Posted on 04/20/2010 4:33:32 PM PDT by Daffynition
KFC's Double Down -- the bacon sandwich where two pieces of fried chicken replace the bread -- has been catching a lot of flack lately; much of it deserved. But a quick comparison of the nutritional (for want of a better word) info between the Double Down and some items on the menus at other fast food joints shows that the "warped creation of a syphilitic brain" might not be as bad for you as a salad at Wendy's.
According to KFC, the Original Recipe Double Down has 540 calories, 32g of fat and 1380mg of sodium.
With just a quick peek at the websites for Burger King, McDonald's and Wendy's, I had no trouble finding 10 items with higher calorie and fat (and in almost all cases, sodium) counts than the Double Down:
LOL! I’ve been there several times. In fact, when I’m in Brussels I get my cigars from a shop about a block away and usually eat just off the Grand Platz on Greek row. They dress that little guy up in different costumes all the time. Did you know there’s a female version? It’s on a different street and it’s behind heavy wire mesh.
The extra 8 months of life you get from “eating right” will be served in a nursing home. Have fun with your extra time...
I’m so tired of these do-gooders telling me what to eat and what not to eat.
They can go to hell and take their fellow do-gooders with them. I much prefer that option to their current plan, which is to bring hell here.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” - C.S. Lewis
I’m amazed now when I have the occasional cold cut sandwich to realize how salty deli meats are.
I remember a little chocolate shop and cafe off the Grand Platz that served the best hot cocoa! Belgium chocolate ... the world's best!
LOL ... when you finally get have one ...I hope it meets your expectations!
They could make it better if they would give you the option of adding a 1/3 pound beef patty or a fried egg
I’m drooling over the possibilities (with extra mayo)
TT
The only problem I found with the double down was that it was not big enough. Pretty chintzy actually.....
If customers order the Original Recipe variety, their Double Down will pack 540 calories, 32 grams of fat and 1,380 milligrams of sodium, according to KFC.
The guy in front of me in line at the KFC on Monday placed his lunch order.
“And a heart attack on the side,” Lorenzo Miranda said.
Miranda and his co-worker William Cantin, electricians at Palm Beach International Airport, drove to the nearby fast-food restaurant to answer the siren call of yet another fat-laden, high-calorie manwich.
KFC’s Double Down, a bacon-and-cheese sandwich that uses two chicken breasts instead of a bun, went on sale Monday as the latest fast-food contender in what has become a kind of Gut Bomb Olympics.
“If you weren’t here eating the Double Down, what would you be eating?” I asked Cantin.
“The Baconator,” he deadpanned.
The Baconator is an 830-calorie burger from Wendy’s, which easily out-bloats the Double Down, which weighs in at a relatively lithe 540 calories in its original-recipe fried chicken form.
A more graceful approach to gluttony
But the Double Down’s caveman appeal isn’t in its size.
It’s a waif of a sandwich compared with Hardee’s Monster Thickburger, a 1,420-calorie assault that packs 108 grams of fat. And it’s not half the handful that the Burger King Quad Stacker is (1,010 calories and 62 grams of fat), or even the McDonald’s Angus Bacon and Cheese Burger (790 calories and 40 grams of fat).
The $4.99 Double Down is more of a sports-car model, a newcomer that takes you down the highway leading to the next belt loop with a new approach to unhealthy eating. Its concentrated 32 grams of fat and 1,380 milligrams of salt are kept sleek by its bun-less exterior, giving it the appearance of an oversize, crispy fat pill.
I ate mine while sitting at a table with construction workers Mike Pelfrey and Chris Couture, who both ordered Double Downs out of curiosity.
“I like it,” Pelfrey said. “I usually get wraps because I don’t like too much bread. With this, you’re just getting all the good stuff. Meat.”
Don’t eat it while driving
It’s a messy, greasy affair. You hold the Double Down as it’s cradled in a paper wrapper, eating your way through the two fried breast fillets that frame two slices of cheese, two strips of bacon and a mayonnaise-like ooze called “the Colonel’s secret sauce.”
Both hands end up fully lubricated by the task. It’s not a driver-friendly fast food.
KFC’s promotion says there’s “so much chicken, there wasn’t room for a bun.”
But I think of the Double Down more as an in-your-face stunt food, a creation so sure of its target audience that it doesn’t even bother to soften its image with a tomato sliver or a lettuce leaf.
“It’s like a fried chicken cordon bleu,” Couture said. “It’s good, but you wouldn’t want to eat it every day.”
If the Double Down catches on, there’s no telling how the other fast-food chains will answer.
If I had to guess, I’d predict something called bacon bread.
Instead of a bun, maybe fast-food sandwiches will soon be encased in two rectangular shapes formed by bacon strips woven together in a basket pattern.
And yes, I’ll be in line for that one, too.
At home, I have my own specialty loosely based on the McDonalds Egg McMuffin. I've never had it analyzed for calories, fat and sodium but I bet it would score high up in the charts. Here is how I put it together:
I split and toast English muffins and coat them with extra virgin olive oil. I then lay on top of them thick slices of swiss cheese, copious amounts of freshly cooked bacon and fried egg. If I have the extra time, I'll wrap in sauteed jalapenos and mushrooms.
Have lots of napkins nearby as they are messy to eat and very, very good.
The Egg McMuffin has always been one of my favorite foods. I'm not a big burger and fries guy (in fact I gave up burgers and fries many years ago) but I like my breakfast food. In fact, I try to make breakfast my biggest meal of the day.
The Egg McMuffin was perhaps the most astonishing contribution to American cuisine that any fast food restaurant ever came up with. Back in my younger (and fatter) days, I could easily put away half a dozen of those Egg McMuffins. But since I started making my own version at home, the ones at McDonalds just don't taste as good as they used to. And there is something just a little bit unnatural about that perfectly round portion of egg.
It all looks disgusting to me....LOL!
Sounds great! The key, I think is to actually TOAST the English muffin .... that’s why I find the McMuffin unpalatable. Making your own food is always much better. I really don’t like eating out.
Replacing your fried egg with a western-style omelet would be super too!
LOL ...even John Wayne Gacy ordered a KFC as his last meal before he was executed at the age of 52 in 1994, at the Stateville Correctional Center, in Illinois.
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