GALLERY: 10 of the world’s most over-the-top fast foods, in honour of the new Kentucky Chicken Rice
GALLERY: 10 of the world’s most over-the-top fast foods, in honour of the new Kentucky Chicken Rice
KFC, the culinary innovator that launched the infamous Double Down in 2010, introduced the Kentucky Chicken Rice to Japan this week. Like the Double Down, it’s a sandwich of sorts, with two pieces of fried chicken taking the place of the bread, and a thick rice patty inside, along with ketchup, mayo and cheese. The concoction is yet more evidence that the gluttonous fast food item arms race rages on, propelled as much by the Internet’s love of a good gross-out as by the fad for comfort foods that kicked off with the Great Recession and never seemed to ebb. In honour of KFC’s new invention, we present 10 over-the-top fast food items, drawn from around the world, with a couple notable Toronto contributions.
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- 190108
- Pizza Hut’s Middle East operations shocked the world last April when it debuted its <a href="http://www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/culinary-curiosities/2012/04/24/cheeseburger-crown-crust-pizza/">cheeseburger Crown Crust pizza.</a> It has since outdone itself, with this pie ringed with cones that are filled with—wait for it—Philadelphia cream cheese and honey mustard chicken
- Gross Fast Food: Pizza Hut Cones Pizza
- Gross Fast Food: Pizza Hut Cones Pizza
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- 190119
- Looking at these sausage links wrapped in maple pancake, it’s almost as if Dunkin’ Donuts tried to reverse-engineer The Black Hoof’s beloved <a href="http://www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/from-the-print-edition-daily-dish/2010/07/26/glazed-and-enthused-13-of-torontos-best-doughnuts/attachment/dough-hoof/">bone marrow</a> Timbits.
- Gross Fast Food: Dunkin’ Donuts Sausage Pancake Bites
- Gross Fast Food: Dunkin’ Donuts Sausage Pancake Bites
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- 190102
- Each year, the exhibitors at the CNE vie to devise the most stomach-churning culinary innovation. Last year, Pull’d featured this red velvet pancake stack with pulled pork, Jack Daniels–infused syrup and a hefty pat of butter
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- Gross Fast Food: Jack’d
- Gross Fast Food: Jack’d
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- 190104
- This corporate partnership between Taco Bell and Doritos—the shell is made of Nacho Cheese–flavoured chips—seems so natural that it’s a wonder it was only introduced in 2012. Taco Bell recently passed the 325-million-sold mark, and Doritos is planning on returning the favour with its own Taco Bell–inspired chips
- Gross Fast Food: Doritos Locos Tacos
- Gross Fast Food: Doritos Locos Tacos
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- 190103
- A grilled cheese sandwich. With fried mozzarella sticks inside. Genius.
- Gross Fast Food: Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt
- Gross Fast Food: Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt
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- 190109
- In principle, these fried chicken rings from White Castle aren’t that different from the well-loved Chicken McNuggets at McDonald’s. But once you remove the pretence of the chicken morsel shape, it’s harder to ignore the modern horror of mechanically separated chicken sludge.
- (Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mesohungry/4030079409/">Jason Lam</a>)
- Gross Fast Food: White Castle Chicken Rings
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- 190101
- Toronto’s Holy Chuck and The Burger’s Priest continue to out-do each other with their burger creations. The former’s Go Chuck Yourself features six patties, six pieces of cheese, three helpings of bacon and caramelized onions, with a triplet of grilled cheese sandwiches standing in for the buns. Admittedly, this mega-sandwich looks more like real food than most of the rest of the slideshow
- (Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lricharz/6893965785/">Lucas Richarz from the Torontolife.com Flickr group</a>)
- Gross Fast Food: Go Chuck Yourself
- Gross Fast Food: Go Chuck Yourself
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- 190106
- IHOP’s limited-time-only answer to the Double Down featured two pancakes with a cheesecake layer in the middle. It was served with fruity syrup and whipped cream
- Gross Fast Food: IHOP Pancake Stackers
- Gross Fast Food: IHOP Pancake Stackers
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- 190107
- The Kentucky Chicken Rice is just like the Double Down, but instead of bacon, it has a huge rice patty held together by ketchup
- Gross Fast Food: Kentucky Chicken Rice
- Gross Fast Food: Kentucky Chicken Rice
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- 190105
- The “sandwich” that launched a thousand over-the-top dishes features two pieces of fried chicken surrounding bacon, mayo and cheese. KFC <a href="http://www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/culinary-curiosities/2011/05/27/it’s-back-kfc-introduces-the-double-down-2-0-to-canada-now-with-slightly-less-sodium/">reintroduced</a> the Double Down in a new reduced-sodium form in 2011.
- Gross Fast Food: Double Down
- Gross Fast Food: Double Down
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