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KFC's New Sandwich: See why Skid is so excited!
Ok...so after the Oprah fiasco KFC might have hit the jackpot with a new marketing idea...a new sandwich... Ok it's kind of hard to explain. Just look at this and let your mind savor it...that's what Skid has been doing! Right now it's not available in our area and Central Florida is not a test market. But keep your fingers crossed that it passes the test!
The Double Down
KFC's newest "sandwich" is a heart-stopping creation that seems literally to die for: it layers two kinds of cheese with bacon and oozes "Colonel's sauce." The twist? Instead of bread, two deep-fried chicken breasts round out the calorific concoction.
Dubbed the Double Down, the sandwich is in test markets so far, which means that only overeaters in Providence, Rhode Island, and Omaha, Nebraska, can get their greasy fill. The buzz is that it's got more than an entire day's worth of the recommended allowance for fat, cholesterol, sodium and protein, according to an analysis in the Vancouver Sun.
"Independent labs are estimating that it has around 1,200 calories and over 50 fat grams, based on what's in the other KFC sandwiches," says Men's Health food and nutrition editor Matt Goulding, co-author of "Eat This, Not That: Best and Worst Foods in America." "What you're looking at is a sandwich that has more than half the calories you should eat in a day, topped by a sauce that is no doubt some deleterious mix of oil, eggs and a bunch of food additives. The only thing you're doubling down on here is waistline expansion."
KFC public relations rep Rick Maynard responded to experts' guesstimated calorie counts by providing estimated figures of 590 calories and 31 grams of fat for the sandwich. He said when the Sun ran its numbers, it calculated the nutrition info using two Original Recipe breasts, which are chicken on the bone, while the new sandwich uses Original Recipe filets.
The Double Down costs $6.99, and a TV commercial for it running in the Midwest notes that it has "so much 100 percent premium chicken we didn't have room for a bun," according to CanWest News service. Read more
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