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[Coconutt]

Decided to try something else from KFCs menu, their tenders are actually alright, a lot better than their regular chicken but $19 for 8 tenders still seems like crazy work to me. I did get a discount but still.

 

[DGrayson]

Less dedication to quality, more dedication to cutting corners and boosting profit at the expense of brand value because a lot of Americans just don't care and will eat any kind of slop. It's also why KFC and many other American fast food restaurants taste better in Europe and Asia than in America, ironically.

KFC is not better in Europe though. They don't even have biscuits only fries

 

[adamsapple]

KFC is not better in Europe though. They don't even have biscuits only fries

KFC in Canada is so much better than KFC in the US, based on my experience at least.

KFC in the middle east (Dubai etc) is a world ahead in terms of quality from either.

 

[dorkimoe]

every kfc i have ever been to was filthy. they went wrong not trying to maintain a "quality" place.

 

[Nocty]

I'll get it when I'm brutally hungover and it's ok, the chips are still shit tho I cannot work out why they can't fix that. The hot wings and gravy are very good. The price is so absurdly high nowadays I actually learned how to make half decent fried chicken at home.

agree, chips are trash

the best chips of all UK fast food is five guys with that cajun spice mix on them. That shit is delicious

 

[reinking]

It's fast food. They serve it fast, you eat it quick. I don't think they expect you to linger too long on its 'finer' qualities. It's there to satisfy your hunger and not your senses.

When I was young, they were a place where families would order a bucket of chicken and sides for a good *tasting takeout dinner. These days, they seem to lean much more on the fast food part of the business. The food quality shows it.

 

[archangelmorph]

Nearly all major food chains with any kind of heritage have fucked up their quality over the years.

Most people think the issue is subtle changes in e.g. frying oils etc (sunflower vs more aromatic and tasty oils in the past like beef tallow, etc), but it’s worse than that.

Most consumer foods with industrialised supply chains have replaced many natural ingredients over the years by cheap, lab-synthetic substitutes that provide allegedly-near-taste-parity (they, don’t… they make the food taste like shit), but are either cheaper to source and/or provide some other cost benefit (e.g. better preserved shelf-life, compliance with more modern health regulations etc).

Examples such as Pringles (lost the right to be called “potato chips” legally because they no longer have enough potato in them), most Cadbury’s and Nestle “chocolate” (can’t legally be marketed as chocolate because they no longer contain enough cocoa mass to qualify), etc etc.

I suspect most fast foods are the same and are today barely a shadow of what they once were in terms of natural (or at least flavour optimised), high quality ingredients.

The “enshittification of everything” is real bros, and a genuine natural “ground state” of unchecked global capitalism fully resolved…

 

[Rentahamster]

I could never get into blitzball myself.

You're not using the Jecht Shot enough.

 

[simpatico]

The people cooking your fast food are only there as a condition of their probation. Once you really internalize who is cooking your lunch at these establishments, it becomes impossible to eat there. I think standing in a fast food line and seeing the people behind the counter, and still eating the slop is one of the greatest forms of cognitive dissonance that humanity has faced in its existence.

Fear not slop enjoyers: there's a robot prepared fast food utopia just over the horizon. Then and only then will I enjoy the fruits of Taco Bell and McDonalds again. To those among us who want to jump the gun and eat a jalapeno ghost pepper Whopper today, please, take a hard look at the hands rubbing your tomato. You're better than this. Go to the grocery and get some ground beef. I assure you they jerk off before going to work with no hand washing in between.

 

[Kings Field]

My local grocery store has better fried chicken in the hot deli for a fraction of the price.

Back in the day I would get the KFC grilled strips and rice. Their grilled chicken was really good, even their buckets of grilled chicken. It’s now overpriced slop.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I think they changed the recipe at some point. I don't feel like going like I used to, the flavor spoke to me in the back of my mind till I eventually gave in and went, but now... I don't feel that urge. In fact, I do not eat out much, anymore.

 

[Days like these...]

The people cooking your fast food are only there as a condition of their probation. Once you really internalize who is cooking your lunch at these establishments, it becomes impossible to eat there. I think standing in a fast food line and seeing the people behind the counter, and still eating the slop is one of the greatest forms of cognitive dissonance that humanity has faced in its existence.

Fear not slop enjoyers: there's a robot prepared fast food utopia just over the horizon. Then and only then will I enjoy the fruits of Taco Bell and McDonalds again. To those among us who want to jump the gun and eat a jalapeno ghost pepper Whopper today, please, take a hard look at the hands rubbing your tomato. You're better than this. Go to the grocery and get some ground beef. I assure you they jerk off before going to work with no hand washing in between.

I say this as a Mexican its the same Mexicans that prepare your food at sit down restaurants but nice try painting them as criminals

 

[Mr Reasonable]

KFC, like Pizza Hutt and ESPECIALLY Taco Bell (I've worked one) were ALWAYS trash tier places, but they were often the ONLY real option, at least where I grew up.

Not trying to be facetious, and I'm not from the US so it might seem weird for me to ask, but when you say the only real option, what do you mean? Like the only places to eat food out was one of the places you mention? Or just that they were the only fast food places? Roughly where was that?

 

[jason10mm]

Not trying to be facetious, and I'm not from the US so it might seem weird for me to ask, but when you say the only real option, what do you mean? Like the only places to eat food out was one of the places you mention? Or just that they were the only fast food places? Roughly where was that?

In the 70's and 80's, where I lived, you had few choices for restaurants, especially in the lower to middle class bracket where I was. A "fancy night out" with the family as to a place like Red Lobster. The wealth of locally owned options we have today simply didn't exist for us. So fast food as a friday night treat meant McD, Burger King, or Wendy's, with Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, or KFC as alternatives when you were feeling frisky. But there was no real way to get mexican food in the Carolinas beck then, as there were few to no mexicans. Same with fried chicken, that kind of stuff wasn't really a restaurant option for us outside of a few family dining joints. Same with pizza. All these local pizza joints we have now didn't exist. It was chain stuff like Little Cesars, Dominos, whihc were largely take-out/delivery only, and then Pizza Hut was the "Fancy dine in" option. The best pizza joints I had were up in New York or on vacation somewhere that hadn't yet been invaded by the franchises.

By the 90's there were a lot more choices.

 

[Days like these...]

Not trying to be facetious, and I'm not from the US so it might seem weird for me to ask, but when you say the only real option, what do you mean? Like the only places to eat food out was one of the places you mention? Or just that they were the only fast food places? Roughly where was that?

If he lives in a small town that literally might be the only options apart from a family owned mom and pop dinner with home style food.

 

[Woggleman]

In my neck of woods Chicken Holiday was always better.