KFC Introduces Delicious, Deadly Sandwich

By Jill Harness in Food & Drink on Aug 21, 2009 at 5:55 pm

We’ve posted our share of artery clogging-fair foods before, including the deep-fried Krispy Kreme chicken sandwich, but now KFC’s giving them all a run for their money. This heart attack-waiting-to-happen is called the Double Down Sandwich and it’s made of two deep fried chicken breasts used as bread for a bacon and cheese sandwich. It’s apparently only available in limited areas, so I’m wondering, have any of you Neatorama readers tried it and lived to tell the tale? For those of you who haven’t, would you try this delicious, bacony, deathwich?

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  1. cheeken
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    Italians and the French have been doing this for years… it’s called Chicken Cordon Bleu. Ham and cheese inside of fried chicken breast – pretty much the same as this except this is Americanized and extreme.

  2. SenorMysterioso
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    Double down? I like that they reference gambling in naming an iffy food product

  3. RW
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    “Meat is the new bread!”

  4. Gauldar
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Limited areas? You mean those that are close to a Hospital where they can send someone right away with a defibrillator?

  5. CheeseDuck
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    I WANT ONE. RIGHT NOW.

  6. Gauldar
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    @CheeseDuck

    I was always confused by your name, but seeing this new product clarifies everything!

  7. A
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    This is about as stupid as The Carl’s Jr. low carb burger I saw a few years back that consisted of two lettuce leafs for buns. (I’m not from the US)

  8. Morgan
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    gag me!! yet I’d love to try one.

  9. Noelegy
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    For some reason, the first thing this made me think of was years ago, a coworker telling me in all seriousness that vegetarians could eat at KFC because KFC wasn’t legally allowed to call themselves “Kentucky Fried Chicken” anymore, because they were supposedly lab-growing headless, skinless chickens that were never technically alive. I tried to tell him that they changed their moniker to “KFC” in an attempt to divert attention from the “Fried” part of the name, and that the Frankenchicken story was just an urban legend, but he was convinced that what he was saying was true. The same coworker insisted that vegetarians could eat at Taco Bell because they used soy fillers in their taco meat. “But there’s still meat,” I said, and he agreed. “Then vegetarians can’t eat it.” I don’t think he ever got what I was trying to say.

    As for this? Would I try it? Ummmm. A resounding NO.

  10. Paula
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    Noelegy- this neatorama article is interesting, but i was way more interested with your odd vegetarian conversation.

  11. Melphistopheles
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    KFC are amateurs.
    The Vortex restaurant in Atlanta served me a daily special once. Once. I think it was called a southern style burger, or something like that. After you find out what it is, you’ll realize why I can’t remember what it was called. Part of it is still lodged in my brain, another part in my aorta. Okay, so it’s a half pound hamburger, served on a huge southern-style biscuit. But don’t stop there. It was topped with not one, not two, not three but four strips of deep-fried, thick bacon. But wait, there’s more! On top of all that, a heaping helping of sausage gravy! Served with your choice of side or salad. Just kidding, no salad. I chose a huge pile of tater tots. Ketchup? No way, too much like a vegetable. May-yo-naise! Proud to say that I finished the whole freaking thing, and I either survived, or I’m some kind of meat zombie. Please don’t tell my health care company that I subjected myself to this, or they may drop me for a pre-existing condition, “willingness to submit himself to self inflicted medical experimentation”

  12. redphone
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    Someone did the math from the current available nutritional information (this sandwich is currently just “testing” in certain parts of america, and is apparently doing quite well)

    Anyway, it comes out to 858 calories and 62.4 grams of fat

    I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a conservative calculation though. Judging by the picture, they’ve made the batter thicker to hold it all together better.

    From a purely logistical point of view, that sucker must be a mess to eat and hot as hell on the fingers.

  13. cathy
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    Sandwiches should have bread to keep the fingers cleanish.

  14. D Bozko
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    Wasn’t the original motto for Kentucky Fried Chicken “Finger Lickin’ Good”? The Colonel would be right proud.

  15. Ashley
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    Mmmm I want some chicken cordon bleu now, but this may do acceptably as a substitute. Honestly I don’t think I could finish the whole thing though. It looks enormous.

  16. Noelegy
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Paula: :)

    I was a vegetarian for about ten years. During that time, I got used to being an object of curiosity among just about any group of people in which I found myself. My coworkers at the time were particularly baffled. We worked at a building in an industrial park where there weren’t many food delivery options, so if someone was going to pick up food for themselves, passing around a menu was just good etiquette.

    One thing I constantly encountered (especially with my mom) was that people seemed very concerned that I was able to get enough to eat. Another common reaction was that people would come to me with any information even remotely related to vegetarianism, regardless of its authenticity. As the story I related above.

  17. SenorMysterioso
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    re: A

    Im glad the low carb thing is gone or at least fading.

    A friend of mine cannot eat gluten and always has her burger on lettuce.

  18. B.D.
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    I haven’t eaten meat in over 36 years. (I never liked it when I did eat it)

    At age 52, I only weigh 8 pounds more than I did when I graduated from high school, and I haven’t been to a doctor in about 20 years.

    The only thing I use fast food joints for is the restrooms.

  19. Woogie
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    Saw this elsewhere earlier with no credit and figured it was one of those things some whackjob on the internet came up with. Didn’t realise it was real.

    But I would SO eat one. Almost never eat junkfood, and that looks… Well sod it I just want the chicken.

