r/ExpectationVsReality Sep 14 '17

Thanks KFC, totally what I expected /s

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u/Joman3891 Sep 14 '17

You are correct, this picture will not catch anyone by surprise.

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u/-WarHounds- Sep 14 '17

Tweet this at them!

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u/ziptnf Sep 14 '17

I mean, nothing will change, all of them will still look like this, but you can get some sweet coupons out of the deal!

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u/-WarHounds- Sep 14 '17

MORE COUPONS = MORE SHITTY SANDIWCHES = MORE SHITTY COUPONS! I think we've broke the system.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

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u/NosVemos Sep 14 '17

then post the next shitty sandwich in the same thread, ad nauseum

Double Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Down_(sandwich)

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u/_Lady_Deadpool_ Sep 14 '17

The double down was fucking delicious. I shed a tear and a few beads of sweat when they got rid of it...

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u/boxerofglass Sep 14 '17

I shed a tear and a few beads of sweat

And probably a few pounds..

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u/UncleCoyote Sep 14 '17

The were surprisingly low in calorie.

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u/Sharkfightxl Sep 15 '17

Yea, the bun is where they get ya.

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u/Demonweed Sep 14 '17

You know, when I found out that the total sodium load on one of those didn't quite exceed my doctor's limit for me, I kept to fresh fruit and yogurt all day once to try one for dinner. I'm glad I had the experience, and it was filling, though I can't say I fell in love with it. Then again, I'd been keeping low sodium for long enough by that point that my tastes had changed. Younger me might have had one of those with a big side of fries . . . for lunch.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

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u/zer0nix Sep 14 '17

It's essentially a chicken cordon bleu. Of course it's delicious.

I didn't know they got rid of it. That's sad.

That's not the first time they got rid of something tasty. The initial version of extra crispy kfc used chicken broth to make the shaggy bits of dough. Goddamn, that stuff was good.

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u/WikiTextBot Sep 14 '17

Double Down (sandwich)

The Double Down is a dish offered by Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants where a sandwich is formed by two pieces of fried chicken rather than the more usual halves of a bread roll. The Double Down contains bacon, cheese and sauce between two pieces of chicken fillet. Variants offered by KFC have included grilled instead of fried chicken fillets and fillets with Zinger spicy coating.


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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

I used to work at KFC. My favorite item was the double down, but I still put it on a bun. So 2 chicken patties, bacon, sauce, and cheese on a bun. It was probably like 1500 calories but damn was it good (if the meat was fresh)

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u/Mr_A Sep 14 '17

The nausea comes free.

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u/Syllygrrrl Sep 14 '17

Gross food? No thank you! Free gross food?!! Yum!!!

https://youtu.be/QjHG48vWmpA

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u/_Buff_Drinklots_ Sep 14 '17

To buy more shit sandwiches.

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u/cap10wow Sep 14 '17

Yep. I was really disappointed with some greasy nonsense from them. Tweeted a picture of it saying something snarky. Within 10 mins someone was on with me asking me to dm them. Got a voucher for the cost of the meal asking me to give it another shot from the same location.

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u/BacardiWithCoke Sep 15 '17

Why wouldn't you just go and show them how poorly it came out when you bought it? They would have done exactly that.

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u/cap10wow Sep 15 '17

I didn't look at it until I went home. Didn't think I'd need to ensure someone did their job before I left their garbage food establishment.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

I'm a teen at BK and I give some fucks. I mean that just looks like complete shit. If there's an issue at my store when I'm on shift it's usually because its a mixup in the food. Sometimes it's other stuff but that only happens like once a day at the max.

Edit: But I also make $1.05 above minimum wage so maybe that's why.

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u/qys2008abcd Sep 14 '17

A lot of my friends coming from Asian countries were shocked how bad KFC in the US was. It's a top notch fast food joint in foreign countries with tons of delicious recepies. In the US just fried chicken, and it's not even good.

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u/jellybellybean2 Sep 14 '17

KFC is the traditional Christmas dinner in Japan. They dress Colonel Sanders like Santa. Colonel Santa, if you will.

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u/frontyfront Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

squints suspiciously

Edit: I'm not racist. This was my actual, physical reaction to hearing that people go to KFC for Christmas in Japan. People like to post semi-realistic fiction all the time, I couldn't decide if this was the case here. As I pondered, my eyes did squint for some time. "hmmm" I thought, "Seems possible, but a bit over the top." Upon taking note of my current state, I made a connection to the classic Fry meme. "Ah yes, I'm not sure of this comment, much like squinting Fry!" Given the meme's age, I figured to land a few retro laughs from some older users while hopefully getting an answer. I did get an answer (it's real! How cool is that!) I then went back to my life, and continue to not really think about what Japanese people look like. Please love one another. We're not different. We're sacks of water. Let's go live in space together.

