From SMH

It's been called "The Double" by its creators, but the new bunless burger from KFC doesn't just have twice the usual serve of fried chicken, it also has an unhealthily high amount of kilojoules and fat, nutritionists say.

The burger, which will be sold across Australia for four weeks from tomorrow, has two slices of bacon and cheese sandwiched between two slabs of chicken - and no bread. It will cost $7.95 per burger, or $9.95 for a burger with fries and a drink.

The original recipe burger has 1939 kilojoules, 22.3 grams of fat and 1681 milligrams of sodium per serve. The Zinger burger has 2515 kilojoules, 35.7 grams of fat and 2058 milligrams of sodium.

I will try one. I think like anything moderation is the key. Stinky made a thread nearly a year ago about this burger and gave it a big thumbs up.

kfc is emergency only food to me. i'll only eat it if i'm drunk & there is nothing else available... so.. no. just no.

I want to try one, just to try it. I try to steer clear of KFC when I can, that s*** goes right through me.

got an email abou tthis today.

i'll let you guys try it first

I'll give it a try!

Also article fails, KFC doesn't have pathetic fries! They have MANLY CHIPS!

Re title, that's s***. When will Australia get it then?

I hope it doesn't suck as much as their sweet potato chips. Those things were just sweet potato in a hardened shell of fat :(

Does stinky work at bioware?

I don't have a post in the "OMG I'm a fat c***" thread because I'm fit and healthy.

Won't be trying this.

I too am fit and healthy.

Will be trying this. If it's any good, I'll be getting it multiple times!

Ever eaten KFC in the States? You'd regret it. It's some sweet smelling fat, marinated in chicken. It's all downhill from the first bite.

The burger, which will be sold across Australia for four weeks from tomorrow

oh yeah lunch after work tomorrow =]

dunno about the sauce tho

I'm fit and healthy and still actually know how to enjoy life, so I will be trying this.

This defines who does, and doesn't enjoy life? F*** me, I've been happy for all the wrong reasons.

I'm surprised the McGriddle hasn't appeared in Oz yet.
I'd heard of it but never knew what it was till I tried one here in Canada.

S*** is crazy... pretty much a bacon/sausge and egg mcmuffin... buuuut with pancakes instead of the english muffin.

All the burgers come in doubles here too, I must say double cheeseburgers do kick ass on the way home from a night out on the town :)

Yeah I beleive so, I'll have to go investigate.

Subway here has some new chicken sub too, devil chicken or something along those lines. From the picture it kinda looked like KFC strips in a sub probably with some hot chilli sauce.

The majority of the fast food here is almost the same as the US and is f*****g horrendous. Most of the Wendy's burgers are rediculously horrible.

We did the Triple Baconator challenge one night after drinks... the aftermath from the other end of that was pretty bad :P
Bun | Beef | Bacon | Cheese/Sauce | Beef | Bacon | Cheese/Sauce | Beef | Bacon | Cheese/Sauce | Bun

Yeah but they are standard menu items here.

I think a double cheese here costs $1.38 a pop.
On those nights where my judgement is somewhat impaired I usually make a quad :P

I gotta say I miss Twisties though... nothing like that here :(

last edited by rubba-chikin at 17:34:50 29/Mar/11

nah i think ur mistaken

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burger

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/laughlines/brunchburger.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Doughnut_burger.jpg/220px-Doughnut_burger.jpg

No it is indeed real... sadly enough :/
I've seen the ad on some of the US TV channels.

I think it's more of a promotional thing as I can't see it on the offical menus.
If you google donut burger there's accounts of previous promotions. Krispy Kreme had one for a while.

Actually I'm pretty sure I saw it on Man Vs Food, some baseball stadium in the US sells them.

last edited by rubba-chikin at 17:47:33 29/Mar/11

I'm surprised the McGriddle hasn't appeared in Oz yet.
I'd heard of it but never knew what it was till I tried one here in Canada.

Yeah, they have them in Japan too. I didn't know what it was, so I just went with the usual, but my girlfriend got it and I tried a bit. F*****g awesome.

