Actually, I’d skip KFC and go to Subway if I wanted “healthy” fast food.
Although Subway isn’t exactly health food, it’s better than most.
It seems to me to be the natural extension of the Atkins diet stupidity.
Thank gawd Scylla thinks Atkins is stuypid. I thought this place was about to become Atkinsdisciplesunite.com.
If you want to eat healthy at Subway, here are a few tips (from moi, a current employee);
Do not eat a BMT.
Do not ask for Caesar, Ranch or Southwest sauce. They are all fattier than our light mayo (most joints use ONLY light mayo now).
Choose cheese (if you have to) like provolone or swiss. Skip the cheddar.
As for KFC, they’s delicious. But I hope that no one ever goes into one under the illusion that they are eating healthy.
Mmmm…southwest sauce. That’s stuff is good, especially when you throw in some pepperoncinis on the sammich. Quite the tasty combo.
That commercial cracks up my whole family. My dad brought home a bucket of chicken the other night. “Look, diet food!”
I remember the first time I looked at the nutritional information for a Whopper, I couldn’t believe it. Then I wept, as I realized I’d never eat a Whopper again. Somehow I had always thought they were less fattening than other burgers… I guess that’s the power of advertizing? Maybe in the future, somebody will look up the truth about fried chicken and gasp in shock at the nutritional horrors?
At Subway, I always order a veggie sub. I don’t trust their meat, especially knowing people who’ve worked at Subways.
I answered three of the topics of conversation in this thread, yet I couldn’t find a graceful way to go from one to the other. Hmm.
Yeah, KFC hasn’t been serving healthy food since the Colonel died.
When I lived in Las Vegas, there was a fast food chain that served chicken AND turkey. The skinless fried turkey was to die for. I can’t remember the name of the chain.
I’d love it if KFC or Church’s started serving skinless fried chicken. I hate chicken skin. I know I’m in the minority, but I’ve always felt that way.
I pray for the day when a fast food joint finally has the balls to aggressively pursue a “our food is extremely unhealthy–and that’s why it tastes so good!” marketing campaign.
If you’re already lined up for a Whopper, it’s more expedient to get a grilled chicken sandwich without condiments and then eat just the chicken. Sure, it’s not KFC, but it’s not like KFC owns all the chickens available for consumption.
There’s a KFC right by my house. I’m seriously contemplating making a gigantic ‘congratulations’ card and leaving it in the parking lot.
"Congratulations!
"You’ve once again changed my idea, for the worse, of how immensely stupid people really are!
“As your reward, I will now allow you to shoot yourself in the head, if you wish.”
But mmm. Subway veggie sandwiches. Yummy.
Having not seen the ads (we may not get them here), do they say how much KFC chicken has less fat than a Whopper? One piece, two… a whole bucket?
BTW, not sure what Burger King in the US offers these days, but the local BKs have started offering a light errr… make that “lite” Chicken meal with skinless Chicken and low fat mayo and where you swap the fries for a side-salad and can swap the soda for bottled water.
But everytime I eat at KFC I regret it afterwards, feel horrible and vow never to go back. 4 months and counting… 
“2 KFC chicken breasts have less fat than a Whopper”, IIRC.
Say, all this talk about KFC is…no, not making me hungry, but reminding me of the Happy Mondays. Their lead singer Shaun Ryder used to famously refer to scoring drugs as “going out for some KFC.”
What really ires me is that we called those who sued Burger King and McDonalds for ‘making them fat’ foolish for their (invented for the lawsuit) belief that the fast food was healthy. We mocked them since McD’s and all seem to have made no claims to their regular meals being healthy.
And now KFC does this.
Since when does health food pass Dr. Nicks ‘rub-it-on-a-piece-of-paper-and-turn-it-clear’ test?
Isn’t that from an old Bill Cosby routine?
DING DING DING DING DING!!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, there!
KFC wouldn’t pass the Atkins diet unless you removed the batter-encrusted skin.
And why is it stupid?
It’s easy, it works for a lot of people and leaves them a lot healthier.
Well, I did the obvious legwork this thread (and commercial) is begging for.
According to KFC’s own website, 2 Original Recipe Chicken Breast pieces from KFC (which is what I beleive they tout in the ad) contain a total of:
760 calories
38 grams of fat (58% DV)
12 grams of saturated fat (60% DV)
290 mg cholesterol (97% DV)
2300 mg sodium (96% DV)
from here: Yum.com – 404
The whopper:
710 Calories
43g fat
13g saturated fat
85 mg cholesterol
from here: Burger King
My conclusion:
they’re both shockingly bad for you. You will die early if you suck thi crap down on a regular basis. Thankyou and have a nice day
I remember reading how fast food places one day discovered how their low-fat menu items weren’t selling, so they replaced them with Monster Burgers, Double WHoopers, etc and all the sudden their sales went through the roof.
Now the selling point is, our food may be fattening, but it’s less fattening than Brand X.
38 grams of fat is only 58% of the recommended daily value? Jesus Christ!
I thought the recommended amount (from health folks, not the folks who come up with the RDA) was less than 30 grams a day.
Mmmm, I love that place! In fact, sometimes as I’m leaving I’ll ask other customers if I can lick their fingers as well.