A bellyache after a bucket of chicken is one thing, but in the case of a little girl who fell ill with salmonella poisoning after eating at KFC, things are a lot more serious. The fast food chain has been ordered to pay $8.3 million to the Australian girl's family after she suffered severe brain damage after being poisoned by a "Twister" wrap from KFC in 2005. More »
A former manager at a KFC eatery in Oregon alleges that the owner of his franchise not only ordered employees to serve expired chicken, but also that employees who refused to do so were fired. More »
While people were terrified during Wednesday's earthquake, KFC Thailand decided it was a good idea to remind them that nothing eases the fear of being hit with a potentially-devastating tsunami like a bucket of chicken. Yeah, that didn't go over so well. More »
After nearly two decades of attempts by U.S. fast food titans like McDonald's to open up outlets in the Palestinian territories, it was Colonel Sanders from Kentucky who finally was able to be the first when a KFC opened up in the city of Ramallah over the weekend. More »
An employee at a KFC eatery in England says that when he received a call from a woman claiming to be a rep for John Travolta, asking to reserve a table for the Boy In the Plastic Bubble star, he told the woman "no," but not because he thought he was being pranked. More »
Two years ago, Oprah promoted on her show a KFC coupon for a free grilled chicken meal. Now the class action lawsuit the resulted after that ended in tears has settled. More »
It's been more than four years since we first posted The Really Big Guide To Secret Menu Items, in which readers shared their inside scoops on how to score hidden fast food gems like "Naked Chicken" at Popeyes or take advantage of TGIFriday's Five Easy Pieces policy. There have been several requests to update and expand the list, so we're going back to the source: you. More »
Some NBA players who fear an extended lockout are already looking into their options, including playing in Turkey or Greece. Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat now has the option to work with chicken and grease, thanks to a publicity stunt in which the fast food chain offered a job to the star. More »
I kind of love this very unofficial ad for KFC made by comedian Peter Serafinowicz. It juxtaposes a loop of a 70's father cutting a chicken for his family with a staticy voiceover instructing how to serve a chicken. An ominous drone pulses underneath. At the end you feel like you've just witnessed the mental filmstrip of a serial killer right before he creatively dismembers his latest victim. Pass the mashed potatoes! More »
Almost a year ago, our survey-loving siblings at Consumer Reports asked several thousand readers to rate burgers from 18 burger chains and to no one's surprise, McDonald's came in dead last. Not satisfied with merely finding the best and worst beef-on-a-bun, CR decided to go for the super-sized option, rating 53 restaurants in five categories to find which ones provide the best food, service and value to customers. More »
A promotion at a Utah KFC seemingly gives customers the opportunity to aid diabetes research while doing their best to make themselves possible patients. More »
Add this to the growing list of menu items available only to our overseas fast food friends: KFC chicken doused or somehow flavored with an Irish cream liqueur, only available at KFC China. More »
All those morons sitting in jail right now because they got caught trying to rob a fast food joint are going to feel silly when they hear about the guy in Kansas who drove off with a bag full of KFC's cash when all he wanted was some fried chicken. More »
After getting hitched at the register office in the English city of Bristol on Saturday, a pair of newlyweds and their party of 30 strolled on over to KFC to chow down on various forms of fried food. But for the new bride, having her wedding reception at a fast food joint wasn't just an inexpensive way to celebrate, it's also a family tradition. More »
Though KFC is struggling stateside, in China it is dominating over all other fast food rivals, even global juggernaut McDonald's. In some parts of the country, the image of Colonel Sanders is more ubiquitous than Mao's, reports Bloomberg Markets magazine. That's no mean feat in a country that has proven resistant to foreign penetration. The secret, is in the sauce, using local ingredients in the food as well as its management team, building up partnerships with local suppliers and catering menus to include regional dishes. More »
Yum! Brands, the fast food company so excitable it requires an exclamation point, is about to trim some fat from its lineup up eateries. The company has announced its intention to put its Long John Silver's and A&W All-American Food chains on the market. More »
We can all get a little bit ornery at KFC, but an employee at one of the Colonel's halal friendly eateries near Sydney, Australia got positively enraged the collar when a customer requested bacon on his burger. More »
From strange sandwiches to even stranger luggage, from rude receipts to corporate misdoings, here's a look back at the 10 most read stories on Consumerist for 2010. More »
