Name: FAJITA RANCH MELT
Restaurant: JACK IN THE BOX
Type: LIMITED TIME SPECIAL
Cost: $3.99 (Northern CA price)
Review:
I love Jack in the Box's limited time specials. I don't always eat them because sometimes their food really does epitomize the name Gut Bomb, but I still love them. Jack in the Box, more so than any other fast food restaurant, is not afraid to try new things (and bring back old ones as well). But not all ideas succeed. Unfortunately, this one just barely failed.
Basically, the idea here was to combine the topping you get in a fajita (chicken bites, green peppers, grilled onions) with melty white cheese, ranch dressing and buffalo sauce (or it could have been highly concentrated taco sauce) and place it on buttery sourdough bread. If the idea of fajitas mixed with a patty melt sound good to you, this is right up your alley.
So, short answer, it just didn't work. The buttery sourdough bread - so good for most things - just doesn't work for this melt. It adds no matching flavor and the contrasting flavor of buttery bread and fajita don't work together. Further, this choice of bread guarantees that this sandwich is going to drip, slide, and squirt everywhere. It is a needlessly messy sandwich.
Its parts, individually, taste good. The bread is excellent for any other sandwich. The chicken fajitas are quite tasty. I even liked the cheese - though it melts a bit stringy. The buffalo/taco sauce either ended up on my shirt (surprise... there's red sauce in this sandwich!) or came out in clumps. It was like finding the one pepper in the entire batch that had some spice to it. The part were good, the sum of them all didn't work.
And now the ratings:
Taste: 3 Bombs
Hunger Satisfaction: 3 Bombs
Cleanliness: 2 Bombs
Cost Value: 4 Bombs
Overall: 3 Bombs
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