Tyson Foods, one of the biggest mass producers of chicken products and all around corporate slaughterer of chickens in general, has a new product line that sounds hip, fun, and tasty. This product line goes by the name of Any’tizers and I bought a whole stack of boxes and different flavors to give them a try.
Any’tizers Buffalo Style Boneless Wyngs:
The Buffalo sauce that these chicken pieces soaked in is just perfect for my pallet of bland preference. It is not too spicy and not completely tame. These work great for an appetizer or party snack, which the entire line of products seem to be geared towards, but also worked as a full on lunch for me as I sat in bed watching a Dvd. Overall: Good Stuff!
Any’tizers Cheddar and Bacon Chicken Bites:
The bacon overwhelms the flavor of the cheddar, and overall they both taste as fake and processed as can possibly be. These work great maybe for a small snack, but eating more than a few made me sick to the tummy. If you are a fan of potato wedges with cheddar and bacon bits, sort of like what is found at the fast food joint: Jack N the Box, then these taste just like a helping of those. Whether or not the nuggest are made out of chicken, I could not tell, all tasted like fake bacon to me. Overall: Junk Food!
Any’tizers Homestyle Chicken Fries:
I like chicken fries. I remmeber when the old Hardee’s fast food places in the Midwest has chicken sticks; those were great. These days Burger King has chicken fries and if they are not cooked in dirty grease they have some nice flavor. These Tyson chicken fries lack in flavor. They taste just like one of those Tyson chicken fritter patties and you will more than likely need some sort of sauce. Perhaps these fries could be used as an ingredient in some elaborate salad or wrap, but alone they are quite boring. Overall: Filling, but boring!
Any’tizers Cheddar and Jalepeno Chicken Bites:
Constructed in the same way as the Cheddar Bacon bites, only replacing the bacon with Jalepeno, which means you have a chicken nugget with small chunks of tasteless cheese and pepper on it. These are slightly better than the Cheddar Bacon, due to the Jalepeno being less plastic tasting than the bacon, which the bacon cannot help because the bacon is not spicy. Overall: More junk!
Any’tizers come in a total of 10 flavors, with others being: BBQ Style Wings, Honey BBQ boneless Wyngs, Hot N Spicy Wings, Mini Chicken Bites, Popcorn Chicken, and Ranch Flavored Chicken Fries. The product is designed to be eaten “any time”, but are mainly geared towards being a snack food or appetizer, if you plan to use them as a full meal hopefully it isn’t a regular thing. The boxes come in the familiar to shoppers red square of Tyson Chicken nugget type products and there is a decent helping inside for an individual, possibly two. I ended up having a few nuggets left over from each box that could then be combined for my next snack. The chicken fries definitely had enough for two people in my opinion, but then again I am about as skinny as a chicken fry.
Overall: Good Snacks!
