The lowdown on the KFC Double Down

Look, if you ever did the male, non-"good fat" version of the low-carb diet, then the KFC Double Down is no big deal.

When I lived in Chicago, I went low carb for a while.

Every morning I ate the insides of two McDonald's sausage burritos and threw away the tortillas.

At lunch I ate either two Taco Bell taco supremes and the insides of two meximelts, or a McDonald's crispy bacon ranch salad and a double cheeseburger sans bun.

I didn't exercise much.

I lost 30 pounds.

A friend of mine was doing low carb but loved nachos. What to do? He substituted bacon for tortilla chips.

So I see an ad for an all-meat sandwich and a bunch of Internet nannies getting up in arms about it, well, I gotta go get me one.

If you've ever eaten a KFC two-piece dinner that includes sides and a biscuit, you've eaten the equivalent of a Double Down.

If you've ever eaten two slices of Chicago stuffed pizza at a time, you've eaten at least the equivalent of a Double Down.

You eat dinner at any fast food or fern-bar joint and you've probably eaten the equivalent of a Double Down.

So get over it.

It's beyond me why you would think that those disgusting fast-food buns would be somehow less gross than two pieces of chicken dipped in the Colonel's secret recipe.

And as my friend Rob said (in so many words), if this thing were served up to you in some swanky-ass restaurant, maybe with some fancy cheese and thick-cut applewood-smoked bacon, by some chef on Food TV that gets you all weak-kneed, you'd adore it. But the Colonel cranks it out, and it's the end of the fucking world.

Sure, it's made with tortured chickens pumped full of hormones. But unless you're some freak walking around eating nothing but fallen food, your hands ain't clean, I promise you.

So okay, Lein. Enough ranting. How did it taste?

Not too bad.

First of all, it's not that big. About Big Mac size, and Big Macs just aren't so big anymore.

Basically it tastes like KFC Original Recipe chicken with some cheese and bacon. And how could that be bad?

I don't intend to make it a daily habit. But I'd definitely eat another one.

I think you should go get one. It won't kill you. Probably.

But whatever you do, don't get a Hardee's Monster Thickburger.

Those things are just disgusting.

UPDATE: Gawker has a list of fast food items worse than the Double Down.