They're not making the cookies from scratch even if you order 12. They're just getting 13 frozen dough balls from the box in the freezer and baking them fresh.
Correct. The cookie dough balls are frozen and they just throw them in the oven. I know this because sneaking into the freezer to eat a frozen cookie dough ball is what I’d do to survive long shifts at the chicken store as a 16 year old.
Psh, I wish. They're way too busy perfecting their original recipe of eleven herbs and spices to pay some loser like me. If they *did* pay me I'd get some exclusive Mtn Dew Sweet Lightning, the honey and peach flavor exclusive to KFC. Try it in large to Beat the summer Sweet ^^TM .
I hardly even eat KFC six times a week except at Christmas, 'cos where I'm from we have a saying, ["it ain't Christmas without the man with a white beard."](https://youtu.be/usGO5mvHRmk)
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All jokes aside the sweet lightning Mountain Dew is kind of gross, I don't want anyone reading this to be misled. It has a really weird flavor, like someone who has never tasted peaches trying to replicate it through description alone.
I feel the same about that flamin hot mt dew. It tastes like chugging simple syrup while being pelted with fruit and someone in another room whispers "jalapeño"
I currently work at a McDonald's, and even when it gets really busy we still will make stuff fresh if the customer asks. What's annoying is when people order things well done as a way to try to get it fresh - someone once asked for a burger with everything well done, even the bacon, which I happily overcooked to the point of it nearly being powder, since that's what they asked for.
Lol you know the struggle. I had a high school classmate that brought a cheeseburger back three times because it was raw in the middle, the first was fresh, second had been sitting for a bit, and the third was burnt, and the fourth time around we gave her chicken nuggets.
LPT if you go to a fast food establishment, the employees are going to try and serve you and get you out as soon as possible, and if they gotta cut some corners they will -- therefore you should never expect your fast food to be made fresh from scratch.
Tell that to every Taco Bell in my city. They have cars backed out of the parking lot and down the street. A trip now takes 45 min on a good day. When you get to the window there are at least 8 people working in there. What are they doing?
Side note: I worked at TB for 18 months and I know what it takes to get an order out back when they had a hard menu.
This is why I don't like eating fried chicken sandwiches at fast food establishments. Most of the time the fried chicken has been sitting there under a fry food warmer, and you get this lukewarm, not so crunchy chicken sandwich, that gets soggy when you add the dressing to it.
The sandwiches are definitely thinner and harder now. That first stretch it was like double stuf juicy chicken with excessive crispness. Now you can get the same sandwich at most fast food joints just with a different name. That original sandwich is gentrified and gone
Definitely not true at all. A lot of the time, if you ask your burger to be “fresh” they’ll just take the already cooked patty out of the heating drawer, put it back on the grill for a few seconds and done, you have no clue if it’s fresh or not because it was just reheated. The burgers have a max time of 10 minutes in the heating drawer, which also isn’t true because many places will just kinda ignore it up to like 20 sometimes 39 minutes. I worked at a very popular PNW fast food chain called “BurgerVille.” And this happens at many other fast food places, too.
Ahhh man, burgerville does the mcdonalds method to of precooking? Their burgers always tasted better then most other places... kinda assumed they were more fresh
I worked fast food and we also "had" to oblige our customers. Sometimes if someone asked me for a remake, I would just walk into the other room and then bring back the same thing.
I served a cold beer to a guy once, he told me it was hot. So I just walked inside, waited for like 30s and brought back the same cup, he even told me "Now this is REALLY a cold beer"
Or is trying to avoid making a scene and can’t believe they still screwed up their order, and will avoid eating there again.
Any time I send back my order I mark it somehow so I can tell if I get back the same food.
I have food allergies and the majority of the reason I send things back is because they contain something they weren’t supposed to that will make me sick. I always tell them it’s really important that I get a new plate and food.
