It’s too bad this thing’s not real, because otherwise I’d be on my way to try one right now

Some fellow named Me Gusta at Brain Residue created a minor Internet stir today with a phony KFC test sandwich, the Skinwich, purportedly five layers of fried chicken skin with american cheese and bacon on a bun.

If the name weren’t enough to give away the hoax, the guy made it pretty clear by saying that test stores were located on Colbert Blvd. in Ekaf, Maine, the corner of Third and Twain in Tihsllub, Oklahoma, and on Dense St. in Eritas, California. Read the town names backwards.

Furthermore, anyone with any good sense should realize that KFC would never put out a sandwich like that without some sort of special sauce on it. That should give up the joke immediately.

Nonetheless, it’s a funny idea for a delicious-sounding sandwich, made all the more hilarious by the guy’s scathing writeup. The sandwich looks like this:

Straight up, that thing looks amazing. Maybe a little too good, really — like the product shot of the Skinwich, not like the Skinwich you’d actually get if you went to KFC and ordered it. Anyway, shame they’re not really making this thing because it’s practically begging for a TedQuarters review.

Also, and perhaps funniest of all, some clever asshat at Geekologie didn’t get the joke and wrote a whole post ripping the thing.

4 thoughts on “It’s too bad this thing’s not real, because otherwise I’d be on my way to try one right now

  1. Dang, I had to read this at lunchtime, didn’t I? Now I’m REALLY hungry. And that sounds brain-meltingly good. I hope some exec at KFC reads this, because my wife would kill me if I made one myself.

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