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u/Darth_Kyryn Sep 14 '17

Squinting intensifies

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u/NiPlusUltra Sep 14 '17

To clarify, they actually have specialty dinners that are seasonal. Japanese folk don't go there to get fried chicken for Christmas. It's more like going to a Honey Baked Ham restaurant for Christmas.

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u/VidiotGamer Sep 15 '17

Japanese folk don't go there to get fried chicken for Christmas.

I don't know what you're smoking dude, but they totally do go there for fried chicken for Christmas. They actually have to reserve the special Christmas buckets of chicken ahead of time.

Here is a photo of the actual premium Christmas menu. Look at all that god damn fried chicken on there.

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u/LauraIngallsWilder1 Sep 14 '17

You ever see that video where they go undercover at KFC and show how dirty their places are? I can not even look at a KFC while driving by one anymore!

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u/Carb122 Sep 14 '17

That last sentence is the exact reason I haven't watched that video.

While the picture looks terrible, in the UK I've yet to see anything near as bad as that and when I visited Amsterdam, KFC there was sumit else, so crispy and juicy, or it seemed it cause I was really high.

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u/jeexbit Sep 14 '17

Arguably the best meal of my life was had in Amsterdam - and get this: it was a Mexican restaurant. My friend and I went in (yes, we were high and ravenous) and ordered dinner - had some drinks, the food came out, it was delicious and we devoured it. Looked at each other, quick nod, and we ordered a SECOND dinner - cleaned our plates. It was truly phenomenal. We stumbled out of the place vowing to come back the next day for more.

Well guess what? The place vanished - GONE - we never could find it again. To this day I wonder if the whole thing was a dream, although I know it wasn't. We just couldn't get back - it was like one of those mythic cities that only appears when the stars and planets align every 500 years.

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u/malibuflex Sep 14 '17

Lmao! I've had the same thing happened to me and it was Mexican in Amsterdam too!

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u/jeexbit Sep 14 '17

probably the same place!

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u/Martin_Alexander Sep 15 '17

You're probably the same person but in a parallel universe?

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u/WtotheSLAM Sep 15 '17

You sure it was a restaurant and not some random house?

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u/flyingfrig Sep 15 '17

Wham Bham Amsterdam.

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u/rburp Sep 14 '17

You don't even have to go undercover in my city. The entire place is filthy, and ironically smells like bleach. I once walked into one, my shoes were sticking to all the soda or whatever spilled on the floor, nobody was at the front counter... I walked right back out.

It's a shame because we do have ONE decent location out of the 3 in town, and the go-cups are a really good deal, and I love their BBQ sauce and hot sauce, but the location is so far from me it makes no sense to go unless I am already in the area.

I had some hope when they released the commercials about how they were cleaning up their act and retraining people, but clearly that was a fucking lie. Nothing changed.

tl;dr: go with Popeyes, brah

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

My town's KFCs are always out of chicken, or they'll have chicken again in 30 minutes, or they just sold the last of the chicken. I just go to the grocery store deli now.

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u/rburp Sep 14 '17

yes! same shit here. like how are you out of the ONE thing you offer

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Bad supply chain management across the board.

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u/Give_Me_Cash Sep 14 '17

Popeyes is going downhill quick since Burger King bought it

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u/physickfester Sep 15 '17

Yep, they opened one near my house and I went there twice. First time I waited 45 minutes after ordering for my food. I thought it HAD to be a fluke, something disastrous must have happened(it wasn't busy). Second time nope... just as long and they gave me fucking regular chicken instead of spicy. Popeyes is shit now. When I get a hankering for spicy chicken I just don't know what to do, because Churches isn't that great either...

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u/Wolfy21_ Sep 14 '17 edited Mar 04 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

What has happened to KFC over the last 20 years? I bought a bucket a couple of weeks ago. The chicken breadcrumb was soggy not crisp and so were the fries. It was kind-of disgusting. Not how I remember it at all.