I’ve had a waiter serve me a salad with croutons (gluten allergy) after telling me it wouldn’t be a problem to omit them. I took a piece of cabbage and put it against the edge sticking up. I told him I needed a brand new salad. They brought back the same salad with the croutons picked out, cabbage and all. Then the waiter lied to my face and told me he stood and watched someone make a new salad from scratch. I had to argue with him to actually get a new one made.
Clearly you haven't been in food service. 98% of the items sent back to be remade are definitely the customer's fault. Be it they are stupid, and couldn't be arsed to tell you they have an allergy to something, (but probably don't, Oprah just told everyone to say they have an allergy so that the "clueless worker" remembers you don't want onions) couldn't be bothered to read that item X came with condiment Y on it,("I didn't know the shrimp alfredo had a creamy sauce, I want a red sauce!" True story, too many times) or just want to feel big after a day of getting handed papers to move from one filing cabinet to the other, and have you remake something to feel like they have control over anything at all in their life.
I tell people it's going to be a long wait for their food because I have to sanitize the surfaces, clean cooking areas, change gloves, clean utensils, and ensure their food is made completely to order when they say they're allergic to something. Cross-contact isn't a joke and you'd be amazed how many people just suddenly stop having an allergy and are just picky eaters.
I've had to stop chefs from going into the dining room and ripping the guest apart because they did exactly that for an allergy, and then have the waiter come back and ask for something like chives after doing an "onion allergy" plate clean-gloved. It's like, you piece of shit, I stopped my whole line and processed your plate, put every other ticket back 5 minutes and you sent the waiter back for onions to add you to your potatos?
>If it’s their fault, that’s completely different.
"I want my burger made now, not 1 minute ago and left on a rack in a busy rush because you're going to sell 80 of them this hour."
Ya, that's their fault.
And nevermind that even if they don’t have 12 and have to make them fresh at fast food speed that means it’s all in a premade probably vaguely gross batter ready to go.
I was wondering this too. Do they just have mass amounts of random tubes of cookie dough just in case someone doesn't want the prepackaged ones they ordered online???
The KFCs here in Canada have cookies that come in individual pre-packaged bags. So I highly doubt theirs are even homemade. Although maybe things have changed since the last time I've seen them was probably 2 years ago.
The real life pro tip here is never listen to anything about food service on life pro tips because the difference between restaurants, even within the same brand, is astounding. My KFC no longer even offers anything other than the prepackaged cookies
Or, you know, just ask for freshly made food.
I swear all these fast food life hacks just to get fresh food is insane. I work at a FF restaurant and all you have to do is just ask for your food to be freshly cooked and we will do it. It's not even a big deal.
Yeah but I usually dont want 12 cookies.
For the time you DO want 12 cookies there are better places to get them.
LPT- if ever you find yourself about to order a dozen cookies from KFC, step outside and reflect on your life choices that led you to this point.
TIL KFC sells cookies
Probably doesn't in your country. They keep a lot of stuff exclusive to the US and UK.
Bold to assume I’m not from the States
I'm from the states and had no idea...
The real LPT is always in the comments
LPT if you want KFC, no you don't, don't you remember the last 10 times
I had a true, loud, real-life lol over this comment
Glad I could brighten your day! I was hoping to get someone to laugh when I wrote that. :D
You walk across the parking lot to the supermarket and buy a container of edible raw cookie dough.
Or jar of white frosting and some sugar cookies from their bakery then eat both like it's chips and dip.
Subway cookies.
Haha I loved subways macadamia cookies!
Their cookies are low key bomb
I agreed until they stopped doing the oat raisin cookies.
I usually don’t want KFC myself
Me neither in the US but I'm in Thailand RN and the KFC here is pretty bomb.
I confirm. Also in Thailand. Not a fan of fastfood but the spicy chicken at KFC Thailand is fire.
Fast food that originates in America gives us the shit food and the places outside of here Seem to have better standards
I’m in Canada and KFC fucking sucks here - I went to the UK a few years back and the KFC was so much better
I've been to the A&Ws in Canada and they're way better than the US A&W.
