This KFC episode is a bit of a lark. Thousands of ****-ugly fat people

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

wailing and blubbing like fat demented babies.

It should serve as a warning chime about the fragility of the food supply chain though.

And imagine the exquisite schadenfreude being enjoyed by whoever KFC sacked off to give the delivery contract to DHL :-D

[7sisters]

wailing and blubbing like fat demented babies.

It should serve as a warning chime about the fragility of the food supply chain though.

And imagine the exquisite schadenfreude being enjoyed by whoever KFC sacked off to give the delivery contract to DHL :-D

Well, this is the sort of thing that happens when bean counters manage the running of a company.

[SWv2]

Quite partial to a Wicked Zinger meal when the mood takes me.

[Burney]

Quite partial to a Wicked Zinger meal when the mood takes me.

I'd be too embarrassed to say the words 'Wicked Zinger' in front of another human, sw. It's bad enough that McDonald's got me to say 'McNuggets', but this is a line I'm not prepared to cross.

[SWv2]

I'd be too embarrassed to say the words 'Wicked Zinger' in front of another human, sw. It's bad enough that McDonald's got me to say 'McNuggets', but this is a line I'm not prepared to cross.

I can easily switch to street mode when the need arises.

Therein lies the difference between us. I expect if I were to be dropped into a rough estate in Hackney I could easily negotiate safe passage by using these skillz.

[Tony C]

UK KFC is pretty rubbish anyway. Not surprised by the recent debacle as they’ve only been getting worse the last few years.

The Zinger was the standard bearer for the fried chicken sandwich but it’s way down the pecking order now. Even BK a company that specialises in grilled beef burgers has a better chicken sandwiches.

Their fries are utterly depressing and you would be better off with walkers French fies imo

With vast competition in the market I’m not sure how their UK branches can survive in the medium to long run.

[Burney]

I can easily switch to street mode when the need arises.

Therein lies the difference between us. I expect if I were to be dropped into a rough estate in Hackney I could easily negotiate safe passage by using these skillz.

This is peculiar to Fast Food, though. No other industry requires you to embarrass yourself or talk as much shïte. Whopper, Zinger, a McChicken Sandwich, the McMuffin, the McFlurry, the Croissan'wich - I mean it's all just childish gobbledygook, isn't it? And yet we go along with it, saying these nonsense words and being infantilised EVEN THOUGH WE'RE THE CUSTOMER!

It makes me cross, sw.

[Ash]

I'd be too embarrassed to say the words 'Wicked Zinger' in front of another human, sw. It's bad enough that McDonald's got me to say 'McNuggets', but this is a line I'm not prepared to cross.

I have never said 'McNuggets'. Though I have often asked for a Whopper. With cheese. :-|

[Burney]

UK KFC is pretty rubbish anyway. Not surprised by the recent debacle as they’ve only been getting worse the last few years.

The Zinger was the standard bearer for the fried chicken sandwich but it’s way down the pecking order now. Even BK a company that specialises in grilled beef burgers has a better chicken sandwiches.

Their fries are utterly depressing and you would be better off with walkers French fies imo

With vast competition in the market I’m not sure how their UK branches can survive in the medium to long run.


Who is your fried chicken supplier of choice, t?

[Burney]

I have never said 'McNuggets'. Though I have often asked for a Whopper. With cheese. :-|

Making us say 'fries' instead of 'chips' was the thin end of the potato wedge, a. Once we'd conceded that principle, we were fücked.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

I'd be too embarrassed to say the words 'Wicked Zinger' in front of another human, sw. It's bad enough that McDonald's got me to say 'McNuggets', but this is a line I'm not prepared to cross.

They make you say “and co” here instead of meal :-(

[SWv2]

This is peculiar to Fast Food, though. No other industry requires you to embarrass yourself or talk as much shïte. Whopper, Zinger, a McChicken Sandwich, the McMuffin, the McFlurry, the Croissan'wich - I mean it's all just childish gobbledygook, isn't it? And yet we go along with it, saying these nonsense words and being infantilised EVEN THOUGH WE'RE THE CUSTOMER!

It makes me cross, sw.

It's the product name so you have to go along with it.

Not massively different to a cappucino or latte or flat white. In fact I was in one of these temples of ****ery recently where having ordered a coffee they asked my Mrs for her name, then proceeded a few minutes later to shout out that her coffee was ready using her name. She was stood there, waiting.

Now that made me cross.

[Burney]

This is peculiar to Fast Food, though. No other industry requires you to embarrass yourself or talk as much shïte. Whopper, Zinger, a McChicken Sandwich, the McMuffin, the McFlurry, the Croissan'wich - I mean it's all just childish gobbledygook, isn't it? And yet we go along with it, saying these nonsense words and being infantilised EVEN THOUGH WE'RE THE CUSTOMER!

It makes me cross, sw.

'Filet-O-Fish', that's another. There's no such thing as a 'Filet' in this country and as as for the cringe-inducing awfulness of having to say 'O-Fish', I mean, ffs!

