T/S: KFC vs Nando's

If one of these fine dining establishments doesn't exist in your country, or you know a super Laotian place round the corner that's far superior to either of them, please make sure you let us know at length in this thread.

Anyway, KFC. Nando's is the most boring shit on the high street and their so-called hot sauce isn't even very hot.

Nando's.tho aye,they're hot sauce is weak. Only extra extra hot has much piquancy to it.

I keep telling KFC they need to sell buckets of nothing but skin but they just won't listen. they could sell the flavourless white quorn substitute underneath it to Nando's, win-win.

Had KFC on Wednesday and the bun was stale, so I'm voting Nandos.

Nando's is the best option on the high street for vegetarians by a mile. It has obviously been a while since i ate at KFC but i remember it being overly greasy.

if you get something in a bun from KFC you deserve what you get. don't even start me on which factory chicken restaurant is better for vegetarians.

one that doesn't do chicken, presumably.

xpost it's a fair point. Although I do quite like the zinger burger when the bun isn't shite.

they have a real ish with carbs, the chips are crap as well.

but the chips are crap in Nando's iirc. why do gourmet chickeniers hate chips?

The Portuguese restaurant/takeaway around the corner that does these awesome chicken burgers with your choice of chilli or garlic. Or both! </braggin>

But, anyway...

Hungover: KFC
Non-Hungover: Nando's

^ truthbomb

Do you know what I call Nandos?

Blandos.

Blandos

Marlon Blandos

Blandos!

Blandos.

Ralentandos

Nandos taking the piri-piri out of piri-piri chicken.

KFC by a landslide.

if KFC did mash over here they'd be even further ahead

KFC, because at least it doesn't pretend to be an upmarket Harvester type place that you could take a date to.
But any Greek or Turkish owned kebab place beats these two hands down. If you're going to eat something that's bad for you, it should at least taste nice, not taste of cotton wool covered in a Schwartz sauce mix.

(served with salad so limp that it looks like it's been stored in a sauna after being rejected by an Angus Steakhouse for not being crisp enough)

Massive bucket of evil chicken for £6.99? Gotta be KFC. Their smokey beans don't get enough love either.

I had kfc in the US for the first time least weekend, and it was truly revolting, even by fast food standards. The flavors of things like the potato and gravy, chicken, coleslaw, were totally different to the kfc I've had in new zealand.

i live in hope of someday going to nando's. that garlic peri-peri sauce is my jam, i had to find some online. fuck kfc.

Nando's is the best option on the high street for vegetarians by a mile.

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, January 27, 2012 5:47 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Wait, what vegetarian options do they have other than a veggie burger?

If it has to be chicken, nothing beats for real Southern (USA) chicken, fried or bbq. But every once in a while I need a bucket of original recipe. On your way back from the bar? Double points for Chick-fil-A.

a couple of veggie wraps, salads, bean-burger xp

kilmarnock v chelsea

nando's promised chickenland

if KFC did mash over here they'd be even further ahead

Hahahaaaaaaaa you would not say that if you'd tasted the vile wallpaper paste.

i've tasted the fries

The mash isnt even made out of anything resembling potato, its like pringles resultant paste.

tbh the KFC I usually go to does OK fries.

Burger King fries OTOH...

i fkn love kfc even though it's repulsive. nandos is wack.

nandos is just inexplicable, why do people get excited about it? in my last job one opened nearby (and this was on great portland street, so you have ENDLESS lunch options) and everyone was acting like it was a wonderful christmas on the way. i've tried to get into it but it's expensive, awful cold fries, and this apparently seasoned or flavoursome chicken tastes of nothing, if you just cooked a chicken thigh yourself with a little salt it would be far superior.

kfc all the way.

Nandos veggie burger shouldn't be classed as food. Like a piece of cardboard that has been left out in the rain. Shoved in between two bits of bread. Then there's the queues..

