KFC

Overall… the food was good. The order was wrong though. Portions seemed off. One of our meals was a two piece and the wing (or what was supposed to be a wing) was about two inches big. I’m not kidding… but technically that made two pieces. Staff was friendly. The bathrooms were not clean. Although there was a sign next to the door that said the bathrooms were checked every 30 minutes. Um… not quite…

KFC is not generally my favorite fast food place. Visits here are usually hit and miss when it comes to food quality. Today was a good day. Friendly staff and hot decent food. Only real problem today was the Mac and cheese was really bland and my 2 year old wouldn’t eat it. The potatoes were good, green beans were a little too oniony. Chicken was really great today. It pays to go during lunch time because the food will be fresh.

I love KFC, but this particular location isn’t all that great. They routinely get my order wrong and I don’t find out until I get home. Employees here aren’t exactly loving life and it shows. Nobody is outright rude, but they’re not friendly either.
With a recent large catering order the containers were so flimsy that I ended up spilling both green bean juice and coleslaw liquid all over my car.

Kentucky Fried Chicken I think gets a bad rap, because they keep coming up with stupid menu items like the Double Down and the Famous Bowl a/​k/​a the Failure Pile; because it’s employees are particularly ignorant, even by fast food standards, rivaled only by people who work at Taco Bell; and because they won’t put a KFC buffet in an area with a significant black population. But never mind all that. It’s the chicken that matters — and the chicken is fucking delicious. There’s a reason you can hardly get out of a KFC without spending $ 7+. Quality costs money.
KFC gives you the choice between Original Recipe or Extra Tasty Crispy, or — god forbid — Grilled, but for my money you gotta go with that Original Recipe. Otherwise, why even bother going out of your way to go to KFC (if you notice, KFC is always out of your way), when you could go to Lee’s Famous Recipe, or the grocery store — or the almighty Popeyes, for that matter. IIRC they only introduced Extra Tasty Crispy in the 1980s, to compete with the ultra-​tasty Lee’s Famous Recipe, which tried to undercut KFC by taking any competitor’s coupon. But I could be mistaken. I was a very young man at the time. At any rate, I think it was after the Colonel died. I remember seeing on A&E Biography how the Colonel was this skeevy old man who traveled from city to city down south trying to sell his patented blend of 11 herbs and spices to restaurants. Then some corporation bought it from him for [Austin Powers voice] $ 1 million, and turned around and almost immediately made like a billion dollars from it, thus making him look like an idiot. But then he ended up dying a few years later, so it didn’t really matter. Being alive to witness the advent of Extra Tasty Crispy would have only added insult to injury.
The meal I went with was the two piece, all white, with two sides and a biscuit, for seven dollars and some change. I’m actually partial to a chicken thigh, but I like to get a breast from KFC, because I’m always amazed at how big they are. (Schwing!) The one I had today was roughly the size of one of the smaller chickens you might get at the grocery store. KFC is obviously pumping them full of some shit the Russians invented to cheat in the Olympics, like in Rocky IV. In fact, I don’t even want to know how the chickens at KFC get so big. I just wonder if there’s any way the same technology could be applied to women. But I digress. Anyway, I lucked out today. KFC is notorious for trying to sell you the same chicken that’s been sitting under a heat lamp since 10 AM, in hopes that some degenerate might want a two piece and a biscuit for breakfast. Especially if you go to the drive through, in which case you can’t see what you’re getting until it’s too late. But this chicken I had today was obviously hot out of the grease. The inside was as moist and tender as… I’m not even gonna go there. I don’t know if I just got there at the right time or what. Or who knows, maybe KFC is trying to step its game up. This location in particular was recently remodeled, and it looks hella classy.