Fun fact. The actual Colonel Sanders was sued by KFC (KFC lost btw) because after it was bought by some businessmen they hired Colonel Sanders to stay as the face of the company, but he kept talking shit about the recipe changes they had made. He would say publicly the gravy was horrible and that the extra crispy recipe was nothing more than “a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken.” Apparently he really hated the gravy because in a 1970 interview he said "that stuff ain't fit for my dogs." Since he wasn't able to open up his own KFC franchise with his actual recipes he opened Claudia Sanders dinner house in Shelbyville Kentucky, which to this day sells his food how he intended it.
I live in Kentucky. My local KFC is actually the first one (before the franchise). There’s a small museum in it and everything. The corn here used to be on a cob years ago and I still hate they changed to fries over potato wedges lol. They also used to have a family meal where you would get a full size chocolate Oreo bundt cake with your order.
I miss the popcorn chicken, and their triple chocolate cake.. I remember my mom used to get chicken liver there too. I remember trying it, and it actually wasn't too bad. Lol
@@callumcowan7047 I have had british scones, and they are not the same a biscuits, the definitive trait of a biscuit it that they are super fluffy and buttery and flaky. British scones are more like a fast food biscuit, denser and heavier with a lot less butter. Also legit biscuits are like 3 or 4 times the size of a kfc biscuit.
@@AJ-ut8cz British scones are flakey and soft and it's the only thing u can compare US biscuits to u child We have them with butter and jam in the middle stay quiet
@@rachelBrady-ni British scones are denser, slightly drier, and more crumbly than biscuits they typically contain much less butter than biscuits as well.
Hi guys, love your reactions! Scones are usually heavier, denser, has eggs, and sweeter than biscuits here in the States. American biscuits are not made with eggs - if they're made correctly are very light, fluffy, sometimes flaky like a good pie crust, and melt in your mouth - usually made with buttermilk. Stay well!
@@DianaJG8 Yeah, but in the South if you ask for tea it is default sweet tea and have to specifically ask for unsweet tea, whereas, you ask for tea anywhere else the default is unsweet.
American law requires that every ingredient be listed somewhere for the public. Even if it is just a pinch of something, it must be listed. Fast food restaurants are making an economic killing over here in the US because most places have drive thru windows. In person dining is not an option, so people stay in their cars and hit the drive thru. The McDonald's near my home in Florida had 22 cars waiting to order at 2PM. I am surprised that the UK restaurants do not have a drive thru, especially since it always seems to rain. In Florida we have storms all the time and the drive up window is always jammed with cars when it's pouring.
Thank you, finally someone else mentions this. The FDA has more stringent requirements when it comes to listing ingredients than the UK, EU, and most other countries/territories. Also, due to the requirements of ingredient naming you tend to get a lot more commercial names rather than common name of ingredients. For instance you see dextrose on the ingredient list which is just sugar from vegetables. Monosodium Glutamate is another one that people have a misconception of due to an old, debunked study that gained some traction and is found naturally in just about everything we eat (even human breast milk).
We do have mashed potatoes in the uk we also have southern style rice pots, coleslaw and gravy’s pot and we also do Lipton’s iced tea on the tap and fruit shoot blackcurrent on tap as well
@@callumcowan7047 You see, I’ve traveled to Britain many a time, and have tried British Scones, and they look somewhat similar but they’re not the same, that’s end of Disagreement for Me Lol.
Scones are made with the biscuit method, like biscuits, so they have the same sort of texture...America just only has them as sweet and usually in a triangle. but you're right, they are not the same.
Some of the ingredients in the fries are just to make them look better so they don't just get soggy and stuff immediately after they get cold. These fries aren't regular chips. They are covered in spices. That's all the other stuff. Also they are basically going through the coating. That's the flour, the baking soda. It sounds more scary than it is. A biscuit is not a scone. A scone is widely available in the US and isn't some strange concept. Scones in the US just tend to be a version of Irish Soda Bread. Biscuits are an actual thing that is unique and a southern recipe. It's buttery. Flaky. Not sweet. The massive items..... No one buys these things except for a person who has a family on a random night when they don't have time to make a meal. And don't want to stop at a better place. KFC is actually the worst of the fried chicken options in the US. And the others are quite good. KFC if you buy dark meat, original recipe, is barely edible. It's vile. If you get fast food chicken you have to get extra crispy white meat otherwise you risk eating low low quality possible chicken. Fries are also the worst side possible at a place like this. Beans... In the uk....the US has baked beans. But there are also many other beans to be eaten... Now the main thing here is anytime someone from the UK questions how Americans eat a food item, do you realize how odd and unappetizing beans on toast sounds? Can someone try to explain beans on freaking toast? Dipping chips into garlic mayo sounds like a bad food moment of my worst nightmare.
