I see the chicken size post, and match you this pathetic excuse of 'food'. US penny for scale.

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[–] 71 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    whenever I read posts like this I just have to wonder: How many frickin' fast food chains are there in the US?

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    They have bone in wings now, and this is definitely one of them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    ... Are you telling me you don't usually have bones in wings?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Shrinkflation on top of greedflation. They're just doing one thing after another to charge more for less.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    What is this?

    A drumstick for ANTS?!?!

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Not from US, so I don't know gow big a penny is: can you put something next to it as reference?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A penny is 19.05 mm in diameter. Maybe you have a similarly sized coin where you are?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    US Penny is the same size as a UK Penny and Canadian Penny. Roughly the same size as a 2c euro

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Maybe it's you who's growing 🤔

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    maybe they can't use growth hormones anymore

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It’s all about the Bojangles

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