I see the chicken size post, and match you this pathetic excuse of ‘food’. US penny for scale.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you! I have been thinking about an air fryer, it’s just so big and I have so little counter/cupboard space. I might have to sacrifice the microwave to make room 😆 I don’t even have room to think about a sous vide. Is the air fryer hard to clean? It looks hard to clean.
Not much harder to clean than a pot. You just pull out the basket fully and wash it. I haven’t felt the need to clean the heating element part thoroughly but I imagine that’s not gonna be harder to do than you would have to with an oven.
I’ve eaten at Popeye’s three times, and gotten food poisoning from them three times. Don’t let it be said I can’t take a hint. 🤮
It’s such a shame, because I’ve always liked his cartoons.
Royal farms is my current go to.
Cleo and Leo and Stater Bros is pretty damn good. KFC blows now, even their gravy has gone crappy
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.
They have bone in wings now, and this is definitely one of them.
… Are you telling me you don’t usually have bones in wings?
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.
Thank you for your comment.
That was definitely with bone. And so pitiful we wondered if the chickens were even fed.
It’s not a wing.
That’s not a wing, that’s a drumstick. Can confirm, not only did I take the photo, I also ate it.
Yeah, no. It’s a wing that got mixed into your order, like getting a fry in your onion rings.
It’s not an uncommon occurrence, especially at places where the employees aren’t paid enough to give a fuck.
Except the order was a 12 piece legs and thighs. Was no accident that they gave us 6 of these janky wannabe ‘legs’.
I’m completely with you. I got KFC (just breasts and legs) and these were the legs I got. My only explanation is that the other comments in this thread are right and we got scammed because it’s “close enough”
I’m gathering that as well, and we should all take this knowledge and spread the news.
It’s also possible that it’s a case of the employees not giving a fuck. Otherwise KFC would have to be buying pullets from the poultry farmers, which doesn’t make much sense from a financial standpoint for either side.
Regardless, I highly doubt it’s intentional.
The drummette is the chickens “upper arm.” The wing part you’re used to with the two thin bones is the chicken’s forearm, the tip is like the hand.
Oh? Then it most definitely was not a drumette, it really was a tiny ass drumstick. It was not cut in such a way as to be a drumette.
Shrinkflation on top of greedflation. They’re just doing one thing after another to charge more for less.
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.
What is this?
A drumstick for ANTS?!?!
Not from US, so I don’t know gow big a penny is: can you put something next to it as reference?
Need a banana.
A penny is 19.05 mm in diameter. Maybe you have a similarly sized coin where you are?
US Penny is the same size as a UK Penny and Canadian Penny. Roughly the same size as a 2c euro
About the size of your thumbnail would be a pretty close approximation.
A US penny is almost the same size (.3 mm larger) as a €0.02 coin
maybe they can’t use growth hormones anymore
I’ve had a couple people suggest that ain’t even chicken, more like a quail leg, but I swear this is the lame excuse of food we get from KFC here on the Gulf Coast.
Maybe it’s you who’s growing 🤔
Toxic capitalism working as expected.
Its like my thumb what the fuck
It came from a whole 12 piece bucket of what the fuck?
It’s all about the Bojangles
This other thread on chicken inflation kinda bucks this trend but who’s really right?
or maybe they’re growing humongous chickens with teeny tiny bones?
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Drumstick believe it or not.
