I need to make something clear here. Chicken tenders, chicken strips and chicken fingers are all the same thing. Let me break it down for you:
Chicken fingers --> they are tender, elongated, and look like a finger shaped like a strip
Chicken strips --> they are tender, usually elongated and sometimes the size and shape of a finger (not a human finger, that is gross)
Chicken tenders --> they are usually elongated, like a strip mall (rectangular) and resemble the shapes of fingers
That should clear things up for you. From now on though, since the name of this blog is Double Tender, I will henceforth be calling them Chicken Tenders. Finger strips sounds disgusting anyways. I like the sound of tenders. It feels peaceful and inviting. I don't want to eat fingers. I like to use my fingers to eat tenders. I don't want to strip the tenders either. They taste yummy with their crispy breadness on the outside. If I ate them without those ingredients, then this wouldn't be a blog about chicken tenders. It would be some weird blog that only talks about chicken. Who would do that? Chicken tenders are more worthy of an audience.
Some have been asking about chicken nuggets. Oh, how I love thee chicken nuggets. But alas, you shall have to wait awhile before I review those little round bundles of joy. For now I am focusing on purely chicken tenders. Once I exhaust the area where I live, and maybe even some frozen products, then I may move on to nuggets. But, if there is such a high demand to review the famous Chicken McNugget for example, then I may reconsider. Maybe somebody will actually comment on this blog. I'd like to give a shout out to the random Brian who is my sole commenter. I award you 5 out of 5 chicken tenders. Go forth and eat them.
Stay tuned for a new review Friday night. I am sure I will be eating some chicken tenders for lunch on Friday with my co-workers. Where will I be eating? The mystery! Even I do not know yet. It is so exciting! Just to think, some innocent chicken tenders are waiting for me to eat them. I will find you chicken tenders!
Excellent post. I have long been looking for the proper way in which to distinguish between the tenders, the fingers, and the strips, and much to my dismay, I have not found a proper breakdown. Now, after years of searching, I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your enlightening literature. I, as many other chicken aficionados, look forward to your future posts. Thanks for this important public service.
Thanks for the comment chickenlover! While I don't claim my breakdown is the official word that is set in stone, I think it is close enough. If anyone out there would like to debate it, I am happy to. I just want people to love chicken tenders though, not hate each other. The tenders should bring us together.
DeleteI call fowl (see what I did there, haha, no more puns now). You claim the tender/finger/strip are essentially the same but then go on to describe their subtle differences. I say those differences define them and hence should not all be lumped together.
ReplyDeleteI think you did hit on the key difference though: width. In my mind here is the relationship of their widths: tender > strip > finger. I've seen tenders wide enough that you could take 2 bites out of it width wise.
Just like you this is only my humble opinion. However, despite the potentially off putting name of fingers I don't think it's fair to lump em in with the tenders. And the strips have enough going for them to stand on their own. I respect your opinion to stick with one terminology, it does make things simpler.
Carry on Double Tender, your fans await.
Sensei Tender, you bring up some very valid points. I can see how they seem different in their own way. But like you said, for the sake of sharing my love of chicken tenders with others, I needed to lump them all together in one big tender terminology. Thank you for your feedback! *bows*
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