![]() KFC put out a statement with Beyond Meat claiming the imitation fried chicken served on Tuesday didn’t contain “animal-based ingredients.” However, when questioned about how it was prepared in the kitchen, a spokesperson for KFC says “a dedicated fryer with fresh oil was used” and the kitchen is a shared kitchen. It’s nice that it’ll give us an option on the road or when time is an issue and we need fast food.” “I enjoy it with the sides of biscuits, potatoes (no gravy since it’s not veg), and coleslaw. I prefer the Buffalo, then BBQ, then plain,” she writes. “I tried some plain, some with buffalo sauce, and some with honey bbq sauce. Kyle Mooney and Aaliyah Mooney Mike JordanĪn Eater reader who attended Tuesday’s taste test wrote in to say that while KFC’s vegan chicken is “pretty good” on its own, it didn’t “capture the original KFC spice flavors” she remembers eating as a child. Overall, this was just sort of whatever.” The nugget was just a way to eat a ton of ranch, ketchup, and barbecue sauce. “Did I actually miss the taste of ‘chicken’? Not at all. She also finds the chicken less exciting than Beyond Meat’s imitation beef burger. It rivaled other veggie chicken nuggets I’ve had.only real difference was the breading and that this was fried rather than baked or microwaved in my kitchen,” Liebowitz states. “It was a hell of a lot better than Beyond Meat’s last attempt at chicken, that’s for sure. She was one of the last people to sample the KFC-Beyond Meat imitation chicken collaboration before the restaurant ran out at 3 p.m. Kyle feels these imitation chicken nuggets and wings could pass for the real thing, “If you were going to give it to someone who was not vegan or vegetarian, you could definitely fool them with that, 100 percent.”ĭanielle Liebowitz, a 19-year-old vegetarian who waited in line for two hours on Tuesday, seemed less enthusiastic about her 12-piece Nashville hot boneless wings and breaded nuggets. Aaliyah found the breading to be “fantastic” and the texture “on-point.” She tells Eater Atlanta she would order the wings and nuggets again if KFC put them on the menu. The couple sampled both the nuggets and boneless wings. They say they stopped eating animal protein for health, environmental, and ethical reasons. The Mooneys identify themselves as “vegan-ish” and both claim to be passionate supporters of “cruelty-free” dining options. Tuesday’s crowd included Aaliyah and Kyle Mooney, who traveled from Stone Mountain, Georgia, 27 miles east of the KFC and nearly an hour in Atlanta traffic.
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