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It’s April 12, 2010. For those unaware, this date will be remembered in the annals of fast food and coronary surgery as the day that KFC unleashed its Double Down — once more, that’s the bacon-n-cheese sandwich that uses two pieces of fried chicken for bread — and Consumerist was there to do some tastin’.<\/p>\n
Joined by fellow Consumerista Meghann Marco, I traveled north of NYC to Consumer Reports’ headquarters in Yonkers. CR is in the process of doing a proper, scientific taste test (more on that later) of the Double Down, but they were happy to let me and Megh tag along to do our own, utterly unscientific sampling.<\/p>\n
In terms of value, It’s a filling sandwich, so the $4.99 price tag didn’t seem exorbitant, though I can imagine a lot of people not finishing the sandwich, even if they enjoy the taste.<\/p>\n Megh’s reaction<\/strong> — She didn’t have much to say, as she wasn’t exactly jumping at the chance to sample the Double Down. Her facial reaction pretty much sums it up: It’s April 12, 2010. For those unaware, this date will be remembered in the annals of fast food and coronary surgery as the day that KFC unleashed its Double Down — once more, that’s the bacon-n-cheese sandwich that uses two pieces of fried chicken for bread — and Consumerist was there to do some tastin’. […]<\/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-524779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524779","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=524779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_2734.JPG\"](\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/IMG_2734.JPG\")
My reactions<\/strong> — The Double Down is not for those who fear the following: salt, pepper, salt, greasy fingers, salt, salt and salt. Luckily, I kinda like salt. I ate the whole sandwich and barely noticed the bacon because the chicken was so overloaded with sodium. That being said, I wouldn’t shy away from having one of these again if I’m in the hunt for a fried chicken fix.<\/p>\n
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