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klingonguy

A Sign of the Apocalypse?

Apr 06, 2010 10:30

KFC's Bacon Sandwich, it's bacon and chesee served up on two pieces of Fried Chicken "Bread"

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jjschwabach April 6 2010, 14:39:45 UTC

Please tell me this is an overdue April Fool's joke. I can feel my arteries hardening just looking at the picture.

amysisson April 6 2010, 15:49:49 UTC

That was my thought too -- April Fool's joke.

I mean, KFC did change it's name from Kentucky Fried Chicken to the "doesn't mean anything acronym" KFC because it was concerned about it's health-conscious image....

terri_osborne April 6 2010, 15:55:11 UTC

I did a quick google on the "Double Down" with KFC, and it appears--at least on the surface--to be real.

jjschwabach April 6 2010, 22:07:48 UTC

I did, too --- either it's real, or an awful lot of people have been taken in by it. One site I looked at even had nutritional information. The calorie count didn't look that bad, in a relative sense. 585 calories. As I said, relative to what it is, it's not as high as you would expect. However, it has almost 1400 mg of sodium. Until I looked it up again, I could not remember the fat content (around 32 grams). I suspect I blocked it.

I remember hearing on the radio once about a cheeseburger with Krispy Creme donuts for a bun -- the whole deep-fried, IIRC. The DJs were saying it weighed in at almost 1,500 calories.

And we wonder why Americans are so much heavier than the rest of the world...

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deadlined April 6 2010, 20:20:43 UTC

Oh yum...chicken & waffles.

jjschwabach April 6 2010, 22:06:15 UTC

Reports seem to vary, but the numbers in this one pop up I've seen varying reports, but these are the numbers that seem to come up the most often, so let's go with it...
540 calories
32 grams of fat
1,380 milligrams for sodium

bogwitch64 April 6 2010, 15:32:30 UTC

That doesn't even look slightly appeatizing. Bleh! I can feel the grease coating my throat just looking at it!!

terri_osborne April 6 2010, 15:53:50 UTC

There's a part of me that's grossed out, and a part of me that's oddly hungered by that.

And I'm not sure which part's winning right now.

mckitterick April 6 2010, 15:54:22 UTC

I want to want this thing, but I'm afraid I have finally witnessed "too much fat" to be able to choke it down.

Still, I'm-a-gonna buy one. With friends, so I have someone to hand it to when I'm done.

klingonguy April 7 2010, 10:57:23 UTC

hand it over, dude.