We Tasted All 9 Wendy's Breakfast Sandwiches and This Is the Best

The Fast Food Wars have had no shortage of surprise moves, but maybe one of the biggest was Wendy's surprise announcement of not only launching breakfast, but a breakfast menu of nine different sandwiches. So, like any reasonable enough person would do, we rolled up and ordered every single one of them.

The breakfast sandwiches we tried:

- Maple Bacon Chicken Croissant
- Sausage, Egg & Swiss Croissant
- Bacon, Egg & Swiss Croissant
- Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit
- Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit
- Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit
- Breakfast Baconator
- Classic Sausage, Egg & Cheese Sandwich
- Classic Bacon, Egg & Cheese Sandwich

Here's how they stack up.

We imagine that you, like us, read the words "Sausage, Egg, & Swiss" or, "Bacon, Egg, & Swiss" and imagined a sandwich containing Swiss cheese. Unfortunately, dear friends, we've been duped. You'll not find any Swiss cheese on any of these sandwiches, no; instead, you'll find a sauce so indistinguishable from mayo that we literally thought they had forgotten Swiss cheese and had instead put mayo on a breakfast sandwich.

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If you've ever eaten a Wendy's Baconator and thought, "This is good, but I wish the patty was a breakfast sausage and it was covered in Swiss cheese sauce," this is a sandwich for you. If you're the other 99% of the planet who has never come anywhere close to that thought, this sandwich is probably going to be far too heavy.

Come on, gang — you hang your hat on your square patties. Your burgers are square, your sausage is square; keep that nastiness a-flowin' and give me some square eggs.

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The biscuit Wendy's is serving for (unfortunately only) three of their sandwiches is really something. It's actually not far off from a Popeyes biscuit, and in case you're unaware, that is a gigantic compliment. The croissant, which is a lot more like Flubber than it is an actual croissant, is a spongy, soggy mystery. You won't be too disappointed with the classic bun, but the biscuit is undeniably where it's at.

Wendy's has stood the test of time for so long thanks largely to their famous Frosties, but an easy No. 2 on that list is the bacon. It's amongst the best in fast food, and it does a lot of heavy lifting with every sandwich it's on. It's the superior meat option here, so skip the sausage entirely. One question for Wendy's, though, while we're on the subject: Why no ham?

It probably sounds like we were pretty mean to Wendy's here (because we were), but we cannot close out this taste test without recognizing something that is certain to change the fast food breakfast conversation. Amidst all the pomp and flair of Wendy's announcing an incredibly ambitious nine options at once, they casually introduced what just might be the best fast food breakfast potatoes in the game. These things taste like actual home fries you might get at a diner, and they are already a titan. Get your hands on them immediately.

The fast food game is fairly oversaturated with egg-and-cheese sandwiches, but there aren't a lot of places doing what Wendy's is doing with the Maple Bacon Chicken Croissant. It's a shame that it's trapped on that weird science experiment of a bun, but Wendy's has gone full-on savory brunch mode here, and we can respect that.

Despite the fact that Wendy sort of lost her mind with the Breakfast Baconator, she managed to regain an impressive amount of control with her BEC sandwich. This isn't too far off from a bodega or corner store breakfast sandwich, keeping things simple with a manageable amount of bacon, egg, and cheese on a buttery bun. Also like a classic bodega sandwich: It's far too salty.

Sometimes, the best things in life are simple. What we're dealing with here is a piece of fried chicken, covered in honey butter, and served on one of their surprisingly good biscuits. Truly, what else do you need?