KFC in Tower Hill didn't serve any vegetarian options but the staff felt sorry for me so they created a '2 hash browns in a bun' meal for me.. KFC wins.

do they still do the Portobello mushroom/halloumi in a pita thing? iirc that was p good for veggies if you don't have the luxury of Magic Roll in yr town.

we had a T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧, but not a T✧✧@NAN✧✧✧.E✧✧

so it's KFC

i've had kfc once when i was about 8, i don't really "get" fast food chicken although chick-fil-a was decent that one time i had it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsqosiEyGLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38YWB8iX7OY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0w4svgTtmE

Nando's.

KFC is oversated, terribly greasy rubbish - at least Nandos chicken is fairly fresh and not deep fried glunge. Not sure what its like in the UK but it isnt mediocre with cold chips here! Well unless you go to one of the shitty booth-style joints with no actual sit down bit, in a food court or something, but the proper Nandos restaurants here at least USED to be very good.

I wouldnt eat kfc if you wrapped it in gold, that stuff is revolting.

oversated=oversalted, guh

Actually, I once had KFC in Australia and it was awful, nothing like the UK stuff.

Not saying that the UK KFC is the ultimate gourmet experience by the way, I wish they'd use chicken that had more taste, but then it would probably be twice the price and no-one would go there as a result. Wish I could justify buying a pressure fryer for the home to see how much it would improve my own fried chicken.

I'm not the best person to ask this stuff, I loathe junk food generally - I havent eaten KFC in years, and I will only eat McD breakfasts. I used to tolerate Hungry Jacks (our BurgerKing) until I realised the meat tasted like the kerosene flames it was grilled on then I couldnt stomach it anymore.

Nowadays sadly Nandos has that same kero flame grossity, I once saw them taking half-cooked half-chickens out of a fucking metal DRAWER and slapping them on a "grill" and I was a bit grossed out. But I swear they used to be all about proper charcoal chicken cooking.

But thats ok, there's plenty of actual charcoal chicken indie places in melb, and I am thankful every day I live somewhere that has it.

Actual as in, they have rotisseries with fresh, organic free range chooks roasted/basted over actual coals.

supermac's or gtfo

tho i'm going to nando's for the first time on friday

wouldn't build yourself up for it

nando's, convincingly, because brian o'driscoll was sitting beside us

ha, i saw him tweeting about this. he didn't mention you. he is always going on about nandos, like most sportsmen.

did you say HI BRIAN GOOD LUCK ON SUNDAY even though he's injured?

yeah well, i saw John Hayes eating a family bucket of KFC by himself the other week

really? he's crashed since retiring obviously.

saw gordon d'arcy in the bernard shaw a few years back. grim.

many moons ago when he wasn't particularly good a friend of mine tells a story about watching the highlights of an irish defeat to france and at one point roaring "TOMMY BOWE IS FUCKING USELESS"...

five mins later as he went to the bar he saw tommy behind him with his head in his hands.

Hayes was a joke. I did drunkenly accost Drico one night in 4 Dame Lane (i think) years ago though

Pollo Campero is making in-roads into the USA, latin american fried chicken chain that is way better than KFC

http://www.amctv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BB-Gus-Fring-S4-590.jpg

i feel like he's judging my post

he won't stop staring

it's like he sees right through my fried chicken bullshit

Did nandos ever cook from raw? U swear at least in aus they must have cos the menus had some ramble abt good food taking time, and it was SPICY, and crisp. I may be nostalgia- ing things tho. It could also be that UK nandos is a bland slop compared to aus nandos. Be curious to know.

*i* swear that is. Damn iphone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-22594579

One resident said: "My neighbour is right next door, and she can see the colonel's face from every room."

this thread makes me hungry!!! (for KFC mainly - nandos would be alright if it doesn't cost £8??)

but i've already brought pack lunch! woe

I think ken c is hungry!

One resident said: "My neighbour is right next door, and she can see the colonel's face from every room."

they should stop complaining and eat their chicken.

