is it filling? worth trying?
my friend wants to know
I didn’t really notice the price when I bought the one I tried but it didn’t seem obviously outrageous to me.
As for being worth trying? Maybe once but K-frys normal food is salty and this beast was way, way over salty for me. I certainly don’t plan on getting another.
i never had one but someone told me it was $5.99 just for the sandwich
but maybe it is a regional thing (he was from NYC)
They have to get your money while they can, knowing what this entree does to your life expectancy.
I had to look it up… wtf is it?
It looks like two pieces of meat with another piece of meat between them.
… I’m intrigued.
It was $4.99 in the California Central Coast area for me. If you’re going to subject yourself to one, do yourself a favor and don’t get the grilled version, which is caked in salt.
5.99 doesn’t sound so outrageous to me. Many burgers at Burger King cost that much plain.
You guys much be rich if 5.99 doesn’t sound outrageous.
The two for $1 hotdogs at Circle K are what I have when I’m willing to reward the little lady for her birthday.
GAWD.
6 bucks seems too much, that will get me two chicken sandwhiches from chic-fil-a.
or 6 crispy chicken sandwhiches from wendy’s dollar menu.
Well, isn’t the double-down essentially two chicken sandwiches? Or at least, the chicken part of them? That’s probably why it’s “so expensive”: meat is more expensive than bun.
If anyone wants to do the math, comparing it to other chicken sandwiches on a $-per-oz-of-meat basis, I’d be interested to see the results.
Oh, your “friend” wants to know…
Well, let us know how your *“friend” *likes it!
BTW, I have a “friend” who wants to buy the kid’s meal, even though “he” is having trouble getting up the nerve, because “he”'s in his fifties, and the KFC staff are cute college girls and “he”'s embarrassed…
no reason to be embarrassed; they will just think it is for his son
This is pretty much why I don’t go to KFC.
Attention, KFC: you are a fast food restaurant. You sell crappy-ass chicken. The average price of various crappy-ass foods varies a bit depending on location, but here’s a rule of thumb: if you are a fast food restaurant, and one or more of your single-person meal combos runs into double digits after tax, YOU ARE WRONG.
Arby’s, I’ve got my eye on you.
Not according to this review.
I am with you. In addition the 2 locations that are near me are glacially slow. When I was a kid (in a different state) there was one Kentucky Fried Chicken location. Once in a great while my mom would not be in a mood to fix us a simple but tasty meal at amazingly low cost. She would drive to KFC and I’d run in and order a bucket of chicken, which would then be handed to me pretty much right away.
Is it an indication of the economy that KFC is so worried about throwing away chicken that they fry it as ordered? And I’d understand if this was hapening at 8:30pm, but I’ve tried to “just run in” between finishing work at 6:00 and heading to a 7:00 meeting to be told what I wanted would take 15 minutes.
I’m willing to concede that there is more food in a Double Down than a double cheeseburger from either Burger King or McDonalds (both currently a buck), but since (as I mentioned in the other Double Down thread) the drinks at KFC were priced fairly high it comes out to more than I like to spend on a regular weekday lunch. If I have an occasion to treat myself and splurge on lunch it’s not going to be at KFC.
Every fast-food place has some inexpensive menu items, and some that are more expensive. To a certain extent, you’re comparing apples and oranges here.
If you want a cheap sandwich at KFC, get a Snacker . From a pricing and size standpoint, a Double Down is probably closer to something like McDonalds’ Angus Burgers.
(Disclosure: KFC is a client of ours.)
It’s more likely that you’re running into their rules on how long they can hold cooked chicken, and probably some bad luck.
Yes, they are loathe to cook an entire batch of chicken when much of it may go to waste; that’s just smart inventory management.
But, they also do not have unlimited capacity for cooking chicken. When you went in there at 6:00, it’s possible that you came in at the tail end of a rush period, when a bunch of customers depleted their current stock, and their kitchen got caught behind.
KFC sits in kind of an odd place. It’s fast food, sort of…some of their menu items (particularly “chicken-on-the-bone”) take significantly longer to cook than other “fast-food” items. Consumers are accustomed to being able to go into a fast-food restaurant and walking out 90 seconds later with their food; that doesn’t always work at KFC. Nature of the beast.
The reason it’s on the high end price-wise is so they can bill up their legal bankroll.
With all that salt and fat, how long can it be before the litigation starts?
Not to mention incurring Michelle’s wrath…
It’s literally two chicken patties.
It’s everything (cept the bread) that’s included in two sandwiches except it is one. (Two large pieces of chicken breast, one slice of Monterey jack cheese, one slice of pepper jack cheese, two strips of bacon and special sauce)
It retails for $4.99 at my local kfc. The other sandwiches are $3.99.
How much is something like this supposed to cost?
Sounds more like you’re broke, than I’m particularly rich, buddy.
Still, $5.99 for just the sandwich or whatever does seem like it’s at least a dollar or two more than the usual and customary fast food sandwich.