Double Down? More like Double Downer, amirite?

The quote featured in the title of this blog comes from my good friend and fellow KFC adventurer Glen Cupples. Along with Glen and Gary Newman I ventured to the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant closest to our respective homes on Tuesday evening to sample their newest product, the Double Down. For those of you who haven't heard about the Double Down, it's essentially bacon, cheese and special sauce sandwiched between two fried chicken breasts.

According to the LA Times Blog "The nutrition facts aren’t the best, as you can imagine. The Double Down weighs in at 540 calories, 32 grams of fat and -- hold on -- 1,380 milligrams of sodium." In other words, this sandwich is not good for you.

I recorded some quotes from our experience to help you grasp what it felt like.

The most telling quote from the afternoon was the first thing Glen said when he finished his: "I think I need to wash my hands". And we all agreed, this thing was covered in grease.

Here are some photos:

Those last two photos are representative of how I felt when I finished my sandwich: "I feel like the fast food industry just raped me". And you can see Colonel Sanders' face looking smug like he knows exactly what just happened. At the end, the sandwich they advertised as "so much chicken there wasn't room for a bun" didn't even fill us up.

Final verdict?

This sandwich was over-priced, over-hyped and underwhelming.

This telling conversation happened as we left the restaurant (as it happened to be the second new KFC hype-product we've eaten together):

Glen: "Mark the day, this is the last time I'm ever going to try a new KFC product".

Gary: "I'm never eating KFC again".

Weekend wrap-up and misplaced musings

Listen to this while you read (props to Jimmie for turning me on to this video):

With any luck it's gonna take you less than nine minutes to read this post.

Many thanks to everyone in the DFW area that made this weekend a wonderful one. It was great to see old friends (ADP excepted) and just as great to make new ones.

Over the course of the weekend it became painfully clear that my moustachio would not pass the bar as long as it was blonde. I ended up getting some pretty decent growth (except for in the Hitler area) but it was still impossible to see except up close. After a pretty heated debate about whether or not I should dye it I internally decided that it'd be gone at the end of the weekend.

Something the group of us kinda got obsessed with over the course of Saturday afternoon is Ninja Warrior on G4 tv. For those of you that don't know what this is, watch this video:

Robby and I were constantly amazed at how freaking athletic the people making it through this were. I think in total I watched 3+hours of Ninja Warrior this weekend alone. I just tagged him as "Robby D" and I liked it. I liked it alot.

Anyways, Robby D and I were really psyched about finding a way to try this stuff out for fun in America so if anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear 'em.

Now I'm back in College Station with two art shows and two tests to go to over the next couple days. Fingers crossed they all go well.

On to the Double Down!

If I haven't told you yet I'm really excited about a new KFC sandwich called the Double Down that was released yesterday.

I've come to describe the sandwich as such: it's a bacon, cheese and spiced mayonnaise sandwich except instead of a bun it's stuck in between two fried chicken breasts.

I'm not kidding. Here's a picture.

Now, being the connoisseur of everything fried I'm not gonna pass this up. This is the holy grail of fried chicken products and I will have it. I think I'm gonna go in tomorrow and see how it treats me.

I expect it to treat me like my family's miniature dachshund treats our kitchen floor and I don't think I need to elaborate on that.

My goal for the last year or so of my college tenure has been to ensure that I have a heart attack by the age of 25 and I feel like this is gonna get me back on pace.

Dangit. I just spent 5 minutes signing up for the KFC email list thinking I'd get a Double Down coupon. That's 5 minutes I'm never getting back.

Anyways I'll try to document my experience with the double down as best I can.

If I die mid-meal I give you permission to raid my Moleskine and find out how my last minutes on earth tasted.

Day 2 Photo

My creepy mustache on day two of being a standalone. It looks way better in Black and White than in color. Hence the B&W photo. Only one creeped out stare today. It was from a sorority girl who I may have accidentally initiated eye contact with.

The Stache-tastic Voyage

First things first here's a shoutout for my newest follower Jill Dhonau! I dedicate this blogpost to you and your 21st birthday (which is today).

First things second, watch this video:

This video was an inspiration for me.

Look at that hunk of a man and his beautiful mustache!

LOOK AT IT!

It was at that moment that I decided I wanted to embark on my very own Stache-tastic Voyage.

I hadn't shave for a while at this point anyways, so I went to the bathroom, took off my shirt and got down to work.

Needless to say, my mustache looks nothing like Taylor Rice's (guy in the video) mustache.

Right now I look like I'm involved in an episode of "To Catch a Predator". I was turned away from two parks and the only Chuck E. Cheese in College Station yesterday and now I'm looking over my shoulder hoping I don't see:

right behind me.

I haven't taken any pictures yet but if there's enough public outcry I might hire a photographer to take a few glamour shots.

My hope at the moment is that I'll have a respectable 'stache by this weekend for a friend's birthday party.

I know I wasn't very good about updating during Beardfest 2KX but I'll try to be better about this one. They won't all be long but I'll definitely detail y'all on what locations I've been kicked out and how many creeped out looks I get.

Game on.