I thought the maccas brick was bad. Imagine that trying to escape your ass.

learn to digest noob.

The old man got a Wagyu Beef Sub other day and said it was pretty good.

Its got a decent quantity of fat (for a subway meat choice) so it tastes damn good. Atleast the protein content is also high.

As for the new KFC burger; they swapped crappy carbs in the bread for protein+fat in the chicken - who cares. Fat and cal wise Its nothing compared to something like double quarter pounder or that massive HJs burger.

Make sure to have that diet coke with the Wagyu sub since it has almost the exact same calories and fat as the double down... unless you get a foot long in which case it's almost double.

Wrong dude. From memory the 6" wagyu has like 20g fat that includes cheese and the tomato relish. The KFC is like 50-100% more.
http://www.subway.com.au/info/our_menu/nutritional_information/

And IMO only fatties get foot long subs, there are very few people that need that quantity of carbs for lunch. 6" with double roast chicken FTW.

I only knew the stats of the zinger but you're right, the original one is pretty similar. My mistake.

Girls eat 6" subs
I need 12" to satisfy me.

Spoken like a true fattie.

^Shad and i just argued about that. Basically the same fat+cal in the original double down and the 6" wagyu but the zinger has more cal and about double fat. For subway meat i reckon the 2x roast chicken slab on 6" is the best nutrition wise.

I'd like to know TT came up with those figures. No footlong will come close to 500 cals. Bread alone has to be about 300-400 at a guess.

I'd like to know TT came up with those figures. No footlong will come close to 500 cals. Bread alone has to be about 300-400 at a guess.

TT f***ed up. They would have used the 6" stats which we have already discussed but somehow said footlong. F***wits.

Thanks DM. More reviews please. I'd like to know if your terrible one is true across the board before investing in lunch tomorrow.

Chickens get horemones to grow larger in America so the patties are larger.
True or False ?

Today Tonight claims the Wagyu foot long is the same Calories as the KFC double-down.

It's on TT it must be true!

I'd like to know TT came up with those figures. No footlong will come close to 500 cals. Bread alone has to be about 300-400 at a guess.

Like everything on TT/ACA it's probably made up or fudged stats to appeal to irrational emotions.

nah i think ur mistaken

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burger

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/laughlines/brunchburger.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Doughnut_burger.jpg/220px-Doughnut_burger.jpg

That does not look appetising. Maybe because it looks like came all over the bun in the lower pic.

Door ur startin' to annoy me.
Dont make me shut you.

If you shut the Door then a Window will open.

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/9813/20841510150121491586475.jpg

a friend just posted this on FB, when you think about it - it's not really that bad
take away all the carbs and add some extra protein

why cant they cook the f***** bacon FFS!

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg35/ggb777/sculpture.jpg


What would Freud say ?

What would Freud say ?

He'd probably say the Double Down tastes better than a Blue Waffle

Ever eaten KFC in the States? You'd regret it. It's some sweet smelling fat, marinated in chicken. It's all downhill from the first bite

Only once to try the double down when it came out last year. Was ok... mainly had it so I could say I had a double down.

I am however pissed off that I can't get a bacon and cheese Zinger and the chips here suck c*** compared to the KFC chips back home.

Probably why I haven't eaten KFC over here more than once, compared to once every month or 2 back home. Every now and then a Zinger bacon and cheese combo really hits the spot.

why is the bacon horrible? does it taste funny or something?

that sucks ballsack

Sorry for this little bit of thread hijacking but it's a thread about food so this won't be to off topic.

Some of you would of seen me in this and prior threads bagging out the US in reguards to a few things food related. Not to mention a number of other things I won't go into. Some of you might think wtf are you doing there if things piss you off that much and rightly so.

So I am just going to square things up a fraction with some positive stuff that I love over here. This little list is in no particular order.

Food and drink

1) Pickles ... f*****g great awesome pickles. They have a massive range of these little green bastards and some of them are so good it is mind boggling.

2) Corn ... Corn on the cob to be exact. I have no idea why there is a difference but the corn I eat here is the sweetest juiciest I have ever eaten.

