Behold KFC’s newest menu item: Bacon, pepper jack and Swiss cheese and Colonel’s sauce, all sandwiched between two Original Recipe fillets.
It’s only available in Providence, R.I., and Omaha, Neb.
If the sandwich is successful in those cities, it’ll pop up on menus elsewhere.
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KFC chicken twister
An 11-year-old Australian girl, Monika Sumaan, claims that she developed brain damage after eating a KFC chicken twister (fried chicken strips in a pita wrap) when she was 7. She is suing KFC-operator YUM! Restaurants Australia for $10 Million.
According to WalletPop.com, her lawyers claim that the fast food chain gave her a salmonella-contaminated chicken twister, which caused Monika to develop salmonella encephalopathy and salmonella septicemia. This rare form of salmonella eventually brought on intellectual disability, spastic quadriplegia and liver dysfunction.
Monika ate part of a chicken twister and shared some with her parents and older brother on October 4, 2005, in Villawood, a suburb of Sydney. The whole family became ill, but Monika collapsed. The Sumaans were all rushed to the hospital by ambulance, where medical specialists found that they all had a common strain of salmonella.
Monika Sumaan, before contracting salmonella
Monika’s lawyers claim that their food poisoning came from the Villawood KFC’s unhygienic practices, such as dropping chicken on the floor, picking it back up and serving it to customers. They said that Monika’s current disabilities are a result of the “disturbing” and “unsettling” practices at the restaurant.
Yum! Restaurants Australia spokesman Nick Bryden claims that KFC wasn’t the cause. According to FOXNews.com, Bryden said that “KFC’s supplier also confirmed that routine tests showed that the chicken supplied to the store contained none of the alleged strain of salmonella.”
All of this comes in the wake of other Sydney-area KFCs being fined $73,125 by the State Government due to breaches of food hygiene laws, after an investigation by the Food Authority.
Read more about this here: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/08/03/kfc-chicken-twister-causes-brain-damage-says-11-year-old-sui/