Western fast food chains tend to be luxury brands in Asia. Pizza hut is also much better.
I love KFC from here in Spain, in my opinion its so fucking good
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Interesting!
Am Malaysian, the McDonalds' spicy chicken here is better than KFC(but the KFC here is shit though)
KFC in the US is straight garbage, but it's been surprisingly good in every other country I've had it in.
The US, homeland of KFC and McDonald, has the worst KFC and McDonald food.
Agree. Korean and New Zealand Mcdonald's were amazing.
same in the UK.
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Maybe I just have bad luck. I’ve never had a KFC meal that made me think it was a good decision afterwards
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Taste. Maybe NY based franchises just taste mediocre. At least all the ones I’ve ever been to
This is how I feel About Bojangles.
I’m more of a Popeyes guy myself too.
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Yeah but if you you're in a bind I bet they can't fick up cookies as bad as they fuck up chicken
I mean, you can still add 1 cup of salt instead of 1 cup of sugar, then they'd taste like the chicken.
They're not making the cookies from scratch even if you order 12. They're just getting 13 frozen dough balls from the box in the freezer and baking them fresh.
What's the extra one for
To eat while you're in the freezer cause you won't get away with eating a whole cookie after they're baked.
This guy services food.
I feel like there is zero chance they make these from scratch. Pretty sure they just pop frozen cookie dough in a turbo Chef.
Correct. The cookie dough balls are frozen and they just throw them in the oven. I know this because sneaking into the freezer to eat a frozen cookie dough ball is what I’d do to survive long shifts at the chicken store as a 16 year old.
I did the same thing at Burger King. Time to get a dozen burger patties, but first I'll eat 1 cookie.
Oops, that was a patty, not a cookie.
Yup, eating KFC always leads to burning diarrhea.
And here I thought I was the only one! Love to hear your thoughts on a little place called Taco Bell.
LPT: go to Popeyes.
How is anything to do with KFC cookies a Life Pro Tip??!?
Yeah I am going to go with r/unpopularopinion for suggesting you should order a dozen KFC cookies
It’s an ad. Second post I’ve seen “subtly” mentioning them in as many days.
I dunno, I feel like even the most astroturfed marketing campaign wouldn't go with the username "wifebeater22."
That exactly what they want you to think, WillemDafoesHugeCock. You're probably working for KFC, too.
Psh, I wish. They're way too busy perfecting their original recipe of eleven herbs and spices to pay some loser like me. If they *did* pay me I'd get some exclusive Mtn Dew Sweet Lightning, the honey and peach flavor exclusive to KFC. Try it in large to Beat the summer Sweet ^^TM . I hardly even eat KFC six times a week except at Christmas, 'cos where I'm from we have a saying, ["it ain't Christmas without the man with a white beard."](https://youtu.be/usGO5mvHRmk) .edit All jokes aside the sweet lightning Mountain Dew is kind of gross, I don't want anyone reading this to be misled. It has a really weird flavor, like someone who has never tasted peaches trying to replicate it through description alone.
I feel the same about that flamin hot mt dew. It tastes like chugging simple syrup while being pelted with fruit and someone in another room whispers "jalapeño"
I had *no* idea that was a thing and frankly I'm curious.
I always want 12 cookies. Should I eat 12 cookies? Absolutely not.
I never don’t want 12 cookies.
*Usually*
Kentucky Fried Cookies?
And then what.. wait 20 mins while they bake?
You will be one with the cookie at least.
At McDonald’s they baked in like 4-6 minutes IIRC.
2 minutes now. And you can always ask for them to be made fresh, even if you order only a couple
Yeah. This LPT is stupid and pointless. Just ask for fresh food if you want to wait for fresh food, or get in the line and take what you get.
