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| - My one-star rating is mainly because the wings from Pizza Hut are god awful and I want to warn people before purchasing them. If you want to get a pizza from them, go right ahead, but steer clear of their selection of wings!
A night or so ago I was having a craving for wings - and let me tell you Yelpers, it was a terrible craving. I ordered Pizza Hut's medium wings and lemon pepper wings.
The first thing wrong with both types, was how they make/prepare them. The wings that I drool over and always end up craving later are the kind that are fried or baked until the skin on the outside of the wing is crispy. Then, obviously, they drown these wings in sauce and bam you've got yourself something to die for.
Pizza Hut's wings? They actually coat the wings in a very, VERY thick cake-like batter and cook them that way. They then coat the wing in a select type of sauce (that is poorly made as well). You go to take a bite and the majority of what you get is batter! If you're lucky to get meat off of the bones, which I barely was, you get a thick flap of wet (not crispy) chicken skin and what appears to be STEAM cooked meat.
The sauce they coat the batter in is anything but extraordinary. The medium-hot wings I got had a super strong smell of vinegar coming off of them but little to no heat/spice level at all. My lips didn't burn while I ate them and my tongue wasn't crying for a time-out. Yes, yes, I know! I got the MEDIUM ones but generally they have SOME heat to them, right? Wrong. Perhaps my taste buds are growing immune but the level of heat on the medium wings was just downright criminal.
I had high expectations of their lemon pepper wings, as those are my favorite kind of wings, but I turned out to be sorely disappointed. They were horrific and this is what made it or broke it for me. Clearly in the name of the type of chicken wings, there should NOT be a level of overpowering sweetness, correct? I took a bite of a wing covered in what appeared to be a gooey sauce with specks of pepper in it and I was totally turned off. The sauce was SUGARY. I've never tasted lemon pepper wings anywhere where it tastes as though they put honey in it or some form of sugar. I could barely taste the kick of pepper. To be quite frank, I don't think they put any sort of pepper in it because all I tasted was the sweetness. It tasted like someone slathered a battered up piece of meat in syrup. If I wanted something like that, I would have gone into a reputable restaurant and ordered chicken and waffles.
Needless to say, I am thoroughly grossed out and never touching anything 'wing' related by this company anymore. Truthfully, I don't even want to touch anything Pizza Hut makes at all because this experience has not only left me feeling physically sick from the poor quality of the food, but it was expensive and a complete waste. Never again.
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