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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't know if you've ever seen a chicken before but they are definitely not this small. This also isn't a reasonable portion size bro that's a penny.
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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