I did some remodeling work in an older KFC that had a large sit-down section and a basement. There was a carry-out booth right next to the fryer room. We demoed up the inch-thick tile and had to brace our feet against the walls to keep from sliding in all the grease. The subfloor plywood was jet black and greasy. We tore off the plywood and the 2" x 12" floor joists were black and greasy to 8 or 9 inches down. It is an image that is tough to dismiss when somebody suggests KFC for a meal.
I'm not surprised the Colonel came to open it. The colonel hates KFC and has done his best to spite them. There is a lot of history behind that relationship.
Say what you like about all of those preservatives, color additives and flavorings, but we drool when we see most all of our fast food and enjoy it more than the anticipation. I remember being stationed in the UK and being depressed with alot of the food available.
Kfc is pretty good. The guy was wrong. You can absolutely get sweet and unsweetened tea at KFC. As well as chicken and spicy chicken sandwiches. Outback steakhouse is good. The Gunfighter is pretty good too.
I didn't even realize KFC (edit: in the US) had fries. I always remember them having seasoned potato wedges. I just checked the website and it says "Yep. We have fries now'," so they must be pretty new. The sizes listed are "individual" and "large" so yeah that wasn't the best comparison.
@@callumcowan7047 Yeah I meant in the US. It just seems like the US and UK have a different take on what KFC is, really. The UK KFC seems to be more of a regular fast food place where you get a sandwich and fries, and the US is more for a family meal. The traditional KFC meal in the US would be pieces of fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, coleslaw, and a biscuit (which is not a scone).
I didn't know they had fries either. I vaguely remember the wedges, but my family typically got the mashed potatoes and gravy most of the time. Edit: In central US.
Do you have the half KFC combination restaurants? In the States a lot of KFCs act as two restaurants in one so they can be half KFC and half Long John Silver's (a fried fish and chips fast food joint), or half Taco Bell, or half A&W (a burger joint). God help me but I also saw a half Pizza Hut in Georgia once. There are also some all you can eat KFCs, although they are rare. I think there's one in Kentucky and I think I saw one in Salem Oregon once. They always have the freshest chicken, for obvious reasons.
The reason that "the colonel" open that chicken place is that that's how KFC started. He invented the pressure fryer and marketed it to already existing restaurants..... in Philadelphia, originally, KFC was part of the menu at a fast food chain called Gino's.
these fast food comparisons are killing me, god i love fast food, idc how bad they are for you, they are so good when you are hungry and want something now. edit: with the drink sizes though, the USA sizes may be bigger, but 80% of it is fukken ice!
I used to work at KFC. I'm surprised y'all don't have the pot pies. The left over chicken is de-boned at the end of the night and used to make the pot pies the next day. It cuts waste and tastes great.
@15:46 I think this was during quarantine or at least during coronavirus in almost positive, so that's probably why they were running on a limited menu due to the dip in self I'd imagine.
I really miss KFC strawberry shortcake...As a teenager, 1000 years ago, My go to order was a two piece chicken and biscuit, with a strawberry shortcake side....
The best fries are easily the places that just slice good fresh potatoes and then fry in peanut oil. I don’t understand putting a zillion preservative items in fries. Yes, it’s all food grade items, but it’s pretty unnecessary to make quality fries.
Its not all preservatives is multiple sweeteners, salts, and seasonings to make you addicted and craving for more. So many companies do this, they spend millions each year making sure their product is addicting so customers buy more.
That depends, if you want a bit more crispness then just regular sliced potatoes you need a few additives IMO. Depends what I'm having with it, sometimes I prefer deep fat fried, other times just fried potato chips.
@@Kirinketsu_ adding seasoning after fried is the most common way those places do their fries if they’re good. Not pre cooking like most fast food companies, adding stuff, then freezing, then cooking, and then adding seasoning.
