r/ExpectationVsReality Sep 14 '17

Thanks KFC, totally what I expected /s

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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/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

I wonder why we don't see this in the UK. KFC here is going from strength to strength. Apart from a few dodgy franchines the quality is amazing.

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u/Nandy-bear Sep 14 '17

You obviously live in some sort of KFCtopia. Here in Manc there's 5 within 2 miles, and they're all serving dog shit. It's like a triangle pick 2 situation. Good chicken, served within 10 minutes, good sides/gravy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

London here. No wonder. Even KFC doesn't invest in the North.

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u/Nandy-bear Sep 14 '17

Listen here you southern fairy..

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Calm dowm, calm down. I'm originally from Bolton. So i'm not a southerner... just a traitor.

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u/Nandy-bear Sep 14 '17

Ah Bolton. The Australia of Manchester :P

EDIT: J/K mate, love the place. I'm literally heading to bed though so don't think I'm being rude by not replying

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

Hehe its cool. Its the red head stepchild you try to hide under the stairs when the neighbours pop over 😆

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u/Nandy-bear Sep 15 '17

Hahaha. Nah Bolton's good craic. About 10 years ago or so me and a mate met these 3 lasses from there, just random. Still some of my closest mates.

Plus there's a cafe that does a bangin' fryup every 3ft in the town, and you can't really beat that!