KFC Chicken is Unhealthy????

The first time I ever tried Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken was way back in 1965, the afternoon of returning from vacation with my parents. This was the most delicious chicken I had ever eaten and needless to say, I became a big fan. Over the years ownership changed and now the company is known as KFC but supposedly still retains the Colonel's original recipe of 11 secret herbs and spices. My memory does not allow me to compare the original to the present-day version, but I suspect it is at least close enough. I still think they make a mighty tasty bird.

Maybe it is because I'm older now but I don't eat much KFC anymore. I love the taste but am not enamored of opening up a box and eating some of the greasiest fast food I can imagine. Not only is the chicken swimming in grease, which then gets all over my fingers and makes me use lots of napkins, but the mashed potatoes are drowned in that greasy brown gravy they use. That said, while it is messy and obviously not good for your health, it does taste yum yum.

The other day I heard that some doctor and his consumer group are suing KFC over the kind of oil they use to cook their chicken. Dr. Arthur Hoyte and the Center for Science in the Public Interest say that KFC knows that there are healthier oils to use and wants to force them to either switch to these oils, instead of the ones they now use that are high in trans-fats, or else make full disclosure about what is in the current oils and how they are bad for you.

Well duh, this is just like my earlier post about those fat fools who want to sue McDonald's because they got fat from overdosing on Big Macs and the like. No one tells you to go eat at KFC and if you do, you have to be a real moron not to figure out that this stuff can't be good for your health. Not when it is so obviously soaked in grease as your fingers and mouth will attest. If you are that stupid that you don't know this, then you deserve to look like the Michelin Man or Pillsbury Doughboy, sans any cuteness because you've ballooned out from eating too much grease and oil.

Again, I must say that I am fed up with annoying losers like Dr. Hoyte who think it is their business to regulate what people eat. Let people take responsibility for their own appetites. There are plenty of healthier alternatives to KFC chicken so don't try and dictate how they should make their chicken. Every aspect of the cooking process is what makes it distinctly KFC versus say, Churchs, or some other take-out chain and if you don't like that, then don't eat it. This is just another example of our society's trend towards moving away from self-responsibility towards blaming someone else for the problems that you cause yourself. Dr. Hoyte says he wants to force KFC to change its ways so that his son will have a healthier, happier, trans-fat free future. Well instead of forcing yourself on everyone else, why don't you educate your son about the perils of KFC and forbid him to eat there? Why don't you teach your son to be more responsible for his own actions?

Like I said, if you are too stupid to realize that KFC chicken isn't a healthy thing to consume on a regular basis, then you are probably too stupid to read the paper or listen to the news to find out that it is indeed unhealthy, and too stupid to even know what trans fats are. Is that society's fault or problem?