It's becoming more and more rare for customers to walk into a fast food restaurant and order individual meal components off the menu. Why do that when you can just order a #4 and get the sandwich, fries and drink together? It makes sense, but a new study says our penchant for buying bundled meals is causing us to eat more than we should. More »
Every time I look at a KFC Double Down, I think to myself, you know what this is missing? Onion rings, mac and cheese, beef patties, and of course, buns. Thankfully the boys of "Epic Meal Time" have rectified this significant oversight. And then they ate it. More »
In a move that seems as sensible as asking your creepy uncle who just got out of jail to babysit for the weekend, the UK is looking to such luminaries in the health food industry as McDonald's, KFC and Pepsi for assistance in writing government policy on obesity and other health problems. More »
McDonald's may be the fast food chain most are associating with the recently approved kid's meal regulations in San Francisco, but when it comes to calories in meals targeted to youngsters, the Golden Arches is nowhere near the worst. More »
A KFC customer in the UK is fuming mad — and claims to have missed days of work due to mental distress — after he bit into his order of fried chicken only to find a bit of mystery material that appeared to be some sort of organ. More »
In June, we wrote about the Frankenburger, an experiment in which the Village Voice attempted to form a Voltron sandwich from the best bits of many fast food burgers. But the folks behind this video seem to be on the hunt for the most atrocious combination of fast foods — and they just might have succeeded. More »
A few weeks ago, we wrote about KFC trying to add some sex appeal to their fried-chicken-as-bun Double Down by paying college coeds to advertise the sandwich on their butts. The guerilla marketing campaign must have had some success, because it is now widening. More »
Some might look at the KFC Double Down — aka the bacon and cheese sandwich with fried chicken "buns" — and say "a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips." But the fried chicken chain is hoping you'll associate the sandwich with the rear ends of young college women. More »
As we recently reported, KFC (nee Kentucky Fried Chicken) has a bit of an image problem these days. So how does the company want to get its name back in the public consciousness? By advertising where your dog pees. More »
For those of us who grew up watching Colonel Sanders (or rather, some guy dressed up as Colonel Sanders) on ads for Kentucky Fried Chicken, it might come as a shock to learn that the fast food chain's own survey found that more than 60% of Americans between the ages of 18-25 couldn't identify the man. More »
For years, Popeyes has been bragging about the quality of its fried chicken, but now that the fast food chain says they beat KFC in an independent national taste test, it's decided to take the battle right to the Colonel with a new marketing campaign that pits Louisiana against Kentucky. More »
Next time you're grabbing some breakfast with your children at McDonald's, Wendy's or Burger King, you might want to pay attention to the nutritional information for the kids meals you order. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine just released its list of the Five Worst Fast Food Meals to highlight those G-rated meals with R-rated calorie counts. More »
Earlier this year, the burgers at quickly growing fast foodatrorium Five Guys made the Center for Science in the Public Interest's list of most calorie-filled meals in the country. Perhaps that's why the voters at the Zagat Guide recently chose Five Guys as the best burger in the country. More »
Tension between many KFC franchisees and the chicken chain's corporate leaders have reached a fever pitch in recent months, with the suits at HQ trying to revamp the eatery's image while the upset franchise operators say it's only alienating customers and hurting business. More »
In a move to promote its new-ish Doublicious — aka the Double Down on a bun — KFC is attempting to entice employees at competing quick-service restaurants to give it a shot for free today. More »
Were you one of the few people on this continent to get caught up in the World Cup hullaballoo? Did you get drunk enough to think that buying a vuvuzela — the obnoxiously loud plastic horn that has been the bane of many Cup watchers — would be a good idea? If so, the fried chicken-loving folks at KFC might be willing to exchange your noisemakers for one of their bellyachers. More »
Consumerist commenter tgrwillki has created an unholy gastronomical monstrosity, a KFC Double Down sandwiched between two Krispy Kreme Cheerwine Doughnuts. It's like a delicious meme sandwich in my mouth! Because it is one. More »
Yesterday, we wrote about the 10 Commandments Of Good Coupon Users, and among them was "Don't raid multiple coupons from the coupon dispenser." Well, a man in Kentucky ignored — to the extreme! — this commandment, treating a document-storage facility like a coupon dispenser and making off with $64,000 worth of KFC gift checks. More »
When KFC announced the Double Down a few months back, the only real reason anyone took notice of the sandwich was because they'd made the audacious — not to mention greasy — decision to replace the bun with two slabs of fried chicken. Now, in a move to make the Double Down significantly less interesting, KFC has turned the sandwich into... well, just another sandwich. More »