Most all of the chemicals are innocuous. Sodium bicarbonate is baking soda and the phosphates are abundant naturally in vegetables since the make up a good deal of our soil ( and they are necessary for proper bone formation. ) As to the maltos and dextros, these are starches which along with the various flours are used to make give the fries a crispy, tasty coating. It’s why Mac’s fries taste different than BK’s or Wendy’s or etc. Though the color additives are natural, you would think they’re unnecessary and they are. But esthetics are important to the consumer so the restaurants are simply giving the public what they desire.
I remember my mom getting liver from there when I was a kid. I tried them once and it actually wasn't bad.. But they haven't had them at my local KFC in years.
@@Gutslinger - Maybe it's because I live in South Carolina that it's available here, but not all the restaurants have them here, either. You might want to ask a manager if any of the stores still serve them. I've noticed sometimes, too, it's a "special" at our local KFC. They'll will have a sign out front that they have "livers for a limited time." 😊
@@Gutslinger - LOL, well, I didn't know if you wanted to give it a try again or not. I commend you on no fast food for a year! We should all have such good habits!! ❤
We have a place in Temple, Texas called Wings Pizza N Things. They sell all sorts of things but their boneless wings cost just as much as their regular wings but are the size of a chicken tender from KFC.
In my town in Denmark KFC was opened I think it was in 73, and it only lasted a few years then closed down. All you could get there was half fried chickens. It was way cheaper to buy a whole chicken and fry it yourself.
Hooters in America has surprisingly some of the best wings for chains, but there’s Korean wing places that have huge amazing wings in small local areas
That ingredient list is a detailed public requirement of detailed chemical analytics in the US and that list breaks down the very additives you might use to season your own "home cooked" food in England!
You got to remember to that it's not just for one person when we get the large order its usually for 4 people or more. The American dude I felt like he was saying one person will eat the whole dang thing and we don't.
Haha actually at El Pollo Loco they have grilled corn on the cob, more ridiculous is that their mac n cheese is palatable, compared to KFC. Is grilled KFC chicken really grilled?
So does the UK have potato wedges or did KFC discontinue those in favor of normal fries? I don't think I've had their fries but had a lot of wedges growing up.
@14:45 Heinz BBQ sauce? I died inside. THAT IS NOT BBQ SAUCE!!! I'm from Kansas City. If someone says they have BBQ sauce, and they bring out Heinz. They're usually ridiculed.
Mono sodium glutamate is MSG which is bad but food producers realized that the public won’t know its MSG if they use the full name. It’s in a lot of food grocery or restaurant bought.
Hey guys. The Mountain Dew sweet lightning is exclusive to KFC, that's why you haven't seen it anywhere. Also, people need to stop calling chicken sandwiches burgers. Every time I watch a reaction on one of the Irish or English channels I see it. I swear if you served a ladle of soup on a bun they would call it a soup burger. Geez you don't put turkey on bread and call it a ham sandwich! I watched one on an Irish channel and they were tasting U.S. Hot dogs. They served them a hot dog roll full of shrimp and called it a shrimp hot dog. Anyway, good vid guys. Interesting to see the differences.
Honestly though, the hungriest tourists I've ever met here in the US were British folk. Y'all can put down dishes like you haven't eaten in days, and its beautiful.
yes mates! there's an entire series of this to watch do it. it's so fun to watch and see the differences. And yeah the ingredients are food safe cuz if it wasn't and people were getting sick kfc would get sued into oblivion lol. But it's all in the name of being the best in taste or looks or something.
I think kfc is in the bottom 5 worst fast food places in the US. And there's a ton of fast food. It's the worst of the fried chicken places. That's definite.
@@SDSOne True and it definitely is now. The one near my home is fully ran by nothing but shit lords. They don't give a fuck and don't follow any procedures at all. I literally don't even eat there anymore.
You guys should look up the Caught in Providence channel and react to one of those videos. It’s basically footage from a good natured judge’s courtroom in Rhode Island.
What's the nearest Joint UK/USA Military Base in the UK to your studio? And I suspect at least one of your viewers either works or is billeted to one of those bases and can access an American operated KFC or whatever US Restaurant chain of your choice on it...
I was amazed that the UK version did not have mashed potatoes and gravy. That is like the staple here in the US for KFC sides. Also, that chicken bowl is awesome. I love it.
It is shocking the UK doesn't have mash potatoes and gravy. that is like the key part of the KFC experience. That is what your mom brings home to the family after a long week on friday and everyone digs in like a mini thanksgiving. without the important sides it seems more like a standard fastfood place.