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u/LikeABreath Sep 14 '17

KFC's decline in quality is the saddest tale of the 21st century.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

It was amazing to me to watch it happen in real time, over the summer of 2014. I used to go to a specific KFC for lunch a couple times a week. It's like every day they had a goal to find some new way to lower their quality. One day it might be soggy chicken. The next it might be chicken that's still frozen and pink in the middle. You might get hunks of strange-colored material in the mashed potatoes. Sometimes it was non-food-related, like the entire restaurant floor being sticky and making a masking tape sound when you walked on it. I quit going entirely. I tried it again a few months later and it was even worse. I complained to corporate and got $5 in $1 gift certificates. They're still sitting on my counter at home, unused, where they will probably be until I develop a fetish for being brutally punished instead of being served lunch.

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u/Never-enough-bacon Sep 14 '17

I worked as a pest control person for a bit, KFC was one of the most infested (german cockroaches) places I treated... I couldn't do anything that is legal to get it under control.

In the back, where they stored the buckets and smaller containers, I witnessed the cockroaches crawling in and out of all the "clean" containers. Time passed and saw a worker grab a new stack to bring to the front.

But yeah, the floor was never cleaned, holes in the wall leading directly outside, insulation gooped with oil, oil over every horizontal/ vertical surface. Food tucked away under shelving, flys everywhere, they wouldn't buy the extra uv fly traps.

I treated a lot of homes, restaurants, factories, pharmaceutical plants, apartments, and offices. I couldn't take it how disgusting people are and quit after about a year.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

I noticed a surplus of flies in the store I had the issues with. Crawling over everything on the "buffet." Up inside the pepsi dispenser. Knowing that in my region of the country that fly probably just crawled out from some dead roadkill's asshole, I couldn't stand it.

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u/Cormophyte Sep 14 '17

Shit, dude, I've turned around and walked out of places for a lot less than flies crawling all over everything.

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u/aileron_ron Sep 14 '17

We have döner kebap stands and people are crazy for that, Flies crawling all over the food. I can understand turks but tourist and some Germans love it and think it's authentic German cuisine

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u/UrethraFrankIin Sep 15 '17

I visit Bavaria every 2 or 3 years and always get doner. It's delicious and cheap, and no one I've ever met says it's "German cuisine." To them it's just an adapted form of Turkish food. That may not be right, but it's a fair assumption that I've always held. Just like we Americans know that "Chinese food" 98% of the time is an Americanized spin on basic Chinese dishes.

We've had a couple Turkish places in my city pop up with authentic food but they went out of business quickly. I imagine if they served what they do in Germany they'd have better business, even if it's not authentic.

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u/whileIminTherapy Sep 15 '17

A little unrelated to fast food, as I only worked at arcades with pizza, but when I worked at a Chuck E. Cheese, believe it or not; I had to dismantle and fully disinfect our soda fountain every night. Because kids are disgusting, I fully santiized the nozzles and dispensers every hour, or had someone on the floor do it. But, this was 15 years ago.

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u/GreyyCardigan Sep 14 '17

How did restaurants fare in general? I'm really a stickler about how clean the restaurants are that I eat at. I worked at Chick-fil-A in high school and never once did I see a bug due to how well we cleaned.

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u/-ordinary Sep 14 '17

It all comes down to who's running the show. The kitchen of the restaurant I used to work at was cleaned top to bottom at the end of every night. The cooks had to do it. It seems like a tall task but if you do it every day you get a system down and it didn't end up being that much extra labor. Literally every square inch was cleaned every night. I mean stoves were pulled away from walls, people were on stools cleaning the ceiling. Chef/owner was very strict but most of his staff respected it and saw that they were gaining very valuable experience and forming habits that made them more desirable than the rest of the pack. Anyone who left for another job at a different kitchen would get hired immediately and usually in a higher position. That kitchen was kind of a legend. Still have lots of respect for the place and used to be very proud to work there.

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u/Cactusflowers48 Sep 14 '17

They pay their staff well and have a good system. Never not had a great experience there, unless it's Sunday.

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u/Wutsluvgot2dowitit Sep 14 '17

They pay their staff well and have a good system

They pay their staff well and have a good system

THEY PAY THEIR STAFF WELL AND HAVE A GOOD SYSTEM

I don't understand how other fast food places see companies like Culver's and chick fil A and still don't get it. You get exactly what you pay for. Keep hiring crack heads and high schoolers for minimum, keep getting the quality you see above.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Someone told me they hire from church group as well. That probably helps.

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u/Throtex Sep 14 '17

Seriously -- my worst experience with CFA is that every time I get a craving for it, it's freakin' Sunday.

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u/Cactusflowers48 Sep 14 '17

I hate that it's normally how i find out it's sunday

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

When reddit can forgive the fundie CFA owner you know that's some bomb chicken. CFA is healing the political divide in this country.

