Canadian Double-Down

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**metallifan**

http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/kfc_double_down_comes_to_canada/ef946332

by Daniela Syrovy
With a killer marketing campaign and wild success in the U.S., KFC brings the infamous meaty and salty Double Down sandwich to Canada. Will you try it when it arrives?

Not since I owned a burger shop and scraped rotten meat off the kitchen floor have I been this repulsed. KFC is bringing a sandwich called the Double Down to Canada. For the uninitiated this is a sandwich that, instead of bread, uses two breaded and fried chicken fillets to wrap toppings that include bacon and melted slices of Monterey Jack.

If you want giant slabs of meat sandwiched between more meat, slathered with cheese and are eager for an early heart attack then I say visit your local butcher and make your own version of the Double Down. Or just settle for a juicy steak with Canadian cheddar melted on it to satisfy that meat, cheese craving. Call it a Single Down.

Even if you ignore the nasty and brutal cruelty to animals that KFC is absolutely famous for, you cannot possibly ignore the fact that this sandwich is heart disease on a platter at 1380mg of sodium per Double Down.

That said, will Canadians flock to try it? Likely. It's been selling like hotcakes in the U.S.

The one thing KFC has done really well is market the damn thing. The sandwich's ultimate achievement has been an incredible PR and marketing campaign. KFC has asked college women across the US to promote the sandwich by wearing jogging pants emblazoned with Double Down on their butts. Not a very classy move, but effective in targeting a young male audience.

Luckily, some savvy people are working on a ‘Ban KFC on Campuses' movement to offset these marketing tactics. Astonishingly, the Double Down even managed to lure New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton to lower his standards for the day and lunch at KFC. While he calls it ‘a must avoid' food, others I'm sure are enjoying it. I'm sure of this because back home in my native country of Slovakia, breaded deep fried meat stuffed with cheese and bacon is a specialty and damn is it tasty.

Anyone else find the idea of this thing absolutely revolting? I mean, I'm all for the occasional helping of fast food, but this is just wrong. Just so very wrong. This thing should stay south of the 49. Or better yet, in the deep-fried brain of whoever thought it up. 1380mg of sodium? For the sake of all that is good and hockey in this world, I am -not- looking forward to finding out how this goes...

**Tacobake**

Personally I think they should put cheese curds and gravy on it for another $1.50.

**Shadowbrand**

I am going to try one just for the lolz.

**metallifan**

Tacobake wrote:Personally I think they should put cheese curds and gravy on it for another $1.50.

It's Canada. They'll probably add a Poutine option. No, wait, they WILL add a poutine option. My artieries are crying, even thinking about it

**dogma**

Funny thing, its actually better for you than something like a Big Mac.

**metallifan**

I think "Not as bad for you" would be better terminology. None of it is really -good- or -better- for a person

That platypus is extremely creepy by the way...

**Tacobake**

YEAH DIP IT IN THERE.

I actually looked up if they are available yet, KFC right down the road. NINE DAYS.

I got the big hot dogs yesterday, you know 8 in a pack instead of 12. It says 480 mg sodium so I guess you can think of the Double-Down as being like three hot dogs.

So basically I would guess if you are looking at two or three of the things every day that is probably not the best idea.

**Vindicator#9**

I will stick to my chicken nugget paste.

**helgrenze**

First, you do not have to get the fried version.... they make it with the Grilled chicken as well....
Second, all they are doing, really, is eliminating the "white bread" bun that is considered one of the most dietarily offensive food products.
Third, where is the uproar over the Hardees/Carls Jr Cheese Steak Burger? The Wendy's tower of meat known as the Bacon triple Deluxe, or the equally "insidous" Baconator?
If the market wasn't there it wouldn't sell.

Come on people..... its just food.. eat it or don't... Enjoy your soy protein based immitation burger even.....

But don't tell me I can't have one because your Vegan dietitian is offended by it.

**dogma**

metallifan wrote:
That platypus is extremely creepy by the way...

I believe you mean glorious.

**metallifan**

helgrenze wrote:The Wendy's tower of meat known as the Bacon triple Deluxe, or the equally "insidous" Baconator?

I have no idea what Carls Jr. is, but the Baconator -did- have it's uproar. The same way this did. It got banned from several mall and university food courts here in Canada. Not that it mattered - apparently it hardly sells up here.

dogma wrote:
metallifan wrote:
That platypus is extremely creepy by the way...

