Have you tried the KFC double down yet

I was thinking maybe tonight might just be the night. Thought I would get some opinions first.

I can tell them I got hooked on the KFC double down.

That was funny rug.

Of course by the time I have grand kids we will probably have been taken over by aline race, and there will be no more fast food restaurants.

No sandwiches. I want the (instant) taters, a biscuit, and some mac-n-cheese!!

was their grilled chicken in the tub. It wasn't bad, but very greasy.

I don't do KFC very often. If I do, I plan on using a week's worth of calories though, and I go for FRIED!

Go for it. Have some for me too, poor disenfranchised European that I am. I'd like a couple of biscuits, mashed potatoes with gravy, corn on the cob, and legs. With hot sauce over everything, please. And a nice, tall glass of iced tea. Do they offer fried okra or collards, now? If so, I'll have a helping of both.

And how about a nice, crispy peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream afterwards? Hmmm?

they offer all of that. Mmmmm!!! So so good.

I'll have a salad this evening, I think.

They fry the individual green beans. Weird. I have seen it now at 2 different places.

but I'm afraid it will kill me before I make it back home. :scared:

But I am one of those people where once there is a major controversy over something, especially a fast food dish, it just wants to make me try it that much more. I have to know what all the fuss is about.

If I do try it, I will pay for it with sever indigestion. No doubt.

Two chicken breasts, two slices of bacon and two slices of ersatz provolone, or some similar cheese. And it's not that big.

Is there no one who has ever eaten these things before? What the hell is such a big deal about it that has everyone in such an uproar?

(The only problem I had with it is it's a little overpriced for what you get.)

In my opinion...the provolone should be a good imported one

I think the uproar is centered around the fact that it doesn't even LOOK appetizing ( it doesn't to me, anyway ) do people have a problem with BREAD now? So now we make a sandwich with chicken substituting the rolls...KFC sure pulled this one out of their ass, but it seems like it will pay off in the long run

We "booooo!" when we see their signs.

Talk to it before you snap its neck? Animals die to feed us; it's a fact of life. Even veggies kill animals, as thousands die in the harvesting of the fields.

I didn't want to be graphic, but you asked....

There's more than one way to kill a chicken. There is no need to be this cruel to anything ever. And, no, all chicken processors do NOT do that.

I've worked every part of a chicken plant, from live hang to the kill room to evisceration to debone to the quick freezer. So I know a little bit about this.

You shock them so they don't flop around and are ]i\knocked out. Then you cut their throat so they bleed out, which you have to do for sanitation purposes. You have to drop them into sub-boiling water to get the feathers off them (not boiling, that would cook the meat).

Again, I can't conceive of a way to slaughter thousands of chickens without being "cruel". Things die. It's not pleasant no matter how you do it.

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I'll end it there, considering.

The furry animals live a blissful short life in the fields before they're chewed alive by machinery after a terrifying run to try to escape. I think that's just as cruel. Oh, and they're often poisoned by pesticides, too, before the non-cruelty of being dismembered.

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Chickens don't live on air. They eat food that mostly comes from plants (plus, in most modern operations, a bunch of stuff that really ought to be garbage.) If growing plants is so unspeakably cruel, the best way to minimize that cruelty would be to eat the plants directly rather than processing those calories inefficiently through chickens/cows/pigs/whatever in order to produce meat, as doing so requires a great deal more farming of plants than eating plants directly does. That's especially true as that inefficient and cruel additional step is entirely unnecessary- nobody needs to eat chicken/cows/pigs/whatever.

And as far as the cruelty of dismemberment goes, for every chicken somebody eats two chickens were dismembered- the one they're eating and the one of the wrong sex that went straight into a trash bag or fertilizer grinder immediately after being born. If your concern about dismemberment is genuine, and it's quite apparent from your posts on this thread that it's not in the slightest, then the obvious step is not to eat chickens.

chickens of both sexes are put through processing plants. I know, because I used to have to do yield evaluations of them and had to separate them by sex. Not easy at first, since they're only a few weeks old. But you get the hang of it. Discarding half your stock would be idiotic. Chickens are sexed at hatching, because they want to be able to pull females for reproduction, but the females that aren't pulled for repro are mixed with the roosters and shipped to the grow houses, then they're both slaughtered together. Males are a bit bigger is all, but only just.