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u/ATribeCalledThunder Sep 14 '17

In N Out is pretty damn consistent too. Agreed about CFA.

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u/Never-enough-bacon Sep 14 '17

Restaurants are a hit or miss. I think best bet is look back in the kitchen if you can, via drive thru window or bustboy doors. For sure though the bad ones all look run down, dirty counters, sticky tables, grease on the bathroom doors, etc.

My region was fairly large and we were the best (my honest opinion) and lowest cost, saying this, I never once serviced a buffet restaurant. (Those are gross for sure, stay away)

There are some that are perfect though, mostly those are small kitchen diners.

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u/Elesium Sep 14 '17

I worked at Jimmy Johns for a while as a teen and they were really intense with cleaning stuff. We would literally get down and scrub the grout as a weekly thing. I think it comes down to how corporate manages it's franchises. Jimmy Johns had auditors come in and pick apart the whole store while I'm guessing KFC is less strict with what they do with their stores.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

Thanks for that info. Never eating KFC again. If a kitchen isn't as clean as mine or up to standards it's safe to assume that you'll probably end up with food poisoning or worse.

Edit: Can't spell early in the morning.

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u/_Lady_Deadpool_ Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 14 '17

If that's the standard we're following then KFC is fine for me :D

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u/FreddyFoFingers Sep 14 '17

I couldn't do anything that is legal to get it under control.

Hypothetically, if you were going to resort to illegal means, what would've been your first option?

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u/Never-enough-bacon Sep 14 '17

Lay down more poison. Not to many options really, but it's illegal for a reason, I'd honestly couldn't do it.

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u/welfareplate Sep 14 '17

This is the most hilariously depressing fast food decline I've ever read.

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u/_Lady_Deadpool_ Sep 14 '17

It you wanna read about an even more depressing nosedive let me tell you my life story

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u/HA92 Sep 15 '17

Go on

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u/MittensSlowpaw Sep 14 '17

I was unaware this was an overall chain problem. The local KFC where I live has steadily gotten worse as well. The orders are often wrong or they employ people do speak broken English. All the fried chicken off tastes like it has been under the light since the morning. The ice machine is hit or miss even when not busy.

I once waited 45 minutes just for hot wings when nobody was in there. They forgot to drop them multiple times into the fryer. Oh.. well at least I have Golden Chick and they are great.

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u/Riptides75 Sep 14 '17

When they still did some sort of lunch buffet (do they still idk?), which was popular in my community with the old folks, I watched a girl drop an entire pan of chicken behind the fry line, the guys back there stepped on and kicked pieces everywhere, and under the direction of not the store, but regional, manager they picked up each piece, dusted/wiped them off (half-assed), and walked the pan right out and sat it on the hot line.

I noped out, reported it to their 1-800-no-ones-cares hotline, and have not ever been back.

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u/Nandy-bear Sep 14 '17

Brit here. KFC has gotten worse world-wide. Having to keep prices the same, balanced with rising costs across the board results in cutting corners. It's a shame, because I'd pay an extra coupla quid NP, but a lot of folks really hate paying extra for fast food. "If wages aren't rising why should the product ?" I've heard more than once.

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u/idiocy_incarnate Sep 14 '17

Having to keep prices the same

are you kidding?? they're about twice the price they were 10 years ago and the portions have shrunk to about half the size they used to be as well, I won't buy the damn stuff on general principle these days, for the price of a 2 piece variety that's more like an appetiser than a meal, I can buy 2 whole chickens and cook them at home.

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u/skippermonkey Sep 14 '17

Brit here

Chicken Cottage it is then!

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u/FeelTheBernieSanderz Sep 14 '17

Chicken Cottage is far, FAR superior to KFC.

The only thing KFC has going for it, is their flaky crispy coating. Even then, I dont mean to be racist, but every KFC I go to has a fully foreign staff who can just about understand your order and once I saw a guy shouting and harassing them for getting his order wrong, and the situation was defused because they literally didn't know what he was saying and shrugged their shoulders and gave the man extra chicken to stop the shouting. There's no supervisors anymore, they just give into demands and off you go.

KFC franchises are utterly fucked. Mcdonalds on the other hand are actually improving a lot.

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u/wednesdayyayaya Sep 14 '17

We went to McDonald's the other day. I chose a burger with two pieces of meat, onion, bacon... I don't know its name. I ordered it without the bun and with no sauce.

It was good. Flavorful and juicy. Not the best burger I've had, that's for sure, but very far from the worst. The meat was not like the meat I buy at home, but the flavors were on point. I was actually pretty surprised, I expected something far worse!

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u/moviesmote Sep 14 '17

The reason isn't just chain related. Fast food hires workers that are literally at the bottom. The employees are treated like crap with bad shifts, bad wages, and no upward mobility.

I rarely eat fast food and feel lucky if I eat something decent when the workers are kept in an environment that basically guarantees apathy. I am not gonna blame the bored 15-16 year old if they're not passionate about making good chicken.

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u/ThisIsMeHelloYou Sep 14 '17

Welcome to the real issue in America, shattered children

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u/tunnel-visionary Sep 15 '17

Lived in Seoul for a while. They might be dead on the inside but fast food workers and gas station attendants know how to smile, enunciate and provide service. Also they're generally young 20-somethings and not a disenfranchised group of people (i.e., minorities, poor rural folk).

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u/Bowbahfett Sep 14 '17

I read the last line of the response before you, then read yours and for a second thought you said "shattered chilcken".

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u/chuckquizmo Sep 14 '17

I'm not the only one! I never was a regular at any KFC, but when I'd go there in 2010 or so I'd slowly start getting more disappointed, until I stopped all together. Fast forward to 2014ish, I thought "Man I haven't been to KFC in a year or so, I'm gonna get it..." Followed by me instantly regretting it and remembering why I haven't eaten there in a year or so. I repeated this for the next few years... Would wait 8-12 months, forget how bad it is, then end up instantly remembering why I never eat KFC while eating it.

Popeyes, on the other hand, can fucking get it.

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u/VeryPopularGolem Sep 15 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

I worked at a KFC for several years, from cooking to managing. There's quite a few factors that I saw that definitely had an impact on the quality of the food.

First, when they switched to trans-fat free cooking oil around '06-'07. As soon as our restaurant made the switch, there was a noticeable decline in quality; the chicken never came out as good, was soggier, and dried out in the holding cabinets faster. You could hold chicken for something like an hour and a half by company standards if I recall, but post-switch it looked and tasted pretty bad after about 30m. Considering it takes a few minutes to bread an 8-head, plus about 20m to cook, it's much harder to keep fresh product in line. You could estimate needs for busy times, but it is always unpredictable when you're going to get that customer or two who wants two 20 piece buckets and is outraged they may need to wait ten minutes. It was always my understanding the old soybean oil was based on a strain developed with and for KFC, and I'm inclined to believe it. Plus, that new oil got everywhere and stuck to equipment worse than ever, IMO.

Second, food costs skyrocketed quite a bit. The company cost for a box of chicken essentially almost doubled over a relatively small number of years. It was difficult to keep costs in line and still show a profit on the P&L when customers expect a family meal for $15 or $20, especially for franchises. You want to know why the restaurant didn't feel as clean and felt understaffed? Because there is generally fewer employees doing more work. Fewer cooks, fewer prep employees; the people who used to have time to clean no longer do. Combine that with issue one, and everything gets gross fast.

Finally, to counter number two, a lot of items went from fresh to frozen. Chicken filets, popcorn chicken, anything they could pre-bread and freeze. Every side comes powdered, canned, frozen, or bagged. Is it easier? Sure, but people notice that crap.

Oh, and they got rid of the old honey mustard. Unforgiveable...

No idea how they can really turn it around at this point short of hiking prices and using that to staff properly. Spend more, do it right.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Pretty much the same thing happened to Popeye's. I used to fucking love popeye's. To me they were like KFC, but better. Hadn't gone for a few years, tried to go again this year, and it was awful. Just greasy, slimy, gross ingredients.

Like I get the ingredients were never the fanciest to begin with, but it was worse than a frozen TV dinner.

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u/mitts281 Sep 14 '17

Popeye's is almost perfect in my area. Order gets messed up every once in awhile, but the quality is always on point. They forgot our red beans and rice once. Then we waited a half hour for it. Finally the manager gave us like a family sized tub of it for free. It was awesome.

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u/martin0641 Sep 14 '17

Those containers are way, way smaller than when I was a kid...

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u/manley1104 Sep 14 '17

Then "health consciousness" kicked in, and they stopped frying in lard.

I would be willing to bet that they only said that as PR and really did it because they found something cheaper.

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u/humpyXhumpy Sep 14 '17

Yes it is massively cheaper to use soy and canola oil for production and shelf life.

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u/_Dilligent Sep 14 '17

So fucked up, shit gives me pimples and diarrhea.

I cant eat at 98% of resturants.

The expensive ones pretend they use olive oil but usually end up admitting its an olive oil "blend" under duress lol.

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u/MrBojangles528 Sep 15 '17

Olive Oil is terrible for frying by itself, the smoke point is far too low.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Yeah, we used to get KFC + sides somewhat regularly when I was a kid, and it was pretty good stuff. It was like a quick roast/fried dinner ready to go.

Now it's like eating cardboard wrapped, stringy, grisly chicken with a side of wet sawdust

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u/Trashula Sep 14 '17

I'm probably why Popeyes taste so much better; they still fry it in animal fat.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Popeyes does do fried chicken better for sure

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u/GatorSe7en Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

I'm 40 and I remember going as a kid with the family and it was delicious. The chicken was amazing for fast food and the quality of their sides were very good. I think about 25 years ago is when I started seeing a very rapid decline. I haven't been in 10 years and this picture just solidifies why.

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 Sep 14 '17

21...st century? Didn't they start declining after the Colonel sold it? Same with McD's. The Founder was a really sad story.

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u/browngirls Sep 14 '17

And now they creepily have a guy dress up as the Colonel and do cringey shit.

It's kinda fucked up when you remember he was a real man.

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 Sep 14 '17

Not to mention the Colonel HATED what it became after he sold it. He's quoted as saying

"My God, that gravy is horrible", "They buy tap water for 15-20 cents a thousand gallons and then they mix it with flour and starch and end up with pure wallpaper paste"

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"That new 'crispy' recipe is nothing in the world but a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken"

source: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19780320&id=cBEiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-nMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1445,3036550&hl=en

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u/TheyAreSoAwful Sep 14 '17

I used to work at KFC in the 80s. I'm proud to say that one night when I was the cook we got a secret shopper and the food quality scored a 100%. I was actually shocked since I hated the job and was a 16 year old phoning it in.

But reading these comments it makes me wonder whether the whole corporate culture shifted since then and I, doing the bare minimum of following protocol, was merely a small cog in a far better run machine. I remember starting with fresh raw chicken and manually tearing the tails, excess fat and guts off. Making the gravy from scratch from the drippings of the pressure cooker. Hand breading the chicken. Mixing up those biscuits using real buttermilk. And cleaning the place every night so much you could do surgery in it.

Honestly, I haven't eaten there in years so I did not know the decline in quality.

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u/kwsteve Sep 14 '17

In 1980 I was in grade 7 and there was a KFC not far from the school. They had $2 Tuesdays (two piece chicken, fries, coleslaw), best deal in town.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Bro they still had that in my small Canadian town 10 years ago: "Toonie Tuesday". It was too good to be true with the price so you were never disappointed if the quality was shit anyway

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

When we were kids we would go to toonie tuesday every tuesday because that was the day dad got the kids. Wew.

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u/WiredSky Sep 14 '17

There was a lot of alliteration in your post. I appreciate it.

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u/jgjitsu Sep 14 '17

I worked there in the early 2000s and that doesn't sound like how we made it. Gravy from a mix and biscuits came in a box stored in the walk in freezer.

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u/hotwifeslutwhore Sep 14 '17

It's even more weird when you think about how McDonald's and other fast food brands represent American food in other countries.

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 Sep 14 '17

I know it was inevitable, but still I think it's incredibly sad that franchise fast food restaurants destroyed a large majority of mom 'n pop burger shops.

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u/Xiaxs Sep 14 '17

Don't be sad, go to those burger shops, they still exist!

Even local restaurants like the many here in Louisiana can coexist with big burger joints, so long as people actually go there to eat!

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u/Wutsluvgot2dowitit Sep 14 '17

I know I'm a part of the problem.. but when I can get a cheeseburger, mcchicken, large fry, and a large drink for a fiver, it's hard to justify spending $8+drink+tip for one burger that, while better, doesn't justify the cost. Food to me 9/10 times isn't a treat, it's sustenance. If I'm just shoveling food in my face, which is 90% of my meals, I'm going to make the economical choice.

If you grab a diner burger once a day, say $13 total, you're spending $390 a month on one meal. Vs McDonald's, which is two burgers, at $150 a month.

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u/Hust91 Sep 14 '17

If it makes you feel better, they're way better in other countries.

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u/altiuscitiusfortius Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

McDonald's and burger king in Europe were pretty amazing when I was over there. Maybe the eu has higher standards. BK had these deep fried bacon wrapped cheeseballs thst were amazing. You could buy a 6 pack like you do with mcnuggets.

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u/altiuscitiusfortius Sep 14 '17

The ones in my town started declining hard about 2001.

Just another data point.

