[Warning: Do not try this at home. Umami is an experienced professional who has undergone specialized, rigorous training and has disciplined in his mind, body, and spirit in order to survive stunts like this.]
Umami took a deep breath, steadied his nerves, and went all in. The Kentucky Fried Chicken (hereinafter "KFC") Double Down Sandwich had haunted his dreams ever since it was announced back in April. Who could resist . . . two fried chicken fillets, sandwiching Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese, two slices of bacon and a special sauce. If you want to be healthy, you can get grilled chicken (seriously? grilled?) instead of original. Umami got original, cuz that's how he rolls.
Seriously, it's an absolutely ridiculous sandwich. The only thing more ridiculous would, of course, be the DD sandwich meal deal. $6.99 includes fries and a medium flavored high fructose corn syrup solution.
The stats for the original DD: 540 calories, 32 g fat, 1380 mg Sodium.
The sandwich is plenty tasty (meaning = plenty salty) and actually goes better with a bland starch (I had some quinoa in the fridge) than with the fries (which are only so-so).
But Umami thought: "It's an impressive effort, but doesn't quite go far enough."
*pause*
"Maybe I should deep fry it."
A quick batter and a plunge into a hot oil bath later, and Umami had made the world's first deep-fried Double Down Sandwich! Had to hold it together with a toothpick, but it did actually fry pretty well and the cheese didn't go all over the place! However, deep frying it overwhelmed the original recipe flavor, with the net result that the sandwich goes from salty original recipe flavored to just plain greasy. So that was a bit of a miscalculation.
In summary, this is one sandwich where you know what it tastes like without actually having to eat it. So don't eat it!
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