# The week when KFC ran out of chicken
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 25, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532 "2018-02-25T08:57:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532/61 "2018-03-01T21:12:07Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Come on, man, why not wish for a place that serves something better than that stuff you scrape out of your drain pipes? I mean, Taco Bell is very nearly as inedible as BK.
That’s crazy talk. I love Taco Bell and it’s brand of Mexican-esque food.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532/62 "2018-03-01T22:08:21Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Well, I think gravy is more of a logistical challenge because it has to arrive by boat.
Heh heh.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532/63 "2018-03-01T22:24:35Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Well, I think gravy is more of a logistical challenge because it has to arrive by boat.
The rail network may be a better option here.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532/64 "2018-03-01T22:34:20Z")
That option worries me, what with all the “going off the rails on the gravy train”.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532/65 "2018-03-01T22:35:56Z")
Yeah, well you can just go park on the moon.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532/66 "2018-03-02T14:51:39Z")
This really doesn’t surprise me. I rarely am brave enough to eat KFC because it wrecks me, but the last 3-4 times I wandered in there (spanning like 10 years) they didn’t have any, y’know, fried chicken for my order. I’m not super picky. “I want a 3 piece extra cris…” “We don’t have that available right now.” “OK, Origin…” “None of that either.” And then I just go home in wonder and whip up some of my own out of boneless skinless breastises. Better for me anyway. One of my boys picked up a job there and I regaled him with tales of my failed quests, and he laughed at old dad and told me I was either exaggerating or just remarkably unlucky. After his first day at work he came home and apologized for his impertinent assessment. Evidently, they are allowed to cook only a specific quantity of chicken per hour, regardless of demand, and sure enough they run out fairly often. Every now and then a manager will go rogue and prepare quantities and varieties as indicated by demand, satisfying his customers and building clientele, and then he gets fired for being crazy like that.
It blows my mind. I would suspect fast food chicken specialists face some peculiar hurdle, but Chik-Fil-A is always jumping despite being closed on Sundays and being fairly open about its [discriminatory](https://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/chickfila.asp) hostility toward [10](http://news.gallup.com/poll/6961/what-percentage-population-gay.aspx)% of its potential customer base.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532/67 "2018-03-03T16:59:53Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> I’m just surprised that KFC appears to be so popular there.
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> When I want fried chicken, I usually drive a few miles past the KFC that’s near to my office, and get some at a supermarket hot deli.
I pity Brits and everyone else in the world who don’t live in the southeast U.S. Why? Because you don’t have [Publix Super Markets.](https://www.thekitchn.com/10-reasons-publix-is-the-best-grocery-store-ever-242779)
Publix [fried chicken](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH08UmxjO3g) and [wings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw6WkTK9un4&feature=youtu.be&t=18) are tastier, crispier, cheaper and served by friendlier staff than KFC or other chicken joints.
[Publix subs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRcTagn1P9M) are better, cheaper and served by friendlier staff than Subway or other sub shops.
Forget Disney World, come to Florida for Publix fried chicken and subs.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-week-when-kfc-ran-out-of-chicken/809532/68 "2018-03-03T19:23:09Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#):
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> I pity Brits and everyone else in the world who don’t live in the southeast U.S. Why? Because you don’t have [Publix Super Markets.](https://www.thekitchn.com/10-reasons-publix-is-the-best-grocery-store-ever-242779)
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> Publix [fried chicken](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH08UmxjO3g) and [wings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw6WkTK9un4&feature=youtu.be&t=18) are tastier, crispier, cheaper and served by friendlier staff than KFC or other chicken joints.
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> [Publix subs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRcTagn1P9M) are better, cheaper and served by friendlier staff than Subway or other sub shops.
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> Forget Disney World, come to Florida for Publix fried chicken and subs.
We landed in Ely Nevada late on a Sunday when everything was closed. Luckily, our hotel was right next to a Ridley’s supermarket, from which I retrieved a tasty roasted chicken, potato salad and an odd desert that could have been better. For less than what a fast food place would have cost, and perhaps a little better quality (you could tell that it was actual meat).
It has become normal for grocery stores to have a deli, often even with seating. And it is usually better stuff than the fast food places have.
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