The chicken stuff that is fed back to chickens (something I don't approve of, btw) is waste product from the processing of the chickens.

No, I'm not concerned about the dismemberment, because I'm fully aware of where my food comes from and the cost of it. I grew up around farms. You don't develop a case of the warm fuzzies when you have to help slaughter a pig so you can eat next winter. You just get on with it.

Cute li'l bunnies are the enemy, because they're eating the crops. So they have to go, and generally that means killing them. If it's a choice between feeding my family and feeding the cute li'l bunny, I'm feeding the family. Besides, rabbit is tasty. So is squirrel, if you can cook it properly. Makes a good gravy, especially.

The reason I mentioned the animals getting dismembered in the fields when crops are harvested is that too many people who don't eat meat think that they're not causing any animals to die, and that's just not true. Not by a long shot.

Heck, I've accidentally killed cute li'l fuzzy critters just cutting the grass. Haele mangled the ear of a bunny a couple of springs ago. We took it to the vet, got it patched up, and released it. I'm not a barbarian, I just know the reality of our food cycle.

You're looking at dismemberment and death as an unavoidable event. I'm tempted to say a necessary evil, but the impression conveyed in your writing is that you're not worked up enough about it to merit that phrasing. Dismemberment and death just is.

I'm just looking at it as an evil to be avoided to the greatest extent possible. To the extent that I can do so, I structure my life and my diet around doing as little harm to other beings possible

I don't know if there's any way to reach a common understanding because ultimately those are differing perspectives.

As I said, the last time an animal was injured in the course of events here, we took it to the vet and spent money to get it treated. A wild rabbit, a young one. Again, I'm not a barbarian. Senseless cruelty is to be avoided.

That said, humans cause death and destruction no matter what we do. It's a fact of life. Animals die in the fields when crops are harvested. They're poisoned by chemicals that maintain the yields we need to feed everyone. If everyone ate organic, we'd all starve, because organic simply can't produce the yields. So, we have to accept that animals will die, and the deaths are fairly gruesome.

I choose to eat some meat. I don't eat a lot, due to my dietary restrictions, but I don't worry about it when I do. That may make me callous, but humans evolved as omnivores, to eat both vegetable and meat. Circle of life and all that. The choice to not eat meat is a fine one, and you have that right. But to imply that someone else is participating in evil is not productive or conducive to polite discourse. That sort of attitude is part of why some people react poorly to vegetarians and vegans. I don't worry about it, because I'm perfectly happy with my choices in life.

I'm pretty much the same.

That way they're glad to get it over with.

at least that's how Fat Freddy killed the Freak Brothers thanksgiving turkey

humanely

...is cruelt to their customers too.

whose franchise's would use only locally raised animals...or if that isn't feasible, then a proven guarantee of humanely raised animals. I'd pay more for it.

That sounds awesome!!!!

:yoiks:

:rofl:

P.S. :*

:loveya:

Was rather messy but not much more than just eating a piece of normal fried chicken from Kfc.

Tasted kind of like chicken cordon bleu.

I would buy another one someday.

I still fail to see what all the hoopla is about.

eaten one. None of them can say why chicken breast, bacon, and cheese is the end of the world, or that they have never eaten such horrific slop.

Me, I just object to the price, 'cause it's really tiny. Much smaller than the ads would have you believe. KFC has gotten expensive lately.

I prefer real food.

Lunch today: homemade yogurt with homemade applesauce and cherry jam for flavoring, a raw carrot, a slice of homemade bread with some cheese.
Tonight - homemade pizza, homemade turkey lovage soup, homegrown rhubarb baked into a ricotta dessert.

Last time I had any KFC was when I was on travel over a decade ago. All that grease made me ill. Haven't wanted any since then.

Seriously though I WAS planning to try it at least once. Haven't yet though.

Q3JR4.

:scared:

This butcher might wave a cleaver at you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOFXX064Pdk&feature=related