Double What? Review of KFC’s Grilled Doublicious

By Jesse | September 4, 2010

Last weekend I was desperate. I hadn’t been to the grocery store in a few weeks. I had nothing that could be easily prepared, and I had to be at a volunteer event in an hour. I had little choice but to make my way over to my closest fast food stop, KFC.

In spite of what many of my readers may think, I generally try to eat healthy. I’m an advocate of eating healthy, organic, and local as much as possible. And occasionally, while visiting a fast food restaurant, I try to eat better. I know KFC has tried to make strides in cleaning up it’s nutrition act. But besides their grilled chicken and new side salad, there’s little on the menu in terms of health.

I was not in the mood for fried, and I didn’t have the time to pick through a grilled chicken. So I ordered a grilled version of KFC’s latest sandwich, the Doublicious.

Doublicious? Is this an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the Double Down? Tricky KFC, but not tricky enough.

The grilled Doublicious consists of a grilled chicken breast, some sort of white cheese, spicy sauce, and shredded lettuce all on a “sweet Haiwan Bread bun”. Not exactly healthy, but certainly better than the fried version topped with bacon.

As usual, this sandwich did not look anything like it’s photo.

It wasn’t nearly as bad as it looked. As you should expect for a place that specializes in chicken, the breast actually tasted like a chicken breast, not a rubbery processed blob of rib and breast meat. The sauce was tangy/spicy, and the lettuce was pathetic. They could have at least put a tomato slice on there.

Nutritionally, the sandwich had 380 calories and 11 grams of fat. Not great, but not horrible. I saved myself 100 calories by opting for the grilled version.

Overall, the grilled Doublicious is a pretty mediocre sandwich. Honestly, I thought it would be much worse, but I can’t in my right mind give it much higher than a 2.

2 Responses

  1. Refrigerator Gaskets Says:
    September 5th, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    I had my first doublicious experience a few days ago while on vacation, your review is very fair and accurate. Looks like it will be another 5 years until I return to KFC again.

  2. Sam Says:
    September 24th, 2010 at 4:23 pm

    Popeyes is far better than any KFC.

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