I’m sure all of you read my stunning review of the McDonald’s Southern Style Crispy Chicken Sandwich and how it stood up to the gold standard of fast food chicken sandwiches, the Chick-Fil-A Chicken Sandwich. Though the two sandwiches were almost identical in calories and fat content, the rip-off from McDonald’s just didn’t measure up to the fried goodness offered at Chick-Fil-A.
Not long after seeing that McDonald’s entered the copy-cat business, I noticed that KFC had entered the mix with their Original Recipe Filet Sandwich as well. I’m not a big fan of KFC (those from central and eastern North Carolina and southern Virginia know that Bojangles is king), but I decided I should try one just to see how the Colonel’s sandwich compared.
As expected I’ll first take a look at the nutritional facts from KFC’s website and add them to the previous table that compared the other two sandwiches:
| Calories | Fat | Saturated Fat | Carbs | |
| Southern Style Crispy Chicken Sandwich | 400 | 17g | 3g | 39g |
| Chick-Fil-A Chicken Sandwich | 410 | 16g | 3.5g | 39g |
| KFC Original Recipe Filet Sandwich | 330 | 22g | 3.5g | 13g |
It’s interesting how different this sandwich seems to be compared to the others. Right off the bat I notice that it has 70-80 less calories than the other two. That’s significant enough — probably about 6oz of regular soda — that I won’t have to feel as bad about that third refill of Dr. Pepper. The offering from KFC does seem to have about 30% more fat than the other two, so it’s clearly not the healthier option. The Original Recipe does have a third of the carbs that the other two have, so I guess Dr. Atkins would think it’s the best one in the group. I’m not sure that’s something to brag about, though. After looking at this it’s clear that the KFC sandwich doesn’t appear to be as much of a copy of the Chick-Fil-A sandwich as the McDonald’s one (at least not nutritionally).
After sampling the KFC sandwich it is clear it is quite different as well. While I was reminded that the Colonel’s recipe is a good one, the filet itself was weak. It was too thin and in standard KFC-style it had waaaaaaaaay too much breading. The filet was so thin that I felt like the power of the Original Recipe made it impossible to actually taste the chicken. Is KFC trying to distract you from the taste of the chicken by adding a ridiculous amount of seasoning to this tiny sandwich? If so, they should consider getting buying better tasting chicken and cut down on the seasoning.
I’m sure by now you can guess that I really didn’t like this sandwich. I could ramble on for much longer about how terrible this sandwich is, but it’s just not worth the keystrokes and certainly not worth the money. Hopefully you won’t waste either of those on it either….
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