You wouldn’t download a chicken tender.
Your adblock sucks. There are ads everywhere on the picture.
More importantly, why are you eating KFC (unless you’re outside of the US where it’s actually edible)?
KFC in Australia is pretty good. It’s no Popeyes, but it’s not bad.
I live in the USA now and while most KFCs I’ve been to here are pretty bad, there’s one KFC near me that’s strangely pretty decent. Chicken is always hot and fresh and they never make any mistakes with the order. I just wish they’d bring back the potato wedges since the fries are horrible.
The chicken sandwich at KFC is pretty decent too.
KFC in Canada is fucking atrocious. Aside from seeking out the worst staff possible, they have the worst quality food of any fast food places I’ve been to. Every 5 or so years I tend to forget just how bad it is, give them another chance, and something about the meal is inedible. Last time got a chicken sandwich and there was a chunk of the bun that was ultra hard and they forgot to put fucking fries in the bag, so I had a meal of a chicken patty of mostly batter and a mostly water diet Pepsi.
KFC in Japan is actually worse somehow
KFC in the UK is responsible for the only time I got chips (fries) while drunk on a night out that were so bad that I binned them
I’ve been in a kfc in Germany and was blown away how people actually eat that shit. But at the same time, people also enjoy McDonald’s and burger king, so maybe it’s just me
To add on to the list of countries, Singapore KFC is the only fast food franchise where you can occasionally find overcooked blackish terrible tasting chicken. Macs, Popeyes, Arnolds, BK, Jollibee, etc - not even once (yet).
In my opinion even the Seattle KFC is better.
I’ve had the pleasure (?) To eat KFC in the US and in Europe. Besides the fact that it was junk food either way, the European version was just so much better.
I can believe that in its distant origins, KFC was actually tasty, but right now I’d sooner enjoy being punched in the stomach than eating there (a similar statement is true by replacing KFC with McDonald’s or Burger King or several other fast food chains, though for only these three I’ve tried both US and EU versions of these products)
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why are you buying chicken on KFC dot com?
Delivery, most likely.
For KFC chicken? In America?
Yeah just get it from the gas station like a normal person
I went to a Krispy Krunchy Chicken at a gas station while travelling a few months ago… Gas station chicken has no business being that good.
God no, that’s a great way to get food poising
They’re graded like any other restaurant.
Yeah, most fast food places here have delivery options now. At least in the cities, they do.
Otherwise, they also will typically let you order online so you can schedule it to be ready when you get there to pick it up, yourself.
even here in the boonies we have doordash now… just as expensive as in the city, and just as cold
whenif you get it.and i think you can still pay a one-way taxi fare and have them pick up an order and deliver. it has to be ready, waiting and already paid for–they won’t wait. this is the cheaper option, because you’re paying menu prices. not third-party ‘app’ prices plus bullshit fees and surcharges. fare is about 5 bucks anywhere in town.
My point is KfC chicken really isn’t the best choice these days
I agree, I’m not a big fan of most of their menu these days. Though, their Famous Bowls always hit hard.
Delivery
Wouldn’t want to have to move your body to get your artery clogging food
Some of us live in rural areas with No transport, including public.
Then how do you go places?
Bike, walk, pay too much in time, money, effort, etc, or make friends and catch your rides when you can, understanding it may come at a mutual inconvenience.
Walking or asking a friend if they have time, usually at a cost of some gas.
If you live in rural areas you probably have better chicken than crap from KFC, no?
If I move too much the grease doesn’t congeal the way I like it
An irritating number of companies make it inconvenient to just view a menu, and want you to “Start your order!” to see prices and availability. I get that certain items are regional so entering a zip code makes sense, but if I just want to look at a menu and prices to see if I even want to do business with them I shouldn’t have to create an account.
That said, for convenience purposes I’ll occasionally order food online or over the phone so it’s ready by the time I’m driving past on my way home and pick it up.
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Human? I thought you were an albatross. 🤨
Well its not going to be on BK dot com.
Jesus Christ Marie, Use the fucking app!
You know they used to say you could have it your way. If I want KFC from BK they should live up to their end of the bargain and oblige.
Can you be sure? Has anybody here ever taken the time to really look? We are making some very dangerous assumptions here.
Why don’t you come over, Friend?
We’d like to have you for dinner…!
Hmmmmm
Despite the title, I was just trying to check the menu lol. 🥲
Man, what is it with KFC and their “security” staff, I think I’ve read it even has issues when it detects root or something, no one wants to steal your chicken bruh!
If there’s no secrets then there shouldn’t be any problem with ad blocking
I interpret this as a pretty clear “you aren’t allowed to have secrets” message. The only secrets allowed are theirs, not yours. They’re going to track everything you do.
looks like we need ad blocker detection blockers now.
