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post #101 of 142
4/13/10 at 3:14pm
I'm curious about this from a physics perspective - seems like two pieces of greasy fried chicken won't provide enough friction to hold the guts together when you are biting into it. I'd expect it to be a mess and a half to eat.
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post #102 of 142
4/13/10 at 3:17pm
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Originally Posted by BrianM View Post
I'm curious about this from a physics perspective - seems like two pieces of greasy fried chicken won't provide enough friction to hold the guts together when you are biting into it. I'd expect it to be a mess and a half to eat.
A friend of mine sent me a cellphone pic of his take yesterday and the cheese wasn't even melted. Looked pretty gross.
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post #103 of 142
4/13/10 at 3:17pm
According to the links above, by the time you get the sandwich the cheese and bacon have congealed into a disgusting plastic hunk, so there should be no problem there. Also they give you a sleeve to hold the chicken with, though the grease makes it way through.
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post #104 of 142
4/13/10 at 3:17pm
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Originally Posted by The LD View Post
No guilt over this. Low culture deserves to be celebrated, particularly when it's fun or excessive, as this most certainly is.
Exactly. Something this excessive is fun to try, like a deep-fried twinkie. Making a diet of this kind of food is just a bad idea.
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post #105 of 142
4/13/10 at 3:22pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
EDIT: What I begrudge people for is acting like their approach is the only way. I have plenty of friends who don't eat fast food but don't comment on my choice to eat it. So I'm not saying that if you care about what you eat, you're a snob. I just ALSO see a lot of people acting like anyone who doesn't care is a mouth-breathing sub-human.
Art may be subjective but there are parameters through which we measure good and bad. People who like bad art may not be sub human mouth breaters but they do lack knowledge of art. People who like good art may not be better people but they are able to lay claim to being better at judging what is good art.

Food is the same way.
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post #106 of 142
4/13/10 at 3:25pm
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Art may be subjective but there are parameters through which we measure good and bad. People who like bad art may not be sub human mouth breaters but they do lack knowledge of art. People who like good art may not be better people but they are able to lay claim to being better at judging what is good art.

Food is the same way.
I completely agree.
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post #107 of 142
4/13/10 at 3:35pm
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Originally Posted by BrianM View Post
I'm curious about this from a physics perspective - seems like two pieces of greasy fried chicken won't provide enough friction to hold the guts together when you are biting into it. I'd expect it to be a mess and a half to eat.
It's in a wax sleeve.

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A friend of mine sent me a cellphone pic of his take yesterday and the cheese wasn't even melted. Looked pretty gross.
Mine was glorious. Cheese all melted.


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Originally Posted by Diva View Post
According to the links above, by the time you get the sandwich the cheese and bacon have congealed into a disgusting plastic hunk, so there should be no problem there. Also they give you a sleeve to hold the chicken with, though the grease makes it way through.
Change "disgusting" to glorious and the above is completely correct. Something tasted a little different in their seasonings for the fried chicken. Not quite sure what the difference is yet but I'm working it.......
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post #108 of 142
4/13/10 at 4:07pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
I completely agree.
Damn it, Patrick, you've been away too long, you need to insult people more. You're way to nice about this.

(Good to have you back)
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post #109 of 142
4/13/10 at 9:38pm
Yeah to qualify my earlier rather flippant (and not madly serious) statement, my food snobbery actually only really applies to me rather than others. People can eat whatever they want. I won't pretend the idea of someone making this 'burger' a part of their regular diet doesn't make me feel a bit crook in the guts, but hell, it's not my body.
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post #110 of 142
4/13/10 at 9:43pm
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A friend of mine sent me a cellphone pic of his take yesterday and the cheese wasn't even melted. Looked pretty gross.
That person is most emphatically not your friend.
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post #111 of 142
4/13/10 at 10:33pm
I decided to give this a try tonight, and I wasn't disappointed at all. The cheese was melted, and it was not as greasy as I thought. It wasn't very filling, but I think its worth at least a try.
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post #112 of 142
4/14/10 at 1:42pm
This thing was taaaasssty. When I got it the cheese wasn't melted, but the chicken breasts were piping hot so it was good and melty by the time I finished my green beans. You really don't notice the bacon at all, the colonel's original recipe chicken breasts overpower it completely. Not a bad sandwich, worth trying it for the novelty of it. My only gripe is the damn thing is expensive. At my location it was $5.29 for the sandwich by itself, $6.99 for the combo.

