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While perhaps a few months late, the LA Times' auto columnist Dan Neil recently offered his thoughts on KFC's Famous Bowl-the all-in-one combination of mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, fried chicken pieces and shredded cheese. Neil bravely digs into the "steaming, sweating pound of food goo" to find that it's "like throwing up in reverse." He's certainly taken one for the team here. The Bowl then serves as a jumping off point for Neil to ponder the American fast food industry and, after considering things like the Carl's Jr. Double Six Dollar Burger and the "Luther Burger," Neil decides that KFC's offering is comparitively tame. Even the styled ad photos for the Famous Bowls look gross. I can only imagine what a lovingly prepared speciment coming from the drivethrough looks like.
Dan Neil reviews KFC's Famous Bowls
While perhaps a few months late, the LA Times' auto columnist Dan Neil recently offered his thoughts on KFC's Famous Bowl-the all-in-one combination of mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, fried chicken pieces and shredded cheese. Neil bravely digs into the "steaming, sweating pound of food goo" to find that it's "like throwing up in reverse." He's certainly taken one for the team here. The Bowl then serves as a jumping off point for Neil to ponder the American fast food industry and, after considering things like the Carl's Jr. Double Six Dollar Burger and the "Luther Burger," Neil decides that KFC's offering is comparitively tame. Even the styled ad photos for the Famous Bowls look gross. I can only imagine what a lovingly prepared speciment coming from the drivethrough looks like.
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7-23-2006 @3:16PM sue said... i like it
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7-23-2006 @3:41PM BILL said... I just can't imagine ever getting hungry for something like that. I'm glad some like it, but the idea even turns my stomach.
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7-23-2006 @3:57PM Hawk said... I'm not quite sure what's gross about this. Would someone go, EWWW! at this monstrosity designed to "economically pack the gullets of the poor", and then gleefully eat a gyudon / donburi? Same idea. Put meat on top of starch, eat. I do it all the time when I make asian food, I just put the entree on top of the rice.
In fact, isn't this just chicken shepherd's pie? Made properly, shepherd's pie is tasty. I think the order of the ingredients is backwards in shepherd's pie (potato on top, meat under) but same difference.
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7-23-2006 @5:14PM Craig Pressel said... I kinda like these things but when they call their mashed potatos "famous" I figure it's time for them to wake up and look at the awful sides they sell. Still, the worse one by far is McD's and their imported premium beef to which they add ... .... beef by products. Aren't THEY crazy ?????
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7-23-2006 @9:31PM Bruce Dearborn Walker said... Food for bulimics. Easy going down, easy coming up. My pretty, perfectly thin sister in law does it often. We worry about her pretty, perfectly thin daughter.
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