# Aww, fuck it, let's just put everything we have in a bowl **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971 "2006-06-01T02:49:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/61 "2006-06-01T17:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] First, don’t talk shit on monster truck rallies. They’re loud, destructive, and have beer. Far more fun than watching some shitting horses jump over hedges. [/quote] Oh, no argument there – while neither is exactly my cup of tea, if I _had_ to spend the afternoon at one or the other, I’ve little doubt that I’d choose the Monster Truck thing, unless attending a horse show was a prerequisite for getting some nooky or something. It’s just that they’re not – you know – _remotely equivalent._ > [@Scumpup](#): > > Secondly, I’m guessing that if you check into the caloric values by serving, the KFC Bowl O’ Stuff comes in close to the Japanese Bowl O’ Stuff. Your infatuation with the differing presentation, I think, is the main difference. Are you really that nutritionally innocent? [Oyako Donburi](http://chicken.allrecipes.com/az/ykDnbri.asp?showform=review&nprid=43628), _American Style-ee_: [ul]Calories: 289 Total Fat: 11.4g Carbohydrates: 16.4g[/ul] [KFC Famous Bowl](http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060519/BUSINESS/605190308/1003): [ul]Calories: 690 Total fat: 31 grams Carbohydrates: 77 grams[/ul]You can count on the gap being somewhat wider if you are comparing Japanese portion sizes. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingCowOfDoom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyingcowofdoom/32/21776_2.png) [@FlyingCowOfDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingCowOfDoom)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/62 "2006-06-01T18:05:18Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] There’s an SNL parody commercial where they just keep adding more and more shit to a fast food item. [/QUOTE] [It’s the **new** pizza crepe taco pancake chili bag. Only at Taco Town.](http://www.youtube.com/w/Taco%20ToWn!?v=mQzRRqyd1mk) –FCOD ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/63 "2006-06-01T18:14:09Z")
Anyone else see the “Malcolm in the Middle” where Lois makes leftover casserole where the layers are made of the previous week’s meals? That’s what this reminds me of. Like at KFC one day they realized they were throwing out bits of each dish and they thought, you know, we could combine these and make another meal. But where are the biscuits? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/64 "2006-06-01T18:15:32Z")
[Oyaka Donburi](http://www.recipezaar.com/155692) at 428 calories per serving, 207 from fat. [Oyaka Donburi](http://www.bhg.com/bhg/recipe/recipedetail.jhtml?recipeId=37753) at 409 calories per serving. Oooooh! Here’s one at [623 calories a serving](http://www.sachikocooking.com/english/en0504.htm). Fuck me! [916 calories a serving!](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/22/FDGC3AEG881.DTL) Dude, you cherry-picked a recipe that had exceptionally low calorie value. Theones I’ve linked were all from the first page of a google search. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/65 "2006-06-01T18:21:25Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] Fuck me! [916 calories a serving!](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/22/FDGC3AEG881.DTL) [/QUOTE] Well, that one’s gotta be a typo. I can’t see how you could take the following… 1/2 teaspoon powder bonito fish stock dissolved in 1 cup of warm water 3 tablespoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons sugar 3 tablespoons mirin 3 cups cooked chicken, sliced thinly 1/2 medium Vidalia onion, sliced thinly 2 eggs stirred 6 cups cooked hot rice 1/2 sheet of nori, shredded or cut into strips with scissors …split it into 4-6 servings, and have them come out to 916 calories apiece, unless you served them on large cubes of Schmaltz Jell-O. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/66 "2006-06-01T18:23:13Z")
To be fair, a hundred and sixty grams of rice is a… bit much for a serving. =O.o= ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/67 "2006-06-01T18:23:59Z")
I have a theory that “The Bowl” concept (Taco Bell’s Border Bowl, KFC’s Famous Bowl, etc.) is really a subliminal marketing tie in to the Davinci Code. It’s the grail of the fast food world, literally and figuratively. Everything tastes better in a symbolic uterus! ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/68 "2006-06-01T18:24:23Z")
You know, once a week or so, I have a bowl of mashed potatoes with corn and chicken gravy mixed in. I’ve been doing this for years. (Around Thanksgiving, I get festive and throw some whole cranberry sauce in…you may all give me a collective ‘eeeewwww’ right now 😉 ). It’s actually a pretty decent low-fat meal the way I make it. ElzaHub thinks I should sue KFC for ripping off my idea. Of course, the cheese should NEVER go on a mashed potato bowl. Whoever thought of that idea should be shot. The only time cheese belongs on gravy is in poutine. E. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/69 "2006-06-01T18:30:31Z")