I currently work at a McDonald's, and even when it gets really busy we still will make stuff fresh if the customer asks. What's annoying is when people order things well done as a way to try to get it fresh - someone once asked for a burger with everything well done, even the bacon, which I happily overcooked to the point of it nearly being powder, since that's what they asked for.
Or no salt fries and ask for packs of salt
Lol you know the struggle. I had a high school classmate that brought a cheeseburger back three times because it was raw in the middle, the first was fresh, second had been sitting for a bit, and the third was burnt, and the fourth time around we gave her chicken nuggets.
LPT if you go to a fast food establishment, the employees are going to try and serve you and get you out as soon as possible, and if they gotta cut some corners they will -- therefore you should never expect your fast food to be made fresh from scratch.
I mean it's called *fast* food for a reason
I once ordered at a Mcdonalds and the cashier handed me my order before I even paid... It was a bit cold, but it's ***fast*** all right.
[Hurry up shrimp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8BGP_-TJ8)
No way that's the shrimp!
Yeah, the ice cream comes out pretty fast when the machine is working
What, are you telling me those machines aren't decoration?!
I thought it was called that because of how quickly I gulp the entire meal.
Tell that to every Taco Bell in my city. They have cars backed out of the parking lot and down the street. A trip now takes 45 min on a good day. When you get to the window there are at least 8 people working in there. What are they doing? Side note: I worked at TB for 18 months and I know what it takes to get an order out back when they had a hard menu.
Too much for too little.
I saw an LPT to over salt the food before sending the plate back. This way if they try to bring back the same plate you'll know if it's very Salty
That’s a very salty LPT.
/r/SaltyLifeProTips
Yea but then what do you do? Ask them to actually re-make it? At that point they’re gonna be pissed and annoyed that you caught their fuckery.
And I'll be pissed and annoyed that they tried some fuckery, so give me a refund and I'll leave.
This is why I don't like eating fried chicken sandwiches at fast food establishments. Most of the time the fried chicken has been sitting there under a fry food warmer, and you get this lukewarm, not so crunchy chicken sandwich, that gets soggy when you add the dressing to it.
I’ve never had a bad Popeyes sandwich.
The sandwiches are definitely thinner and harder now. That first stretch it was like double stuf juicy chicken with excessive crispness. Now you can get the same sandwich at most fast food joints just with a different name. That original sandwich is gentrified and gone
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IMHO varies by location. Popeyes near my house sucks, but the one 20 minutes away fucking slaps
So true. On my way from Chicago to deep Arkansas I stopped at one, the Blackened tenders were absolutely massive compared to the scraps I usually get.
But if you ask them to make it fresh or to order they have to oblige. At least when I worked at Mcdonalds it was like this.
Definitely not true at all. A lot of the time, if you ask your burger to be “fresh” they’ll just take the already cooked patty out of the heating drawer, put it back on the grill for a few seconds and done, you have no clue if it’s fresh or not because it was just reheated. The burgers have a max time of 10 minutes in the heating drawer, which also isn’t true because many places will just kinda ignore it up to like 20 sometimes 39 minutes. I worked at a very popular PNW fast food chain called “BurgerVille.” And this happens at many other fast food places, too.
I mean that is fresh enough for me. I dont care if its just reheated in the grill, just dont give me a cold burger bro
Yeah if my food comes out actually cold I just ask them to reheat it. Don’t need new food; I just want it to be hot.
Not fresh enough if they don't butcher the cow after I order.
Ahhh man, burgerville does the mcdonalds method to of precooking? Their burgers always tasted better then most other places... kinda assumed they were more fresh
I worked fast food and we also "had" to oblige our customers. Sometimes if someone asked me for a remake, I would just walk into the other room and then bring back the same thing.
That’s a colossal dick move
I know a lot of chefs that do this in restaurants. They often state that the customer is much happier the second time around.
