Last year, the Sacramento Kings pitched their new downtown arena food options as serious cuisine — healthy, classy, and locally produced.
This year, Kings fans, say hello to the doughnut chicken sandwich.
It’s the team’s take on a national sandwich trend that’s lauded as fun food by some and dismissed as a culinary oddity by others.
The Delish.com website calls doughnut sandwiches “awesome.” But a New York publication, Bedford + Bowery, calls the trend “blechtacular” and the “weirdest use of fried chicken we’ve seen since the chicken-in-a-cone.” NPR’s Sandwich Monday recently column didn’t know what to make of the sandwich, but offered: “It looks like a UFO from planet Faturn.