# Listen, KFC, you're not fooling anyone. "Kitchen Fresh Chicken?" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 30, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-kfc-youre-not-fooling-anyone-kitchen-fresh-chicken/226755 "2004-01-30T15:04:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-kfc-youre-not-fooling-anyone-kitchen-fresh-chicken/226755/61 "2004-06-18T13:26:38Z")
> [@Chastain86](#): > > Unless we’ve already forgotten your recent claims that KFC is somehow **healthy** for the public, which even a developmentally disabled Appalachian coonhound knows ain’t true. You peddle grease-covered fried chicken, for shit’s sake. I’m going to need at least a pie chart or SOMETHING to back THAT particular claim. Here is some KFC news from Quackwatch: Kentucky Fried Chicken settles FTC charges. KFC Corporation, owner of the Kentucky Fried Chicken national restaurant chain, has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it made false claims in a national television advertising campaign about the relative nutritional value and healthiness of its fried chicken. The Commission also charged the company with making false claims that its fried chicken is compatible with low-carbohydrate weight-loss programs. The proposed settlement will prohibit the company from making these or similar claims about the nutritional value, weight-loss benefits, or other health benefits of its chicken products and meals unless the company can substantiate the claims. The FTC’s complaint charged KFC with making false claims that eating KFC fried chicken, specifically two Original Recipe fried chicken breasts, is better for a consumer’s health than eating a Burger King Whopper. One ad featured a woman putting a bucket of KFC fried chicken down in front of her husband and announcing, “Remember how we talked about eating better? Well, it starts today!” The ad then states that “Two KFC breasts have less fat than a BK Whopper.” Although the two fried chicken breasts have slightly less total fat and saturated fat than a Whopper, they have more than three times the trans fat and cholesterol, more than twice the sodium, and more calories. No financial penalty was assessed, but two of the five FTC Commissioners filed dissents stating that a financial penalty would be appropriate because “KFC is fully aware of our nation’s struggle with obesity, yet has cynically attempted to exploit a massive health problem through deceptive advertising.” [KFC’s claims that fried chicken is a way to “eat better” don’t fly. FTC news release, June 3, 2004] [http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/06/kfccorp.htm](http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/06/kfccorp.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-kfc-youre-not-fooling-anyone-kitchen-fresh-chicken/226755/62 "2004-06-19T03:45:28Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Kentucky Fried Chicken settles FTC charges. Finally, a Pit thread has actually resulted in some good. 🙂 Thanks for the update! “Kitchen Fresh” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-kfc-youre-not-fooling-anyone-kitchen-fresh-chicken/226755/63 "2004-06-21T06:06:27Z")
Its claim of being “kitchen fresh” may not be entirely true, but I don’t see anyone complaining about the blood line behind Burger King. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-kfc-youre-not-fooling-anyone-kitchen-fresh-chicken/226755/64 "2004-06-21T06:11:56Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > Its claim of being “kitchen fresh” may not be entirely true, but I don’t see anyone complaining about the blood line behind Burger King. Must be a whopper of a story. ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rex_fenestrarum/32/7265_2.png) [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-kfc-youre-not-fooling-anyone-kitchen-fresh-chicken/226755/65 "2004-06-21T07:46:42Z")
> [@Chastain86](#): > > I call bullshit, you beak-felching, grease-trap monkeys. Unless I see some evidence that your workers are at very least prepping your chicken, instead of simply shoving pre-prepared pieces into your frybox, you are lying to the American people. Yes, lying – which is SOOOOO unlike you. Well, I worked for KFC for a year back in my high school days and (as others have posted), we pretty much started from scratch… raw chicken shipped in twice a week. The raw chicken came in bags the appeared to hold a whole, uncut chicken, but lo and behold once the bag was opened, all the pieces had been cut and simply put in the bag to resemble a whole chicken (and because it’s presumably the most space-efficient way to do so). Once the chicken was opened, it was marinated then placed in a flour mixture (EC) or in a batter (Original). Then it was placed in a huge deep fryer (EC) or pressure cooker (Original). So, unless I’m mistaken about what you define as “prep”, that indeed meets your definition. The mashed potatoes were instant (duh!), the gravy came as a powdered mix that needed only hot water, the cole slaw was made fresh, the corn was frozen and certain other items _were_ shipped in frozen and ready to fry (like french fries and the now defunct “Chicken Littles”). I thought “Kitchen Fresh Chicken” was just a _somewhat_ clever (due to the “KFC” initials) marketing thing, not an official name change. And no, I’m not a KFC fanboi. After working there for a year (over 15 years ago) I still can’t stand to eat or smell it. Not that it’s _bad_, just that I ate, made and smelled enough during that year to have my lifetime fix of it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2004, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-kfc-youre-not-fooling-anyone-kitchen-fresh-chicken/226755/66 "2004-06-21T10:57:00Z")
We should call it what my nephew called it when he was little more than a baby and talked like, well, a baby. Funfucky Fried Kitchen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-kfc-youre-not-fooling-anyone-kitchen-fresh-chicken/226755.md?page=3)