Okay, I have a confession to make: My name is Marty and I’m a mall walker.

That’s right, I’m retired and I’ve started walking out at the mall. Since I’ve got more free time now I thought I’d start walking every day for a little exercise to help counter all the junk I eat here on the blog!

I was talking to my brother Tom and he told me that one lap around Northwoods Mall is exactly one quarter mile, so you can keep track of how much you’re walking just by counting your laps. Plus, you’re inside so you don’t have to skip days when it’s rainy or shitty outside!

Before this about the only time I was out at the mall was counting gumboils with Chad Wallace!

I’ve noticed in my many miles I’ve logged in already, that there’s a lot of places to eat out there, so I thought it would be fun to try something out once a week, since I’m there already!

So let’s put on our walking shoes and head over to the Northwoods Mall!

Here we area at Northwoods Mall, a daily stop for me now that I’m an official mall walker!

Let’s go inside and now I have to do about six laps which is a mile and a half. I can rip these laps off in about 30 minutes now, so why don’t you relax and watch the video below.

When it’s over, just meet me at the Food Court on the upper level.

Perfect timing! Here we are at the food court at Northwood’s Mall.

There’s other places to eat beyond this food court, but I thought this would be a good start to this mall-eating adventure!

This place just opened up a few months ago and I’ve been curious to try it. So I got an order of chicken wings and now we’ll take them back to MBIP World Headquarters to sample our first flavors from Northwoods Mall!

Okay, we’re back at MBIP World Headquarters to try our first of many Northwoods Mall Meals!

And awaaay we go!

I got an order of the Hot and Honey chicken wings. I didn’t order fries, but i guess they come with the wings. We’ll try those out first.

I think the fries were cooked in an air fryer.

I don’t really care for the seasoning they use, it tastes a little weird and I discovered I’m not a big fan of air-fried French fries.

Next!

I watched the tail end of the wing preparation and they take the cooked wings and just spray the sauce on top of them, so the sauce isn’t cooked with the wings and it leaves them way too saucy for the way I like them.

And the sauce is just kind of bland. We’re not off to a very good start, but they do have other dishes besides chicken wings, so we’ll come back later and maybe they’ll redeem themselves!

Billy Joel had a River of Dreams, Peoria Hot Wings has a River of Sauce…bland tasteless sauce!

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Okay, it’s time to rate the wings using this handy-dandy Stacy Hamilton rating system. As always four is the best and then it gets decidedly worse as the Stacy’s become fewer!

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