KFC's Double Down

Hello fans! KFC came out with a new sandwich earlier this year - The Double Down!



Well kinda. A sandwich to most of us in this universe, is two pieces of bread or bread type product with some sort of filler in the middle - meats, veggies, PB&J, etc.

The Double Down (which will from here on out be called the "DD") instead uses two pieces chicken in place of the bread! Don't worry it still has a filler... bacon, cheese (monterey jack and pepper jack) and Colonel's Sauce! Yum! It comes two ways: fried (Original Recipe) or grilled.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Colonel Sanders was chasing him. Now the chickens are running as fast as they can!

Here's the not so skinny on this beastly duo.
---------------Calories-------Fat(grams)------Sodium(milligrams)
Fried----------540............32.....................1380
Grilled--------460............23.....................1430

Now I usually don't get accused of being a light eater. Therefore I was inclined to try the DD, both of them.

At first bite I was able to pick a favorite. The fried DD was way too greasy and had a some what heavy smell of food that didn't bode well with me. I ended up eating only half of this one. The grilled DD was still greasy, but not as bad. It also had a better taste, a nice pepper flavor. I ate all of this one. I kept hearing the heartbeat from the Guns N Roses song Coma running through my head.

The other thing I noticed were that these sandwiches came wrapped in a wrapper. Don't remove this wrapper, because the DD's are messy!

Restaurants are always trying invent new menu items with stuff they already have in their kitchens, the DD is no different.

Saturday Night Live has been making fun of them for a while, like...

Taco Town -
Taco Town



Bacon, is it good?



Jim Gaffigan may think so.

It was good with the grilled DD, but it was part of the problem with the fried DD. Then there is the Colonel...



No I don't hate the Colonel, and I do love that clip. As a mater of fact I still think KFC has the best coleslaw on earth. My only problem with him is that even though he served in the Army he's not a real Colonel. In 1936 Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon made Harland Sanders an honorary Kentucky Colonel in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine.

Our Tip:
Eating these is gamble with your health. Since I tried these a few months back I have changed my diet and started eating vegetarian. I can't say that eating these was a direct cause of this choice, but I'm sure it was a factor indirectly.