"The man on the sign - Colonel Sanders - is looking at me all day. When I come up the garden he's still looking at me."

shit man this was the first line of my novel

"In my dreams I see his chicken blowing down my street. My son is dead. Gravy."

The 1984-piece family bucket.

http://thedivinemissmommy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/KFC-Blogger-Experience-Norman-Rockwell-Colonel-Sanders-Painting.jpg

He had won the victory over himself. He loved Colonel Sanders.

That Kentucky Colonel was from Indiana, iirc.

a boy and his dad get lost in the woods. when they're found the dad has died of starvation and the boy is rushed to the nearest KFC. the colonel comes out, takes one look at the boy and exclaims, "I can't prepare my famous recipe for him—that boy is my son!” how is this possible?

— emoprog (@emoprog) January 26, 2018

lmaooo

Supermacs chicken sandwich pwns

Nando's was a bit of an oasis for us as we searched around carnaby for a place where kids could eat late. It's way better than kfc, but not better than southern fried chicken in general.m So I'm Nando's. One kid fell asleep, so I suppose he is Blando's.

I hate KFC, so Nando's, even though i have never eaten there

Nando's is ok, the wings are good, I just don't get why there is the fuss about the peri peri sauce when it doesn't even taste very nice.

it is a classic combo of chilis and vinegar, i.e. every hot sauce ever

Supermacs chicken sandwich pwns

the chicken is well brined, though. And emphasis on skin-on thighs also seems good. Sides are also leagues ahead of KFC.

but i get the backlash in london. felt it most when i saw the nando's at the greenwich pier. there are too many here. it's insane.

but it's also better than food at five guys and greene king's pubs, which are also everywhere.

Prefer one-off fried chicken shops called things like Chicken Cottage and Mister South.

Chicken Cottage is far from a one-off though, 115 restaurants in the uk

We've got one here which is unaffiliated! Presumably that's a trademark breach or something

there's an "american grill" called "buffalo" in greenwich that appears to use the chicago bulls logo on its sign. i think its existence has cursed them.

Nandos is very bland and the peri peri is overrated but... I rarely don't enjoy a visit there, even if I've only ever been there with colleagues as part of a work social. it's convenient and not TOO unhealthy as far as chain restaurants go.

Five Guys is the most wtf mainstream chain restaurant I can think of. they want HOW MUCH for a basic-tasting burger and a few fries with way too much salt on them? I can't understand it

I don't get the fries anymore at 5 guys. too much to eat for one person, and...meh

Nando's farts higher than its own ass, as we say in French, whereas KFC is just unfussy fried chicken. The latter wins every time, especially when you've had the real (Portuguese) deal.

KFC tastes like dookie. if I want unhealthy fast food chicken, I'll go to Popeye's. I'll even go to CHURCH's over KFC.

the skin is great, the actual chicken is drier than an emptied out swimming pool

I only know what Nando's is from this....uhh...well, just watch, starting from the 2:33 mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC2FE8XwUJ8

I go in like a USB

at least I know what craps are now, due to Idris Elba

Don't get me wrong, KFC is irrefutably gross, but there's no hamming it up.

the only Peri Peri spice chicken I ever had was in the Philippines and it was a chain that probably exists in the States so i am doubting I've ever had it proper

Tbf I've never been to Portugal but there are some incredible Portuguese chicken places in Montreal.

I honestly feel bad for all britishers with a taste for fast food chicken…it can’t possibly be good there

As someone from Five Guys’ original home territory of northern Virginia I insist on defending it as Good

I do go there probably once a week. but just skip the fries.

Londoners looking for good peri-peri could either play chicken with the Portuguese joints in Oval/Stockwell, hit the Portuguese club right by Westbourne Park station, or try Casa do Frango near Borough Market.

I’m good at spicy chicken (took my own jerk chicken wings to Carnival this year for our post-match Meanwhile Gardens picnic, total cost to make around £3) so I’ve never been to Nando’s.