A day for bonless white meat fried chicken pieces that are too large / long to be nuggets

[Torzelbaum]

Today is the National Day for these but what should we call them?

And if you eat them then do you like them with sauce(s)? What sauce or sauces do you like with them?

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

Just got a bunch of these the other day from Popeyes. The sauces I got were wild honey mustard (I miss the Mardi gras mustard. Not sure why, but I just seem to remember it hitting different) and blackened ranch.

Conversely, the ones I had before that from the grocery store deli and put through the air fryer, I tossed in Sweet Baby Ray's bbq.

 

[Kirin]

I recognize them as either fingers or tenders, but I’m really not a chicken fan in general so I mostly don’t refer to them at all.

 

[Torzelbaum]

tossed in Sweet Baby Ray's bbq.

And there is another question - toss them in the sauce or dip them?

I'm more of a dip kind of guy. And even when they're tossed in one sauce I will often dip them in another sauce.

These are my sauce choices:
ranch
BBQ (or honey BBQ)
BBQ & ranch
hot sauce / buffalo sauce & ranch
country gravy
garlic parmesan

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

Sometimes I like to toss them in buffalo sauce, and if I have a good ranch or blue cheese, that's nice, but I don't always, so I'll just eat them as-is.

I generally prefer dipping, but in the case of these grocery ones, they kind of need all the help they can get, but they're pretty good when they get it.

 

[Violentvixen]

Whenever I did well on something in elementary school my mom would stop by the grocery store on the way home and we'd go by the deli so I could get a fresh chicken tender. There was a really nice old lady who worked there and would always ask what it was I did so well on and congratulate me. I very distinctly remember her, and the fact that she'd hand one over wrapped in paper, always super good and I felt so proud of myself. What a weird and distinct memory!

Anyway I prefer them plain, but dipped in honey is great. Once you toss them you have to use a knife and fork which is meh.

 

[Paul le Fou]

I call them tenders or, honestly, most of the time I call them tendos for some reason. But when someone would get them from the cafe at work at Nintendo, I would call them Nintenders.

Anyway, plain with dip is the way, they're too big to toss in sauce and you'll need a fork. Only wings, boneless or otherwise, can be tossed in sauce, tendos are for dippin'. This is something I do like ranch for. Buffalo sauce is also acceptable, or mixed sauces like bbq ranch or sriracha mayo or whatever.

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

they're too big to toss in sauce

I feel like I've disproven this already by doing so.

Of course, the ones I toss are as much like big nuggets as they are tenders, like maybe 2.5 times the size of a McNugget, but still.

 

[Paul le Fou]

I mean, not like as a physical limit to the possibility. Just as a preference, and how they become more of a pain to eat.

 

[Torzelbaum]

The word goujon derives from the French word 'Gudgeon' which is the common name for a number of small freshwater fish.

So chicken goujons = chicken fishes.

 

[LBD_Nytetrayn]

I mean, not like as a physical limit to the possibility. Just as a preference, and how they become more of a pain to eat.

Fair. As I said, it's usually only in a specific circumstance I do it, though Jack Astor's has some pretty good ones...

 

[JBear]

Up until my mid-20s or so, I was an incredibly picky eater, and the only things I would ever order at a restaurant were fish & chips or chicken fingers, to the exclusion of all else. If neither of those things were available, I probably just wouldn't eat. These days, in an effort to compensate for a culinarily misspent youth, I'll eat basically everything, and like to chase new/novel flavours, so I'd like to say that I absolutely refuse to fuck with these anymore, but they're honestly probably still my #1 comfort food, when I feel like wallowing in my own crapulence. I'll eat them basically any way (I rarely get them tossed, but DQ has a good tossed basket), but my preference is a BBQ, plum, cherry, and/or sweet & sour sauce for dipping. If I'm eating them at home, I have a bizarre ritual learned in childhood that involves alternately dipping them in all four of those sauces in succession, swapping from one to the next after each finger or half-finger.