# Black and pink bun KFC burgers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065 "2016-04-25T06:03:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/21 "2016-04-26T11:47:10Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Wiki says a lot of things. Googling KFC zinger shows they’re clearly not burgers but chicken sandwiches. > > To be a burger it would have to be made with a ground chicken patty, and even then it wouldn’t be a burger, it would be a “chicken burger” with use of the qualifier “chicken” being mandatory. This. Please, let’s keep our burgers pure. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/22 "2016-04-26T12:24:52Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > [http://kfc.com.au/media/875961/kfc\_nutritional\_information\_asatjanuary\_2016\_240316.pdf](http://kfc.com.au/media/875961/kfc_nutritional_information_asatjanuary_2016_240316.pdf) > The Australian KFC site has a category called “burgers” (not “chicken burgers”) and the “Zinger Burger” is listed there. > Also they call their french fries “chips” (though McDonald’s and Hungry Jack’s [Burger King] call them “fries”). KFC has been in Aus much longer than McD or Burger King. They had to work a lot harder at fitting in. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/23 "2016-04-26T20:59:40Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > It’s not just Subway calling it a sandwich. Those are what are popularly known as [submarine sandwiches](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich). Yes, we call those “rolls”. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/24 "2016-04-27T03:11:28Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > Yeah, we’ve had this conversation before. Calling anything using a bun a “sandwich” sounds very weird to these Aussie ears. A Zinger is a burger. Yeah, but in the States, a Zinger is a kind of snack cake. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/25 "2016-04-27T03:16:52Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Yeah, but in the States, a Zinger is a kind of snack cake. The point being that insisting on it being called a “sandwich” is a kind of parochial attitude which assumes that U.S. usage is somehow more correct. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/26 "2016-04-27T23:24:41Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > The point being that insisting on it being called a “sandwich” is a kind of parochial attitude which assumes that U.S. usage is somehow more correct. No different from insisting that soccer be called “football”, if you stop and think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/27 "2016-04-27T23:26:30Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > No different from insisting that soccer be called “football”, if you stop and think about it. I find that obnoxious, too. Of course, we call soccer “soccer” anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/28 "2016-04-28T00:09:46Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > I guess we have our own versions and labels down here. > > eg, a sandwich is stuff between 2 pieces of sliced bread. If it’s in a bread roll or a bun, it’s not a sandwich. > > Any takeaway place that can cook a chicken schnitzel will have a Chicken Schnitzel Burger, which is just replacing the burger patty with a schnitzel. It would only be a sandwich if between the 2 pieces of sliced bread. > [@Lobot](#): > > Yeah, we’ve had this conversation before. Calling anything using a bun a “sandwich” sounds very weird to these Aussie ears. A Zinger is a burger. To my American ears, hearing somebody call a hamburger a “sandwich” just sounds wrong. And yet I’ve heard that very thing, in American commercials for American burger joints. Each time, it was in the form of a “customer testimonial” in which the “customer” was calling their burger a “great sandwich”. Okay, fine, a hamburger may technically meet the definition of a “sandwich”, but nobody _calls_ a hamburger a fucking “sandwich”! Who writes this stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/29 "2016-04-28T01:03:00Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > To my American ears, hearing somebody call a hamburger a “sandwich” just sounds wrong. And yet I’ve heard that very thing, in American commercials for American burger joints. Each time, it was in the form of a “customer testimonial” in which the “customer” was calling their burger a “great sandwich”. Okay, fine, a hamburger may technically meet the definition of a “sandwich”, but nobody _calls_ a hamburger a fucking “sandwich”! Who writes this stuff? It’s a hamburg steak sandwich. I’m not at all surprised if there are regions where people typically call them sandwiches, as the item was originally referred to as a type of sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/30 "2016-04-28T12:34:38Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > To my American ears, hearing somebody call a hamburger a “sandwich” just sounds wrong. And yet I’ve heard that very thing, in American commercials for American burger joints. Each time, it was in the form of a “customer testimonial” in which the “customer” was calling their burger a “great sandwich”. Okay, fine, a hamburger may technically meet the definition of a “sandwich”, but nobody _calls_ a hamburger a fucking “sandwich”! Who writes this stuff? A not at all uncommon conversation at my local McDonald’s– Me: I’d like a Big Mac, please. Employee: Did you want the combo, or just the sandwich? Me: Just the sandwich. Perfectly ordinary usage. Happens every day. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/31 "2016-04-28T16:03:11Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > A not at all uncommon conversation at my local McDonald’s– > > Me: I’d like a Big Mac, please. > Employee: Did you want the combo, or just the sandwich? > Me: Just the sandwich. > > Perfectly ordinary usage. Happens every day. Fair enough. I guess I’ve never encountered that situation, due to the way I place my orders in restaurants. I clearly state precisely what I want and how I want it, leaving the person behind the register no reason to ask me any questions. I preempt the questions I know they’ll ask: Me: I’ll have a #5 combo, medium size, curly fries, for here. Them: That’ll be $8.63 Swipe card, get out of the line. John Pinette would have loved me. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/32 "2016-04-29T02:54:48Z")
They look disgusting but can’t say until I have tried it. It’s odd, though not as odd as the KFC chicken hot dog bun. The hot dog was wrapped in a bun made of CHICKEN!! [![](http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/mt1qjutegu7zvibzkofl.jpg) ](http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/mt1qjutegu7zvibzkofl.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/33 "2016-04-29T03:21:35Z")
What part of a chicken is the [DEL][COLOR=“Black”]“nugget”[/DEL][/COLOR] bun? :eek: I’d eated it! CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065/34 "2016-04-29T03:50:49Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > They look disgusting but can’t say until I have tried it. It’s odd, though not as odd as the KFC chicken hot dog bun. The hot dog was wrapped in a bun made of CHICKEN!! > > [http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/mt1qjutegu7zvibzkofl.jpg](http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/mt1qjutegu7zvibzkofl.jpg) How bout a Bacon cheese and hashbrown sandwich where the bread is replaced by pieces of chicken? [http://edge.alluremedia.com.au/m/l/2014/11/10174900\_10152842133358126\_4687939387522686601\_n.jpg](http://edge.alluremedia.com.au/m/l/2014/11/10174900_10152842133358126_4687939387522686601_n.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-and-pink-bun-kfc-burgers/753065.md?page=1)