A username named “Reek” had one but it hasn’t been updated in years
It’s blacklisted by uBlock Origin, I don’t remember with which claims.
How bizarre. I mean, you’re trying to pay them money.
They deserve double money
Don’t forget to tip your pop-up ads
Make sure to update your Ad Blocker settings to include the whole site.
What ads are even on a Pepsico website? Why would Pepsi need 3rd party advertising on their own website?
Probably telemetry, which most ad blockers also block. I think you meant kfc instead of pepsi
KFC is under the PepsiCo monopoly
TIL. Damn it
Not anymore though. They spun kfc, taco bell, and pizza hut years ago and they are under the yum brand now. They still have exclusive contracts regarding fountain. Not sure what other connections are left.
Yum (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut) split from Pepsi a couple decades ago back in 1997.
no it isn’t, it’s owned by yum brands, a Chinese restaurant conglomerate. not better, but not pepsico either.
Yum! Brands, Inc. (sometimes called simply Yum!), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American multinational fast food corporation listed on the Fortune 1000. Yum! operates the brands KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, except in China, where the brands are operated by a separate company, Yum China. Yum! previously also owned Long John Silver’s and A&W Restaurants. The company was created as a spin-off of PepsiCo in 1997.
I went and looked up the Wikipedia page out of curiosity when someone disagreed that they’re a Chinese conglomerate and thought I’d share for anyone else reading the thread.
Short answer: not a Chinese conglomerate.
well shit, i didn’t look that close. i just knew it wasn’t PepsiCo.
A Chinese conglomerate publicly traded on the NYSE who reports in USD and files with the SEC? A Chinese conglomerate with their headquarters in Kentucky whose majority investors are institutional? A Chinese conglomerate with most shares owned by people or companies in America and whose executives are all American?
They could be owned by sewer rats. But that wouldn’t matter 'cause I don’t eat the mother fucker anyway.
You order online for delivery to avoid COVID only to catch a computer virus from an ad. I used to watch my relatives browse to a news page and IMMEDIATELY get hit with a “MICROSOFT ERROR CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx TO FIX IT”. Then I put ublock origin on their PC aaaaaaand good game ads!
experience optimal performance
Phone immediately bricks due to the sheer volume of malware and ads piling into the browser.
That’s optimal performance for “put your phone down and go to the restaurant yourself”, which makes more money for KFC.
Sorry, best I can do is never visit your shitty website again. Guess I’ll order fried chicken from somewhere else, or, better yet, make a superior version at home!
I just close these types of sites and do something different out of spite.
Out of more love for myself, than greedy megacorporations.
The ad blocker fight is getting really strange. I don’t use a blocker, but this morning I couldn’t read an article on google news without disabling my ad blocker which I don’t have.
Maybe your browser is blocking tracking or other cookies that adblockers also target.
The most common one I’ve seen on Google News uses DNS checking, too. If it can’t resolve an ad domain, it assumes you’re using an ad blocker.
It’s probably not advertising that they are afraid that you will block but the trackers. They want to know what user is clicking where, how long you are on each page and what you ordered / not ordered.
Yeah, this warning is pretty clear about that ironically. You aren’t allowed to have secrets, only they are. It’s pretty on the nose, but I guess it could be misunderstood. That’s probably how it got there. The person told to create this wanted to give a warning, but they couldn’t straight up say it.
“Optimal performance”
Never said who benefits from said performance
Probably like 70/30 KFC/user?
Yes they want AS MUCH of your money as fast as possible… but we do want to give them money as fast as possible too.
Disconnect obviously comes at the amount and the margin. They want you to max your credit card on their soda, we want the most satisfying assorted selection with an auto-applied 100% off coupon.
There’s somewhere in the middle there. They can telemetrize their site into it taking just a few taps for you to buy their higher margin combo meals. Their deals, they can hide as best they can without them being impossible to find for those inclined (price-sensitive buyers who open the app with discounts on their mind).
After add-to-cart, it’s in their interests to optimize checkout as best they can… well, with a side of last-minute upsells of course.
Here’s a question: would opt-out first party telemetry be a decent status quo? If you’re not privacy conscious (certainly not enough to pay cash in person), you don’t go to settings to reject trackers… but you still get to benefit from the average user being spied on just a little by internal teams & consultants to improve site/app flows. Don’t think I’m 100% anti-tracker in any case. (I’m definitely medium privacy-conscious as well as price-conscious, so I look for those opt-outs and coupons :) )
Sir, this is a KFC.
Well, I’m sure you can buy delicious fried chicken elsewhere at a local joint (those people won’t block your ads)!
Very important has to be the thing that I’m doing so that I have to open a browser without ad-block. For most things the close tab button brings me more peace of mind.
