Its food! in a bowl!
This is very much the Taco Bell strategy–when you need a new product, find some way to recombine your existing ingredients.
The funny thing is that the first fast-food “bowls” I remember were attempts to jump on the low carb craze by putting proteinaceous foods in a bowl instead of on a bun or a biscuit, usually for breakfast foods. And now we have this Bowl O’Carbs.
It’s kind of a weird concept. Sure, it’s the same food you’d normally get at KFC. Except it’s all mixed together in a bucket, with cheese poured on top.
It really is like an SNL skit. Just…wow.
I suspect we’re related. My dad said the same thing when I was unhappy about different foods touching on my plate. My dad’s side of the family are Mountain Folks in western MD.
Nothing. It’s just that you seem to be the ONLY personon this thread who’s objecting to it on those grounds. Everyone else seems to be like “ewww, how unhealthy,” even though they’ve probably experienced exactly the same thing as devilsknew is saying above.
Ironically, it reminds me vaguely of the same fat hysteria that has people suing McDonalds…
See, now you’re talking shit on pickled eggs! The purple ones are, of course, the true pickled eggs. Those piss-colored ones are some kind of southron abortion. Everything on your list is something I enjoy whether I’m drunk or not, though I do prefer calloused-ass gutter strumpet to poxy trollop… It’s only the fact that you and I have apparently shared similar jalapeno popper experiences that saves you.
No, I don’t think you’re dishonest. But I am starting to wonder why I am spending this much time defending a dish I’ve never tried and that doesn’t look appetizing to me…
Well, shit, now I’m not going to be able to think about anything but. Anything else. You know what I mean.
My only problem with KFC is that on one of their commercials (Pushing the bowls) the showed an electric beater (mixing do-hickey thingy) with gobs of mashed potatos falling of the mixers. Which would imply That KFC uses REAL POTATOS to make their mashed potatos! Which is complete bull shit.
I guess these things are alright if you on a short lunch break or something like that.
Tell me you didn’t make that just for this thread.
I think I did permanent damage laughing that hard, fuck the monitor, you owe me a new liver.
CMC fnord!
Even powdered mashed potatoes need to be mixed somehow. They don’t come in a can, do they?
To the people who are getting chills at the thought of ‘all that slop dumped together in a bowl’, it’s really not like that.
I saw the commercial and I thought, wow! The only things that I like about KFC anymore, together in one deal! And went to try one that day or the day after (I’ve seriously never done that before). Hey, I have a thing for popcorn chicken.
It’s a good idea - I would have suggested it if I had the misfortune to work with KFC marketing. And it’s nowhere near as huge, gooey and overstated as it seems in the commercials. It’s not “layers” in the sense of repeating layers. Just a smallish bowl of mashed potatoes with some stuff on top (actually not really worth the price, but whatever). I like to get different things on my fork in one bite anyway, and I’m sure a lot of others do too.
It does strike me as resembling donburi (I think they have a rice instead of potatoes version at my local KFC, to boot), and I’m Black and Japanese, and so am automatically an authority on both donburi and KFC, right? 
(honestly, I prefer Popeye’s any day)
It’s also pretty logical considering KFC’s merger with Taco Bell. That was probably the inspiration (not looking in the trash one day). - as Doctor J said, recombining existing ingredients (and hopefully not naming them after some Mexican dish that they in no way resemble, as Taco Bell loves to do).
The only thing I find weird is the cheese, but I suppose that’s just good ol’ American “cheese fixes everything” sentiment (kind of old fashioned nowadays, I’d say). Even that isn’t a big deal in real life. They just sprinkled on a bit of shredded cheese “blend,” the likes of which you see at Safeway, and you can’t really even taste it.
Unfortunately it wasn’t as delicious as I figured it must be (they did skimp on ingredients), but it was still pretty good. I can’t have another for a while now that I’ve seen the calorie content (damn you guys), but I thought it was a nice move and will be a nice splurge once in a while. I hope they don’t get rid of it.
Now if they some sort of straps on the bowl so I could just hang it from my head, horsey feedbag style I might give it a shot, but really, asking me to use a fork to eat my food is just too much.
Classic! I’m laughing like a badmofo!
It reminds me of something scraped off the footpath at 2am after the bars close: those marketing boffins have deconstructed vomit to find out what drunks eat, omitting only the diced carrots.
“Lemme see, we got mashed potatoes…cheese… that is cheese, isn’t it?..corn…bits of chicken…at least I think it’s chicken…more cheese…gravy…or is it bile? No matter, this will sell millions!”
If you’re concerned with how your food looks, do yourself a favor and never eat at Casa Neville. We’re very good at making food that looks terrible but tastes good. I actually applaud less emphasis on how food looks- maybe my cooking will be fashionable one day
Needs a layer of bacon in there somewhere.
I was just thinking today about “bowls,” so I opened this thread…
Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he
He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl
Of course, as high-school stoners we enjoyed many a mirthful jest over exactly what sort of merriment His Majesty was obviously up to, as we sparked some pipe bowls ourselves and felt our souls become merrier… But seriously, folks.
King Cole lived in ancient times. Ancient Britain knew no pipe-weed, despite the obviously fictional claims of the Red Book of Westmarch. It wasn’t known in Britain until introduced by Walter Ralegh in the 16th century. So what “pipe” and “bowl” was King Cole making merry with?
The grape.
“Pipe” means a really huge barrel. And wine was drunk from bowls (called kraters) by the ancient Greeks. Maybe also by ancient Britons? Or mead or whatever they drank back then. Anyway, it was totally a party chez Cole.
And he called for his fiddlers three
Yeah. Crank up the jams, baby. 
<screaming electric violin distortion> Unforgettable… that’s how you’ll stay…
Don’t know about the potatoes, but I come in a sock.