What Happened To Chick-Fil-A Regular Chicken Strips?

Chick-fil-A dropped its flavorful chicken salad offering in September of 2017. The decision to discontinue the classic sandwich was not an easy one, according to company officials at the time. “The decision to remove Chicken Salad from the menu was a difficult one,” a company official told Today Food in 2017 via email.

Restaurants in Charlotte, North Carolina, and several locations in Arizona will drop six of their current mainstays, including original Chick-n-Strips, to make room for Spicy Chick-n-Strips, the Grilled Spicy Deluxe Sandwich and the Spicy Chick-n-Strips Biscuit.

Namely, when the restaurant had to bid adieu to some menu gems. Staples like the Chick-fil-A Sandwich, waffle fries and the chicken nuggets aren’t going anywhere. However, there are a number of other favorites that were removed from Chick-fil-A menus across the country between 2016 and 2021.

Taking a look at the ingredient list for chicken strips on the Chick-fil-A website might just surprise you: there are nearly 30 ingredients listed including things like silicon dioxide and sodium diacetate. Our copycat recipe, meanwhile, has ten ingredients, and the hardest one to pronounce is paprika.