For our taste-test, we tried McDonald’s McCrispy Strips, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, Wingstop Crispy Tenders, Chick-fil-A Chick-n-Strips, KFC Chicken Tenders and Popeyes Chicken Tenders. Photo by Scott Suchman; food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post

Burgers might be the reigning kings of fast-food dining, but in recently chicken has been taking a big (s)wing at the throne.

To keep up with customers’ seemingly insatiable demand for breaded bird, recently McDonald’s introduced its latest iteration of crispy chicken strips. The strips are made with actual pieces of chicken, unlike its classic nuggets, which are made from a paste-like product fried in a tempura batter. Changes at the nation’s far-and-away biggest chain don’t come lightly, and company executives said it’s

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