  20. Woogie
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 10:59 pm

    B.D: Some people are just genetically pre-disposed that way. Kudos to you. Doubt it has anything to do with not eating meat. Humans are omnivores, not herbivores.

    You’re the sort of person that says all that and one day will just drop down dead. (Jim Fixx immediately springs to mind.)

  21. Mike Jenkins
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    I would try one in a heartbeat. Though it may be my last.

  22. Dirit
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 am

    “Think More legs.”

    Krusty the clown

  23. Katey
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 12:50 am

    Wow, but… fast food bacon is always disappointing. Especially when combined with fast food fried chicken (I’m specifically thinking of the Wendy’s Chicken Club), which totally overwhelms it.

    Kudos to KFC, though, for trying something absolutely wacky.

  24. really
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 2:11 am

    Just another thing to make us Americans fatter.

  25. Foreigner1
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 2:16 am

    Oh no. Ooooooooh nonononononono- This should be banned, forbidden! Bad for health- veeeeery bad. Bad Bad Bad Bad KFC!

    …Pffff….
    With all this commotion about this cordon blue in some new form, it is high time for us to drink some gin, smoke a cigarette and build myself a nice reefer to calm the nerves….

  26. djStelios
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 5:38 am

    As long customers buy these things, KFC and other food chains are going to create them. They must be banned. They are more bad for health, than a pack of cigarettes but smoking is banned. Why not these deadly foods too?

  27. poneyup
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 5:42 am

    “I only go to fast food places to use the restroom”

    Yeah, that’s precisely the sort of statement that makes everyone hate vegetarians. So you would dare eat at McMayhem at the risk of clogging up your dainty arteries but you have problem with clogging up their drains with you foul vege-poo. I’ve been guilty of using fastfood restrooms without buying anything many a time, but that was usually after washing down a massive real burger around the corner where the bathroom had a dead meth-head in it (I had no problem with that – it was just that he was blocking the door).

    Bottomline:
    The right to abuse restroom privileges is won through self-abuse. You don’t have to do it there, but you sure as hell have to do it somewhere. It’s karma.
    Now go wipe your tears on a piece of lettuce and get to work.

  28. poneyup
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 am

    EDIT (I’m still drunk on rum and meat from last night):

    “I only go to fast food places to use the restroom”

    Yeah, that’s precisely the sort of statement that makes everyone hate vegetarians. So you wouldn’t dare eat at McMayhem at the risk of clogging up your dainty arteries but you have no problem with clogging up their drains with your foul vege-poo. I’ve been guilty of using fast-food restrooms without buying anything many a time, but that was always after washing down a massive real burger with a bottle of whiskey around the corner where the bathroom had a dead meth-head in it (I had no problem with that – it was just that he was blocking the door).

    Bottomline:
    The right to abuse restroom privileges is won through self-abuse. You don’t have to do it there, but you sure as hell have to do it somewhere. It’s karma.
    Now go wipe your tears on a piece of lettuce and get to work.

  29. Miss Cellania
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 6:26 am

    This will work, if you go buy one, take it home, cut it in pieces, and serve it to the family for a main dish, along with tomatoes, broccoli, biscuits, and maybe a salad.

  30. A Noun
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 10:14 am

    Noelegy, that is interesting.

    I wouldn’t try this because I can’t trust KFC. Not since I found out the grilled chicken is made with beef extracts. Cowchicken?

  31. TEA
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 11:07 am

    A Noun – Didn’t ya notice how fake the grill lines on the “grilled” chicken was? It’s cookie cutter, fake, and disgusting… Like everything at KFC!

  32. CheeseDuck
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    I seriously don’t get KFC grilled chicken. I eat KFC for the skin not for the chicken.

  33. Owl O'Doom
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    @ A #7

    Seeing your name, must be from Canada.
    it explains alot, eh!

  34. skidworth
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    oh for heavens sake, one dish ain’t gonna kill ya. sheesh, how about a little personal responsibility instead of pointing fingers and slamming someone. nobody forces you!

  35. Owl O'Doom
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    @ Noelegy.

    Me wonders whom was the more gullible between the Two of you… ;P

    Gluck cluck cluck!

  36. Noelegy
    Aug 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    Owl O’Doom (great name!) I wouldn’t have given this particular coworker credit for being clever enough to try to tell me a story like that to try to snooker me… ;)

  37. Matt
    Aug 23rd, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Eat what you want and die like a man !!

  38. Tim Giachetti
    Aug 23rd, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Look, I’m an old fat bastard and I wouldn’t touch that with Skipweasels dick.

    Motherfuck KFC.

  39. Tim Giachetti
    Aug 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 am

    Sorry

    /troll

  40. Want fries w/ that.
    Aug 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 am

    Are we finally eating Cake, Antoinette?

  41. Christophe
    Aug 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    just to add on cheeken post :

    Cordon bleu: “Blue ribbon”, two slices of Wiener schnitzel filled with cheese and a slice of ham

    (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Schnitzel)

  42. B.D.
    Aug 24th, 2009 at 5:43 am

    I said I only use fast food joints for their restrooms. I didn’t say what I did in them.

  43. jgouge
    Aug 24th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    I’m not going to lie, I can’t wait to find one and eat it. I love this nasty stuff. I’m going to die an early death. I know this, so save your comments.

  44. milind
    Sep 11th, 2009 at 7:08 am

    All american fastfood chains products taste like card board dipped in some crap sauce or mayonnaise. You f$@%#@ are going to die of heart diseases due to over indulgence in meat products.


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