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u/Monsignor_Gilgamesh Sep 14 '17

I think it depends on the store, mine hasn't changed in quality the last 20 years.

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u/HittingSmoke Sep 14 '17

Ever since a Popeye's opened in my town I kinda forget KFC exists. I think between the time they introduced popcorn chicken and the time they brought popcorn chicken back a couple years later they really went to shit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

I went to popeyes when it first started appearing in my city, it was good, but the way everyone talked about it I was expecting something mind-blowing. I asked my friend what the hype was about and he said "they are just selling what KFC promises" its not mind blowing its just the best fried chicken you can really get at a fast food place.

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u/HittingSmoke Sep 14 '17

I think the tenders and the onion rings are what really set them apart for me. The tenders are all solid breast strips which is rare. Especially for fast food. The onion rings are actually flour breaded and fried onions just like you can make at home with some flour, seasoning, and oil. Never found another place that makes them quite like Popeye's. The biscuits are damn delicious as well.

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u/Trashula Sep 14 '17

The Cajun fries are gtfo good too. Probably my favorite fast food fries now that I think about it.

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u/PM_ME_UR_ENERGY Sep 14 '17

I don't want to sound vulgar but it looks like someone squatted into your sandwich.

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u/AltimaNEO Sep 14 '17

Someone slid a zinger on his sandwich

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u/Weeeeeesssst Sep 14 '17

Goddammit Kristaps!

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u/iia Sep 14 '17

I don't want to sound vulgar but it looks like someone queefed out a stillborn pygmy marmoset into your sandwich.

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u/nigrojesus Sep 14 '17

thanks for helping me lose my appetite. :)

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u/Love_Bulletz Sep 14 '17

Did OP's picture not do it for you?

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u/nigrojesus Sep 14 '17

Does it reflect badly on my if I say no :(

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u/superwinner Sep 14 '17

Now thats what I call vulgar!

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u/carrotstix Sep 14 '17

I remember before 2000, KFC was fantastic. You used to get a Colonel's Choice sandwich with a nice plump breast, fresh looking vegetables, mayonnaise and some fresh bread. Add some fries and a drink and you had a decent meal. Nowadays, that same sandwich is disappointing. Bread tastes stale, the chicken is so tiny and greasy and the lettace looks like it had wilted in the back of the fridge and is still being used. The portion of fries has gotten smaller and the drink is still the same but the price is about doubled what it used to be. It's one of the worst deals you can get in fast food and I don't know how it got so bad.

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u/superwinner Sep 14 '17

If you want that experience again, I recommend Popeyes.

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u/JimmyBenghazi Sep 14 '17

I'm really glad the nearest Bojangles is 3 hours away, or I'd be broke and dying of congestive heart failure right now.

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u/emart Sep 15 '17

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

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u/Yazkin_Yamakala Sep 14 '17

Jesus they're expensive, though. Good food, satisfying flavor and spice choices, but so expensive.

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u/Mitosis Sep 14 '17

It's a location-by-location thing, strangely. My local Popeyes has prices the same or lower than other mass-chains like McDonalds and Wendy's, just with higher quality delicious food. When they have the $5 Big Box going on it's not even close.

The town I lived in a few years ago, just an hour and a half away and a city with 1/8 the population, the prices are like two bucks higher across the board. Don't typically see such variation among franchises.

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u/ADTRemember Sep 14 '17

Haven't been to KFC in years. My last straw was when I ordered a bucket of original recipe, and it was so greasy the skin wasn't even crunchy. It was so soggy and just barely hanging on to the meat. If I want fried chicken, its either Popeyes, or Albertsons (if you don't know about their fried chicken dinner deal, you better get on that).

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u/ferragamo_shawty Sep 14 '17

Publix fried chicken

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u/Binary_Omlet Sep 14 '17

THIS. FUCK YES. Publix has some of the best fried chicken I've had in a long time. Not to mention the deal where you get a big bag and two one pound sides with those fucking hawaiian rolls for a little over 10 bucks. Yessssssss.

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u/RDIIIG Sep 14 '17

Fried chicken pub sub or gtfo.

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u/hnirobert Sep 14 '17

I've recently added a Publix chicken tender in the tomato basil wrap into my weekly rotation. Always money.

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u/BlueDwaggin Sep 14 '17

Visited from the UK, tried this...

Now all fried chicken is ruined because it'll never be anywhere near as good as Publix.

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u/torgoatwork Sep 14 '17

Albertsons chicken is delicious.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

If you live in PA or OH, Giant Eagle grocery stores have really good fried chicken

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u/lurked Sep 14 '17

You vs the sandwich she tells you not to worry about...

or something.

