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KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer
- drcongo 6y agoCan only imagine that Intel are getting pretty desperate for some good publicity.
- jacknews 6y agoI initially thought it was a home pressure fryer. Maybe it actually is.
- jedimastert 6y agoAustin McConnell made a video about 4 years ago on the decline of KFC[0] and just made a follow up last night[1] about how they've gotten a lot worse in a bunch of metrics but are still for some reason blowing budget on stupid marketing. On a more personal note, my mom grew up down the street from Sanders and it's always left a really bad taste in my mouth what they've done with his image. It's not like he was some made up character made to encapsulate the feel of a old-timey southern gentleman or whatever, he was a real guy they turned into a caricature to try to catch the "ironic" wave with the youths [0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1eaQrxA6ZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1eaQrxA6ZE [1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5tFlmRUIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5tFlmRUIc
- ablation 6y agoThere is an extremely interesting Damn Interesting article on Colonel Sanders: https://www.damninteresting.com/colonels-of-truth/ https://www.damninteresting.com/colonels-of-truth/
- rutthenut 6y agoThat was interesting, thanks. And claims that the 'special spice mix' is now nothing special at all, that would make sense, there's not a great deal of flavour in the coating on KFC - I'm sure it used to have more to it when I was younger
- gh02t 6y agoI swear I remember KFC being delicious, though that may be rose tinted glasses. I went a few weeks ago for the first time in a long time and the chicken just tastes like MSG without much else. It was really disappointing for something that was once a guilty pleasure.
- aantix 6y agoMSG is safe. https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2018-10-10/scientists-have-known-msg-is-safe-for-decades-why-dont-most-americans https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles...
- drjasonharrison 6y agoBut does MSG taste good?
- neom 6y agoMSG is neither terribly dangerous nor perfectly fine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-POAKKH5IM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-POAKKH5IM An interesting commentary on both of the above questions.
- bobthepanda 6y agoMSG is naturally occurring in things like seaweed, tomatoes, mushrooms, and Parmesan cheese. It tastes fine given the popularity of those food items.
- Larrikin 6y agoOut of all the marketing that the colonel didn't like it seems like the current campaign would have been one he was OK with seeing as he was still alive and well when the Japanese statues of him came out. What he hated was how they destroyed the taste of his chicken and sides which have continued to become crap over the years. MBAs have made sure KFC will never be as good as Popeyes. https://soranews24.com/2018/07/22/kfc-japan-rolls-out-statues-of-colonel-sanders-sitting-down-challenges-public-to-name-it/ https://soranews24.com/2018/07/22/kfc-japan-rolls-out-statue...
- adventured 6y ago> MBAs have made sure KFC will never be as good as Popeyes. While far superior to KFC, Popeyes has second tier chicken. It wasn't Popeyes that killed KFC as a business, it was Chick-fil-A, which has conquered the chicken fast food market in the US and will continue to bury everyone else. They have far better chicken than Popeyes.
- pzone 6y agoHave you tried the new Popeyes chicken sandwich? In my opinion the spicy version is the single best item of fast food on the market today. The quality of the chicken is superior.
- incomplete 6y agoas a self-appointed connoisseur of fried poultry, and after EXTENSIVE (and delicious) testing, i can come to no other conclusion except that i agree w/this statement: spicy popeye's chix sammy >>>> chick-fil-a.
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- Larrikin 6y agoThe chicken is and when compared directly to the Chick-Fil-A equivalent its definitely better. But I never ordered the Chick-Fil-A equivalent. After the initial time trying it, I don't get whats all that enjoyable about a sandwich that is just bread, chicken, and a couple pickles. Once Popeye's gets lettuce, tomato, and cheese then I may have no reason to ever go to Chick-Fil-A
- chooseaname 6y agoHad KFC a few weeks ago for the first time in forever. The MBAs have optimized the flavor right out of it. Biscuits tasted like flour. Only flavor the chicken had was the seasoning in the batter.
- TheRealSteel 6y agoI'm Australian but living in the UK -- it's common for Australians coming here to be shocked at how disgusting KFC is here. It really does seem like they're trying to make things dry and flavourless and use the wrong sauce for everything, the gulf in quality is really surprising for such a big company.
- reyzell 6y agoCan you describe for us what the flavor's like in AU? I'm curious to know what I'm missing.
- TheRealSteel 6y agoI would guess, altho I've since turned vegan and never tried it, that their flagship original recipe chicken is identical or similar. But the wraps, burgers etc are very dry in the UK. The bun is dry and styrofoamy, the sauces are weird and seem out of place, overly sweet and too tangy, very artificial, and just the wrong choice. The vegetables seem less fresh and more flavourless. The chips are unsalted and underseadoned and bland. I tried it enough times to be sure it wasn't just a Covid induced lack of taste. I've since stopped eating at large American chains and stopped eating animal products altogether, so it won't be a worry for me in the future.
