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KFC Canada: Where Are Your Biscuits?

posted at 11:49 am
on Aug. 17, 2006

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I ate at KFC last night, for the first time since arriving in Vancouver.  What a bizarre experience!

No biscuits!  They have no biscuits!  Not that I like the biscuits, actualy, but it was an unexpected absence, like the lack of French ingredients on cereal boxes in the United States.

They also have no macaroni and cheese.  They have no pot pie. No baked beans.  No corn on the cob.  No green beans.  No seasoned rice.  No apple or pecan pie. No mashed potatoes. And the only type of wings they offer are “Hot Wings”  I mean, come on, wings are CHICKEN, how can KFC Canada still be stuck with 1987 wings technology?

They do offer “Chicken Sticks” which are the latest in batter-delivery science.

And, while I’m grousing, there’s this offer they’re currently hawking: “Toonie Tuesdays”—a two-piece chicken special. But my eagle eye spotted those turkeys (f)lying! The actual price is $2.49—that’s one loonie more than a toonie. They’re robin’ us! I say, flip ‘em the bird, make like a drumstick and beat it, KFC Canada.

[Editor’s note: He’s gone cuckoo.]



 
 

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