I see the chicken size post, and match you this pathetic excuse of 'food'. US penny for scale.
Not from US, so I don't know gow big a penny is: can you put something next to it as reference?
Need a banana.
Maybe it's you who's growing 🤔
maybe they can't use growth hormones anymore
they haven't been allowed for poultry production since the 1950s
So this is about kfc, so it's clearly an example of a corporation being cheap af and diminishing quality. But like, on the lighter more social side of things, I dunno. This kind of speaks to the fact that as Americans we have a totally distorted view of how big animals are. Also, we have no concept of what reasonable portion sizes are. I think smaller pieces of fried chicken is probably a good thing for most of us healthwise lol. Ideally, it would reflect more responsible chicken farming. I mean, this is kfc, so I know that's not the case here. But in general, I don't see any real downsides to smaller pieces of fried chicken. We eat too much as it is lol.
I don't know if you've ever seen a chicken before but they are definitely not this small. This also isn't a reasonable portion size bro that's a penny.
You don't see any downsides? If that's really a chicken leg and not quail or pigeon or some other smaller bird, then KFC must be killing underage chickens for the legs to be that damn small.
Go to Church's Chicken or Popeyes, or pretty much any other chicken place and the legs are easily twice as big and pretty clearly came from mature chickens.
Your reading comprehension needs some work. I explicitly said that this is clearly a case of diminishing quality, which could be attributed to the example you listed or any one of many other terrible corporate practices. Then I said in a social sense, I don't see a downside to the general idea of Americans eating less fried chicken. I was elaborating past the original point of the post.
Is that a drumstick or a wing?
I'd be concerned if this was a drumstick from the regular bucket, but for all I know it's a hot wing drumstick. Those are always small.
Toxic capitalism working as expected.
This other thread on chicken inflation kinda bucks this trend but who's really right?
or maybe they're growing humongous chickens with teeny tiny bones?
KFC got real bad in the past twenty years.
Their bucket used to be filled up to the 80% mark with fried chicken. Got a bucket 10 years ago and not only did the bucket shrink, but the chicken barely hit the halfway mark.
Popeyes has been the go-to. And weird to say, but supermarkets have picked up the fried chicken slack as well, if you aren't graced with a Popeyes.
whenever I read posts like this I just have to wonder: How many frickin' fast food chains are there in the US?
The US is huge dude.
The US is comparable to all of Europe,. In addition to national chains there are ton of regional (small number of states) and local chains (generally within one state). Fried chicken is extremely popular.
So probably hundreds of fried chicken fast food chains exist even if there are only a handful that are nationally known.
Im not from the states but I know regional chains are also a thing. Theres some places that only really exist in one state or one area of the country.
Have a look at the Joshua Weismann videos on YT where he tries burgers from all the major chains he can think of. Pretty interesting.
You're right. And even if a fast food chain is national it doesn't mean there's one within 100 miles from you
For example, I get ads for Sonic all the time and would need to drive for three hours (on the freeway going 70 mph) to get there
Im Australian and whenever I travel I look for US chains in other major cities I havent tried.
I had 5 Guys in Glasgow of all places. Carls Jnr opened a location near me which I thought was weird. Its pretty good though.
Just to note: US chains are significantly better outside the US. I don't eat at chains in the US anymore, they're expensive and I'm pretty sure my shit is more nutritious. Might taste better too.
Its actually been a long term "Lotto list" item of mine to build out a big food court type establishment and bring over franchises that arent here. Like Popeyes, Sonic, Wendys, etc
So long as I have the only one in Australia people would make the trip and pay a premium just to try a Popeyes chicken sandwich.
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