KFC chicken 'crisis': Met Police called over fast food chain's chicken 'drought'

dowie · 23 Feb 2018 at 14:17

Em3bbs said:
That video is fake btw. The guy in the KFC uniform is in the other videos from that user.

that's unfortunate

the first one is real though AFAIK

V F · 23 Feb 2018 at 14:21

HoneyBadger said:
Society really is going down the Kermit.

It is frighteningly hilarious. Simply seeing how many live on fast food and everything goes crazy.

CREATIVE!11 · 23 Feb 2018 at 14:22

Blessing in disguise, stuff is gross anyway (I lie it tastes amazing but I swore off takeaways some years ago...).

D.P. · 23 Feb 2018 at 14:32

Or no Popeyes, Popeyes chicken is in a different world to KFC

CREATIVE!11 · 23 Feb 2018 at 14:35

Freddie1980 said:
Also why would the franchisee send out two employee's in full uniform to buy all the chicken from the local supermarket.

Yep, they'd just tell them put on a different shirt.... anyone with half a brain would change.

V F · 23 Feb 2018 at 14:36

CREATIVE!11 said:
Blessing in disguise, stuff is gross anyway (I lie it tastes amazing but I swore off takeaways some years ago...).

I find it bizarre how most peoples diets is fast food these days. By all means have a treat here and there but not when it’s your everyday meals. I know of many people getting chinese twice a day. How they never get sick of it I’ll never know.

Sliver · 23 Feb 2018 at 14:43

I always eat wheatabix for breakfast. Very healthy start to the day. I might then have a tuna sandwich for lunch, maybe with a fruit yoghurt, again very healthy. Then come the evening I'm ordering fast food from one of my local takeaways or eating some ready meal I've bought. So I guess if I skipped the takeaway's and ready meals I'd have a very healthy diet. Trouble is, food deemed to be unhealthy due to too much fat or sugar or whatever just tastes too damn nice. Still I must be doing something right as I'm at the right weight for my height.

FortuitousFluke · 23 Feb 2018 at 15:24

Sliver said:
I always eat wheatabix for breakfast. Very healthy start to the day. I might then have a tuna sandwich for lunch, maybe with a fruit yoghurt, again very healthy. Then come the evening I'm ordering fast food from one of my local takeaways or eating some ready meal I've bought. So I guess if I skipped the takeaway's and ready meals I'd have a very healthy diet. Trouble is, food deemed to be unhealthy due to too much fat or sugar or whatever just tastes too damn nice. Still I must be doing something right as I'm at the right weight for my height.

Yeah but 90% of your body weight is made up of arterial plaque

. I can't talk, I had a Grand Big Mac last night and I'm pretty sure that constitutes an entire families allowance of sugar salt fat and calories.

ttaskmaster · 23 Feb 2018 at 15:34

V F said:
I know of many people getting chinese twice a day. How they never get sick of it I’ll never know.

Have you ever, like, seen a Chinese take-away menu?
They have, like, LOADS of different things on there... like, three or four times what, like, McDonalds have.... like.....

Sliver · 23 Feb 2018 at 15:36

FortuitousFluke said:
Yeah but 90% of your body weight is made up of arterial plaque .

lol. Maybe your body is 90% plaque but mine is mostly bone and flesh. You only live once so enjoy those Big Mac's mate

new boy · 23 Feb 2018 at 16:40

ttaskmaster said:
Have you ever, like, seen a Chinese take-away menu?
They have, like, LOADS of different things on there... like, three or four times what, like, McDonalds have.... like.....

Most list every dish under headings for each meat, instead of having a single row per dish, with columns for meat. that bulks it out a lot.

ttaskmaster · 23 Feb 2018 at 16:59

new boy said:
Most list every dish under headings for each meat, instead of having a single row per dish, with columns for meat. that bulks it out a lot.