It's been a couple of years since I've been to KFC here in Oklahoma/Arkansas. I wasn't aware that KFC even had fries. We always got mashed potatoes and brown gravy.
We had a local Burger King run out of Hamburger buns, I am not joking. They were in the same parking lot with a grocery store...but NO only BK buns could be used.
There are sooooo many fast food places in the US that cook fried chicken at a level that kfc could never dream about! Many of them are just local mom and pop shops. Its just like how there are a million local pizza shops that are so much better than the big pizza chains!
Then there’s Australia.......we’re literally in the middle, not too large like the US and not too small like the UK and we’ve got mashed potatoes and gravy too so 😉
I like the Mountain Dew Sweet Lightning. It's supposed to be reminiscent of peach sweet tea. I'm as American as it gets, but I don't think I've ordered a large anything at a fast food place unless it was a Diet Coke. Maybe it's because I'm 46 and everything looks like a heart attack risk.
Fun fact. The actual Colonel Sanders was sued by KFC (KFC lost btw) because after it was bought by some businessmen they hired Colonel Sanders to stay as the face of the company, but he kept talking shit about the recipe changes they had made. He would say publicly the gravy was horrible and that the extra crispy recipe was nothing more than “a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken.” Apparently he really hated the gravy because in a 1970 interview he said "that stuff ain't fit for my dogs."
Since he wasn't able to open up his own KFC franchise with his actual recipes he opened Claudia Sanders dinner house in Shelbyville Kentucky, which to this day sells his food how he intended it.
What?
this is the information i need.
Lol Interesting stuff.. I remember hearing that he cussed a lot, but eventually got saved and started attending church before he passed, I think.
Hmm is approximately 730 miles too far to get chicken?
@@wraithflaire1639 speak for yourself. I live 60 miles from it
I live in Kentucky. My local KFC is actually the first one (before the franchise). There’s a small museum in it and everything. The corn here used to be on a cob years ago and I still hate they changed to fries over potato wedges lol. They also used to have a family meal where you would get a full size chocolate Oreo bundt cake with your order.
They actually just finished renovating it and the sign will cause you to have a seizure
@@jamesmurray3133 Oh no lol I’ve been going to Bville since they started renovating. I’ll have to go look.
For real. Bring back the potato wedges. I didn’t even order them all the time but I have so many good memories.
I miss the popcorn chicken, and their triple chocolate cake.. I remember my mom used to get chicken liver there too. I remember trying it, and it actually wasn't too bad. Lol
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A scone is not the same as a biscuit.
No, not the same but that's the closest description. Go to Bon Appetit website and type in "biscuits" You will find several recipes. Have fun!
@@callumcowan7047 I have had british scones, and they are not the same a biscuits, the definitive trait of a biscuit it that they are super fluffy and buttery and flaky. British scones are more like a fast food biscuit, denser and heavier with a lot less butter. Also legit biscuits are like 3 or 4 times the size of a kfc biscuit.
@@AJ-ut8cz British scones are flakey and soft and it's the only thing u can compare US biscuits to u child
We have them with butter and jam in the middle stay quiet
@@AJ-ut8cz same here, I've recently had scones in London and they're no where near the same as US biscuits
@@rachelBrady-ni British scones are denser, slightly drier, and more crumbly than biscuits they typically contain much less butter than biscuits as well.
Hi guys, love your reactions! Scones are usually heavier, denser, has eggs, and sweeter than biscuits here in the States. American biscuits are not made with eggs - if they're made correctly are very light, fluffy, sometimes flaky like a good pie crust, and melt in your mouth - usually made with buttermilk. Stay well!
KFC in the Southern US DOES have tea! "Tea is the House Wine of the South!" 😊
*Sweet Tea, remember there are northerners and others that don't realize when the South refers to tea they mean sweet tea.
@@nerofl89 - We have both, actually.
@@DianaJG8 Yeah, but in the South if you ask for tea it is default sweet tea and have to specifically ask for unsweet tea, whereas, you ask for tea anywhere else the default is unsweet.
@@nerofl89 - You are 100% correct!
@@nerofl89 what? People would serve you unsweet tea?
American law requires that every ingredient be listed somewhere for the public. Even if it is just a pinch of something, it must be listed.