I also agree with raptors661 in that it's not very filling. I'm satisfied, but not gut bustingly full (which is probably a good thing). I opted to wash it down with water.
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post #113 of 142
4/16/10 at 4:06pm
The CIIIIIRCLE of LIIIIIIIFE

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The fast-food industry has long been under fire for selling high-fat, high-calorie meals that have been linked to weight gain and diabetes, but the financial health of the industry continues to attract investors -- including some of the leading insurance companies in the U.S., a new study reports.
According to Harvard Medical School researchers, 11 large companies that offer life, disability, or health insurance owned about $1.9 billion in stock in the five largest fast-food companies as of June 2009.
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post #114 of 142
4/23/10 at 3:09pm
FAIL!

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With all the hype surrounding KFC's meaty and breadless "Double-Down" sandwich, it is only natural that vegetarians (and those who don't dig heart attacks) felt a bit left out. Fortunately, a Chicago DJ and his girlfriend came up with a tasty solution.



Chicago's DJ Intel, a pescatarian, decided to create his own version of KFC's sandwich that substitutes chicken for bread, and Gapers Block tipped us off to Intel's girlfriend's food blog--where she shared the recipe.

"Anyone on the net or well... anyone living knows about the meat monstrosity called the KFC 'Double-Down.' Well I am a Pescatarian ( mostly vegetarian but I include fishes in my diet) and this meat medley was not in the cards for me and really I had no desire for it," Intel's girlfriend Crystal Pistol wrote on her new blog titled "Snackin in the City."

Crystal wrote that Intel went to the grocery store and was picking up "peculiar items." When she questioned him about it, he said, "Hey we deserve to dream too, don't we?"
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post #115 of 142
4/23/10 at 3:14pm
Tasty solution? For a starving Ethiopian kid, maybe.
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post #116 of 142
4/23/10 at 3:45pm
Goddamnit why do vegitarians have to ruin everything great about America.
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post #117 of 142
4/23/10 at 3:49pm
Finally a blog devoted to the dietary adventures of DJ Intel and Crystal Pistol. Where do I sign up for the RSS feed?
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post #118 of 142
4/23/10 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post
Goddamnit why do vegitarians have to ruin everything great about America.
Fun fact: Boca fake chicken and bacon often have more than double the sodium per serving than the real thing.

Freedom is the right to a coronary by any means necessary, motherfuckers.
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post #119 of 142
4/23/10 at 4:31pm
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Fun fact: Boca fake chicken and bacon often have more than double the sodium per serving than the real thing.

Freedom is the right to a coronary by any means necessary, motherfuckers.
Not to mention that the neurotoxin chemicals they put in the fake meat to actually reduce the sodium isn't the best thing to put in your body.

And I say this as a vegetarian.
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post #120 of 142
4/23/10 at 4:44pm
Please tell me that doesn't apply to the entrees too. My addiction to Morningstar's Sweet and Sour "Chicken" will be a hard thing to break if it does.
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post #121 of 142
4/23/10 at 4:50pm
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Please tell me that doesn't apply to the entrees too. My addiction to Morningstar's Sweet and Sour "Chicken" will be a hard thing to break if it does.
It's made with soy, so that's a bingo.

Between Clif bars, Morningstar Farms, and Trader Joe's, I eat entirely too much soy. Time to change it up.
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post #122 of 142
4/23/10 at 9:20pm
So now vegetarians are too good to eat neurotoxins too? Shit, there goes my plan plan for the scorpion farm. And I already took out the business loans. Fuck!
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post #123 of 142
4/26/10 at 9:53am
hahaha, fail indeed. Double Fail.
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post #124 of 142
4/26/10 at 5:04pm
I did my duty as a gluttonous American and tried one the other day.
Surprisingly it's not the monstrosity I was expecting/secretly hoping it would be. It's also overpriced and not particularly memorable. It's just 2 chunks of boneless chicken, and the chicken(in my case) wasn't nearly as greasy as KFC normally is. Not worthy of a fuss by either side of the double down fence, that's for sure.
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post #125 of 142
4/26/10 at 6:30pm
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Originally Posted by ryoken View Post
If there's no bread on top and bottom, its no sandwich.
The chicken's breaded!!!

And is that vegetarian alternative just a grilled cheese sandwich? Ooooh, inventive.
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post #126 of 142
4/26/10 at 6:39pm
Am I the only one thoroughly unimpressed by this supposed "monstrosity?"

Christ, those fucking Steak and Cheese Thickburgers or whatever other nonsense Hardees/Carl Jr. cooks up are FAR more terrifying. Maybe it's just to me, greasy beef trumps chicken, fried or no, always.
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post #127 of 142
4/26/10 at 9:09pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
The chicken's breaded!!!

