None in Kansas. 
Finger Frackin Good!
Next best is Popeyes - they have a Kansas location or two, plus many in KC, MO.
Almost equal to Bojangles, and both are worlds better than KFC.
If you can’t get to either - time to find a good local soul-food restaurant or fry your own 
Hundreds of independent fast food places could maybe benefit from it though.
A few people have said the recipe isn’t as good as it used to be. Any chance this is just a case of everything seeming better when you were younger, or is there good reason to think this is true? I’m normally sceptical when people say “it used to be better”.
I don’t even know why I care about this, I’m vegetarian and I’ve never eaten KFC…
Maybe they could or maybe they couldn’t. It’s tricky making factual claims in advertising while using competitors’ trademarks. You have to be very careful that you’re on solid ground. If you say “we use the same recipe as KFC used to,” KFC will come back and say, “How do you know that? We’ve never released our recipes to the public. That’s false advertising.” The recipe without the accompanying trademark is of little use.
Far worse than that for me is that it contains wheat. As someone who may have Celiac’s, it really bugs me when people add wheat to unnecessary things. KFC is the only fast food restaurannt I know of that puts wheat in everything whether it’s a necessary part of it or not. Though Taco Bell is close.
They even put out a gluten free menu. It contains their soft drinks and condiments.
I don’t know for sure about the recipe, but I know the old cooking method is no longer used. And, as pointed out, the gravy is definitely different.
Of course you wouldn’t say that. You say it “tastes like the colonel used to make.” Or even “Compare this to KFCs old recipe.” You know, the types of claims that current dupes make.
This is what I don’t understand. Millions of people by generic cola because it is cheaper, and it happens to taste like crap.
If there was a company that advertised that they tasted just like coke, but were 30% cheaper. I would be all over that.
I don’t see why people would NOT buy it. No one buys coke so their friends can see them carrying a coke can. It’s not like it is a status symbol or something.
Bizarre as it sounds, it is a status symbol, or something very much like it. Most Coke drinkers, given a taste test, prefer Pepsi. They’re not drinking Coke because they like it, but because it’s a “classic”, or an “American tradition”, or the like. That’s why New Coke bombed so badly.
Actually, there was a discussion on this very subject some time ago; unfortunately, my attempt at finding it and providing a link didn’t work. Can anyone else find it?
While we are on the subject, does anyone have the recipe for “Kraft Golden Caesar Salad Dressing”?
I was not impressed when they took it off the market!!!
That makes my head hurt just thinking about it. Apparently people are dumber than I thought.
I’ve wondered the same thing. I swear KFC is nowhere near as good now as it was when I was a kid in the 70s-early 80s. I’ve never been sure if this was just a case of “everything was better when I was a kid.”
Coca-Cola IS a status symbol. There were a number of songs by The Only Group That Matters (The Clash) that specifically mention it. Jones and Strummer didn’t write any songs about any generic colas (but they also didn’t know “Washington Bullets” was also the name of an NBA team).
One theory why New Coke bombed despite doing well in taste tests (why why Pepsi does so well) is that in small samples people prefer the drinks with more sugar. But that doesn’t carry over with a lot of Coca-Cola drinkers if they are drinking more than a few sips.
The last time I took the Pepsi Taste Challenge (1988 or so), I was given a prize if I picked Pepsi and nothing if I picked Coca-Cola. So of course I picked Pepsi.
Believe me, die-hard Coke drinkers absolutely KNOW the difference between Coke and Pepsi, and prefer Coke. Period.
When New Coke came out, I tried it. I told people if I wanted to drink RC, I’d drink RC.
Given a choice between Coke and Pepsi, my husband will drink iced tea. I’ll take water.
~VOW
I never understood why people who said they preferred Coke would pick Pepsi in a taste test. If Pepsi tastes better than Coke, then it also has to taste different than Coke. And if you think you like Coke more, why would you pick the one that doesn’t taste like Coke?
Taste can be contextual. As others have noted, in other studies, it shows that Pepsi comes out better when you’re just taking one sip, but for larger quantities, a lot of people find Pepsi too sweet-tasting.
I find that to be true of small portion food/drink competition taste testing in general. Stuff that I would call overly sweet or over-salted or just way too assertive seem to do well in contests where the judges get just a bite of each dish. When you only have one bite or sip to impress, it makes sense that something that packs it all into that portion would do well, versus something that actually still tastes good the whole meal or drink through.
Because they are very similar flavors, both based on ‘cola’ and many people have no sense of taste, just think that their chosen flavor is better. There is no substantial difference in brown bubbly swill, it isn’t like one has cocaine in it and the other doesn’t any further.
I’m gonna have to disgree and say that Church’s (crispy) is better than Popeyes…yummmmmmm. But hey, I also highly recommend having a side-by-side taste test. What a marvelous day full of fried chicken that would be.
I recall an article years ago about the Colonial. He would personally inspect many of the franchises. Despite it being a fried chicken joint, apparently the thing he was most picky about and most places did wrong was the gravy. And if they failed they found out he was a cylon and he fracked their asses up.
But seriously, the guy was apparently dead serious about doing the gravy right. And I too remember the chicken and especially the gravy being much better back in the good ole days. And god forbid he ever saw the crap in a bowl shit they came out with a handful of years back.