3)Cherry Coke from Sonic.... I can't really tell you much about it other than it is my soft drink of choice here and by a very long way.

4)Deer meat ... Specifically the Deer I hunt myself, I have also learned to skin and cut them up now so I won't go hungry :)

5)IHOP ... International House of Pancakes whats not to love about pancakes and a place that primarily seems to focus on breakfast type meals.

6)Shoguns Japanese steakhouse.... Chain restaurant that specializing in hibachi-style dining they also happen to make the best fried rice I have ever eaten.

There are many more things but I think those 6 kind of even up the score. I guess I b**** about things that are pretty basic back home that I miss, like a good meat pie. Btw yanks have zero clue as to what a meat pie is, well at least all the ones I have met anyway. :)

last edited by Taipan at 04:50:22 30/Mar/11

The Tracy Jordon Meat Machine.

The pro-bread lobby will stop us from having our bun-less burgers!

1) Pickles ... f*****g great awesome pickles. They have a massive range of these little green bastards and some of them are so good it is mind boggling.

Seconded! My household bought a jumbo jar of pickles from Costco the size of a bowling ball we thought would last for months... It lasted 3 weeks cause everyone was just eating them as snacks :P There must've been 100 pickles in there.

Mordecai, my stomach just went queasy after looking at that donut looking burger in a pile of grease & oil... jesus

If you haven't watched thr movie food Inc yet, I'd give it a watch especialy if your in America :)

Now, to go try this horrid thing for lunch or not.

yeah food inc is pretty f***ed, same with the corporation

I had one today. I liked it but prefer a real burger. Zinger version was tasty!

2) Corn ... Corn on the cob to be exact. I have no idea why there is a difference but the corn I eat here is the sweetest juiciest I have ever eaten.

Massive giant f***off subsidies for corn farmers, probably

Nobody noticed what that pic i posted looks like ?

Its subliminal advertising.

i think most people just automatically skip your posts.

it looks like an alien vagina... right?

had a zinger one today. would recommend!

goes down very well

yuck.
twice the heart burn, twice as hungry 20 minutes later.

take away all the carbs and add some extra protein

i think the buns are mainly sugar. i think the chicken is mostly fat.
only thing worse than kfc is red rooster imo.

enjoying 2 for 1 pasta from earth and sea tonight !!!!!!!

i think the buns are mainly sugar.

I'm pretty sure sugar = carbs

enjoying 2 for 1 pasta from earth and sea tonight !!!!!!!

Depending on the serving size, that's probably just as "unhealthy" as the double down, FYI.

gets you more wasted if you push it up your anus

6 pages and no mention of this? Shame guys, shame...

2) Corn ... Corn on the cob to be exact. I have no idea why there is a difference but the corn I eat here is the sweetest juiciest I have ever eaten.

Massive giant f***off subsidies for corn farmers, probably

I'm fairly sure the US uses corn syrup as a sweetner for softdrinks/soda etc whereas in Aus we use Sugarcane. That would probably mean the corn industry is a lot larger there.

Drinks like Coke definitely taste slightly different here in North America compared to back home imo, more sickly sweet.

Another thing I miss here is traditional Fanta... I can't find any orange flavour here... all the stores here in North Van only have:

Grape
Tangerine
Clear Creaming Soda

Pineapple was a kickass flavour too but I can't find that here anywhere either :(
Nestea in fountain machines (especially free at work) is totally awesome though!

Food-wise, aussie versions of fast food just taste better all around than in the US. KFC, BK, you name it.

That might be your personal opinion because it sure isn't mine. There are a few things that taste better in Australia but for the most part there is no difference as far as I am concerned.

Personally I think Big Mac's taste better here because they seem to have a slightly more grilled flavour to them. KFC chicken tastes no different to the stuff we get back home in Australia however I don't think I have ever had a Whopper here in the US thats as good as one back home.

