The Double Down, KFC’s new bacon “sandwich” on fried chicken “bread”, hits the market next Monday. Frankly, I feel it’s about time a national corporation has taken on overpopulation by offering its costumers a fast track to heart disease and death. Good on ya’ KFC! But outside of the hordes of self-destructive hicks and (lord save me) self-loathing food writers likely to line up for this abomination, there is one group that would not have the chance experience this kind of abusive eating: vegans.
Well, vegans, now you can join in the fun.
Just as monstrous, but not as “chicken apocalypse-y,” it’s the Vegan Double Down from San Francisco blog Vegansaurus. They’ve put together step-by-step instructions to make your own, most notable for the recipe for a vegan Colonel’s Sauce, and a spice mix said to adequately capture the blend of KFC’s “11 Secret Herbs and Spices.”
To be clear, neither of these “sandwich” options are good for you.
I have yet to decide if I’m going to take a Double Down bullet for the blog (I’ll most likely leave it up to a poll later this week), but I might consider eating a vegan version if some enterprising reader wants to make one for me. Man, the things I do for you…
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
TAKE A GODDAMN DOUBLE DOWN BULLET PATRICK.
I expect a detailed report on Monday.
Careful Erik. Not sure if you guys telecommute or not but if you work in the same office, you both use the same bathrooms.
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Both of those sound and look vomit-inducing.
See, and I think the story here, based on the reported calorie counts and continued evidence that fat is better for you than processed carbs, is that those two chicken patties might not worse for you than a bacon and cheese sandwich on a nutritionally void bun. And if it was only one patty it would just be a bun-free chicken sandwich.
I wonder how many out there will consume more than one a day.
They could have taken it one step further and fried the whole damn thing at once. That would be an tremendous heart-hurting.
I’m glad fast food finally started thinking big.
Dear PAC,
I will go get a double down with you. I am not scared of this thing. I am from a land of wonder and beauty where you can get a dish called a “Magic Mountain” that involves hashbrowns on top of Texas toast. With chili on it. I say bring it on. And as Alton Brown says, “there’s no bad food, there’s just bad portions.” And for reference, I ate a whole Domino’s pizza for dinner last night.
Yours always,
Graham.
PAC, I’ll eat the vegan one if you eat the KFC one.
I think ezra and PAC should eat half of each others sandwich. That way, we could get a subjective report on the sandwiches.
Thanks for the mental image of Ezra and PAC eating each others’ sandwich. Unclean! Unclean! Unclean!
Disgusting, but WTF NO GRAVY…Somebody out there is gonna request gravy on this bitch.
The vegan one looks like what might happen if you left the KFC one alone for a year in a glass enclosure.