Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich
The cult item people drive across town for. Crispy chicken strips drenched in sweet honey barbecue sauce with melted cheese, between slices of Texas toast. It sounds like something a teenager would invent at 2am, and it tastes that way in the best possible sense. When it leaves a menu, people petition for it to come back.
The story
Whataburger introduced the Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich in February 2005: three chicken breast tenderloins, two slices of Monterey Jack and the chain’s sweet honey barbecue sauce, on a toasted bun or Texas Toast. It was built as a limited-time item and spent years coming and going. In 2010 the company brought it back for National Barbecue Month, from May to June, and its marketing director said customers emailed “year round” asking when they could have it again. That demand is the reason it keeps returning.
What’s inside
- crispy chicken strips
- honey barbecue sauce
- American cheese
- Texas toast
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
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Harmon Dobson opened the first Whataburger in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1950 with a simple ambition: a burger so big it took two hands to hold and so good that people would say “What a burger!” when they bit into it. In 1961 he designed the orange-and-white striped A-frame buildings, inspired by his love of aviation, and they became as recognisable in Texas as the flag.
Around 1,000 restaurants across the South and Southwest, with Texas at its heart.
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