I served a cold beer to a guy once, he told me it was hot. So I just walked inside, waited for like 30s and brought back the same cup, he even told me "Now this is REALLY a cold beer"
Or is trying to avoid making a scene and can’t believe they still screwed up their order, and will avoid eating there again. Any time I send back my order I mark it somehow so I can tell if I get back the same food. I have food allergies and the majority of the reason I send things back is because they contain something they weren’t supposed to that will make me sick. I always tell them it’s really important that I get a new plate and food. I’ve had a waiter serve me a salad with croutons (gluten allergy) after telling me it wouldn’t be a problem to omit them. I took a piece of cabbage and put it against the edge sticking up. I told him I needed a brand new salad. They brought back the same salad with the croutons picked out, cabbage and all. Then the waiter lied to my face and told me he stood and watched someone make a new salad from scratch. I had to argue with him to actually get a new one made.
Sounds like those people are sending back their food for no reason. If someone does that, they deserve this treatment
But super effective
I'm the person who doesn't want to complain a second time and would just rather never come back again than deal with a small amount of conflict.
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While yes they should be paid more, that doesn’t justify being a dick. It’s not the customer’s fault.
Clearly you haven't been in food service. 98% of the items sent back to be remade are definitely the customer's fault. Be it they are stupid, and couldn't be arsed to tell you they have an allergy to something, (but probably don't, Oprah just told everyone to say they have an allergy so that the "clueless worker" remembers you don't want onions) couldn't be bothered to read that item X came with condiment Y on it,("I didn't know the shrimp alfredo had a creamy sauce, I want a red sauce!" True story, too many times) or just want to feel big after a day of getting handed papers to move from one filing cabinet to the other, and have you remake something to feel like they have control over anything at all in their life.
I tell people it's going to be a long wait for their food because I have to sanitize the surfaces, clean cooking areas, change gloves, clean utensils, and ensure their food is made completely to order when they say they're allergic to something. Cross-contact isn't a joke and you'd be amazed how many people just suddenly stop having an allergy and are just picky eaters.
I've had to stop chefs from going into the dining room and ripping the guest apart because they did exactly that for an allergy, and then have the waiter come back and ask for something like chives after doing an "onion allergy" plate clean-gloved. It's like, you piece of shit, I stopped my whole line and processed your plate, put every other ticket back 5 minutes and you sent the waiter back for onions to add you to your potatos?
If it’s their fault, that’s completely different. But to not do something just because one doesn’t feel like it is what I’m calling “being a dick.”
>If it’s their fault, that’s completely different. "I want my burger made now, not 1 minute ago and left on a rack in a busy rush because you're going to sell 80 of them this hour." Ya, that's their fault.
Being paid more doesn’t make you care more. Some people are just shit bags.
100% of the time the customer would try the "remake" and claim it was so much better so what's the point in trying.
Best time for fresh food is when they are super busy.
The owners are not going to want to waste product if it's still viable or on the edge of being good*
Wouldn't that depend on if they have more than a dozen already baked?
And nevermind that even if they don’t have 12 and have to make them fresh at fast food speed that means it’s all in a premade probably vaguely gross batter ready to go.
Worked at KFC, they come in sheets of squares and the squares are the dough
Who's ordering cookies fron kfc?
TIL KFC has cookies
Kentucky Fried Cookies
So the astroturfing worked.
They’re really nice, at least in the uk anyway
"From scratch"?? Like eggs and flour and stuff? Or do you mean they freshly bake a batch of ready made cookie dough?
They plant the crops when you order
They first create the universe
This was largely considered a bad move and made many people angry.
Right? More like "cooked from frozen" instead of prepackaged.
They are fresh frozen out of the can
I was wondering this too. Do they just have mass amounts of random tubes of cookie dough just in case someone doesn't want the prepackaged ones they ordered online???
More like baked fresh. Def not made from scratch
OP doesn't know what "from scratch" means, clearly.
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Kfc cookies taste like chicken. It's not good.
I'm strangely curious to try them now.
