KFC Double Down: The Chicken Who Went Too Far

Huffington Post |В В Katherine Goldstein

In the midst of a staggering obesity epidemic in the US, KFC has doubled down on a high-calorie menu choice. KFC is now offering a “sandwich” which consists of bacon, two kinds of cheeses and sauce between two pieces of fried chicken. That’s right, fried chicken as a bun instead of bread.

According to Fox News, the “sandwich” is being test-marketed in only two areas so far, Rhode Island and Nebraska.

WATCH:

The item is not yet on the KFC website. We look forward to looking at the nutrition information once it appears.

UPDATE:

The Vancouver Sun has done an independent calorie analysis for the “Double Down” and has concluded the “sandwich” likely has 1228 calories.

But if our figures hold true, and KFC won’t confirm they don’t, the Double Down is more caloriffic than the Wendy’s Triple with Everything and Cheese (1700 mg sodium, 960 calories, 26 gms of fat), the Burger King Stacker Quad (1770 sodium, 1020 calories, 69 gms of fat), and compares closely to the fat, salt and calorie totals of three McDonalds Big Macs put together (3060 sodium, 1620 calories, 87 gms fat).

4 thoughts on “KFC Double Down: The Chicken Who Went Too Far”

  1. Speaking of the healthcare tug-of-war, Jessica Murray has a spicy, juicy, stick-to-the-ribs entree called “Sick as a Dog” at her Mothersky website. It’s new and it’s got all the astrological flavors as usual, (fe you will love her handling of Pluto) with a little dollop of encouragement to finish it off. Not a place for dumb-dumbs.

    http://jessica-mothersky.blogspot.com

  3. It is interesting Fe, the media coverage on food, not to mention your own recent disclosure about pie baking. . ..letting glutens rest in the chiller was a new one for me and I thank you for that.

    Pluto, Pluto is already getting to the bottom of a lot of things isn’t he? I would also include the Chiron (healing) Neptune (hospitals, drugs) conjunction as a timely happening in the big awareness of taking better care of ourselves. Just an incredible time to be on Planet Earth (and Planet Waves too of course!)

  4. So very interesting about food being in the news, with the Sun in Virgo, Pluto in Capricorn, and the health care tug-of-war.

    Seems the attention we’re paying to health is similar to the attention we paid to executive bonuses during the banking debacles of late ’08?

    Pluto Pluto Pluto.

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