Endless Gibberish

So last week I finally get the chance to try a KFC Double Down. For those of you that don’t know the KFC Double Down is a new “sandwich” that forgoes bread. It’s two slices of bacon and two slices of cheese between two pieces of chicken. I knew that when I first saw the double down it’d be one of those things you have to try just to try.

First things first I had to locate KFC in my city. Where I live has a decent population of approx 250,000 people so you figure there’d be a couple of KFCs right? Nope. I used KFC.com to find the nearest and only location near me and it was in a part of town I couldn’t quite picture.

The reason I couldn’t picture where it was is because only KFC near me was on the other side of town in a really bad neighborhood. How bad? The drive through window was not a window at all. In order to deter robberies you paid and got your food through a thick plexiglass drawer.

The KFC Double Down isn’t a cheap sandwich. The sandwich alone is $5 and the meal is $6.99. The meal comes with potato wedges and a drink.

At first I was kind of excited to try the double down but after a couple of bites I start to notice the thing is REALLY salty. The sauce that they use with the sandwich makes it even saltier. This makes sense when you look at the nutrional facts and see that the original recipe double down has 1380 mg of sodium.

One of the things that this sandwich did remind me of is that KFC’s chicken breasts are pretty bland and pretty much suck. Not only did the sandwich not taste that great, I felt like crap for a couple hours after eating it. I’ll probably never eat another double down again, but at least I can re-tell of the experience when this sandwich is shelved.

One good thing I got out of this experience is that I found out the wedges from KFC are pretty good.

Subway has a advertised deal of $5 footlong sandwiches so I decided to try one out the other day. It’s a mistake I won’t be making anytime soon. I remember back in the day when you could get a real sandwich at subway. Well, the times are a-changin’.

I ordered a ham, salami, and cheese on a footlong. The lady behind the counter put 6 small slices of ham even spaced accross the footlong piece of bread. She then asked me what kind of cheese and I reminded her I wanted salami too. Here’s where the cheap cost cutting nature of Subway shows its hand. She takes BACK two of the slices of ham and adds salami slices. This sandwich was so lacking that Subway should’ve just sold it for what it really is, a lettuce sandwich.

The worst part is that I was hungry when I should’ve just turn around and left so I actually bought the thing and ate it… and then I was still hungry after I ate it.

I thought about it for awhile and then I’ve come to realize the genius of Subway marketing and what a big con it is. The $5 footlong will basically get you the same amount of meat as a 6 inch, except you get to spread it out over a foot long piece of bread so don’t think it’s any kind of deal. Also this whole “healthy” thing is pure genius. Basically Subway gets to cut back on more expensive food ingredients (meats) and substitute with cheaper ingredients (vegetables) and charge customers the same for a “healthier” product.

I’ve sworn off ever going back to Subway ever again. Then again I’ve seen the lines there and maybe some people like lettuce sandwiches.