Fast food restaurants are making an economic killing over here in the US because most places have drive thru windows. In person dining is not an option, so people stay in their cars and hit the drive thru. The McDonald's near my home in Florida had 22 cars waiting to order at 2PM.
I am surprised that the UK restaurants do not have a drive thru, especially since it always seems to rain. In Florida we have storms all the time and the drive up window is always jammed with cars when it's pouring.
Thank you, finally someone else mentions this. The FDA has more stringent requirements when it comes to listing ingredients than the UK, EU, and most other countries/territories. Also, due to the requirements of ingredient naming you tend to get a lot more commercial names rather than common name of ingredients. For instance you see dextrose on the ingredient list which is just sugar from vegetables. Monosodium Glutamate is another one that people have a misconception of due to an old, debunked study that gained some traction and is found naturally in just about everything we eat (even human breast milk).
We do milkshakes lol
We do have mashed potatoes in the uk we also have southern style rice pots, coleslaw and gravy’s pot and we also do Lipton’s iced tea on the tap and fruit shoot blackcurrent on tap as well
Dave is kinda pissed at the end...he needs to come & do KFC here in the states !
A scone and a Biscuit are NOT the Same
YES! lol drives me crazy every time people say they are the same! lol We have scones in the U.S. they are totally different than biscuits! lol
@@callumcowan7047
You see, I’ve traveled to Britain many a time, and have tried British Scones, and they look somewhat similar but they’re not the same, that’s end of Disagreement for Me Lol.
Scones are made with the biscuit method, like biscuits, so they have the same sort of texture...America just only has them as sweet and usually in a triangle. but you're right, they are not the same.
Some of the ingredients in the fries are just to make them look better so they don't just get soggy and stuff immediately after they get cold. These fries aren't regular chips. They are covered in spices. That's all the other stuff. Also they are basically going through the coating. That's the flour, the baking soda. It sounds more scary than it is.
A biscuit is not a scone. A scone is widely available in the US and isn't some strange concept. Scones in the US just tend to be a version of Irish Soda Bread. Biscuits are an actual thing that is unique and a southern recipe. It's buttery. Flaky. Not sweet.
The massive items..... No one buys these things except for a person who has a family on a random night when they don't have time to make a meal. And don't want to stop at a better place. KFC is actually the worst of the fried chicken options in the US. And the others are quite good. KFC if you buy dark meat, original recipe, is barely edible. It's vile. If you get fast food chicken you have to get extra crispy white meat otherwise you risk eating low low quality possible chicken. Fries are also the worst side possible at a place like this.
Beans... In the uk....the US has baked beans. But there are also many other beans to be eaten... Now the main thing here is anytime someone from the UK questions how Americans eat a food item, do you realize how odd and unappetizing beans on toast sounds? Can someone try to explain beans on freaking toast?
Dipping chips into garlic mayo sounds like a bad food moment of my worst nightmare.
Beans on toast is the Brit version of an SOS.
@@bond1j89 except well made sos is actually good, and takes more effort than heating up a can of beans.
Blood pudding sounds (and is) more disgusting than beans on toast.
I did some remodeling work in an older KFC that had a large sit-down section and a basement. There was a carry-out booth right next to the fryer room. We demoed up the inch-thick tile and had to brace our feet against the walls to keep from sliding in all the grease. The subfloor plywood was jet black and greasy. We tore off the plywood and the 2" x 12" floor joists were black and greasy to 8 or 9 inches down. It is an image that is tough to dismiss when somebody suggests KFC for a meal.
I'm not surprised the Colonel came to open it. The colonel hates KFC and has done his best to spite them. There is a lot of history behind that relationship.
Say what you like about all of those preservatives, color additives and flavorings, but we drool when we see most all of our fast food and enjoy it more than the anticipation. I remember being stationed in the UK and being depressed with alot of the food available.
I’ve never had the famous bowl but hearing him describe it sounds sooo good.
It use to be called a "mashed potato bowl", and its tasty and filling
Kfc is pretty good. The guy was wrong. You can absolutely get sweet and unsweetened tea at KFC. As well as chicken and spicy chicken sandwiches. Outback steakhouse is good. The Gunfighter is pretty good too.
I didn't even realize KFC (edit: in the US) had fries. I always remember them having seasoned potato wedges.
I just checked the website and it says "Yep. We have fries now'," so they must be pretty new. The sizes listed are "individual" and "large" so yeah that wasn't the best comparison.
@@callumcowan7047 Yeah I meant in the US. It just seems like the US and UK have a different take on what KFC is, really. The UK KFC seems to be more of a regular fast food place where you get a sandwich and fries, and the US is more for a family meal. The traditional KFC meal in the US would be pieces of fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, coleslaw, and a biscuit (which is not a scone).
I didn't know they had fries either. I vaguely remember the wedges, but my family typically got the mashed potatoes and gravy most of the time.
Edit: In central US.
while the grass may seem greener, being able to dip the drums in mashed potatoes is takin it up a notch
try dipping the fries/potato wedges in their gravy soo good
Do you have the half KFC combination restaurants? In the States a lot of KFCs act as two restaurants in one so they can be half KFC and half Long John Silver's (a fried fish and chips fast food joint), or half Taco Bell, or half A&W (a burger joint). God help me but I also saw a half Pizza Hut in Georgia once. There are also some all you can eat KFCs, although they are rare. I think there's one in Kentucky and I think I saw one in Salem Oregon once. They always have the freshest chicken, for obvious reasons.
The reason that "the colonel" open that chicken place is that that's how KFC started. He invented the pressure fryer and marketed it to already existing restaurants..... in Philadelphia, originally, KFC was part of the menu at a fast food chain called Gino's.
these fast food comparisons are killing me, god i love fast food, idc how bad they are for you, they are so good when you are hungry and want something now. edit: with the drink sizes though, the USA sizes may be bigger, but 80% of it is fukken ice!
The Famous Bowls are good! I usually get 2 of them. 1 to eat right than, and the other goes in the fridge for later. Lol
Mountain Dew Sweet Lightning is mango flavored. It is really good.
Here in Alaska we have an Outback Steakhouse. Prior to covid it was my favourite drinking spot. I only drank at Koot's and Outback bar
US fast food sell exclusive Mt Dew flavors. KFC is the Sweet Lightening and Taco Bell had Baja Blast now also sold in grocery stores
I used to work at KFC. I'm surprised y'all don't have the pot pies. The left over chicken is de-boned at the end of the night and used to make the pot pies the next day. It cuts waste and tastes great.
@15:46 I think this was during quarantine or at least during coronavirus in almost positive, so that's probably why they were running on a limited menu due to the dip in self I'd imagine.
I really miss KFC strawberry shortcake...As a teenager, 1000 years ago, My go to order was a two piece chicken and biscuit, with a strawberry shortcake side....
And the lemon cream dessert too
Yeah, I loved to go inside and look at all the desserts. I honestly completely forgot about that until I read this comment.
The best fries are easily the places that just slice good fresh potatoes and then fry in peanut oil.
I don’t understand putting a zillion preservative items in fries. Yes, it’s all food grade items, but it’s pretty unnecessary to make quality fries.
Its not all preservatives is multiple sweeteners, salts, and seasonings to make you addicted and craving for more. So many companies do this, they spend millions each year making sure their product is addicting so customers buy more.
That depends, if you want a bit more crispness then just regular sliced potatoes you need a few additives IMO. Depends what I'm having with it, sometimes I prefer deep fat fried, other times just fried potato chips.
@@Kirinketsu_ adding seasoning after fried is the most common way those places do their fries if they’re good. Not pre cooking like most fast food companies, adding stuff, then freezing, then cooking, and then adding seasoning.
Most all of the chemicals are innocuous. Sodium bicarbonate is baking soda and the phosphates are abundant naturally in vegetables since the make up a good deal of our soil ( and they are necessary for proper bone formation. ) As to the maltos and dextros, these are starches which along with the various flours are used to make give the fries a crispy, tasty coating. It’s why Mac’s fries taste different than BK’s or Wendy’s or etc.
Though the color additives are natural, you would think they’re unnecessary and they are. But esthetics are important to the consumer so the restaurants are simply giving the public what they desire.
My first job in 1992 was at a KFC that had a buffet. I think there might still be a few left in the US, but not sure.
Some here in the US have fried chicken livers, one of my favs when they do them right and they’re fresh.
Some even have gizzards, too.
I remember my mom getting liver from there when I was a kid. I tried them once and it actually wasn't bad.. But they haven't had them at my local KFC in years.