I believe you mean glorious.

Yea, gloriously creepy to the point I'm scared to close my eyes at night for fear of being killed in my sleep by a morbidly obese duckbill

**dogma**

Carl's Jr. = Hardee's

**metallifan**

Hardee's?

**Kilkrazy**

I can't imagine why you need a double bacon burger when you have poutine.

**helgrenze**

Look here Metallifan
http://www.hardees.com/

As for the burger mentioned.... its a cheesesteak ON a Burger.

**Gwar!**

Tacobake wrote:Personally I think they should put cheese curds and gravy on it for another $1.50.

Damint, I was blowing my nose, you made me laugh now I have blood all over my keyboard!

**Tacobake**

Good day when people are making KFC poutine jokes.

**Grimtuff**

I really want to try one of these, just for gaks and giggles too.

Though we in the UK had this north of the border. The Stonner

Your move America.

**Tyyr**

metallifan wrote:My artieries are crying, even thinking about it

You do know that no one is going to be force feeding you one right?

**metallifan**

Tyyr wrote:
metallifan wrote:My artieries are crying, even thinking about it

You do know that no one is going to be force feeding you one right?

And that's stopping me from expressing my opinion on how dugusting it is... how?

helgrenze wrote:Look here Metallifan
http://www.hardees.com/

As for the burger mentioned.... its a cheesesteak ON a Burger.

You know, they really should replace the chick in the background with a 500lb jiggling monstrosity. I'd get quite a kick out of that

**Shadowbrand**

They are available in Alberta apparently.

**metallifan**

Yea, but that's Alberta. The land of Oil Patches, Deep Fried Barbequed (Thats right, both at once) everything, Rodeos, The fat girl tube-top, and polished steel balls for the back bumper of your truck. (No. Seriously. Metal balls for trucks. See for yourself: http://nickmielke.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/truck-balls.jpg)

**helgrenze**

Grimtuff wrote:I really want to try one of these, just for gaks and giggles too.

Though we in the UK had this north of the border. The Stonner

Your move America.

Apparently you have not seen This Show Man V Food

**Shadowbrand**

@metali

I know a guy from Alberta apparently it's boring there.

The only perk is drinking at 18 instead of 19.

**Khornholio**

I wouldn't worry too much about my arteries, as I'd be fretting over my next trip to the crapper.

And yes, Alberta is apparently THAT awesome. It's the birth place of Terry and Deaner.

**metallifan**

Shadowbrand wrote:@metali

I know a guy from Alberta apparently it's boring there.

The only perk is drinking at 18 instead of 19.

It's true. If you don't live in Edmonton or Calgary, there's absolutely nothing to do. I have family in Calahoo and the only things to do there in the summer are shoot guns, ride ATVs, drink beer, and barbeque things. Normally a good time. But every day? Not so much. It's even worse in the winter: Ride snowmobiles, drink around a bonfire, and watch satellite TV that loves to fall victim at the worst possible times to unpredicable Alberta cloud cover.

And, of course, bolting a set of steel nuts to every vehicle you own. That's a blast right there.

**Arctik_Firangi**

When they first announced this 'sandwich' in 2008 there was a great fuss about how it "might end up being sold in Australia!"

Who cares. I'd have to try it at least once.
Please note that I'm an ex-KFC employee and I find the smell of original recipe chicken utterly nauseating... and I'll never eat the gravy. No sir. It still sounds damn good.

In fact, being an ex-KFC employee, I probably could just make my own. Nevermind.

**WarOne**

As an American, I fully endorse the exportation of Southern values to other parts of the world. It's the herald of sympathy for the losers of the Civil Rights movement (namely redneck white men) and the introduction of how the South lost their war of Norther Oppression because General James Longstreet screwed God-man Robert E. Lee in the Massacre of Gettysburg.

**helgrenze**

Warone.. you do know that war was started by students from The Citadel.... right?

**Tazz Azrael**

metallifan wrote:
Tacobake wrote:Personally I think they should put cheese curds and gravy on it for another $1.50.

It's Canada. They'll probably add a Poutine option. No, wait, they WILL add a poutine option. My artieries are crying, even thinking about it

Dude i almost just had a heart attack from reading this

(also im in the actual food industry, not this mock fast food crap, also please note il eat A&W or subway for a hangover helper

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