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KFC Canada: Where Are Your Biscuits?

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on Aug. 17, 2006

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I ate at KFC last night, for the first time since arriving in Vancouver.  What a bizarre experience!

No biscuits!  They have no biscuits!  Not that I like the biscuits, actualy, but it was an unexpected absence, like the lack of French ingredients on cereal boxes in the United States.

They also have no macaroni and cheese.  They have no pot pie. No baked beans.  No corn on the cob.  No green beans.  No seasoned rice.  No apple or pecan pie. No mashed potatoes. And the only type of wings they offer are “Hot Wings” I mean, come on, wings are CHICKEN, how can KFC Canada still be stuck with 1987 wings technology?

They do offer “Chicken Sticks” which are the latest in batter-delivery science.

And, while I’m grousing, there’s this offer they’re currently hawking: “Toonie Tuesdays”—a two-piece chicken special. But my eagle eye spotted those turkeys (f)lying! The actual price is $2.49—that’s one loonie more than a toonie. They’re robin’ us! I say, flip ‘em the bird, make like a drumstick and beat it, KFC Canada.

[Editor’s note: He’s gone cuckoo.]



 
 

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I worked for KFC's head office for 4 years (1997-2001). I watched them strip down the menu to half of what it once was. No wonder half their stores in BC have closed, there's no selection, plus they removed all the good tasting stuff ("good" being a relative term). Mind you, I'm happier this way, spend 4 years talking about their food and you never want to think about it again.

 

Posted by gillian  at  11:32 am on Aug. 17, 2006

 

 

 

No biscuits here, either, if it's any consolation (I know it's not). The Colonel spins in his grave! First they take the "Kentucky" out of KFC, then they take our biscuits away.

They do have baked beans here, though, and "sweetcorn" on the cob.

 

Posted by Wesley  at  6:13 pm on Aug. 27, 2006

 

 

 

For the first time in many years, I had some of KFC's potato salad, looking forward to tasting it again. It was REPULSIVE! It tasted like the potatoes were grown with fishmeal fertilizer! UGH! If I wanted THAT flavour I would have had fish sticks from somewhere ELSE!

 

Posted by Gabrielle  at  7:42 am on Jan. 16, 2008

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