@@Gutslinger - Maybe it's because I live in South Carolina that it's available here, but not all the restaurants have them here, either. You might want to ask a manager if any of the stores still serve them. I've noticed sometimes, too, it's a "special" at our local KFC. They'll will have a sign out front that they have "livers for a limited time." 😊
@@DianaJG8 Lol Fortunately, I don't crave chicken liver. I also haven't had fast food in over a year. I live in Oklahoma.
@@Gutslinger - LOL, well, I didn't know if you wanted to give it a try again or not. I commend you on no fast food for a year! We should all have such good habits!! ❤
We have a place in Temple, Texas called Wings Pizza N Things. They sell all sorts of things but their boneless wings cost just as much as their regular wings but are the size of a chicken tender from KFC.
Worked at Outback Steakhouse for a long time. Our steaks weren’t that great tbh but the wings and anything chicken on the menu was so good
Buffalo Wild Wings is a wing restaurant that you really need to check out if you really love wings.
In my town in Denmark KFC was opened I think it was in 73, and it only lasted a few years then closed down. All you could get there was half fried chickens. It was way cheaper to buy a whole chicken and fry it yourself.
The famous bowl is killer
Hooters in America has surprisingly some of the best wings for chains, but there’s Korean wing places that have huge amazing wings in small local areas
That ingredient list is a detailed public requirement of detailed chemical analytics in the US and that list breaks down the very additives you might use to season your own "home cooked" food in England!
You got to remember to that it's not just for one person when we get the large order its usually for 4 people or more. The American dude I felt like he was saying one person will eat the whole dang thing and we don't.
I remember when KFC in tne UK used to do the best spare ribs. They also used to sell milkshakes back in the early 80s
There's a little plaque on the wall of KFC on Fishergate in Preston to commemorate it being the first UK franchise.
Thanks for doing another Food Wars guys! Great job.
If Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers ever does a pop up stand or opens a location in the uk ya’ll have to try it
I work at a deli in Alabama. We can sell up to 200pc chicken orders. But for the most part the biggest most get is a 16 or 24pc
Greetings from Florida USA...LOVE Outbacks!
Haha actually at El Pollo Loco they have grilled corn on the cob, more ridiculous is that their mac n cheese is palatable, compared to KFC. Is grilled KFC chicken really grilled?
Here n the US we can also get coleslaw and Mac n cheese....plus different style of fries like criss cut and curly and we do have corn on the cobb!
So does the UK have potato wedges or did KFC discontinue those in favor of normal fries? I don't think I've had their fries but had a lot of wedges growing up.
Weird, here in Vermont we do not have fries at our KFC's and we also do not have the popcorn chicken box
Outback has some good stuff where I live. The quality can vary from restaurant to restaurant but the one near me is delicious.
KFC's Chicken Pot Pie is amazing. It's my go to whenever I go.
outback steakhouse is super underrated
the famous bowl is excellent
The famous bowl is delicious 🙏🏾
underrated
My dad has been a huge Outback Steakhouse fan since I was a kid. Pretty solid for a chain restaurant.
@14:45 Heinz BBQ sauce? I died inside. THAT IS NOT BBQ SAUCE!!! I'm from Kansas City. If someone says they have BBQ sauce, and they bring out Heinz. They're usually ridiculed.
I live in NYC and our large fries are the same as the UK large. Ive never seen that super large version before in NY
I love how wide Dave’s eyes got when they introduced the chicken pot pie. 👀
Mono sodium glutamate is MSG which is bad but food producers realized that the public won’t know its MSG if they use the full name. It’s in a lot of food grocery or restaurant bought.
They still have corn on the cob in NC
"skunnz" do not compare to the pictured biscuits
I've never made a comments but the famous bowl , is famous for a reason.
Hey guys. The Mountain Dew sweet lightning is exclusive to KFC, that's why you haven't seen it anywhere. Also, people need to stop calling chicken sandwiches burgers. Every time I watch a reaction on one of the Irish or English channels I see it. I swear if you served a ladle of soup on a bun they would call it a soup burger. Geez you don't put turkey on bread and call it a ham sandwich! I watched one on an Irish channel and they were tasting U.S. Hot dogs. They served them a hot dog roll full of shrimp and called it a shrimp hot dog. Anyway, good vid guys. Interesting to see the differences.
The famous bowl is so good
Honestly though, the hungriest tourists I've ever met here in the US were British folk.
Y'all can put down dishes like you haven't eaten in days, and its beautiful.
