Author Topic: Anyone seen the ad for KFC's Chicken, potatoes, gravy, corn & cheese bowl? (Read 2191 times)

quarterback · « **on:** November 13, 2005, 11:30:43 pm »

Do you all know what I'm talking about? I'm not 100% sure it's KFC (but I think it is). They have this new "bowl" meal that is basically everything they sell, all poured into a big bowl. It's the kind of thing I'd expect to see as a Saturday Night Live skit. The guy walks into the restaurant and the woman at the counter lists a bunch of things that they serve there. Then the guy says he wants all of it, on top of each other, with gravy and cheese on top.

It's completely ridiculous, but real. I mentioned it to a friend tonight and he thought I was joking. Maybe it's regional, but even Google hasn't been of any help and I can't find any info on KFC's website.

Anybody know what I'm talking about and if there's any online info or pics of this monstrosity?

DrewKaree · « **Reply #1 on:** November 14, 2005, 12:27:12 am »

[Kramer] Oh daddy YEAH! [/Kramer]

With gravy and cheese? I can feel my arteries hardening just THINKING about it!

duffjr · « **Reply #2 on:** November 14, 2005, 02:24:17 am »

that sounds good. i'm an everything at once eater that would enjoy something like that if i weren't a vegetarian.

ChadTower · « **Reply #3 on:** November 14, 2005, 09:54:12 am »

Actually, it sounds like a standard food service way of using older, leftover food without throwing it away.

Havok · « **Reply #4 on:** November 14, 2005, 01:54:05 pm »

The KFC near me recently burnt down. My health has steadily improved since then...

RayB · « **Reply #5 on:** November 14, 2005, 01:58:17 pm »

Are you sure it's not just Fries + Cheese + Gravy ?

Fricken good...

MameJunkie · « **Reply #6 on:** November 14, 2005, 01:59:12 pm »

Sounds scary for the arteries.

ChadTower · « **Reply #7 on:** November 14, 2005, 02:07:17 pm »

Poutin.

RayB · « **Reply #8 on:** November 14, 2005, 02:18:48 pm »

Poutine.

You forgot the 'e'.

ChadTower · « **Reply #9 on:** November 14, 2005, 02:35:42 pm »

If I were on e I wouldn't need that stuff.

Generic Eric · « **Reply #10 on:** November 14, 2005, 04:21:06 pm »

Quote from: RayB on November 14, 2005, 02:18:48 pm

Poutine.

You forgot the 'e'.

Yum!

By the way, there is a proper way to pronounce poutine, and it's not 'pooteen'. The phonetic pronunciation is 'poutsin', which always elicits a vacant stare when one orders it using that word.

RayB · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2005, 04:52:52 pm »

Quote from: generic_eric on November 14, 2005, 04:21:06 pm

By the way, there is a proper way to pronounce poutine,

Yeah, there is a correct way. It's called "french".

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2005, 05:27:26 pm »

Homer: Kids, there's three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.
Bart: Isn't that the wrong way?
Homer: Yeah, but faster!

Jabba · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2005, 06:34:08 pm »

Quote from: RayB on November 14, 2005, 01:58:17 pm

Are you sure it's not just Fries + Cheese + Gravy ?

Fricken good...

[homer drooling...........]
Ooooooooooohhhhhhh

Generic Eric · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2005, 09:12:26 pm »

Quote from: RayB on November 14, 2005, 04:52:52 pm

Quote from: generic_eric on November 14, 2005, 04:21:06 pm
By the way, there is a proper way to pronounce poutine,

Yeah, there is a correct way. It's called "french".

Didn't mean anything by that. That is a direct qoute from the website the phrase is linked to.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #15 on:** November 14, 2005, 09:18:23 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on November 14, 2005, 09:54:12 am

Actually, it sounds like a standard food service way of using older, leftover food without throwing it away.

Nah. Too much large non-processed items. Standard food service way of using older leftover food without throwing it away would be something like chicken salad. Old chicken gets chopped up and used to create another menu item, without the public being any the wiser....well, until now

JackTucky · « **Reply #16 on:** November 14, 2005, 09:30:08 pm »

Denny's has bowl meals. Frickin huge, delicious, and terribly bad for you. With gravy on top of eggs. Beautiful.

Art

quarterback · « **Reply #17 on:** November 15, 2005, 01:49:15 am »

There IS corn in it as well. I just caught the commercial again. I rewound it (utilizing my ReplayTV) and transcribed the brilliant exchange between the "KFC Customer" and the "Perky Employee"

Enjoy:

Quote

Perky KFC Employee: Hi.

