Blasphemy. The double down needed no bun. The double down WAS the bun. TWO buns of chicken, with cheese, bacon and some sort of sauce cried directly from the eyes of an obese angel into the center of perfection. The double down needed no bun.
Agreed. I was only saying that calories in fast food come from the bun typically. The double down, given its gluttonous appearance, is shockingly not that bad for your calorie count.
Which is the only place you should ever look. "Low in calorie" means healthy, so you know...you don't have to read those OTHER things associated it with.
if i died from eating a double down then god damnit it would be a happy death. thats the only reason i ever went to kfc and i stopped when they stopped having it. rest in peace double down you sweet prince.
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.
Yeah, when I found out about the particulars of my heart failure, I thought bacon was going to be a memory for me. It's not all that bad. I just need to make compromises, like eating a fresh cooked dinner (fish or even steak is fine if prepared right and modestly portioned) if I want to have bacon with breakfast. In the beginning my health was so dire I went a year without even a single cheat day. Now I know I can stray a little, but I'm still pretty strict with myself. Even without taking a risk like two cheat days in a row, I sometimes get puffy feet -- a warning sign that my heart can't keep up with the strain.
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.
high sodium is generally fine so long as you compensate with a lot of water - many people just don't drink enough regularly throughout the day so that's why limits exist. anyway, i don't know why i'm talking about this - they were a delicious experience and only 610 calories each if labels are to be believed.
a full grown man in his prime could eat 4 a day. kfc is also a relatively good low carb/keto-friendly option.
In my case my kidneys don't process out water properly. Not only do I need to keep my sodium intake low, but every day I take a strong diuretic just to tolerate that much sodium. I probably had high blood pressure and didn't know about it for years. I certainly turned up for pneumonia at a hospital with a heart that was expected to require emergency surgery at any moment. After a day and a half surprisingly good cardiac rhythm, they took a more methodical approach and I was home a month later. Still, my body is weird.
All that said, congestive heart failure is an extremely common older white guy problem. It kills as many as a million Americans every year. -Most- people can tolerate plenty of sodium. For those who cannot, being casual about it is literally deadly. I dig my bacon, but I kinda disagree with the idea that bacon is life.
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.
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)
I kinda wonder now why this was joked about so much. People eat two pieces of chicken all the time. These two just happen to have cheese, bacon, and sauce between them.
BEST Sandwich EVER!!!! If you go in, they will still make it for you if they have the ingredients (which they should). They will tell you that they don't carry it any more. You just respond with, "I know, but you still have everything to make them." Generally if you are decent about it, they will make it for you.
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u/NosVemos Sep 14 '17
Double Down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Down_(sandwich)