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KFC wheres the flavour gone ?

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  • #92
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Ok advance warning. I'm a kind of oldie coming into this thread.

    Late 1970s, Crumlin Shopping centre, Dublin, when it was vibrant and functional.

    Pat Grace ran an outlet there under the Kentucky Fried Chicken banner. It wasn't the biggest of outlets, but it was absolutely magical stuff. Fast food it was, but compared to the chipper, it was divine stuff altogether. A really big treat when you are a kid. It was my first experience of fried chicken in a box and tasted fab. I remember another one in Phisboro SC, but considering we hadn't a pot to piss in back then, I don't think I was ever in it.

    Fast forward a few years and Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets seemed to disappear and Pat Graces famous Fried Chicken came about. Just as good when I tried the old place in Rathmines circa 1986 across from the old amusement arcade that I think became Tramco at some point.

    By 1987 Kentucky Fried Chicken made a comeback in O'Connell Street, where Supermacs is now. Two floors of unadulterated fried chicken greatness! Saw my first 20 pence piece there. Then they seemed to disappear again until I next discovered it rebranded as KFC in Liffey Valley SC in the late 90s. Pure ****e then and pure ****e since IMO. Over the years I've tried KFC around Ireland from time to time and from Cavan to Galway to Dublin to Kilkenny its all drivethru and inhouse muck. I assume some of that is as a result of them attempting to make it "healthier" by substituting ingredients and also not giving a fook.

    As for Supermacs fried chicken - its very hit and miss from when I tried it. Italian chippers - more or less the same. Hit and miss. A few years ago I had the very unfortunate experience of an Italian chipper reheating the so called fried chicken in a microwave.:eek:

    Overall fastfood has deterioated below any kind of standard, which is why I now replicate it at home with better ingredients. That said after a load of pints anything goes! I just don't even attempt fast food sober anymore.


  • #93
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    KFC are here in Ireland for 45 years now. Pat Grace introduced the franchise back in 1972, 5 years before McDonalds. They have a patchy history. Thrived as a novelty in the 70s, went into slow decline in the 80s and then pulled out. Came back in the 90s when the Norn Iron franchise opened KFCs down here.

    Compared to McDs, KFC are poorly run and managed. The fare is OK, but the cleanliness of the outlets and the attitude of the staff is dubious. Once I went into a KFC in Dublin and was told that they'd run out of chicken...:rolleyes:


  • #94
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    KFC are here in Ireland for 45 years now. Pat Grace introduced the franchise back in 1972, 5 years before McDonalds. They have a patchy history. Thrived as a novelty in the 70s, went into slow decline in the 80s and then pulled out. Came back in the 90s when the Norn Iron franchise opened KFCs down here.

    Compared to McDs, KFC are poorly run and managed. The fare is OK, but the cleanliness of the outlets and the attitude of the staff is dubious. Once I went into a KFC in Dublin and was told that they'd run out of chicken...:rolleyes:

    My last memory (edited below) of it being great was the outlet in O'Connell street in the 80s. Since then, nope. I agree the current offerings are neglected dumps.

    As I type I remember when the Square opened in Tallaght in 1990, I paid a visit in its first week and it had a Kentucky Fried Chicken joint. It was good stuff. So its O'Connell street and the Square no later than 1990 for me.


  • #95
    Delacent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Delacent


    Yep, the norn iron guys got the master franchise after whatever issue with pat grace got sorted.

    Met the main guy a few times im liffey Valley as I was involved in a business there too - very decent guy. They had a drivethrough in Bundoran years before they opened in liffey Valley - probably was the only kfc in the south for a time!!

    Like anything, the "formulation" gets changed to conform to a single taste worldwide. That in many cases leads to blandness.

    Also, your taste buds are stongest in your teens and start falling away in your thirties, so im many cases where us old folk think the eighties kfc was great, it may just be old age :)


  • #96
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Delacent wrote: »
    Yep, the norn iron guys got the master franchise after whatever issue with pat grace got sorted.

    Met the main guy a few times im liffey Valley as I was involved in a business there too - very decent guy. They had a drivethrough in Bundoran years before they opened in liffey Valley - probably was the only kfc in the south for a time!!

    Like anything, the "formulation" gets changed to conform to a single taste worldwide. That in many cases leads to blandness.

    Also, your taste buds are stongest in your teens and start falling away in your thirties, so im many cases where us old folk think the eighties kfc was great, it may just be old age :)

    You may be right with that.


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  • #97
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Lads, what I find very funny about KFC. It is that, while no one has mentioned it. People have mentioned that you find inconstancy from store to store. I find that the store itself can be inconsistent itself, had one before and was fairly nice to be honest, then went back next week as fancied it again and tasted as like utter ****é, like literally didn't hit any spot at all, might as well have gone down and ate the holy communion, would have got more a fill and been up 18 or so euro.

    Haven't been back since, usually go HillBillys, but there opening hours a bit all over the place, open at 1PM, I find the chips from there are so poor, they must be like grade 3 food if you can even put it out for human consumption! Either way it borderline animal feed. They must buy the rejects from Mc D's or Burger King.


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