Kentucky Fried Chicken has made a new bucket called Kentucky Grilled Chicken. It looks like they are trying to find a healthy alternative to eating there. I actually tried the grilled chicken a couple days ago due to a coupon I got in the mail. One thing about the chicken is it took forever to make! We ended up waiting about 25 minutes to get our chicken! That no longer made KFC a fast food place! I would rather have waited somewhere else to eat something better. The grilled chicken was good, but it wasn't amazing or anything, in my opinion.

Apparently Oprah Winfrey is a big fan of the new grilled chicken as she is partnering to give away coupons for a free grilled chicken meal.

I've been seeing the commercials for the grilled chicken for weeks now and thinking about trying it one of these days.

But if it's going to take 25 minutes to get it I'm going to pass. I'd rather go to Boston Market and get better food in half that time or less.

The 25 minute wait we had at KFC for the grilled chicken might have just been because we came at a time where they had run out... Not sure... you might have better luck!

Oprah was giving away a free 2-piece meal though! However, the time frame has apparently expired to download the coupon.
http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/ ... n-download

So much for digging one up.

I heard that KFC uses "beef powder" and "rendered beef fat" on their grilled "chicken".

I'm from Texas... you just made that more appealing to me!

Not to me... that beef fat on chicken sounds gross to me! I tried the grilled chicken and didn't care for it that much anyway, so now I'm definitely not going to be going back for more!

There is a KFC and a Checkers right next door to eachother down the street from me. Occasionally I go to Checkers with my neighbor and get a burger.

Checkers has outside seating in the back under a huge tree, and KFC has their grease bins or trash cans right on the other side of the fence. Well I happened to eat outside in the back there the last time I went to Checkers, and it just so happens either a garbage or grease truck came to empty out whatever is on the other side of the wall.

Now mind you when I was a teenager detailing cars at a car lot we were right across the street from a Pit BBQ place and there were times when that place cleaned out their grease traps or whatever it was and the entire car lot stunk so bad that we actually went home for the day since the smell would drive customers away and we wouldn't have any deliveries to clean anyway.

Whatever it was behind KFC, smelled as bad or worse than that when they stirred it up. I couldn't finish my food because I was sick to my stomach. This wasn't that long ago either.

ok comment below plus this "I heard that KFC uses "beef powder" and "rendered beef fat" on their grilled "chicken" just made me want to skip that grilled chicken bucket till it's the last fast food chicken available on earth.

Me too!! If I ever had the actual experience of smelling something as bad as Joebert smelled beind the KFC, I'm pretty sure it would scar me from ever wanting to go eat at that place again.

Ignorance is bliss... I can still eat it!

That does make me think that maybe everyone should be exposed to how it is made and what is in it... maybe then people would think twice before putting it in their body... Maybe it wouldn't have any effect on the people already addicted to fast food, but maybe if the showed it in school they could reach kids. Just like smoking is bad for you, so is eating fast food... People who are smoking probably won't quit, just like fast food abusers!

I can already think of some of the "Truth" commercials about fast food...

The thing is, fast food protocol and fast food practice, are two different things.

If each fast food place released a video on youtube showing a day behind the counter, you better believe every store owner would know about it and they'd have their top people in their to make it look good for the day.

Realistically, that only happens when they know someone's watching.

I've worked fast food before, nobody keeps up on the work that needs to be done all the time. Managers get bonuses based on how much they save the store on labor and how much food spoilage they prevent. They spend most of the time skimping on labor and making sure employees don't eat too much. Somehow they always get tipped off about a surprise inspection and whip things into shape the day before it happens.

I worked at a burger place I'm not going to mention the name of, but their frozen treat machine always had roaches in it because the experienced people always pull rank and get the noobs to clean it out. The first time I worked with one stores top manager he put me in the back room because I was still new, I catch on quick and get things I need to do done, so when I ran out of things I was "supposed" to do, I started doing things like pulling equipment away from walls and cleaning the tracks in-between ceiling tiles.

I pissed a few experienced people off doing that, because when the store manager saw it could be done, he started expecting it to get done all the time.

At that same store a few months later, we had this guy who wasn't even allowed to come out of the back room. In a pinch they would let him up on the grill because customers couldn't see him there.
This guy was nasty, like something you see in a horror movie nasty, nasty like anyone who worked with him waited until he was gone to get food or asked someone else to cook it. The guy was so nasty that they made sure to give him the day off when there was going to be an inspection just to be safe. The last I heard, this guy was in prison for beating his own mother. The only reason they kept him around was he did the stuff in the back room nobody else wanted to do (albeit half-assed), and somehow he had a daughter that everyone thought was just too cute.

This guy sucked horribly at washing dishes. There was always grease left on them, he never changed his water unless someone told him to. He was just a generally unsanitary person. Granted a lot of times some of us would take his "clean" dishes and knock them into his dirty water before suggesting he change his water before washing them again, sometimes nobody caught it. Think about that next time you eat out.

Night time is the worst time to eat fast food. Store closers are an inginuitive bunch. Unless there's an inspection happening, they're not preparing food the way they're supposed to. Where as hamburger patties are supposed to sit on a grill and be rotated, closers will prepare a bunch in advance then pot them in a pot of hot water to keep them "fresh" throughout the night where they just have to toss it on the small part of the grill they didn't clean waaay earlier than they should and put some grill goodness on the meat and make it look like it's been on the grill the while time.

If you've ever seen the movie waiting, and you remember the nasty stuff cooks were doing to the food, that stuff really does happen all the time in fast food places. It's not exagerated for the movie either...

Even the sub shops where you can watch them make your food, have back rooms with stuff you can't see going on. Sub shops are a favorite "on the books" job of drug dealers because there's no grease involved and it's generally an easy job. They'll roll joints on the same tables they cut veggies on, they weigh ounces of coke using the same scales they portion meats with. You'ld be surprised what goes on in these places.

Anyway, I figure I've turned enough stomachs for today, I'll shut up now.

Yep, you definitely turned my stomach. And I believe everything you said because I used to work in a few restaurants myself. I saw first hand what you were talking about.

At the first restaurant I worked at, I saw the cook drop food between this grate thing he was standing on and the floor, and he picked up the food between the grate, brushed it off, and put it back on the plate to be served to the customer who ordered it.

At the second restaurant I worked at, when the health inspector would come, we would only get about maybe an hours notice, but did we fly in that hour getting everything up to code so the inspector would pass us so we could stay open.

But the last restaurant I worked at was a nice clean one, and an inspector could pop in, even without a notice, and we would have passed the inspection with flying colors.

So, if I ever go into a restaurant, and it looks like it needs a remodel job done on it, I turn right around and walk out the door, because if the front of the place where the customers sit doesn't look so good, then I know the kitchen where they prepare the food looks even worse.

Maybe someone could make some hidden camera Youtube video of things on the inside... I'd really like to see with my own eyes, being I've never worked in food services... as long as I'm not the one getting served!

You just gave anyone and everyone a YouTube idea!! Sometimes I don't know about that YouTube... so many things can be fake. So you just have to believe us real people when we tell you we saw it with our own eyes!!