My friend Paul put it quite succinctly when we were discussing this new KFC item. He said: “It’s a mini-trough for people!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/70 "2006-06-01T18:31:17Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] Dude, you cherry-picked a recipe that had exceptionally low calorie value. Theones I’ve linked were all from the first page of a google search. [/QUOTE] While I certainly concede the caloric argument, I hope you don’t really think I was being dishonest. I just looked at the first return on [my google search](http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=donburi+%22nutritional+information%22&btnG=Search&meta=) and assumed it was representative. My mistake. I think the main thing is the fat though, really – anyway you slice it, KFC’s bowl is going to have about 300% more fat in a serving. Deep fried chicken, with gravy, and cheese, not to mention the butter and (hopefully) milk in the spuds. Dude! Kill me now! Anyway, compare those recipes with a those that haven’t been adjusted for North American tastes, like [this one](http://www.bento.com/tr-oyak.html), from the inimitable [bento.com](http://bento.com). See the difference? ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/71 "2006-06-01T18:36:06Z")
When I first saw the commercial, I didn’t think much of the idea. But then a little voice in the back of my head said, “But if I were drunk, that would probably seem pretty darn tasty”. Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/72 "2006-06-01T18:42:57Z")
[QUOTE=mrklutz] When I first saw the commercial, I didn’t think much of the idea. But then a little voice in the back of my head said, “But if I were drunk, that would probably seem pretty darn tasty”. Hmmm… [/QUOTE] Well, sure. When you’re drunk, your resistance to things that are bad for you goes way down. It’s the same with sex. When you’re sober, you would never think “I am _totally_ gonna fuck that bowl of mashed potatoes and chicken.” But when you’re drunk it seems like a great idea. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/73 "2006-06-01T18:50:31Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] I’m sure the Famous Bowl idea is directly correlated to the sucess of Taco Bell’s Chicken Bowls from a year or so back (Which, by the way, was REALLY TASTY.) KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell are, after all, under the umbrella of the same company ([YUM!](http://www.yum.com/about/default.asp)) and probably have some wonkaesque, oompaloompified, high tech, R&D division built deep into the side of some Kentucky Mountain. It’s their new secret formula- I can see some guy holding up a blueprint of a bowl and imploring, “…you know, for kids.” [/QUOTE] This? Comedy gold. **devilsknew** , thank you for a most refreshing laugh! Oh, the topic? The first time I saw the commercial, I went “the fuck?”, now I can’t see it without having to resist the urge to hop in the car and go get me some taters&stuff in a bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/74 "2006-06-01T18:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=Trion] When you’re sober, you would never think “I am _totally_ gonna fuck that bowl of mashed potatoes and chicken.” But when you’re drunk it seems like a great idea. [/QUOTE] True dat. (I’m trying not to think about that time I woke up with a Jalapeno Popper up my ass.) There’s a whole category of food that only makes sense when you’re waaaaaay into your cups: Pickled eggs, rollmops, trotters, peas & cheese, poxy trollop… ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/75 "2006-06-01T18:56:03Z")
The mashed potatoes and gravy, sure. Chicken? I’ll eat that with said potatoes already, so go ahead. Sweet corn? My grandpa always uses corn instead of other toppings on his baked potatoes, so I can totally see throwing that in. It’s really the cheese that gets to me. This cheese blend just seems to be coming out of nowhere. WHERE IS THE CHEESE COMING FROM?! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/76 "2006-06-01T19:08:28Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] Nope ☹ They do have some sort of chicken-bits-with-rice-and-spring-onions-in-soy-sauce thing. I went for the bucket. [/QUOTE] Mr. Creosote, is dat you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/77 "2006-06-01T19:09:55Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] It seems like a nice scoop of hot chili would make the whole thing better! [/QUOTE] Are you my Dad? When he was raising us on his own, he would try to stretch the last of the chili by putting it over mashed potatoes. We _loved_ his chili. Over mashed potatoes, not so much. However, my favorite ever non-sugar-laden comfort food is mashed potatoes with corn mixed in, so I can see the appeal of KFC’s bowl thingy. OK, make that my second favorite ever non-sugar-laden comfort food after my Dad’s chili. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/78 "2006-06-01T19:11:15Z")
[QUOTE=Excalibre] Seriously?! I had no idea. I really don’t like flour tortillas at all - they don’t taste like anything. I always figured those were pretty much gringos-only food. [/QUOTE] Depends on where you are from. In much of Mexico, flour tortillas are unheard of. But they are the speciality of some Northern States. There are racial/cultural/geographical/economic reasons why flour tortillas would be more prestigious in some communities. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/79 "2006-06-01T19:11:21Z")
Just wait 'til they take this thing to it’s logical conclusion. Throw all that shit in a blender with your Diet Pepsi and a scoop of ice, stick a straw in it, and serve it as a frappe. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971/80 "2006-06-01T19:13:32Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] … Chocolate, ice cream, pastries, bacon, french fries…you name the “junk” food and they **LOVE** it. … [/QUOTE] needs cheese. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aww-fuck-it-lets-just-put-everything-we-have-in-a-bowl/358971.md?page=5)