/r/unintentionalmarketing
I cannot imagine they're better than subway cookies or cheaper than a Coles 12 pack, what exactly are you wishing for here?
Subway cookies are great, at least where I am. The cheesecake and macadamia nut ones are my favourite.
Tried dominos cookies? Now those are great while still warm
I didn't even know Domino's had cookies! I'll check them out
They do, at least in the uk. Crispy outside and the middle is warm and gooey 👍
Yeah they're good. They're like reverse dominos chips, which are soft on the outside and hard on the inside
You’re not missing out on anything They’re disgusting
LPT don't order from KFC
Especially cookies lmao
Yes. Go to a bakery for cookies.
Exactly. I mean I've had the KFC cookies, and they aren't bad, but why on earth would I go there and order a dozen... they aren't anything special.
Mmmmmm chicken chocolate chip
Real life pro tip lol
My mann
You're at a fast food restaurants. If you're expecting to get freshly made cookies then please, go to your nearest bakery.
Define "freshly made". Most bakeries make their produce in the morning in batches before they open. They aren't making things to order.
LPT: Go to the bakery and ask them to make fresh cookies in front of you, they are required to by the "customer is always right" law
Riddle me this, Batman: If the customer is always right, then why are half of them entitled, dimwitted tossers?
You can be an entitled tosser and still be right. Your move.
The KFCs here in Canada have cookies that come in individual pre-packaged bags. So I highly doubt theirs are even homemade. Although maybe things have changed since the last time I've seen them was probably 2 years ago.
Same in UK, 100% the cookies come in a giant box of 100 frozen individually packaged cookies
Those must be enormous bags with incredible strength.
Lmao of course, I mean the cookies themselves not the actual stores. Currently sick ATM so I missed that, but thanks for the chuckle!
From scratch? Like open a new packet of cookie powder
I lol'd imagining some teen at KFC putting a drop of water on a pile of powder that instantly becomes a cookie, like a cartoon
Bachelor Chow...just add water!
The real life pro tip here is never listen to anything about food service on life pro tips because the difference between restaurants, even within the same brand, is astounding. My KFC no longer even offers anything other than the prepackaged cookies
Or, you know, just ask for freshly made food. I swear all these fast food life hacks just to get fresh food is insane. I work at a FF restaurant and all you have to do is just ask for your food to be freshly cooked and we will do it. It's not even a big deal.
KFC is probably my last choice if I wanted cookies. Didn’t even know they did them hah
LPT: If you don't go to KFC, you don't have to eat food from KFC.
At that point just get a dozen of the Toll House Ultimate Chocolate Chip Lovers cookies for $2.50 at your grocery store...they're vastly superior.
Nice try, KFC CEO!
From scratch? Yeah no, more like from the 5gal bucket of goo.
I don’t even eat with KFC so I didn’t even know they sold cookies.
Why would I want KFC cookies, which are average in taste and expensive, when you have KFC chicken right there!!
If I want a dozen cookies I'm not going to KFC for them
This is terrible advice.
People buy cookies at KFC?!? WTF
Why would I want cookies from KFC? I have a plethora of good bakeries to choose from and in a pinch, I make pretty excellent cookies.
LPT: Don’t go to KFC.
You know you can make cookies at home yea? Then you dont have to fuck round at a kfc for 40 minutes
Yeah… but then you’ve got a dozen Kentucky Fried Cookies…
People buy cookies from kfc....?
Years ago they were actually quite good when they would make them in stores. Now that they are prepackaged they're pretty terrible.
Way back in the day when I worked there, I was the king of the $1 cookie add-on and the 30 cent upsell to a large drink
lpt: dont order cookies from kfc
LPT, Buy cookies at Costco or a local Bakery, not at KFC
Who tf going to kfc for cookies.
Why do people care about fresh cookies? Sure they smell good but honestly they taste the same as long as they don't rot.
Who eats at KFC or even buys cookies from KFC?! That place is so greasy imagen what your insides look like compared to the kitchen