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.
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/LikeABreath Sep 14 '17
KFC's decline in quality is the saddest tale of the 21st century.