When are they going to start serving food again?
Did they ever?
Once upon a time, KFC was the shit. It was a classic go-to affordable way to feed your kids and it was delicious. They had corn on the cob! They’ve fallen so far in my lifetime.
KFC was amazing in the 90s
Might be a bit of nostalgia there. It was always junk food. That said there’s definitely been a drop off in quality and the prices are stupid lately.
I wonder if they brought back 2000s prices and stopped paying their officers hundreds of millions, if they’d do okay.
Ah, you’re adorable. :)
What? …No. you are
I think a lot of that is nostalgia, but they sides and deserts were definitely more varied.
A lot of it probably is nostalgia (but yes the dessert selection was better then). Maybe KFC never was good, maybe nobody knew how bad it really was until the competition stepped up their game and showed everyone how much better fast food fried chicken can be… Never thought of it that way but you’re probably right.
Nowadays there’s way more culinary options from every culture on the planet in my hometown then there was 30 years ago, so my standards in taste have naturally gone up.
Yes. In the 90s is was great.
nervous tissue straight from the chickens brains.
We really need to get rid of corn subsiding…
Much like oil subsidies is why we still buy gas guzzlers as a society, subsidizing corn leads to HFCS being shoved into everything because we’ve already paid for it so it’s basically free. From an economic standpoint it’s stupid not to use a bunch of it.
But like, if we don’t need a shit ton of corn, let’s just fucking grow less corn…
Let it go back to woods and give farmers a buyout to let it stay wild for 50 years
We definitely have that problem, but I think targeting meat and dairy should be the first targets to cut subsidies. They’re the biggest offenders. Put that subsidy money towards creating and marketing plant-based alternatives.
Plus, since a good amount of corn goes to animal feed, you’d be reducing the demand.
I don’t see how you’d be able to convince farmers to not farm, though. Even if you paid them to not farm, they still want to farm. Nobody does it for the money. (Except corporate farms, of which there are a lot, and they’ll find ways to both not farm and still make money off the land, like haying or logging.)
Even if you paid them to not farm, they still want to farm
Lol, no they don’t. Farmers have always been happy to take free money not to farm. It’s a thing we’ve done for a long time
Just change the subsidies from corn to a variety of other crops that are more useful and less damaging to the land. Cut the corn ethanol subsidies while we’re at it too!
We grow all this unnecessary corn so we can be self-sufficient on food at any time, in case a world war breaks out
In theory it could be positive because it provides a better bargaining position for the US to de-escalate a potential world war
I’d rather we stop it because it’s wasteful, and that bargaining position could easily be used for brinksmanship by the US (which we have somewhat seen with Trump, although not yet at that level)
Buddy…
We need diesel to harvest, we save that diesel by dying it red and saving it for agriculture use…
trump is letting states use those reserves for road use, and farmer won’t have any to harvest.
And if we were saving for food, we’d save soybeans
pepsi and mountain dew in the fountain is not the reason why kfc sales are in a freefall and is now contributing less than five percent of yum brand’s operating profits.
Restaurant serving garbage chicken to switch from one garbage beverage to another.
tbh i only dont like coca-cola cause of that one Xmas ad…
All this because they couldn’t figure out how to sell grilled chicken.
I can’t remember the last time I even ate KFC, they have really gone down hill over the years. I much prefer Church’s chicken.
KFC hasn’t been good in like 25 years. The last time I had it, my chicken leg was mushy. Like soft like flan or something. How do you make meat soft? Also, all I could taste was grease. That was in 2009 and I haven’t had it since. Anyway, I don’t think changing beverages will help that.
If you haven’t had it in 17 years, I don’t think you’re qualified to talk about the quality over time
I actually happen to know KFCs processes from 2009. They were breading and cooking the chicken in-house still back then
Workers would take the chicken, toss it in dredge, egg wash, then breading, before going to the fryer
If your chicken was soft, it was probably an abcess that a minimum wage employee missed
Super greasy was standard. They’ve fixed that a bit, but everything else has gone way downhill. They no longer prep in-house, and it really shows
I remember KFC as a kid and I thought it was decent the few times I had it, but then…I was a kid in a very rural area and we didn’t eat out very often.
Then I had some in the late 90s and I thought it was so disgusting, I never went back. The co-workers I went there with (I forget why we even went since there were better options - maybe it was about trying to get something really fast) all compared what we got to rat meat…
I’ve been vegetarian the past 20+ years so obviously it’s a no-go now anyway, but I think it’s been pretty bad for a very long time.
The late-90s/early-2000s seems to be when the drop-off was. If I’m getting fast food fried chicken these days I’m going for Popeye’s or Church’s. But the “knows ball” move with fried chicken is to get it from a local grocery store. The G&W a couple of blocks from my house has legitimately good fried chicken.
well guess the next time (probably not) i go there i am not gonna buy drinks
KFC locations serve undercooked chicken where I live. I avoid them.
KFC is worse in the US?
Yes, KFC is FAR worse in the US than in the rest of the world. My wife spent a year backpacking around the world between college and grad school, and having the occasional “comfort food” from her childhood while in very different countries helped avoid getting homesick. Now it is a tradition to try KFC in different countries to see which ones are better.
It’s still greasy fast food all over the world, but the chicken is higher quality and everything is less greasy than in the US. Vietnam was my favorite so far.
Yes, KFC is FAR worse in the US than in the rest of the world
isn’t that pretty much the same for any u.s. chain that has an international presence?
That’s a good question. I wonder if there are any exceptions to the rule.
But what of their proprietary Mountain Dew?!
