{"id":523324,"date":"2010-04-11T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004381"},"modified":"2010-04-11T14:25:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:25:23","slug":"reader-not-impressed-with-reality-of-kfc-double-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523324","title":{"rendered":"Reader Not Impressed With Reality Of KFC Double Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/doubledownsidebysidethumb-thumb-250x146-39166.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/doubledownsidebyside-thumb-647x379-39165.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Consumerist reader Bill popped into his local KFC in Houston today and found that they were selling the already infamous Double Down &#8212; better known as <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/04\/kfcs-bacon-sandwich-on-fried-chicken-bread-kills-people-everywhere-on-april-12.html\" >bacon and cheese wedged between slabs of fried chicken<\/a>. And, as often happens when confronted with fast food that looks good in ads, Bill was a little let down by what he found inside.<\/p>\n<p>Says Bill, who snapped these side-by-side pics of both the fried and grilled versions of the sandwich, &#8220;The KFC Double Down &#8216;sandwich&#8217; looked a lot better in the advertising photos&#8230; This is something I&#8217;ll only be buying once; they&#8217;re expensive! $4.99 each.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full-size version of the pic. Is it just me, or does the cheesy interior look like a fried egg? Hmmm&#8230; now there&#8217;s an idea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"doubledownsidebyside.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/doubledownsidebyside.jpg\" width=\"647\" height=\"379\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumerist reader Bill popped into his local KFC in Houston today and found that they were selling the already infamous Double Down &#8212; better known as bacon and cheese wedged between slabs of fried chicken. And, as often happens when confronted with fast food that looks good in ads, Bill was a little let down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}