I tend to drink a hell of a lot more coke here than I do back in Australia but thats only because I can't find any decent ice coffee here. I am a huge huge huge Ice coffee addict and the only stuff I can find here is this Starbucks s*** that so watered down it tastes like crap. On the up side they do have haagen dazs coffee icecream in every supermarket and it's frigging awesome.

I tend to eat alot more subway here than back home aswell. It's just as good and quite a bit cheaper here than in Australia. Last month was Februany month at Subway where all footlongs were $5 for the entire month :)

They make a point of advertising that they are made with REAL SUGARCANE SUGAR

I have never seen this I have however seen advertising on TV where they tell people there is no difference between Corn and Sugarcane which I disagree with. You know it doesn't even need to be a difference in the sugar to make soft drinks taste difference. All it takes is for them to be drawing their water from a different location and it'll taste different to somewhere else.

last edited by Taipan at 08:34:26 31/Mar/11

I have never seen this I have however seen advertising on TV where they tell people there is no difference between Corn and Sugarcane

Yeah I haven't seen the throwback drinks advertised much, but my roommates found it last year, thought it was much better and put me onto the stuff:
Link

Edit: P.S. You can get it in stores, not just online/amazon...

last edited by Chakas at 08:44:31 31/Mar/11

finally? it's like the OP makes out that all of us STARVING ZOMBIES were just dragging our feet on the spot outside of the KF doors that aren't automatically opening until the invasion occurs when the menu is updated

are you picking up what the Kernel is putting double down? lol f*** no

Why would you be at an NZ airport?

I'll have to keep an eye out for that it might make for an interesting comparison. On the topic on soft drinks have you noticed that the cans here are 50ml smaller here than back in Au?

Yep, tripped me out when I first got here.

US/Canada : Australia
591ml : 600ml - common bottled drink size
355ml : 375ml - common can size beer/soda

Their spirits/liquor bottle sizes are also different although you can get 700ml too.
1L, 1.14L, 2L etc, spirits are way cheaper here too from what I've seen and the sheer variety of different brands of beer blew me away... theres so many!

I beleive it's to do with original sizing in imperial, ounces etc.
Like referring to a bottle as a 40 of beer or whatever.

Up here in Canuckland Mountain Dew is non caffienated but I reckon you'd be able to find some that is without too much trouble. Or just pop over the border for your fix :P

Only cheap bastards fly Oz-US via NZ. Non-stop is the only way to travel. :D

Corn is grown pretty much everywhere. Cane requires a specific climate. As it happens, virtually the entire mainland is occupied so hence, corn. Lots of corn. More corn than is needed, but the US govt continues to protect and subsidise the intdustry, paying farmers to keep growing the stuff.

So we have this horrible syrup in everything. The ads on television are a reaction to the backlash against high fructose corn syrup. The ads are largely false. Also, High Fructose Corn Syrup is a known digestive irritant to abut 50% of the human population. Ever wonder why IBS is high in this country?

I hate KFC in Belfast and it was s***, chicken was dried and the chips were like soggy chips you'd get from the fish and chipper.

I had KFC in Vietnam and they were the biggest nastiest chicken pieces i have ever seen in my life. Absolutely ENORMOUS. Didn't come out well on the other end either : /

Taiwan's KFC has these egg tarts

http://pacejmiller.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/kfcs-portuguese-egg-tarts/

http://pacejmiller.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/kfc-egg-tarts.jpg?w=800&h=600

Also this is someone else's picture, but I've seen a four floor KFC too.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KAmSVaFqMHQ/S0HueGwkpNI/AAAAAAAAAIU/BokcI577YKE/s1600/CIMG1869.JPG

last edited by scuzzy at 12:17:53 31/Mar/11

Reeses Peanut butter bars are f*****g grouse, anyone who disagrees fails at chocolate.

Reeses Peanut butter bars are f*****g gross, anyone who disagrees fails at chocolate.

Fixed

Btw the only failure would be on the part of manufacturer. Failure to satisfy my tastes with something that doesn't taste like s***. Oh and you can't fail at eating it only making it and this is exhibited very well by American Chocolate manufacturers on a daily basis.

Yeah Ive asked at the Chermside stores and no go.