They hating on the famous bowl. That's the only thing I get when I go there infrequently. Lol
On the drinks...you’ve got to remember that our’s typically have a ton of ice. So do we really get that much more drink?🤷🏻♂️😁
If you ask for no ice you do.
@@Riptionator if you’re using the drive-thru, and not going in, you don’t have free refills...
Absolutely-i love me some sonic drinks. Their route 44 is loaded with ice its actually only a little more than 12 oz of soda
What about Kickapoo Joy Juice? Can ya find that over there?
yes mates! there's an entire series of this to watch do it. it's so fun to watch and see the differences.
And yeah the ingredients are food safe cuz if it wasn't and people were getting sick kfc would get sued into oblivion lol. But it's all in the name of being the best in taste or looks or something.
I think kfc is in the bottom 5 worst fast food places in the US. And there's a ton of fast food. It's the worst of the fried chicken places. That's definite.
@@SDSOne True and it definitely is now. The one near my home is fully ran by nothing but shit lords. They don't give a fuck and don't follow any procedures at all. I literally don't even eat there anymore.
do u guys have Church's Chicken?
Was most surprised to see you don't have the biscuits and mashed potatoes
the portion size of the baked beans was hilarious
Our fast food places never closed during the pandemic. We couldn’t go inside but drive thru was open the whole time. 🤪
I love the pot pie but there is less filling than when they introduced the pot pie. Cost more too.
You guys should look up the Caught in Providence channel and react to one of those videos. It’s basically footage from a good natured judge’s courtroom in Rhode Island.
Mtn Dew was originally made as a mixer for alcohol. Everything Mtn Dew makes me think of an alcoholic drink.
The pot pie at KFC is easily the best thing on the menu. On the rare occasion I eat there, I will only get the pot pie.
"KFC didn't enclose the ingredients here in the UK"
American gives a list of everything in the UK KFC meals.
What's the nearest Joint UK/USA Military Base in the UK to your studio? And I suspect at least one of your viewers either works or is billeted to one of those bases and can access an American operated KFC or whatever US Restaurant chain of your choice on it...
We have scones in the US. We also have biscuits. They're not the same thing at all.
hang on my local KFC has mash and gravy and I like in the UK
I was amazed that the UK version did not have mashed potatoes and gravy. That is like the staple here in the US for KFC sides. Also, that chicken bowl is awesome. I love it.
Mountain Dew Sweet Lightning - Peach & Honey.
It is shocking the UK doesn't have mash potatoes and gravy. that is like the key part of the KFC experience.
That is what your mom brings home to the family after a long week on friday and everyone digs in like a mini thanksgiving.
without the important sides it seems more like a standard fastfood place.
It's been a couple of years since I've been to KFC here in Oklahoma/Arkansas. I wasn't aware that KFC even had fries. We always got mashed potatoes and brown gravy.
Do UK soft drinks have ice? I've heard y'all don't do cold beer, so was curious about that. Sorry if I'm misinformed about that.
We had a local Burger King run out of Hamburger buns, I am not joking. They were in the same parking lot with a grocery store...but NO only BK buns could be used.
our corn use to be on the cob idk why they stopped it and the famous bowl is like getting all of kfc in one
KFC USED to have corn in the cob in America
There are sooooo many fast food places in the US that cook fried chicken at a level that kfc could never dream about! Many of them are just local mom and pop shops. Its just like how there are a million local pizza shops that are so much better than the big pizza chains!
you need to do all the episodes of food wars they are all great.
The famous bowl is probably the best thing you could get at an american Kfc lol
You do know you can buy a DRY RANCH MIX that you add to mayo with a bit of milk to make actual ranch dressing.
Real convenient
Then there’s Australia.......we’re literally in the middle, not too large like the US and not too small like the UK and we’ve got mashed potatoes and gravy too so 😉
Man you guys were drooooooolin’ at that pot pie. Lol
The famous bowls are delicious lol. But where do they not have milkshakes? I could never live in a world with no milkshakes lol.
I like the Mountain Dew Sweet Lightning. It's supposed to be reminiscent of peach sweet tea. I'm as American as it gets, but I don't think I've ordered a large anything at a fast food place unless it was a Diet Coke. Maybe it's because I'm 46 and everything looks like a heart attack risk.
This so reminds me of John Pinette - Lines drive me crazy!. "It's KFC, you know what the got? Chicken. Know what else they got? They got chicken..."