And is that vegetarian alternative just a grilled cheese sandwich? Ooooh, inventive.
No, I believe it uses chicken and bacon substitutes. I'm not sure how it fails, since it's probably just as shitty for you as the KFC thing (which I guess is what we're going for here?), but if you're vegetarian for ethical, rather than health reasons, it's an option.
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post #128 of 142
4/26/10 at 10:05pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
No, I believe it uses chicken and bacon substitutes. I'm not sure how it fails, since it's probably just as shitty for you as the KFC thing (which I guess is what we're going for here?), but if you're vegetarian for ethical, rather than health reasons, it's an option.
FAKON=FAIL
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post #129 of 142
4/26/10 at 10:07pm
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Honestly, I think you would be surprised at what is created and ultimately chosen based on consumer feedback. Let's just say that there is a cheaper version of french fries that are neither fried nor potatoes. Tasted fantastic (to me). Market testing didn't like it at all. Marketing is tailored almost solely on consumer feedback. Does that make the industry complicit? Perhaps. Then again, you'd have an industry failing because people wouldn't spend money in their stores.
Seriously? Me? I'm the only one? You have got to be kidding me that this shit didn't raise more eyebrows than mine.
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post #130 of 142
4/26/10 at 10:47pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB View Post
No, I believe it uses chicken and bacon substitutes. I'm not sure how it fails, since it's probably just as shitty for you as the KFC thing (which I guess is what we're going for here?), but if you're vegetarian for ethical, rather than health reasons, it's an option.
Dave please stop posting sensibly in the thread about the bacon cheese and chicken sandwich thank you
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post #131 of 142
4/26/10 at 10:58pm
It fails because it it is a cheap imitation of the gluttonous nature of multiple chicken and pork products stacked upon one another. The whole premise of the product is that there isn't enough meat on sandwiches. By removing all the meat, the point of the sandwich is spectacularly missed.
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post #132 of 142
4/26/10 at 11:27pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
FAKON=FAIL
FAKON=TOFAIL

Much better.
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post #133 of 142
4/27/10 at 9:51am
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
Seriously? Me? I'm the only one? You have got to be kidding me that this shit didn't raise more eyebrows than mine.
I shit you not. The things that go on in the food industry baffle the mind. Seriously.
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post #134 of 142
4/27/10 at 1:17pm


Seriously, this thing is so much more egregious, and it was out forever ago. I just can't see what's so hysteria-worthy about two pieces of fried chicken, some bacon and cheese when THAT fucking thing is terrorizing citizens.
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post #135 of 142
4/27/10 at 1:34pm
I agree about that thickburger. Thing is, we've had ridiculous burgers forever. I think that the outcry about KFC comes from them having the audacity to market a sandwich that has no bun, but instead substitutes two chicken breasts AS the bun.

The double down really isn't THAT ridiculous when you actually have it(and I definitely agree that I was disappointed in this... and the fact that it's way overpriced). I was satisfied but not gut bustingly full, as I'm sure I would be from eating one of those thickburgers.
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post #136 of 142
4/27/10 at 1:36pm
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Seriously, this thing is so much more egregious, and it was out forever ago. I just can't see what's so hysteria-worthy about two pieces of fried chicken, some bacon and cheese when THAT fucking thing is terrorizing citizens.
It's the gimmick of having chicken breasts for bread.
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post #137 of 142
4/27/10 at 9:30pm
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Originally Posted by gobblox View Post
I agree about that thickburger. Thing is, we've had ridiculous burgers forever. I think that the outcry about KFC comes from them having the audacity to market a sandwich that has no bun, but instead substitutes two chicken breasts AS the bun.

The double down really isn't THAT ridiculous when you actually have it(and I definitely agree that I was disappointed in this... and the fact that it's way overpriced). I was satisfied but not gut bustingly full, as I'm sure I would be from eating one of those thickburgers.
Why would the fast food industry want you to actually get full? They want you temporarily sated so that you're hungry again in a few hours.
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post #138 of 142
4/28/10 at 10:32am
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Originally Posted by Diva View Post
It's the gimmick of having chicken breasts for bread.
Slap another beef patty on around that cheesesteak then. That'll show 'em.
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post #139 of 142
4/28/10 at 12:49pm
TopCultured.com takes the Double Down and goes one step further. Check out the Elvis Double Down and the Luther Vandross Double Down.
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post #140 of 142
4/28/10 at 12:53pm
I saw the Luther one on this is why you're fat. Just so incredibly wrong. It makes the normal double down seem like a veggie sub.
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post #141 of 142
4/28/10 at 1:03pm
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Originally Posted by Steve Moonrocket View Post
I saw the Luther one on this is why you're fat. Just so incredibly wrong. It makes the normal double down seem like a veggie sub.
But it goes to the trouble of adding a bread-like delivery system, which removes a fair portion of the Double-Down's transgressive appeal. They should really put the doughnut between the chicken breasts.
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post #142 of 142
4/29/10 at 5:33pm
“You know what’d be good on this burger? A ham sandwich. Instead of a bun, let’s use two donuts. That way we can have it for breakfast. Look out McGriddle-here comes the donut-ham-hamburger!” - Jim Gaffigan
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