While Domino's has scrambled to re-imagine their pizza recipes and Pizza Hut continues to basically give away their pizzas for a pittance, it was Papa John's who apparently made the best impression on eaters in the last year. The Kentucky-based chain has topped not only its pizzeria rivals, but all fast foods in an annual survey of customer satisfaction. More »
While the U.S. government is getting rid of fast food options for soldiers in Afghanistan, meanwhile they spent quite a bit of cash to make sure troops stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could pick up a Double Down or a Chalupa without having to have a care package sent from home. More »
You do not want to piss of 1.3 billion potential customers. That seems to be the conclusion arrived at by the honchos of KFC China, which has apologized for a botched coupon promotion that left some customers with empty buckets. After canceling the promotion in April, KFC was roundly criticized and was even subject to "quasi-violent protests." Who says there isn't freedom of speech in China? More »
This Sunday, May 23, was to have been the final day for grease and salt lovers everywhere to get their hands on the KFC Double Down, which for the two of you just waking from comas is a bacon and cheese sandwich that uses fried chicken as the bread. But before you go and unclog your arteries, KFC has just announced that the Double Down ain't going anywhere anytime soon. More »
KFC is urging customers to buy "pink buckets" to help fight breast cancer. However, you could buy a dozen KFC buckets and it wouldn't put an extra dime towards breast cancer research, reports The Washington Post. The fine print on KFC's "buckets for the cure" website speaks for itself: More »
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you were to take a KFC Double Down — the bacon sandwich that uses two pieces of fried chicken as the "bread" — and you were to sandwich it in between two halves of a Krispy Kreme donut? Of course you haven't. Luckily, someone has. More »
A few weeks back, before KFC had even unleashed their bacon, fried chicken and salt concoction known as the Double Down, vegan website Vegansaurus had already come up with their own animal-friendly version. But while it might not harm any of your furry, feathered, scaly or insecty friends, the vegan Double Down certainly isn't a diet item. More »
One of the surprising benefits of KFC's Double Down wonder sandwich is its lack of calories — 540 for the fried version and 460 for the grilled. More »
Sick of hearing about the KFC Double Down yet? If you're not, and you live in KFC's home town of Louisville, KY, you'll soon be able to order one — and pretty much anything else from KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut — in the KFC Yum! Center, a $238 million, 22,000-seat facility scheduled to open in November. Louisville-based Yum! Brands, parent to KFC and its brandmates, paid $13.5 million for naming rights to the stadium. More »
Although the Double Down may not be the healthiest thing out there, one way to save yourself some fat, sodium and calories is to make like Greg and get stuck with a sandwich that lacks the key ingredient of bacon. More »
Speaking of the health value of KFC Double Downs (KDD), some smart fellow has created two charts which compare the nutritional content of the KDD to roughly two dozen other fast food items. Assigning the KFC Original Recipe Double Down (KODD) a base score of "1.0," the charts show how many KODDs are contained within other sandwiches as a portion of the USDA daily allowance, based on how much fat, sodium, and cholesterol are inside them. The chart may not sway your opinion of the zesty saltlick "sandwich" that is taking America by storm, but its colors may remind you of fries, pickles, and ketchup. Mmmmm, is it second lunch time yet? More »
KFC's Double Down — the bacon sandwich where two pieces of fried chicken replace the bread — has been catching a lot of flack lately; much of it deserved. But a quick comparison of the nutritional (for want of a better word) info between the Double Down and some items on the menus at other fast food joints shows that the "warped creation of a syphilitic brain" might not be as bad for you as a salad at Wendy's. More »
It seems like the best promotional campaigns for KFC in the past few years have been on South Park, and that's despite the fact that Cartman is the chain's most vocal supporter. An AdAge article today points out that Chick-Fil-A has been eating KFC's lunch for a while now, and so far every stunt KFC has pulled—name changes, PR-engineered recipe events, botched giveaways, getting Oprah's blessing—hasn't stopped the restaurant from losing customers.That's right: your lack of interest in KFC is what created this bundle of cheesy fried-fried in the first place. More »
As the country is overtaken by an insatiable desire to eat — or at least talk about — KFC's latest heart-stopping creation, the breadless sandwich wonder known as the Double Down, Stephen Colbert is jumping on the deep fried train, dubbing it "the warped creation of a syphilitic brain." More »