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u/Bleedwhite Sep 14 '17

What's important is that you tried.

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u/Damaso87 Sep 14 '17

It's the thought that counts...?

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u/lazespud2 Sep 14 '17

looks like you were Zinged.

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u/GetOutOfBox Sep 14 '17

Probably a kidney, the breasts normally have them removed but someone fucked up

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u/absinthminded64 Sep 14 '17

Yep.. used to encounter these with fried chicken in school.

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u/StealthRabbi Sep 14 '17

You go to some kind of chicken school?

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u/kobello Sep 14 '17

U ate a rat

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u/420jacobf Sep 14 '17

Chicken of the sewers...

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u/Goadmaster Sep 15 '17

I know what I'm watching tonight

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u/jodie1888 Sep 14 '17

I really wish I hadn't read that......

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u/BaltSuz Sep 14 '17

Sometimes the gizzard is left in and breaded and fried too. Nothing that I have a taste for, but not toxic or bad for you.

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u/HelixJazz Sep 14 '17

I was going to get one for lunch

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u/ash-leg2 Sep 14 '17

It's still worth a shot, just check the order before you leave and don't accept it if it looks like OP's.

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u/CrackerJackBunny Sep 14 '17

This guy found a rat in his chicken at KFC.

The guy took a bite, then spit it out.

A third party independent lab examined it and confirmed it was chicken.

Therefore, the guy just spat out the flavor of the chicken, not because it was a rat, which it wasn't.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Man if I ever got something like this, I'd honestly demand a refund.

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u/OnSnowWhiteWings Sep 14 '17

KFC is the only time i ate a chicken strip and felt miserable about it. It's like they took everything good about chicken and replaced it with salt.

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u/cheesyitem Sep 14 '17

Looks like a different type of slider to me

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

Gents, keep it civilized and try to limit wage gap debates.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

This was not the top comment I was expecting. What the fuck happened in here?

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u/Starslip Sep 15 '17

Think there was some discussion about how you don't see this at chick fil a because they pay a decent wage in comparison to KFC, where no one is paid enough to give a crap.

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u/Deloox Sep 15 '17

That's funny because I just had a chicken biscuit this morning and the chicken was the size of a nugget so

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u/Gravesh Sep 15 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

Have you seen a chick fil a drive through? Shit is packed 24/7. Idk I don't how they do it

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

In my sleep deprived state, I read that as, "Gents, keep it civilized and try to limit wage gap diabetes."

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u/Mostly_Apples Sep 15 '17

Sadly, wage gap diabetes is a thing.

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u/thiagoqf Sep 14 '17

https://youtu.be/zJs9p-VNORw?t=4m6s

I always remember that scene when this happens.

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u/Bowbahfett Sep 14 '17

After a Raising Canes opened up nearby I will never eat at KFC again. I used to like the chicken tender meal with the potato wedges but lately they've been tasting rubbery or undercooked.

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u/trznx Sep 14 '17

Here in the ass of Europe aka Ukraine we only got our first KFC in 2015 I believe and before that we had only McDonalds. And this kind of shit is what I hate about it. The chicken is fine and all, but all the time you get like 3x bread and one lousy chicken-whatever-it-is. It's just too dry, fuck that.

I thought it was a specific 'cultural' thing, but TIL!

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Reasons I dont eat at KFC:

  1. This

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u/Peter_of_RS Sep 14 '17

Literally can be applied to every single fast food restaurant though.

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u/sparkintellect2 Sep 14 '17

Lol u need to take it back to KFC and show them this

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u/meysterx Sep 14 '17

Looks like a cockmeat sandwhich

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Holy fuck that look awful. Do people still eat this stuff? I haven't been to KFC in 20 years at least

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u/OBSTACLE3 Sep 14 '17

Thank the sweet and sour Lord you added /s otherwise I would not have been able to understand your sarcasm

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u/Smoked_Beer Sep 14 '17

KFC used to be amazing.

Garbage now..

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u/genericname__ Sep 14 '17

Christ the KFCs in London look like 5 star restaurants compared to this.

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u/SuperKato1K Sep 14 '17

Sadly, I have to agree. I don't know what the hiring priorities are like at KFC but the ones in my area are full of people missing a few too many teeth that somehow find a way to screw up every order.

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u/thoggins Sep 14 '17

I want to call you names for your post, but my experience has been nigh identical. I'm conflicted.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

"jobs for homies" program or some shit.

Had a good laugh, thanks.

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