The people of England may need to upgrade their plumbing — Taco Bell is coming to the UK later this summer. [More]
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Hide The Children: The KFC Double Down Is Here To Stay
By 5.20.10
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 "Pink Buckets" Not Best Way To Fight Breast Cancer
By 4.25.10
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]
McDonald's Logo Makes You Impatient And Impulsive
By 4.24.10
A new study has determined that just looking at the logos of fast-food companies like McDonald’s and KFC can trigger behavior associated with your expectations from the brand — namely immediate gratification, even if that means getting something that isn’t as good as what you could get by waiting. [More]
Krispy Kreme + KFC Double Down = You Don't Wanna Know
By 4.24.10
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]
Is The Vegan Double Down Worse For You Than The Real Thing?
By 4.23.10
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]
Does Double Down Have Double The Calories Reported?
By 4.22.10
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]
Eat Your Double Down At the KFC Yum! Center
By 4.21.10
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]
Horrors! KFC Sold Me A Baconless Double Down
By 4.21.10
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]
Science: Is The KFC Double Down The Worstest Food Ever?
By 4.20.10
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]
The KFC Double Down: What A Restaurant Does When It Gets Desperate
By 4.19.10
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]
Colbert: KFC Double Down Is "Warped Creation Of A Syphilitic Brain"
By 4.17.10
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]
VIDEO: Consumer Reports Brings Science To KFC Double Down Test
By 4.13.10
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]
Consumerists' Hands-On Taste Test With The KFC Double Down
By 4.12.10
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]
Reader Not Impressed With Reality Of KFC Double Down
By 4.11.10
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]
PHOTO: KFC Double Down Spotted In The Wild
By 4.7.10
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]
Introducing The Vegan Double Down!
By 4.6.10
It had to happen eventually, but we are a bit surprised that it happened before KFC was even able to get their infamous Double Down (aka the bacon sandwich on fried chicken bread) to market — The folks over at Vegansaurus have put together this animal-friendly version of the Double Down. [More]
Cook Bacon In A Machine Gun
By 4.2.10
Obviously, this is how KFC should prepare the bacon for the Double Down, KFC’s bacon and cheese on fried chicken “bread” sandwich—by wrapping it around the barrel of a machine gun and firing about 200 times, for that extra dose of smoky manly flavor. I can already feel my arteries clogging in anticipation. [Reddit via Eater] [More]