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health states that several of the biggest U.S. health insurers are heavily invested in fast food companies, to the tune of $2 billion. This news has caused some to ask whether or not the insurance companies' vested interest in the growth of fast food stands in direct contrast to their interest in having healthy policy holders. More »
As we mentioned yesterday in our completely unscientific taste test of the KFC Double Down, we were really just tagging along with our smarter sibling Consumer Reports as they gathered their team to pull some major science on the bacon-and-cheese-between-two-pieces-of-fried-chicken sandwich-ish type thing. More »
It's April 12, 2010. For those unaware, this date will be remembered in the annals of fast food and coronary surgery as the day that KFC unleashed its Double Down — once more, that's the bacon-n-cheese sandwich that uses two pieces of fried chicken for bread — and Consumerist was there to do some tastin'. More »
Consumerist reader Bill popped into his local KFC in Houston today and found that they were selling the already infamous Double Down — better known as bacon and cheese wedged between slabs of fried chicken. And, as often happens when confronted with fast food that looks good in ads, Bill was a little let down by what he found inside. More »
Consumerist reader Ed must live in one of the test markets for the KFC Double Down — you know, the bacon sandwich on fried chicken "bread" — because he was able to snap this photo of the infamous sandwich days in advance of its April 12 national launch. More »
Last August, we wrote about the "Double Down," a mysteriously tempting (and potentialy lethal) new food item being tested by KFC. For those coming late to the story, it's bacon and cheese sandwiched between two pieces of fried chicken. And now, many months later, I'll finally be able to get my hands on one. More »
McDonald's: Taking his cue from both Cheeseburger Josh and that irritating "Gimme That Filet-o-Fish" ad, a dude in South Brunswick, NJ, got so impatient with the service at the drive-thru that he crawled through the window, slapped the employee and then escaped with his precious fish sandwich. More »
For whatever reason, fast food joints seem to be a target for crimes of all sorts. Ranging from outlandish to horrific, we'll occasionally bring you The Grease Blotter, a round-up of the latest in crimes involving fast food chains. More »
Have you ever had McSpaghetti? How about a basket of piping hot, deep-fried chicken livers from your local KFC? These are just a few of the not-so-popular menu items that made ChicagoNow's list of the 15 Worst Fast Food Fails. More »
Colonel Sanders has gone missing. Okay, not the actual man — he died in 1980 — but a bronze bust of the goateed Kentucky Fried Chicken founder has disappeared from its hallowed position outside a KFC in Berea, KY. The statue, valued at $1,200, is now the target of a police manhunt and the subject of a reward: $500 of free chicken. More »
—>Looks like KFC found some more piles of grilled chicken in a closet somewhere, because next week they'll hold their third grilled chicken giveaway this year. Their CEO promises that this time the event will be glitch free: all who desire a sample of grilled chicken will receive a sample of grilled chicken. More »
—>We just love obvious conversions of former fast food restaurants, but this has to be the best one we've ever seen. A former Kentucky Fried Chicken has been replaced with "Kind For Cures," a marijuana dispensary, says LA Weekly. More »
—>Here's some advice for you. If the KFC employee forgets your condiments, do not back your car into her.This is an overreaction on your part.More »
KFC's screwed-up grilled chicken promo doesn't seem to have hurt the company after all; Yum CEO David Novak told investors and reporters this morning that it's "the best product launch in our history" and has "changed the brand so much for the good." People out there apparently really love the idea of KFC grilled chicken. [AdAge] (Thanks to R!)More »
—>Recently, those buzzkills at Time published this mouth-watering article about the massive caloric content of fast food. Apparently, the Senate is considering federal legislation that would require chain restaurants to list calorie counts on menus. More »
—>You forgot about the free grilled chicken meals from KFC, didn't you? Well, I did. Melissa in Maine reported that she was able to use her raincheck coupon, and was satisfied with her meal. Or at least the side dishes. More »
—>Dear Quiznos, KFC, Arby's, and any other food chain that wants to offer freebies without first securing full buy-in from your franchisees: please stop it. Either the coupons are honored or they're not; there is no try. More »
—>In a move that surprises absolutely no one, KFC has ended its free chicken promotion. If you still have a coupon, visit a participating restaurant for a raincheck.(Side note: The president of KFC is Australian South African?!) More »
—>Emily in Chicago (Oprah Central) wondered why none of the restaurants she visited were participating in the KFC grilled chicken promotion. Readers across the country have reported franchises not cooperating, long waits, and chicken outages. She got an unofficial answer from someone in management. More »
