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who cares..just make your own. u guys fucking lazy

i don't know about the canadian double down. the american double down is a mouth-gasm.

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Double Down removed from KFC menus
It featured 540 calories
Amanda Wawryk Nov 15, 2010 17:34:41 PM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - After selling more than one million of the bun-less sandwiches, KFC has pulled the Double Down off menus. It featured two pieces of chicken, two pieces of bacon, cheese, and the Colonel's savoury, secret sauce and was available here for less than a month.

It also had 540 calories, 30 grams of fat and 1,700 milligrams of sodium that is more than half the average person's daily fat intake. You can still cross the border, if you really need to get your Double Down fix.

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/a...from-kfc-menus

So what was the point of only selling this sandwich for a limited time?

Hype.

McDonalds McRib is limited time only, as is the Wendy's Bacon Mushroom Melt.

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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo (Post 7190175)

So what was the point of only selling this sandwich for a limited time?

judge public response to see if they should bring it back as a permanent item

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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo (Post 7190175)

So what was the point of only selling this sandwich for a limited time?

i saw two locations that were still selling it yesterday

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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo (Post 7190175)

So what was the point of only selling this sandwich for a limited time?

a lot of times they just test it to see if the 'which is worth adding to the menu a'la A&W Sirloin Burger (Uncle Burger)

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Originally Posted by sonick (Post 7190183)

Hype.

McDonalds McRib is limited time only, as is the Wendy's Bacon Mushroom Melt.

the Hockey Hero Burger was fucking awesome! shame the last time i remember them having it was when i was in like grade 9

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Originally Posted by nicolaspal (Post 7190185)

judge public response to see if they should bring it back as a permanent item

They sold a MILLION in a month....? Need to judge public response?

Yes, but unlike REAL restaurants, KFC food is mass produced in factories.

This means they award contracts ahead of time for those factories to produce food for them.

It was more than likely that KFC only accounted for this to be a limited run.

Im still waiting for the McRib

I wonder how much impact does the internet has on DD's success? I'm sure many of you wouldnt have bought it if not for this thread.

i liked back when mcdonalds had the dino sized fries/drinks lol

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Originally Posted by q0192837465 (Post 7190254)

I wonder how much impact does the internet has on DD's success? I'm sure many of you wouldnt have bought it if not for this thread.

There's probably some people who chose not to try it after reading the opinions about it, and the saltiness.

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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 7189211)

Just about every item on every menu in every fast food restaurant is more unhealthy than the double down. Especially Subway, and they pitch their menu as health food! :lol

is that because of all the carbs?
what if you get like whole wheat bread and no cheese/mayo?

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Originally Posted by raygunpk (Post 7190456)

is that because of all the carbs?
what if you get like whole wheat bread and no cheese/mayo?

"Whole wheat" is no different from white, it's just unbleached. The cheese and mayo are pretty much the only things Subway offer that resemble real food.

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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp (Post 7190810)

"Whole wheat" is no different from white, it's just unbleached. The cheese and mayo are the only things Subway offer that resemble real food.

The lettuce and tomatoes are pretty real.

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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo (Post 7191006)

The lettuce and tomatoes are pretty real.

Ask someone who worked at Subway if they agree with that assessment ;)
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Dear god, I worked in fast food and the tomatoes you cut yourself.

Do I really need to qualify when I say that something is the "only real food" at Subway? Do you really think I mean literally only? Or are you just being useless trolls?

I'll go fix it then. :rolleyes:

i tried the double down because of this thread. hadn't been to KFC for at least 6 months. it was way too dry. the cheese wasn't melted. i think there was 1 piece of bacon in it. i'm sure the internet has quite a bit to do with the success of the double down. any publicity is good publicity i guess

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Originally Posted by Culverin (Post 7190223)

im pretty sure kfc uses fresh chicken and the coating comes in bags. they toss it themselves at each store. i dont see why they cant continue this.

or is the only fresh chicken the legs and thighs?

I was at kfc today and still saw it on the menu, i asked the girl at the counter and she said because of the immense popularity they extended it but she did not know for how long.

It's baaaack...

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories...ndwich-110525/

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It's baa-ack. KFC's Double Down – the unabashedly greasy sandwich that was nothing short of a marketing dream -- is making a comeback.

You'll of course remember the Double Down. It's the "sandwich" that uses two slabs of fried chicken in place of buns to hold together bacon, cheese and "special sauce."

The Double Down has never shied away from its unhealthy profile; quite the opposite: it's embraced it. With its astonishingly poor nutritional profile, the sandwich earned itself tut-tuts from dieticians and lots of headlines, becoming the stuff of marketing legend.

The last time it arrived, the Double Down boasted 30 grams of fat, 1,740 milligrams of sodium, 540 calories, no fibre and precious few vitamins.

This time, the Double Down is going to be a smidge healthier.

KFC Canada says its "chefs" (you read that right) have trimmed the sodium slightly -- by 10 per cent.

By our calculations, that works out to 1,566 mg of sodium – still more than the maximum that most health experts say an adult should take in, in an entire day. But KFC says that's what customers want.

"KFC fans told us they loved Double Down and they wanted it back in all its delicious glory – and they also asked us to keep all the indulgent flavour and reduce the sodium a little," explained David Vivenes, senior marketing director of Yum! Restaurants Canada, which owns the KFC brand in Canada, in a press release.

Once again, the Double Down will be offered on "a special, limited time" basis. It will begin appearing at KFC restaurants across Canada on June 1st and will remain available "while supplies last."

(We suspect that's code for "as long as it's still making headlines," but chances are good the sandwich will be available for most of the summer.)

The first time the Double Down arrived in Canada -- for a mere five weeks last fall -- more than 1 million were sold, earning the sandwich the honour of KFC Canada's best-selling new item ever.

This time, to get customers talking, 15 restaurants across the country will offer Double Downs for one day only, May 27, from noon to 2pm only.

Vivenes advises Double Down enthusiasts to arrive early to get their hands on one before supplies run out.