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So... just 'Good' then? KFC pulls Finger Lickin' slogan while pandemic rumbles on
Savvy battered bird flinger KFC has made sure no one will forget its greasy wares during the coronavirus pandemic by ditching its Finger Lickin' slogan. Addressing fast food fans, a YouTube video published yesterday (below) implored: "That thing we always say? Ignore it. For now." The clip shows KFC packaging and advertising …
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 16:45 GMT Mark 85
Re: You missed
Kan't F@ckin' Cook
I haven't done KFC in years. After the Colonel sold it, most of the time it was under cooked, sometimes raw, and that batter... best left untalked about. Horrible stuff. So I think yours is most appropriate.
Icon: Fire. Heat. Apparently they forgot about using it.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 14:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Toxic Correctness
It's worse than that - you don't have to be correct to be PC.
Being correct is hard - and rare - enough.
Being PC has little or no relationship to facts or truth. The C part of PC is just wishful thinking rationalization. Fixing a blame without doing anything to fix a problem is enough to quality for PC.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 14:10 GMT druck
Re: Stats
I'm pretty sick of the food bigots on here that every time KFC or McDonald's is mentioned feel the need to bleat on about how bad it is. No one is saying its the best food in the world, or suitable to eat every day, but a lot of people enjoy the occasional fast food meal. If you don't like it, just don't eat it, and STFU.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 14:45 GMT Khaptain
Re: Stats
Where I live we can have alternative for the same price so why bother with the fast food.. It's not always faster and it's definitely not always satisfying.
Personally I prefer Thai Bao rolls with duck or some Belgian fries with samurai sauce and a fricadelle or two.... All around the same price, pretty quick but far more satisfying...
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 16:42 GMT skeptical i
Re: Stats
re: "we can have alternative for the same price"
Lucky you, Khaptain, and me too. But please spare a thought for people in the vast suburban generica who do not have easy access to downtown or whatever away-from-the-shiny part of town where the mom-and-pop shops and other local-made goodness blooms. There are teenagers who grew up thinking that the chain restaurants (Darden, Yum Brands, &c) are all there is. Not that all chains are bad, of course, but ... meh.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 19:57 GMT Gene Cash
Re: Stats
> Where I live we can have alternative for the same price so why bother with the fast food
Well where I live, I'm fucked. I have either shitty hole-in-the-wall dives that serve hair-in-the-eggs and sweat-in-the-coke or I can go to a chain where at least corporate sets SOME sort of minimum standards.
That's what I get for moving to a town of less than 45K where I can drive around the whole place in 25 minutes.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 15:57 GMT MyffyW
Re: Stats
I'll bleat because KFC has very definitely got worse over time. The staff seem to lack any motivation whatsoever, routinely get the order wrong and couldn't give a flying F when something goes wrong. Staff in McDonalds are superstars by comparison.
I'm not a fast food fascist - I actually enjoy fried chicken, McDonalds, BK and their like. But KFC is dire...
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 17:26 GMT Poncey McPonceface
Jim Gaffigan on fast food snobs
JG: I reference McDonald’s a lot cause I go to McDonald’s. I love the silence that follows that statement. Like I just admitted to support dog fighting or something.
"How could you! McDonald’s?"
JG: It's fun telling people you go to McDonald’s. They always give you that look, like,
"Oh! I didn’t know I was better than you."
JG: No one admits to going to McDonald’s – they sell six billion hamburgers a day. There's only 300 million people in this country, it's like... I'm not a calculus teacher, but I think everyone’s lying.
etc. Very *very* funny imho, here's the vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYKGFujJp6Y
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Wednesday 26th August 2020 08:18 GMT Chz
Re: Stats
I wouldn't rate KFC with McDonalds, for two reasons:
1 - Quality control. McD's is famous for this. A Big Mac is a Big Mac, everywhere. Franchisees who don't keep the standard are quickly disposed of. KFC is horrific for this. They can't even manage to keep their franchisees in line with 5 ratings for food safety. A McD's with a food safety rating of 3 is put into emergency measures, while it's quite normal for KFC.
2 - The actual food. See this is the thing, and it relates to the quality control. KFC, when it's good, is really, really good. Unfortunately, it's rarely so and frequently quite awful. McD's food is so-so, but at least consistently so.
Side note: I grew up in southern Ontario, where we had our own KFC. Officially known as "Scott's Chicken Villa" in tiny letters, but "Kentucky Fried Chicken" in giant ones, it was set up by Col. Sanders himself when he fled the States to Canada for tax reasons. We famously had the best KFC in North America because of it. Sadly merged back into the PepsiCo empire after the Colonel's death. When I visit home, I still miss when you could get a loaf of warm, buttered bread with your chicken.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 16:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
How about Medicinal Fried Chicken?
[Cartman - redacted] I'll f**kin' kill you! [remembers where he is] Uh sorry, sorry. I just, you know, when I've been waiting too long for the Colonel's chicken I get easily agitated. You're a f**kin' a***hole Kenny! Oh oh oh, sorry sorry. Oh here we are! Here we are!
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 11:42 GMT lglethal
Different countries, different flavours
Its funny really, but I've eaten KFC in a few different countries and it tends to taste very different depending on the country, which is a little weird from a global supply chain.