—>Bill just emailed us with a link to this tweet from the El Pollo Loco rep on Twitter. Might be worth a shot if you were turned away by your local KFC yesterday and you think a free chicken meal is the perfect way to say "I love you" in motherese. More »
—>We sort of figured today's grilled chicken giveaway at participating KFC's would be approximately meal-sized—if you could stand the crowd and make it to the counter before they ran out, you'd have a free lunch in your belly. Apparently we were wrong. Here, for your freebie-craving pleasure, is a virtual KFC chicken piece just like what reader BlazerUnit received earlier today. More »
—>Want to provide some feedback to Yum! Brands, the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's, and A&W Restaurants? No matter how old you are—they go back as far as Jan 1st, 1906—they'll tell you that you're too young to use the "Contact Us" part of their website. Yum! is in it for the long haul, and they don't need a bunch of jibber-jabber from hooligans like you. More »
—>Will sponsored pot holes sell chicken? KFC seems to think so. They've asked the City of Chicago if they can fix potholes — in exchange for including a white stencil saying the spot was "Re-freshed by KFC." More »
—>Jay sent us this picture of a KFC Mashed Potato Bowl he purchased. It's probably blurry in real life, too. Click through for larger, even less appetizing pics, plus a special YouTube tribute. More »
Subway's kids' meals came out on top. Only a third of its Fresh Fit for Kids meals, which include a mini-sub, juice box, and one of several healthful side items (apple slices, raisins, or yogurt), exceed the 430-calorie threshold. Subway is the only chain that doesn't offer soft drinks with kids' meals.So how do you improve the nutrition of your kid's meal the next time you eat at a restaurant? A spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association gave the following advice:
"Don't be too alarmed even when [studies] come out and seem hopeless," said Dawn Jackson Blatner, an American Dietetic Ass>ociation spokeswoman. "With a few swaps and switches, people really can make healthier choices at these fast-food joints, especially when the decisions are made before going in. More »
—>Reader Diana has always had small problems at her local KFC store in Los Lunas, NM. but never of this magnitude. After Diana returned home with her food, she realized that KFC had forgotten the biscuits. Because Diana lives nearby and is a fan of their biscuits, she returned to KFC to retrieve her missing food. Instead of a helpful and apologetic employee, she spoke to a rude and sarcastic employee who was convinced that she had included the biscuits and believed that Diana was liar. Diana recounts her conversation, inside... More »
—>A police officer and his family from Sydney, Nebraska have been awarded $40,000 from their lawsuit which alleged that a KFC/Taco Bell store had served them food contaminated with an employee's spit and urine in 2005. The lawsuit stated that fellow workers actually saw the employee taint the food and told management who failed to alert the family, according to the AP. Consequently, the officer's two sons became violently ill. His 4-year-old was hospitalized and treated for gastroenteritis and dehydration. Details, inside... More »
—>Junk food connoisseurs will be elated to learn that according to Fox 5, Yum! Brand restaurants are now restocking tomatoes after the recent salmonella outbreak which has forced many restaurants to take them off the menu. Federal officials say that the outbreak has sickened 277 people nationwide. The Yum! Brand restaurants include Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, A&W and Long John Silver's. This article does not imply, however, that their food alone won't make you sick. More »
—>Whether you're trying to get as much of your Yum! Brand food into your mouth as humanly possible or just not in the mood to raise those heavy old arms to feed yourself, new wearable feed bags are functional, fashionable and sweeping the nation. Foods from Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut work the best, but we've found that wearable feedbags work on almost any kind of food, and they look great too. See The Onion video, inside... More »
—>Subliminal messages in advertising has been a controversial topic for years. Is it underhanded? Does it even work? Reader "umlaut75" sent us a video of a KFC Snacker television commercial that shows a mysterious tiny picture of a dollar bill mixed in with the lettuce. As far as intrigue is concerned, it's not exactly the Zapruder film but it does make us wonder. The video, inside... More »
The US Isn't the only wacky lawsuit country. In China, KFC won a defamation lawsuit filed by an elderly gentleman who accused the fast food chain of damaging his social standing, because he felt their "teadog set meal" implied that he and his grandson had become "dog friends." [China Daily] More »
—> If you're planning on buying some Hot Wings from KFC in Colorado Springs, Colorado, your cheapest option is to buy them in sets of six no matter how many you want. KFC charges you slightly more per wing as you buy more—"Guess they just hope nobody's good at quick math," our reader Jay writes. More »
"We're not going to play the role of Simon Cowell and critique dances," McCarthy said. "But if a player acted in a way that was a reflection of a corporate message, then we'd have to take a look at it."