Fishburger's perfectly good, isn't it? Or Fish Sandwich? One can quite proudly walk up to the young lady behind the counter and say 'Good day, my dear. I would like to eat your Fish Sandwich' and she'd know what you meant, wouldn't she? This 'Filet-O-Fish' nonsense is quite unnecessary.

[Burney]

It's the product name so you have to go along with it.

Not massively different to a cappucino or latte or flat white. In fact I was in one of these temples of ****ery recently where having ordered a coffee they asked my Mrs for her name, then proceeded a few minutes later to shout out that her coffee was ready using her name. She was stood there, waiting.

Now that made me cross.

The last time I was in a McDonald's, I simply used the electronic ordering doodah, which spared me the embarrassment.

[SWv2]

'Filet-O-Fish', that's another. There's no such thing as a 'Filet' in this country and as as for the cringe-inducing awfulness of having to say 'O-Fish', I mean, ffs!

Fishburger's perfectly good, isn't it? Or Fish Sandwich? One can quite proudly walk up to the young lady behind the counter and say 'Good day, my dear. I would like to eat your Fish Sandwich' and she'd know what you meant, wouldn't she? This 'Filet-O-Fish' nonsense is quite unnecessary.

She might think you are a sex case.

[PSRB]

She might think you are a sex case.

:hehe: that made me chuckle

[TheCurly]

'Filet-O-Fish', that's another. There's no such thing as a 'Filet' in this country and as as for the cringe-inducing awfulness of having to say 'O-Fish', I mean, ffs!

Fishburger's perfectly good, isn't it? Or Fish Sandwich? One can quite proudly walk up to the young lady behind the counter and say 'Good day, my dear. I would like to eat your Fish Sandwich' and she'd know what you meant, wouldn't she? This 'Filet-O-Fish' nonsense is quite unnecessary.

I just ask for McSalt and a McStraw and a McBarbeque sauce and McMore Ice until they basically just ignore me

[Ash]

The last time I was in a McDonald's, I simply used the electronic ordering doodah, which spared me the embarrassment.

Simply? In UI terms (UX for Jorge) it's aboot 15 keypresses just to order one Big Mac. And then when it eventually arrives it's cold because the ONE person actually delivering has to serve up 12 portions of CHIPS and pour the dozen pints of fizzy acid before she can pick up the shrivelling burger waiting patiently in the queue.

I am not impressed with the new McD's system.

[Burney]

She might think you are a sex case.

Ewww, no. One wouldn't want to eat the fish sandwich of someone who has been working in a hot and busy McDonalds for hours while wearing tight-fitting polyester trousers. Not if you don't want to be brushing your teeth with Canesten for a week, anyway. :-(

[Burney]

Simply? In UI terms (UX for Jorge) it's aboot 15 keypresses just to order one Big Mac. And then when it eventually arrives it's cold because the ONE person actually delivering has to serve up 12 portions of CHIPS and pour the dozen pints of fizzy acid before she can pick up the shrivelling burger waiting patiently in the queue.

I am not impressed with the new McD's system.

Yes, but they want to tempt you with their goodies, a. And, as I say, it does mean one doesn't have to speak to people or use their silly product names.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Quite partial to a Wicked Zinger meal when the mood takes me.


KFC is horrendous. There is no redeeming feature that makes it remotely palatable imo

[SWv2]

KFC is horrendous. There is no redeeming feature that makes it remotely palatable imo

Apart from the gravy. Obviously.

[Sir C]

Ewww, no. One wouldn't want to eat the fish sandwich of someone who has been working in a hot and busy McDonalds for hours while wearing tight-fitting polyester trousers. Not if you don't want to be brushing your teeth with Canesten for a week, anyway. :-(

:sigh: :nostalgia:

[Tony C]

Burney...

I recently went to Sandown for the race. Lovely track and only 3 stops from Waterloo but I had a bit too much champagne so was quite hungry when I got back to Waterloo later that evening.

Popped into BK and had their Chicken Tendercrisp sandwich and realised just how bad KFC is...you got a grilled beef burger joint beating you hands down with their own chicken sandwich.

Lovely sandwich..hit the spot.

[Burney]

Burney...

I recently went to Sandown for the race. Lovely track and only 3 stops from Waterloo but I had a bit too much champagne so was quite hungry when I got back to Waterloo later that evening.

Popped into BK and had their Chicken Tendercrisp sandwich and realised just how bad KFC is...you got a grilled beef burger joint beating you hands down with their own chicken sandwich.

Lovely sandwich..hit the spot.

Hmmm. It certainly sounds like a peng munch, t.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Apart from the gravy. Obviously.


I don't think I've ever had the gravy.

Obviously going into a KFC and asking for nothing but gravy must be an act of deviance? I'd imagine asking for a chicken something or other with gravy is deviance +

[SWv2]

I don't think I've ever had the gravy.

Obviously going into a KFC and asking for nothing but gravy must be an act of deviance? I'd imagine asking for a chicken something or other with gravy is deviance +

Well yes, I will agree on this.

:hehe: