Review - KFC Double Down

This is the PR shot of the KFC Double-down.

This is what the KFC Double-down really looks like

My last night in America has been spent inducing the KFC Double Down. I waited until the last night as reputationally this thing is so disgraced that I feared becoming addicted to it. And with good reason, the DD is heaven and Parekura may just stab himself in the heart to come and try it.

I prepared for the DD by going out last night and receiving a hangover of epic proportions. This makes you hungry for fats and fast food. I then woke up late and did six hours of exercise shopping eating just 4 bits of sushi and a sorbet from Cones on Bleeker. Even at 200 cals an hour burned doing the shopping and walking then that's 1200 cals per six hours. All were needed as the nutritional information states that the DD with the wedges meal comes in at a whopping 540 calories + a huge 32 grams of fat....just for the burger. Throw in the wedges at 260 calories + 13 grams of fat and you get the idea that this is a oncer. In other words post-heart attack, there's no way Tau Henare should even be reading this review, let alone travelling anywhere to eat the DD.

No such issues I guess if you are Busted Blonde and about to win your weight in Veuve Clicquot. If they were available in New Zealand we would be packing these down the old girl morning and night.

I have timelined the challenge with tasting notes:

1946 hours - enter KFC on W14th Street and 3rd Avenue
1956 hours - order a number 9 combo with diet Pepsi (we need the drink calories for the burger)
1958 hours - served
2000 hours - in cab back to the hotel. There's no way I am eating this thing in public and without private conveniences
2012 hours - commenced challenge with breaking the beast down with plastic forks



2016 hours - first half down. Thirst sets in from the dryness of the chicken, downed diet pepsi and balanced with tasty crisp wedges. Note that the cheese resembled yellow American tyre rubber and bacon was scarce throughout the burger with very smokey salty taste. Feel the pain there Mrs "GST exempt healthy food"....Cheese and chicken - both Maori Party GST exempt. Grwwwwllll.



2019 hours - cheese-lead illness slowly setting in
2021 hours - wedges proving to be the star of the show, balancing nicely with the fats from the chicken breast. Arteries filling fast.



2025 hours - all done. Toilet monitoring will follow for timing as to how quickly the DD will not stay down. Grease dripped right through all the paper and on to the wood below



2157 hours - DD burp. Slight backwash.

Overall - this thing is utter packaged awesomeness. In reality it is just two chicken fillets placed together with a bit of yucky gluey cheese and a tiny slash of bacon. KFC rolls are so awful that it's nicer than replacing with their breads. If you are a fan of KFC breast chicken then this is the ultimate in good times. Only issue I am currently having is that I do not actually feel full.

While most women (and myself if I had already eaten today) may struggle to eat the DD combo, I predict most men I know could get through two pretty easily. I reckon David Farrar and especially Whaleoil could push it for three.