But like, that's like, still five or six meats, times ten different styles, with like, five different rices and three noodles and extras.... and probably 2 or 3 veggie versions of each. Then you have all the starters and sides and foo yung omelettey things.... thats like, a hundred million billion combinations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

spoffle · 23 Feb 2018 at 17:19

GhostWKD said:
Can't just be me that wonders why they would have gone in uniform, surely better to have gone in casual clothes?

I've seen a relatively expensive indian place in MK doing their shopping in Sainsburys before too, doesn't really bother me as it's not the ingredients you're paying for when you go out for a meal.

Chicken from Asda and other supermarkets is pretty expensive when compared to wholesale prices.

Orionaut · 23 Feb 2018 at 17:43

V F said:
I find it bizarre how most peoples diets is fast food these days..

Not just these days.

Fish and Chips became popular during the industrial revolution as a result of being a way of providing large quantities of reasonably priced nutritious food for large and relatively poor urban industrial working populations.

The next staple down (For people who couldn't afford fish and chips) was bread and jam, which was consumed in vast quantities.

The whole point about "Supersize Me" is that the Golden Arches really is the primary source of daily food for very large numbers of Americans.

It may be killing them slowly, but it not only tastes good (Yes it does. A great deal of effort is put into engineering it to be irresistible, and the engineering pays off) It is also stupidly cheap...

The cost/benefit trade off for fast food is less dramatic in the UK, (Food has always been very cheap in the US) but the numbers of people who hardly ever actually cook for themselves is growing rapidly. Even if it isn't MacD's, it is supermarket micro-meals.

And many of them are not really that much better. I can commend to you the book Swallow This

pioneer2000 · 23 Feb 2018 at 18:01

Sliver said:
I always eat wheatabix for breakfast. Very healthy start to the day. I might then have a tuna sandwich for lunch, maybe with a fruit yoghurt, again very healthy. Then come the evening I'm ordering fast food from one of my local takeaways or eating some ready meal I've bought. So I guess if I skipped the takeaway's and ready meals I'd have a very healthy diet. Trouble is, food deemed to be unhealthy due to too much fat or sugar or whatever just tastes too damn nice. Still I must be doing something right as I'm at the right weight for my height.

Wheatabix with what? Hope that’s skimmed milk.

Tuna sandwich, nope, bread is bad for you. Is it buttered? Mayonnaise? All extremely calorific.

Fruit yoghurt, nope calorific once again unless low fat variant and if it’s fruit based it’ll be full of sugar.

Rroff · 23 Feb 2018 at 18:13

pioneer2000 said:
Tuna sandwich, nope, bread is bad for you. Is it buttered? Mayonnaise? All extremely calorific.

A lot of bread isn't good for you at all - but you can get some stuff that isn't too unhealthy - I use a baguette type thing when having tuna which is reasonably healthy and you can get spreads that are high in Omega 3, etc. to go with. Calories on their own aren't bad for you.

Derek W · 23 Feb 2018 at 18:25

Their apology was quite good for running out of chicken though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43169625

djcj · 23 Feb 2018 at 19:50

V F said:
I know of many people getting chinese twice a day. How they never get sick of it I’ll never know.

I can think of an entire nation with a population of over one billion that does this......

V F · 24 Feb 2018 at 00:22

djcj said:
I can think of an entire nation with a population of over one billion that does this......

They don't eat the Western Chinese food.

Sliver · 24 Feb 2018 at 07:16

pioneer2000 said:
Wheatabix with what? Hope that’s skimmed milk.

Tuna sandwich, nope, bread is bad for you. Is it buttered? Mayonnaise? All extremely calorific.

Fruit yoghurt, nope calorific once again unless low fat variant and if it’s fruit based it’ll be full of sugar.

Since when is bread, tuna and yoghurt bad for lmao! It's brown bread unbuttered and yes I do have mayo mixed with the tuna but only a little. And Wheatabix with skimmed milk is very healthy. Thankfully you're not my dietitian as it sounds like you'd have me on a diet of distilled water and Brussel sprouts lol.