Growing up in Australia, the KFC tasted great. And i had a friend who worked there and was more then happy to take the chicken home at the end of the shift to eat (my mates who worked at mcdonalds and hungry Jacks (Burger King), would not touch the stuff at their joints).
But having eaten KFC in Germany and the UK, I can honestly say its ... disgusting might be too strong a word, but not by much...
KFC - It's possibly, sometimes, Good!
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 11:55 GMT The Indomitable Gall
Re: Different countries, different flavours
As I was told it, most of the variety in KFC is just down to frying temperature. With all frying, if the fat isn't hot enough when the food goes in, it doesn't crisp up immediately and the batter absorbs shedloads of grease.
It was suggested to me that many UK-based KFC branches let the fryers cool too much and don't wait till they're back up to temperature when the customers come in, and reuse the fryers too quickly when busy, meaning the cold chicken hitting the fat cools things back down to "greasy sponge" point again.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 12:50 GMT Teiwaz
Re: Different countries, different flavours
As I was told it, most of the variety in KFC is just down to frying temperature.
First KFC franchise to open in my home town got closed rather quickly due to selling rather raw chicken (Kentucky Raw chicken?).
This was early 1990s. We had to wait another ten years for another to open.
I can hardly believe so many actually bothered to complain over a slogan they'd have heard for decades, and that during normal times they'd have logically realised was not meant to be taken too literally. Such people need to be noted. Any future police state, they'll be the first to report former friends and neighbours for anything.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 16:07 GMT My other car WAS an IAV Stryker
Re: Different countries, different flavours
Attention to detail is why our family prefers a small mom-and-pop shop with licensed/branded/trademarked Broaster Foods equipment and recipes. ("Broasted" chicken is pressure-fried; I'm not sure KFC's is.) They keep their whole fryer line ready at all times and their potatoes are amazing. Sure, it's greasy, so we don't get it often, but it's a decent price, the quality is steadily superb, and the service is friendly and courteous in a way fast food can't even come close to. (When we partook more often I swear the lady knew my voice ordering on the phone.)
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 17:40 GMT chivo243
Re: Different countries, different flavours
Brilliant observation! Can't upvote you enough. Searing hot oil makes all the difference. I once worked in a kitchen that specialized in deep fried pizza dough.
I've seen the inside of couple of the US KFC kitchens, and they have plenty of fryers, (I don't think they could flash fry a buffalo) maybe franchises overseas have a lesser requirement?
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 13:40 GMT julian.smith
Re: Different countries, different flavours
If you were in Australia and KFC tasted better than dogshit - you need to get out more
Most Asian / Turkish greasy spoons are far superior
Get real mate
BTW if you need to broaden your culinary horizons try a MacRendang - Maccas Malaysian answer to dogshit
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 17:50 GMT lglethal
Re: Different countries, different flavours
Grew up in the country and we are talking 25+ years ago. There was one asian restaurant (generic chinese), no turkish, lebanese, malay, thai or any of that sort of goodness. Couple of fish and chips shops and the fast food places. Not a great selection. I'd like to think that things have improved on the food front in Aus, but outside of the cities, I'm not so certain.
Still I havent lived in Oz in 15 years, so what would i know...
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 13:13 GMT Zarno
Re: Cinema tie-in
For sure, since they won't let you into most cineplexes with outside food and bev anyways, so you lost out on the chance to bring a bucket and enjoy the show..
I did once smuggle some rum balls into a LOTR movie when it was showing on the silver screen.
No, I don't remember which one, or much of the movie. I think it may have been the one where they forgot to remove a car from the theatrical release?
Beers, because that's a thing I can do at the house while watching a film.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 15:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Once and once only
Back when I was around 14, me and a couple of friends had been allowed to go on the bus to the big town (about 15 miles away) for a night out. I think there was a movie we all wanted to see or something. While waiting for the obligatory parent to arrive to drive us all home again (last bus home was about 8pm) we went into the newly opened and somewhat exotic KFC. (exotic to those of us who grew up outs in the sticks alongside the tress, sheep and cows)
I recall whilst eating it that it was the most disgusting thing I had ever tasted. About 5 minutes later I barffed it all up over the pavement. Then about 5 minutes later said parent duly arrived with me feeling a bit queasy.
That was 40 years ago (+/- a bit). I haven't touched the stuff since. Even the smell when passing one of their shops makes me want to barff.
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Tuesday 25th August 2020 17:44 GMT Androgynous Cow Herd
Mystery Chicken...
Not a KFC, but in my old sketchy neighborhood in San Leandro, CA...a local mom-n-pop chicken house got shut down for serving that famous San Leandro fried chicken,..
The daily special was four legs, no wings...
They did seem to have a handle on the feral cat problem, though.
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Wednesday 26th August 2020 09:27 GMT hoola
Finger lickin good
One assumes that the customers buying this are eating it with their fingers, it is not as though it is supplied with a nice plate, cutlery and and a serviette (not that a knife and fork is much use in this case).
Of course everyone will have used hand sanitiser on the way in, way out and before they eat it then you need some industrial strength cleaner to get the grease off at the end.
As someone else has said, it looks to be more of a PR stunt.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
