispers.

For all the years I've been going there (since years before Ben and I met, actually) I've only rarely ordered anything different than those crispers—and always regretted it. I mean, in my mind, those crispers were the only reason to go to Chilis.

Imagine my horror then when we learned that night that the original crispers are no longer on the menu. The honey chipolte and the crispy variety are still available, but the originals aren't. And it seems I'm not the only one who is verklempt at this development; if you go on Reddit you'll see a lot of people are pissed about this. There's even a petition in the works urging the chain to bring them back. Will it work? Who knows?

In their defense, the crispy crispers aren't awful, but they aren't as good as the original, and remind me of what you'd get from Kentucky Fried Chicken…and I know this much, they certainly aren't enough to make me ever want to set foot in the restaurant again.