I see the chicken size post, and match you this pathetic excuse of ‘food’. US penny for scale.
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 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.
The US is huge dude.
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.
Oh I have no doubt.
Extrapolating from prior statistics, somewhere around 200,000…
That’s total fast food restaurants, not fast food chains.
I mean, we kinda invented them 😂
A lot. Just fried chicken chains are quite numerous:
https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/largest-chicken-chains-us
Oh man I could not even estimate. How many locations until it is considered a chain? There is a bar on my block that has a two other locations, is that a chain?
Think of your biggest number then triple it
It’s one of their main cultural divisions.
Diversions?
I’ve tried several Popeyes locations and I’ve gotten half cooked chicken every time. I’m not a fan of gooey, medium rare chicken. I wish frying chicken at home wasn’t such a messy pain in the ass.
Wish granted! Air fryer fried chicken
Personally, I use sous vide to cook the seasoned chicken at 155F for 90 minutes, then coat it in batter/oil mix, roll it in seasoned panko and put it in the air fryer at 450F for 10-15 minutes. No pot of oil or grease splattered all over the stove. Chicken is tender, juicy, well-seasoned, has a crispy, crunchy crust, and is never raw at the bone.
Thank you! I have been thinking about an air fryer, it’s just so big and I have so little counter/cupboard space. I might have to sacrifice the microwave to make room 😆 I don’t even have room to think about a sous vide. Is the air fryer hard to clean? It looks hard to clean.
Not much harder to clean than a pot. You just pull out the basket fully and wash it. I haven’t felt the need to clean the heating element part thoroughly but I imagine that’s not gonna be harder to do than you would have to with an oven.
I’ve eaten at Popeye’s three times, and gotten food poisoning from them three times. Don’t let it be said I can’t take a hint. 🤮
It’s such a shame, because I’ve always liked his cartoons.
Royal farms is my current go to.
Cleo and Leo and Stater Bros is pretty damn good. KFC blows now, even their gravy has gone crappy
Based on the size and proportions of this, I’m guessing this is a drumette and not a drumstick. But, I’m also I’m not sure a photo of a single piece of chicken from a single order is really evidence of much of anything.
They have bone in wings now, and this is definitely one of them.
… Are you telling me you don’t usually have bones in wings?
It’s not a “usually” thing, but yes there are bone-in and boneless (aka de-boned) chicken wings available in the USA. It’s quite common for establishments, especially fast food or convenience restaurants, to offer both options but not all places offer both.
The higher quality boneless wings are typically made from drumettes like the piece in OPs picture above, but with the meat pulled off the bone. It’s often cut into “nuggets”, breaded, and deep fried. Sometimes other cuts of meat are used, though, like the breast.
The lower quality boneless wings are usually just barely more than ground up chicken parts mixed with binding agents, similar to mass produced chicken nuggets but usually not quite as uniform in shape and texture. Basically one step up from “pink slime” or chicken dough based nuggets.
Thank you for your comment.
That was definitely with bone. And so pitiful we wondered if the chickens were even fed.
It’s not a wing.
That’s not a wing, that’s a drumstick. Can confirm, not only did I take the photo, I also ate it.
Yeah, no. It’s a wing that got mixed into your order, like getting a fry in your onion rings.
It’s not an uncommon occurrence, especially at places where the employees aren’t paid enough to give a fuck.
Except the order was a 12 piece legs and thighs. Was no accident that they gave us 6 of these janky wannabe ‘legs’.
I’m completely with you. I got KFC (just breasts and legs) and these were the legs I got. My only explanation is that the other comments in this thread are right and we got scammed because it’s “close enough”
I’m gathering that as well, and we should all take this knowledge and spread the news.
It’s also possible that it’s a case of the employees not giving a fuck. Otherwise KFC would have to be buying pullets from the poultry farmers, which doesn’t make much sense from a financial standpoint for either side.
Regardless, I highly doubt it’s intentional.
The drummette is the chickens “upper arm.” The wing part you’re used to with the two thin bones is the chicken’s forearm, the tip is like the hand.
Oh? Then it most definitely was not a drumette, it really was a tiny ass drumstick. It was not cut in such a way as to be a drumette.
Shrinkflation on top of greedflation. They’re just doing one thing after another to charge more for less.
What is this?
A drumstick for ANTS?!?!
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.
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 have had fried chicken in other countries. This is too small. And in terms of portions you are way off base.
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.
It’s a rat leg.
Kentucky Fried Chicken-flavored meat product.
LOL, almost wouldn’t even surprise me.
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.
KFC had hot wings for a while and this looks like one of them
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.
A penny is 19.05 mm in diameter. Maybe you have a similarly sized coin where you are?
US Penny is the same size as a UK Penny and Canadian Penny. Roughly the same size as a 2c euro
To cover the ten most traded currencies and ten most populous countries, the following are close in size to the coin in the post:
Australian dollar: 5 cent
Bangladeshi taka: 5 poisha
Brazilian real: slightly smaller than the 10 centavo
British pound: Between the 1 penny and the 5 pence
Canadian dollar: 1 cent
Chinese renminbi: 1 jiao
Euro: 2 cent
Hong Kong dollar: 20 cent
Indian rupee: 50 paise
Indonesian rupiah: slightly smaller than the 50 rupiah
Japanese yen: slightly smaller than the 1 yen
Mexican peso: 20 centavo
Nigerian naira: smaller than all current coins. About three-quarters the diameter of the 2 naira
Pakistani rupee: 5 rupee
Russian ruble: between the 5 kopeck and 50 kopeck
Singaporean dollar: 10 cent
Swiss franc: 10 centime
About the size of your thumbnail would be a pretty close approximation.
A US penny is almost the same size (.3 mm larger) as a €0.02 coin
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
Interesting. I had just assumed they did but apparently they just get so big they can’t stand up because of selective breeding. Maybe they’re not using broiler chickens, then?
I’ve had a couple people suggest that ain’t even chicken, more like a quail leg, but I swear this is the lame excuse of food we get from KFC here on the Gulf Coast.
It is a chicken wing, the part closer to the body. Looks like a smaller version of the lower leg.
Nope, that’s a leg, no joke.
Its like my thumb what the fuck
It came from a whole 12 piece bucket of what the fuck?
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?
Toxic capitalism working as expected.
Is that a drumstick or a wing?
Drumstick believe it or not.
It’s all about the Bojangles