Dog treats have carob faceman ;)

is that american style bacon? it looks f*****g disgusting.

Yep thats the stuff scoobs thats what these people over here think is normal and (wash my mouth out with soap) good. Worst bacon on earth no doubt about it.

Yeah Ive asked at the Chermside stores and no go.

I mean in shops like Coles. I always have a walk through the health food section and look at carob but it seems damn expensive and the same calories as chocolate.

lol thats just insane, why?!@#@#

i tried the double down today, pretty average.

i mean really the chicken isn't that great without sauce anyway, and i dont think the BBQ sauce does it any justice, its much nicer in a kernel burger etc.

I tried original, i might try a zinger one, but our local store tends to burn the ass off zinger pieces so you it would be the toughest burger.

seems to be $11.45 up here in NQ for the val meal (regular), much prefer getting the burger/wings/chips/drink combo whatever its called.

See thats how bad the bacon is in Canada and the US they actually have to wrap it around a small pig in order for it actually have any meat.

It is possible to find normal Aussie style bacon here with the round bit but you usually have to go to a butchers and it's called back bacon and is expensive.

Those s***** strips are expensive enough already and I can't be assed going to a butcher.

I tell you what is f*****g awesome here though... fis** I don't even like seafood either!

The salmon, steelhead and chinook are to die for. My housemate is big on fishing and we have a deep freeze chest in the house crammed full of fish he caught in summer and fall.

He baked some with a nice mayo+hot sauce glaze and I straight up said nah don't worry I'll cook my own dinner cause I HATE grilled/baked fish back in Oz. He persuaded me to try some and I'll be damned if it didn't rival a nice chicken breast (which is easily my fav type of meat).

I eat fish now on a regular basis and it has actually redeemed seafood for me in a big way!

It is possible to find normal Aussie style bacon here with the round bit but you usually have to go to a butchers and it's called back bacon and is expensive.

A butchers you say? I really don't think Americans know what a butchers is. Little Rock is a city of 750,000 people give or take a few and I have seen one butchers in my travels. I could no doubt find one or a few by just looking on the net of course.

You guys know whats it's like back home you have a bakery and a butchers in every group of shops. Well I still haven't seen a standalone bakery here in Little Rock and as I said only one butchers. The major supermarket chains here pretty much have everyone completely bent over.

Lastnight I spent a little bit of time looking to see if I could find where I can get some copha from. I didn't realize it but Copha is Australian and the closest thing to it here in the US is straight up coconut oil. Believe it or not I was going to make some chocolate crackles which I was going to give to my missus and he mother. The next thing after that I'll aim to make a Pavlova though I'll have to get Pav magic from a speciality Aussie store in Texas.

Bit of a thread revival because of a few related developments:

1) Getting back to the drinks with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the US, today for the first time since last summer I saw Pepsi throwback (i.e. with real cane sugar) on the shelves. So there's another option to avoid the HFCS.

2) Last night we made a late night run to Denny's (that was our first and biggest mistake) specifically for a round of maple bacon sundaes. Not anywhere near as bad as I expected, but again much like the double down it is something I'll probably only try once just to say I had one. In this case the american style bacon was actually a good thing, because the crispy bacon was an ok contrast to the icecream. I'm guessing the texture of normal bacon in icecream would have been more problematic.

^ whatevs.
bacon + sweet = yum imo

Maple syrup and pork sausage is really good well. I know it sounds wrong but give it a try. I got into it while in Canada years ago.

Bacon on a pancake?

Can't say I've ever had the two together but if I did I think they'd stay seperated, I just can't see them getting on.

last edited by mission at 10:31:09 16/Apr/11

The NRL Footy Show had some Strongmen guy from America.
He eats/drinks the soybean milk + Chicken meat blended milkshake.
The Falcon tried it twice but Fatty had one drink and coughed it back up.

So I was wrong... Tried the Diablo Chicken sub on flatbread at Subway.

It's just a normal cooked chicken pieces with some hot spices... very average to my tastebuds. Much rather have sweet onion chicken terriyaki.

Ah well.