Now I really want to know how many fries there were.
Are New Zealand KFC fries better than Canadian KFC fries because if it was me, the undisclosed quantity of KFC fries would be zero.
nKoan
3065
I misread that and thought they were smuggling in $100,000 worth of KFC.
CraigM
3066
The quantity was undisclosed, since reheated fries taste like soggy sadness, and so were destroyed on the spot through general mastication.
When my brother was studying in Belgium and I was living in North West Germany, for his birthday I brought him a load of KFC, because apparently there aren’t any in Belgium.
Thing is we missed the train so had to come the next day, with 12 HR old KFC from Düsseldorf train station.
He liked it though. Shrugs
The fries at KFC were the worst I ever had.
138
3069
I remember KFC having these thick, crispy potato wedges instead of fries, and I thought they were good? Of course, my last KFC experience was years ago.
I haven’t eaten at a KFC in ages, but way back when, KFC fries in Canada were horrid. They were so bad, KFC changed them up and even made a commercial making fun of their reputation for bad fries.
Rock8man
3071
Same, I loved the potato wedges. I had no idea they replaced them with fries. I guess I’ve never had KFC fries. What a weird menu item for a fried chicken place.
Cormac
3072
What I feel is even stranger is that over here the actual traditional fried “chicken pieces” are a rarity on the menu and you really gotta search for them. Basically its all nuggets, burgers and wraps with the basic fried drumsticks & other pieces hidden away…
Rock8man
3073
Yeah, over here, most KFCs I’ve been to in the last two decades have been Taco Bell-KFCs, and they really de-emphasize the KFC part of it. Basically all the KFCs here mostly push tacos and burritos, is what I’m saying.
My problem with KFC is that my nearest branch has terrible staffing. I’ve ordered on the app a couple of times, showed up 20 minutes later, and have had to wait another 20 minutes. They always look like half the staff didn’t show up for their shifts that day.
Management and staffing make all the difference. There’s a Joella’s Hot Chicken place near me that I really want to like, but I’ve written it off completely because you never know 1) what they’ll have run out of, 2) how long it will take to get what they are able to make, and 3) whether the food will actually be any good. It’s a near certainty that something will be fouled up.
Meanwhile, the Chick-Fil-A next door has ten or fifteen cars in the drive-through at all times, each one moving steadily down the line. And they’re probably the only fast food joint in town that doesn’t have a desperate “NOW HIRING!” sign.
You must live in Bloomington! That Joella’s has become so disappointing, and I sure wish I could support them…but to paraphrase Mal, my days of underestimating them are certainly coming to a middle. They opened strong, but then started circling the drain after only a few months, it seems. Pre-pandemic, even. And I like their product (as it once was) so much better than their neighbor, El Pollo Homophobo.
Yeah, I bet there’s a pretty juicy story there. For chains of all kinds, it’s not uncommon to see a dip when the opening team hands over the reins and moves onto the next project down the road, but this was a remarkably precipitous decline. Two or three months out of the gate, and the wheels fell right the hell off. Heck, the KFC across the road is more reliable.
All we need is a Popeye’s plus new management at Joella’s, and our Chicken Strip will be complete!
Houngan
3078
Man, I love hot food but (I’m guessing) the amount of cayenne that hot chicken places use just apocalypses my colon. I can eat sauces ten times as hot and pay a smaller price.
I found the spice level pretty nice at Joella’s (in the BeforeTime). I always ordered the second hottest level (the one below where they make you sign a waiver and basically just want to torment you…I am told it was a pretty absurd step up in heat between #2 and #1) and found it respectable. Bracing, maybe, but not a big deal.
Houngan
3080
To clarify, I’m not bitching about the spice level heat-wise, I could eat it up into the higher brackets easily, but for some reason that particular expression of spice has dire consequence down the line, as it were. Purely a personal body thing. I had a bad experience at the hot level, probably 3, then tried their 1 (which I would call not particularly spicy at all) and the same reaction, so I swore off.
Ah, yes. Understood. And agreed. No matter how the story goes when the spice meets the taste buds, there is always a…um…a backstory.
