KFC is THE WORST fast food? out there for causing me gastrointestinal distress, bar none.
It stopped being edibly digestible for me shortly after Pepsi Co. took it over and turned everything there into a fuster cluck of chemical mixes like the gravies, mashed potatoes and biscuits. Just look at that laundry list of preservatives, additives and fillers just in the colonels secret sauce. Now they even add BEEF flavoring to their GRILLED CHICKEN seasoning mix. Which is TRULY DISGUSTING!
The last time I ate there about 4 years ago, about an hour after eating there, I literally had to suddenly pull over and projectile vomit about 5 times in a parking lot, and then almost passed out from the pounding headache. And you don't even want to know what else happened "down south" a few hours after that. That sure was fast food all right. And I hadn't eaten there since.
That being said, Pepsi Co. spun off the food giants KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Long John Silvers into Yum! Brands in 1997 (oh, the bitter tasteless irony!). But not everything they touch is cursed with unholy corporate chemical crappiness. The problem here seems to be that their "food" companies are run under completely separate corporate management teams using different quality control and food suppliers.
Remember all the stomach and intestinal problems people reported when Olestra was dumped on an unsuspecting public as a food? Now let's just imagine, only for arguments sake of course, that some cheap assed fast food company looking to cut food costs by adding nasty chemical crap to food might be frying up darn near everything in a greasy oily mix of that, and then also adding it to mixes, batters, sauces and condiments, too. Sound tasty and delicious yet? And then they can just conveniently hide all the gut wrenching ingredients when people complain by saying it's a confidential trade secret whenever anyone craps their pants and projectile vomits on the cashiers from eating it and demands their money back.
And "food" made like that is definitely lower calories than other fast food, too. Since your body can't properly digest the congealed and preserved chemical slop and you puke it back up or it sprays out uncontrollably a few hours later.
A disgusting company like that only survives as a consumers intestinal parasite because there are always clueless parents willing to fork out money for a fast and cheap feed bucket of pig slop just to stuff their family of screaming fat brats they don't like that much anyway.