Now, now, Mr. McCarthy. Don't try to "draft off the excitement" of American Idol. We're on to you. More »
Not Making This Up: The chief operating and development officer of Yum brands, which includes Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver's and Pizza Hut, is named Mr. Hearl. Mr. Hearl is retiring and will be replaced by Mr. Eaton. Seriously. [Wall Street Journal] More »
UPDATE: This is probably deep-fried small intestine, according to commenters, for some of whom finding this in their KFC is apparently a common occurrence.John says he found some brain in his KFC chicken thigh in Raleigh, NC. We asked him if he was sure it wasn't just skin and fat mixed together.
Pretty sure, yeah. Fat usually has more of a yellow tint, and is more gelatinous on chicken. This was a solid looking piece, a little more than 1/4th of an inch thick at the widest part, and it had the unmistakable "lines" that you see in the brain organ. It was also firm to the touch, unlike rubbery fat. If it was a piece of skin/fat, it sure pulled off a good look alike.
Look on the bright side; at least now we know KFC uses real chicken.More gruesome pix, inside...
—>A report damning the coercive and deceptive practices used by food marketers to reach kids has been submitted to the FTC. The Commission plans to investigate how the food industry markets to children and adolescents; information requests, Commission-speak for subpoenas, have been sent to 44 companies that manufacture, market, and distribute foods and beverages. More »
—>According to a recent survey, chain restaurants are failing to satisfy their customers. The survey of over 3,000 people showed across the board performance drops from last year; customer satisfaction for McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King all fell by more than 5%. KFC fell by 8.5%. More »
—>Only a few days after confirming that legal action would proceed against the tiny Tan Hiill Inn for the use of the trademarked term "Family Feast" on their once-a-year Christmas menu, KFC has changed its tiny chicken-sized mind. More »
—>Do not be so bold as to name a menu item "Family Feast," even if you sell the item once a year on Christmas and you own a tiny pub on top of a remote mountain in England. What? Didn't you know that KFC's trademark applies to people who live on top of mountains and own pubs and have their picture taken with sheep wandering around? Tracy Daly is such a person, and she has received a very serious legal threat from KFC over an item on her menu called, "Family Feast." More »
—>In China, they add melamine to the pet food to make it look like it has higher protein, make "soy sauce" from human hair, soak fish in ink to make their color better, and feed eels birth control to make them longer and more slender. They also pick up discarded KFC chicken pieces from the garbage and sell them at street vendor booths, Shanghai Daily reports. More »
—>Yum! Brands just issued a press release apologizing once again for that rat infested KFC/Taco Bell in NYC. Further, they confirmed that the rat infested restaurant had served its last customer.
Since the incident, this KFC-Taco Bell restaurant has been closed for business, and it will not reopen.
Done! No more KFC/Taco Bell. It's gone forever and ever. It's been abandoned to the rats who claimed it as their own. More »
—>New York City's Health Department has taken the blame for the KFC/Taco Bell rat infestation that made national news. (If, though some miracle you haven't seen the footage yet, i.e. you've just come out of a coma or recently regained lost eye-sight, do give it a look. It's worth it.) Anyhow, the inspector who gave a pass to the KFC/Taco Bell has resigned and the Health Department is, like, really sorry and stuff. More »
After a day of reinspections yesterday, the company that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut decided to close all its ADF Companies franchises that have not yet been inspected by the Health Department. More »
The health inspector - whose name was not released - was "removed from restaurant inspection duty," while the city's health department reviews other inspections the staffer performed since being put on the job in June 2006, officials said. More »
—>KFC/Taco Bell left a note over on Vincent Ferrari's blog on a post about the profusion of rats at a western Manhattan KFC. We really liked this part (emphasis added): More »
"It doesn't look like the inspection that was done Thursday met our standards," said Geoffrey Cowley, a health department spokesman. "I don't want to prejudge that. We're concerned and we're going to carefully reevaluate that inspection."
The so-called inspection was performed in response to complaints about rats in the restaurant, and yet the inspector couldn't find any. How mysterious. —MEGHANN MARCO More »
"The president of KFC himself sent a letter to the Vatican, asking Pope Benedict XVI to bless the company's new "Fish Snacker Sandwich. As you know a lot of Catholics give up meat on Fridays during lent, the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter, and fish is popular substitute, so the company is trying to capitalize on this by asking for a sort of "Papal Seal of Approval."
Raw video footage of the massive rat infestation in a West Village KFC/Taco Bell. If you do not watch another You Tube video today, or for the rest of your life, watch this one. More »
He took the wrapper back to the KFC and showed it to the manager. He says he was met with nothing but evasiveness and defensiveness. "They didn't want to hear it. I kept hearing it's not blood. There's no way that happened...it couldn't happen here." More »
For one time only, at participating restaurants, KFC is offering America a free sample of the restaurant chain's signature Colonel's Crispy Strips(R). More »
—>A customer of a Louisville KFC/Taco Bell is claiming that smears of human blood were all over her order. " Briana Ralston says she and her 1-year-old daughter were already home, had already eaten part of their dinner by the time they discovered what looks like human blood on the bag and wrappers — even where the wrappers came into contact with the food." More »
—>Thank god for small favors, "KFC" is back to Kentucky Fried Chicken after over a decade of trying to make us forget the "fried" part. Or, come to think of it, maybe it was the "Kentucky" they were worried about. Anyway, it's back, and the Colonel himself has undergone a bit of a redesign. He now sports an apron, which is a nice touch. More »
—>In 1975, Kentucky Fried Chicken sued its founder and mascot Colonel Sanders for libel after he called KFC's gravy "sludge" and labeled their mashed potatoes "wallpaper paste." We really had no idea the Colonel was so cool. More »
—>In the mid 1600s, Fu Qingzhu paused from his campaign against the mindless slaughter being committed by those Manchurian Bastards to preach the perfection of the KFC Chicken Burger to his seven sword apprentices. Or so claims a KFC commercial currently airing in China and playing off of the 2005 success of Tsui Hark's Seven Swords. Unfortunately, the Chinese don't quite dig Fu Qingzhu's recast as a sort of Asiatic Colonel Sanders. More »
—>Hoisted then atomic wedgied by our own petard! After our recent post about the dangers of contextual advertising in regards to KFC, Consumerist Daniel M. wrote us with a screenshot of our contextual advertising... specifically in regards to our Reader Tries To Cancel AOL post. Click it to the right to see what Daniel saw. More »
The unintentional wit and wisdom of the internet. Note headline. Note ad in bottom right. Mmm...overflowing. Talk about being hoisted on your own moutarde!(Thanks to Rick Dobbs!)More »
—>As an Irishman, I am for all intents and purposes British. I eat crisps, not chips. I dress head-to-toe in vinyl Adidas tracksuits with my bangs greased in a straight line down my forehead. I refer to people I don't like as "muppets" and "knackers." My teeth are jagged brown daggers that stick out of my face at implausible angles. But even I have no idea what a 'YOB' is. More »
—>Fast Food News is claiming that the time will soon come when you will no longer need to rely upon a teenage Deadhead taking a break from popping his pimples to cook up your burgers: the fast food industry is moving towards self-service. More »