- neom 6y agoKFC in Korea is quite good, more like how I remember KFC as a kid. That said, other fried chicken in Korea is so much better that it seems pointless to eat KFC.
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- gee_totes 6y agoHonestly this seems like an efficient use of waste-heat generated by the computer -- use it to keep you meal warm! Maybe in the future recipes will come with cryptographic hashes you need to crack in order to warm your processors to the appropriate level and length for cooking
- k_sze 6y agoWe should be thankful that they don't DRM their food so you can warm only KFC food in the KFConsole.
- CarVac 6y agoOr make you buy KFC to operate the computer—see "Drink verification can".
- evanb 6y agoTowards the beginning of cryptomania there was a company selling room heaters where the heat was produced by GPUs or ASICs or something. Look, you’re cold. You want heat. May as well help pay the heating bill. Don’t know if they’re still going.
- auxym 6y agoI started you mining Litecoin back in something like 2014, when I was in grad school. My appartment had purely resistive baseboard heating, so might as well mine some coin whole heating during Canadian winters right? I stopped after making a few bucks because, well, I needed the PC to do my research work and investing in a dedicated rig wasn't really worth it (on a grad student budget).
- cbanek 6y agoBy putting in frozen food you can overclock it until it's cooked!
- Nullabillity 6y ago12 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DswBdgCZL9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DswBdgCZL9s I'd be a bit concerned about the hygiene though..
- strikelaserclaw 6y agoI'm not sure what universe I'm im anymore
- leiserfg 6y agoI hope they won't call it "Calienta Pollas" in Spain.
- smarx007 6y agoDoes HN have bots similar to ones on Reddit? This would be the time to give it a command like "/hnbot repost 2021-04-01"
- racl101 6y agoKFC has the most confusing marketing direction ever. I remember months ago when they were going all out on having a female Colonel Sanders. Now this? I'd love to be a fly on the wall during their "Mad Men meetings" for their direction. Their product has definitely gone downhill though. That's for sure.
- ffhhj 6y agoIt makes a lot of sense when you notice fast food marketing has been related to "clowns" for years.
- kaycebasques 6y agoThe marketing direction strikes me as nihilistic and absurd. It's a bit disturbing. They also put out some movie on Lifetime channel recently where Mario Lopez plays a sexy Colonel Sanders caught in a violent love triangle: https://www.eater.com/22163283/lifetime-kfc-mini-movie-will-star-mario-lopez-as-colonel-sanders https://www.eater.com/22163283/lifetime-kfc-mini-movie-will-... On the other hand, we're talking about it here, and they're getting publicity, so maybe it's working as intended.
- Balgair 6y ago"I know half my marketing doesn't work, I just don't know which half"
- dfxm12 6y agoSince 2015, they've had a gimmick around always changing up who portrays Sanders, including Reba McEntire briefly 2018. They haven't gone "all out" on any one Sanders, so it's not really clear what you're on about.
- selimnairb 6y agoSo it’s a chicken-cooled CPU/GPU?
- madaxe_again 6y agoJust be glad it’s not a chicken-warmed nuclear landmine.
- mrspeaker 6y agoYears ago I had a genius idea of making a USB-powered mini shawarma machine that you could have on your desk, and shave off bits of meat during the day. Sometimes I still lay awake at night, wondering if that would have worked.
- colpabar 6y agosomewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjABEqQ6YXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjABEqQ6YXM
- citrus1330 6y agoKFC has had some absurd marketing in the past few years. Another example is the anime dating sim game they released, "I Love You, Colonel Sanders!" Personally I am a fan, I love the creativity. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colone...
- umvi 6y agoI love it when food companies make high quality video games even if they are blatant advertisements. Chex Quest was probably the greatest cereal box prize I ever got.
- citrus1330 6y agoI used to love "Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure" when I was a kid.
- juancn 6y agoWas KFC behind the steel monoliths? The video suggests it, and the logo looks like three monoliths.
- franciscop 6y agoThe video shows car racing, astronaut space walking, iron smithing, a baby in a uterus and other human feats. Certainly it's not suggesting that KFC did those.
- imwillofficial 6y agoAre we sure they didn’t?!?
- rasz 6y agoIs KFC marketing team trying to compete with RAX? The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEcz8I64Mz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEcz8I64Mz0
- arethuza 6y agoAt least its not a nuclear weapon kept warm by a chicken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock