In the event you’re a fan of KFC’s Well-known Bowls, get able to be stunned (heh) by the hen chain’s latest providing, the similarly-themed-but-even-more-tater-filled Smash’d Potato Bowl. I get the road of considering: fried hen is commonly eaten with sides, which are sometimes potato-based, and mentioned potato-based sides usually include toppings, so why not give clients a meal that “smashes” all of those favorites collectively in a single forkful (or, within the case of the utensil my native KFC supplied, sporkful)?
This bowl begins with a base of mashed potatoes, that are then lined in a layer of fries, doused with cheese sauce, after which sprinkled with bacon bits. (The press launch says there’s a three-cheese mix thrown in as nicely, however my meal gave no indication of that, so it was both actually well-hidden or simply not essential sufficient to be remembered). You’ll discover that I didn’t truly point out hen as a result of it’s elective. In the event you go for it, it comes within the type of 5 nuggets. Vegetarians, although they will not be KFC’s target market, rejoice! … Oh, wait, there may be nonetheless bacon even within the nugget-less variant, so vegetarians, cease rejoicing! Anyway, KFC’s nuggets are too “finger lickin’ good” for me to withstand, so in fact I had so as to add them.
All of those substances sound fairly promising, however sadly, throwing them collectively didn’t actually wow me. Actually, what the haphazard mishmash made me consider greater than something was a faculty cafeteria lunch. The mashed potatoes had been silky, pleasantly avoiding the grittiness and graininess that may typically creep in, however that they had an odd aftertaste that made me wish to concentrate on the opposite substances as a lot as potential. The fries had been extra scrumptious than I’d thought they’d be, crispy and savory on the surface however surprisingly and appealingly delicate on the within, however one thing about consuming fries and mashed potatoes collectively did really feel a bit ridiculous, even for an admittedly whimsical eater like me.
The skinny, barely tangy cheese sauce, to be frank, was gas-station high quality. And whereas the bacon bits truly did impress me with how chewy and not-stringy they had been, they had been so concentrated within the heart that the surplus saved falling from my spork and getting lodged within the nooks and crannies of the bowl, so whereas they appeared fairly plentiful, most of them didn’t make it to my mouth. It didn’t shock me that KFC’s well-known hen, so juicy and zesty, was my favourite half by far, but it surely’s unhappy to assume that the perfect little bit of that is the one which’s elective.
KFC’s Smash’d Potato Bowl does ship on the starch-stuffed combo it guarantees, however your mileage might differ: the extra noticeable factor it delivered for me was a hankering for a plain outdated order of hen and fries — maintain the elusive bacon, synthetic-tasting mash, and underwhelming cheese, please.
Bought Worth: $7.61
Ranking: 6 out of 10
Diet Info: 760 energy. Different dietary info was unavailable on the time of overview.
