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For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

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Post by ryandrake »

dylan604 wrote: post #55
mort96 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's so weird to see this completely legitimate critique of food labelling standards is stitched on to a nothing-comment about seasoning containing MSG

How is it any more of a nothing-comment than yours? MSG is fine, but it definitely isn't what I would have imagined being the main ingredient. A little MSG goes a long way, so if that's the main ingredient, how little is used of the actual herbs&spices? I never said anything negative about MSG. You read that into it on your own instead of just thinking about the rest of what was implied

I think it should go without saying that allowing companies to vaguely say things like “our product contains a bunch of stuff, trust us, bro” goes against the spirit of transparency behind the FDA’s rules.

Re: For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

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Post by zamadatix »

crawfishphase wrote: post #82

Sanders might sound A LOT like Gordon Ramsay in this article, but I doubt Gordon ever shot and killed a man over a turf war and beat up one of his legal clients. I think I remember hearing the Colonel beat down at least one of his bosses. He must have coated himself in restaurant-grade teflon as he seemed to get away with it.. Should have called it Gangster Fried Chicken.

Sanders never killed anyone either. He was involved in a shootout where the other guy shot and killed the gas station manager, Sanders' involvement was shooting said guy who lived and later went to jail as a result of killing the manager.

Re: For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

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Post by COGlory »

crawfishphase wrote: post #82

Sanders might sound A LOT like Gordon Ramsay in this article, but I doubt Gordon ever shot and killed a man over a turf war and beat up one of his legal clients. I think I remember hearing the Colonel beat down at least one of his bosses. He must have coated himself in restaurant-grade teflon as he seemed to get away with it.. Should have called it Gangster Fried Chicken.

Sanders killed anyone. He was involved in a shootout at a gas station, and a gas station employee got shot by his shootout opponent and killed, which effectively won Sanders the turf war.

Re: For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

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Post by [deleted] »

dylan604 wrote: post #54
rootusrootus wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So if the first listed ingredient represents the most abundant ingredient... It's seasoning, so it doesn't seem surprising at all that MSG would be pretty high on the list. Do you think that's bad?

When some one says "secret recipe of 11 herbs & spices" my mind doesn't immediately jump to MSG as an herb or spice. Then to see that it is the primary ingredient definitely jumps out to me. Does it not to you?

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Re: For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

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Post by alexjplant »

dzink wrote: post #26

The first and second times I visited KFC in the US I was shocked there were no vegetables in their sandwiches. Other than the corn, and coleslaw, no lettuce or other ingredients in the sandwiches. In europe, and China and any other country I’ve seen KFC they have amazing Zinger sandwiches with lattice and sauces and grea flavor. We make it a point to never go to KFC in the US.

I live in the US and am constantly disappointed by the fact that I have to pay extra to add onions to my Taco Bell burrito or lettuce and tomato to a McDouble (typically when on a road trip with friends). As it turns out this might be attributable to companies optimizing for consumers' dollars instead of flavor preferences [1]:

> “They liked flavorful foods like turkey tetrazzini, but only at first; they quickly grew tired of them. On the other hand, mundane foods like white bread would never get them too excited, but they could eat lots and lots of it without feeling they’d had enough.”

> This contradiction is known as “sensory-specific satiety.” In lay terms, it is the tendency for big, distinct flavors to overwhelm the brain, which responds by depressing your desire to have more.

It probably also has something to do with the fact that people often equate "vegetables" with unseasoned, boiled slop like spinach and broccoli instead of more delicious preparations like grilling, broiling, roasting, or sauteeing with a liberal amount of seasoning. Brussels sprouts, for instance, are incredible when broiled and tossed with olive oil (or, even better, bacon fat!) and carmelized onions but are nigh-inedible if scooped out of a stock pot full of hot tap water.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinar...

Re: For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

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Post by [deleted] »

gumby wrote: post #17
the_third_wave wrote: post #13

From the newspaper article: "I'll never go to India, I don't like to see people sleeping in the streets" The times, they are a'changeing and the Colonel would presumably "never go to (insert west coast city)" because of all the people sleeping (etc.) in the streets

Interesting that it only happens on the west coast, eh? You’ve never seen a homeless person anywhere else?

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Re: For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

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Post by qingcharles »

dzink wrote: post #26

The first and second times I visited KFC in the US I was shocked there were no vegetables in their sandwiches. Other than the corn, and coleslaw, no lettuce or other ingredients in the sandwiches. In europe, and China and any other country I’ve seen KFC they have amazing Zinger sandwiches with lattice and sauces and grea flavor. We make it a point to never go to KFC in the US.

The sad thing is, whenever I would land back in the UK for a visit I would always go straight to a KFC and grab a British Zinger because they were so much better than anything sold at the American restaurants.

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Post by redeeman »

gruez wrote: post #78
petre wrote: post #72

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Dunno, I never eat KFC food. I'd rather eat bacon than hormone infused chicken, fully grown in less than a month, pressure fried in a crust of MSG saturated dough, which is supposedly halal and Colonel Sanders actually hates. In fact I just went to the Italian store and bought almost half a kilo of porchetta because of what I read here. It'll keep us well fed for at least two days and has all the collagen my wife oth…

>I'd rather eat bacon than hormone infused chicken, fully grown in less than a month They're both hormone free. "Under Federal law, hormones are only approved for use in beef cattle, swine**, and lamb production. There are no hormones approved for use in the production of poultry, goat, veal calves, mature sheep, or exotic, non-amenable species" https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/202... >pressur…

it also implies paying protection money to be halal, which goes to spread islam in the west

Re: For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)

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Post by gs17 »

petre wrote: post #105
crazygringo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You realize that KFC chicken is just the same chicken you buy at the supermarket? It's an urban legend that KFC somehow raises its own chicken that is somehow different, whether genetically, chemically, or speed of growth. I mean, if you prefer the taste of pork over chicken then great. But the idea there's anything uniquely bad about the chicken supplied to KFC is just factually untrue. Also, since you really like I…

We don't buy chicken at the supermarket. Our parents raise chickens. Fake supermarket parmesan? Probably. Parmigiano Reggiano DOP, not really. "The only additive allowed is salt, which the cheese absorbs while being submerged for 20 days in brine tanks saturated to near-total salinity with Mediterranean sea salt." > Moreover bacon contains nitrates and nitrites, which is known to cause cancer, unlike msg We don't buy…

The glutamate they're referring to is naturally a part of parmesan cheese. It doesn't need to be added.
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