Dorky KFC Customer: Hey, what

Jabba · « **Reply #18 on:** November 15, 2005, 01:54:35 am »

no......No........NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! tell me it isn't so and that yer making it all up....!!!

quarterback · « **Reply #19 on:** November 15, 2005, 02:51:39 am »

Quote from: Jabba on November 15, 2005, 01:54:35 am

no......No........NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! tell me it isn't so and that yer making it all up....!!!

I wish I was just making it up.

I really think the two parts that gross me out are the "corn" and the "three cheese blend". It's like the rest of those things could potentially work together (albeit as a heart attack in a bowl) but somehow the corn brings an extra... uh... element to the table that I find disturbing and the "three cheese blend" is just ridiculous. They might as well have said "and it's all deep fried!" or "now with hot fudge sauce" because it's just seems to be overkill at that point.

And yeah, the commercial is really written as if it was a parody. I just wish I could find the "Nutritional Information" for this item...

shmokes · « **Reply #20 on:** November 15, 2005, 03:12:52 am »

Hah! "It's like you've known me forever..."

All the best writers are in advertising nowadays. There's almost no money in books anymore for great writers. I want to see that commercial.

duffjr · « **Reply #21 on:** November 15, 2005, 07:34:11 am »

i want my own commercial with someone telling me what my favorite smorgasbord is.

nostrebor · « **Reply #22 on:** November 15, 2005, 08:11:00 am »

The corn is a great marketing tactic. 14 hours later, you see corn and think "Hey. I got to get me another one of those KFC cheesy-greasy bowls!"

RayB · « **Reply #23 on:** November 15, 2005, 12:19:08 pm »

Eric, I was just ribbing...

Hey you know this sounds pretty gross because it's comeing from KFC, but it's not much different than Shepard's Pie if you think about it...

ChadTower · « **Reply #24 on:** November 15, 2005, 12:20:15 pm »

Sheperd's Pie is not fried nor full of gravy.

RayB · « **Reply #25 on:** November 15, 2005, 12:32:46 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on November 15, 2005, 12:20:15 pm

Sheperd's Pie is not fried nor full of gravy.

Are you that big a post whore that you have to state the obvious?

ChadTower · « **Reply #26 on:** November 15, 2005, 12:36:15 pm »

I'm not a post whore. I'm a killing time at work whore.

Stingray · « **Reply #27 on:** November 15, 2005, 02:20:21 pm »

I'm a post whore. I have no problem with that.

This stuff does sound kind of shepherd pieish to me. Mmm... heartattacky...

-S

DrewKaree · « **Reply #28 on:** November 15, 2005, 08:27:18 pm »

Quote from: Stingray on November 15, 2005, 02:20:21 pm

I'm a post whore. I have no problem with that.

-S

Not only are you merely a pretender to the throne, you don't even hold the title. Neal and Bob. (Dice, anyone?)

I don't know what about the corn freaks you out, QB. I regularly throw corn in with mashed 'taters, and gravy doesn't subtract from the experience. I can't comment on the rest of it though.

Oh, and the "3 cheese blend" DOES sound like a lame marketing ploy. Mashing all the cheeses together definitely isn't one of those frou-frou things where you try to differentiate all the subtle flavors in the dish. Throw it in with the rest of that pile and it's akin to asking "What turd sandwich do you like better?"

quarterback · « **Reply #29 on:** November 15, 2005, 11:38:18 pm »

Quote from: DrewKaree on November 15, 2005, 08:27:18 pm

I don't know what about the corn freaks you out, QB. I regularly throw corn in with mashed 'taters, and gravy doesn't subtract from the experience. I can't comment on the rest of it though.

I think nostrebor summed up my mental image by his statement:

Quote

"The corn is a great marketing tactic. 14 hours later, you see corn and think "Hey. I got to get me another one of those KFC cheesy-greasy bowls!""

I watch them dropping the corn kernels, one-by-one, in slow-motion into the pile of mashed potatoes and then "drizzle it with gravy" and I can't help picturing exactly what this 'bowl' is going to look like when it fills my porcelain bowl 14 hours later.

vader · « **Reply #30 on:** November 16, 2005, 04:40:48 pm »

RayB,

That must be a acquired taste....when I was in Montreal a few years ago and my Canadian girlfriend ( long story ) had me try that, I was
like dam....this is gross, the thing is I like cheese and fries, but that freaky gravy killed me

Tim


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