It's A Brain? It's A Kidney? It's KFC's Next PR Nightmare

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/08/2013 10:37 -0400



As if Yum Brands were not suffering enough this morning - as they forecast China comp sales to drop 6% (more than the forecast 4% decline), it seems the UK has their next PR disaster waiting to happen, courtesy of their KFC brand. After a 19-year-old Brit found a "horrible wrinkled foreign body" in his fried chicken meal, KFC has apologized (rather magnanimously) saying "while there was no health risk, we agree it was unsightly." Judge for yourself just how puke-worthy and generally emotionally scarred you would have been after biting into this 'brain-looking' image. KFC clarifies: "Although we haven't received the product, it appears from a photograph that unfortunately on this occasion a kidney, and not a brain as claimed, was not removed in the preparation process." Oh, just a kidney? Pass the salt then.

 

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Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:39 | 3132667 azzhatter
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Tightly compressed maggots?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:45 | 3132707 GetZeeGold
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At McDonalds they just spit on the special orders.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:48 | 3132724 Pladizow
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This shipment was destined for KFC's African franchise!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:49 | 3132735 johnQpublic
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it looks like a squirrel

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:00 | 3132780 Looney
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A circumcision gone terribly wrong?  ;-)

Looney

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:01 | 3132787 fuu
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The "greater nutrition" mat is a nice touch.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:14 | 3132831 Spirit Of Truth
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Looks great on the outside, but once you look inside....rotten to the core?

Did Ben Bernanke make this?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:44 | 3132949 francis_sawyer
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Where are the fava beans & the chianti?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:59 | 3133000 TheFourthStooge-ing
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General Tso's Organs.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 12:34 | 3133080 TruthInSunshine
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This is standard fare off KFC's BernankDollar menu. What's the issue, again?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 12:45 | 3133112 Temporalist
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"God have you ever seen a spleen that large?"

http://youtu.be/oK1X8SfGMs8?t=19s

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:51 | 3133391 knukles
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Faux Gras

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:49 | 3133410 TruthInSunshine
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Paraphrased riff off a Katt William's joke:

 

"It do look & smell like fried chicken, until you bite into it."

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 15:56 | 3133834 mtomato2
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Disclaimer:  I did NOT go to the link...  but the next line is:  "Nnooo...  N-not since breakfast..."

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:05 | 3133437 Mad Mohel
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That is a straight up serving of Bernanke's sack.

Bon apetit bitchez!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:45 | 3132950 francis_sawyer
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Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:07 | 3132805 debtor of last ...
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It's just inflation. Don't worry.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:08 | 3132808 williambanzai7
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No, that's Tony Blair

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:11 | 3132815 Element
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I believe in China KFC market it under the local name, pingarickingood.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:00 | 3132782 trav777
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needs more zombies

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:21 | 3133248 El Oregonian
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Kidney

Freaking

Crap

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:19 | 3133490 Chuck Walla
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Send it to China, they will eat anything, ANYTHING!

 

FORWARD SOVIET GOURMETS!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 17:54 | 3134230 StychoKiller
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With the exception of wolf's heart and dog's lungs

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 12:03 | 3133008 tocointhephrase
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You would be lucky to get kidney at McD's

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:46 | 3132711 GoldenDragon
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It's a kidney and it is edible if not appetizing.

I don't eat KFC anymore, but when I was kid I ate a lot of it.  Finding a kidney in the chicken was not uncommon and actually became a bit of game for us kids - first one to find a kidney wins!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:00 | 3132781 FuzzyDunlop21
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Looks like a normal KFC order to me

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:26 | 3132875 Beam Me Up Scotty
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Can someone point to the kidney on a chicken please?  Especially one that big?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 12:11 | 3133019 MillionDollarBoner_
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Okeydokey.

I keep chickens and slaughter/gut them myself.

Take it from me - that ain't no kidney.

My best guess is  - compressed intestine ;o)

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:04 | 3132795 CPL
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http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/News/Bishops-Stortford/Chicken-ki...

 

It is indeed just a kidney.  It's good, although deep fried I'm not sure.  Probably the most amount of nutrition in that KFC box meal.  Lots of protein.  Body builders that want lean mass eat them.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/550488-chicken-kidney-nutrition/

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:04 | 3132798 Winston of Oceania
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It's as though nobody here has ever cut up and cooked a chicken, squeemish toadies I say...

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:35 | 3132903 fuu
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Hippy.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:36 | 3132909 smiler03
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I do wish you'd piss off and stick to posting your food pictures on Facebook.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:48 | 3132936 hedgeless_horseman
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I do wish you would learn to only read the articles and ignore the detritus (roasted in garlic and lemon) below them.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:48 | 3132969 Winston Churchill
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Do you go the whole hog.pun intended.

Roast pigs heads, lambs hearts,tripe etc.

I'm partial to Haggis, also black, and white pudding myself, tastes great,,

just don't think about before eating it.

Sat, 01/12/2013 - 21:31 | 3147928 smiler03
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You're absolutely right and I agree with you. I should ignore your detritus, aka the shit that settles at the bottom of a cesspit.

 

Have you noticed that I'm not the only one who disapproves of your food pics? ;O)

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:57 | 3133413 MassDecep
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I like to see real food once a year. Thanks for posting

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:30 | 3133285 Miffed Microbio...
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Gloves? You sissies! Bare hands are the way to go for that job. ;-)
But I will admit all the old vets called Mr. Miffed a sissy for using gloves for AI on the Jersey cows.

Miffed:-)

Wed, 01/09/2013 - 12:05 | 3136624 Winston of Oceania
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Drive through kitchen?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:37 | 3132913 jmeyer
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ya gotta leave inside parts for the hot dog makers

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:56 | 3132992 CPL
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It's pretty sad when people can't identify food.  Says something about a society's ability to be independant from a supply chain if they can't indentify a sweet meat from something as common as a chicken.  

 

Now I'm wondering what the hell they make their gravy with (disgusting packaged shit?).

  • 1large onion, sliced
  • oil
  • 15 chicken kidneys, membranes and cores removed
  • cake flour
  • Chicken carcass + cover with water in pot.
  • 375ml boiling water
  • salt/pepper for taste.  Rosemary is great in it as well, very savoury.

Boil and render the carcass to make the stock.  Simmer it all in a sauce pan on low.  Mash kidney's into gravy to avoid chunky gravy.  Put on everything.  Delicious.

 

Alternatively add more water to the stock and make soup with the heart, liver and neck.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:19 | 3133243 Cognitive Dissonance
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Silly CPL. Everyone knows food is made in supermarkets.

<Just-In-Time supermarket delivery rots the sated brain.>

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:46 | 3132719 bigdumbnugly
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well, in their defense it was probably a chicken leg at one time anyway.

the digestive tract does wierd stuff to food don't you know...

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:48 | 3132729 BLOTTO
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Kentucky

Fried

Cocks

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:41 | 3133338 Gazooks
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with 'special' sauce

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:48 | 3132726 FL_Conservative
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"YUM" just doesn't do this justice!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:56 | 3132993 tocointhephrase
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Only 10 secret ingredients to go.

Yuck is the new Yum!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:42 | 3133464 New World Chaos
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My dad's first job involved bringing in advertisers for a local radio station and he told me a story about how he landed a huge deal with KFC.  Shortly thereafter, someone found a kentucky fried mouse.  Cute little fry ball with its tail and feet sticking out.  Made great news coverage.  KFC pulled the ad deal because whenever anyone heard their jingle about "secret ingredients", they remembered the kentucky fried mouse.

9 secret ingredients to go...

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