- Oh, she wants some too,
she's like, "Please, can I have some more?"
- I love that she just swatted you on the leg.
Like, "Excuse me, I'm here."
(beep)
Hey guys, it's Candice the Edgy Veg
and I'm going to taste test
another fast food company for you guys.
So I did the Taco Bell, you guys loved it,
thought it was fun, I did it with my friend John.
It's just tortilla and lettuce.
- I didn't even get lettuce in mine.
- What I wanted to try next is the devil,
KFC.
(laughing)
There's been a lot of, like, blog posts
and articles coming out about
the veggie chicken burger that they have.
They're launching different versions
of it in different countries,
but I wanted to see if I could find one here in Toronto,
and also order one of everything vegan
on the menu and give it a quick taste test,
which was fun and daring
until we got there and realized
that they didn't have half the stuff we wanted.
So, we're going to do a pared down version
of this taste test.
I will preface this by saying that what we get in Canada
is very different than what you guys have in the States,
or you guys have in the UK, or Sweden,
or wherever else you are.
The menu items do change a little bit,
so before you go and order anything,
definitely look it up online,
some options are vegan, some are not.
So, what I ended up getting are--
well, we'll start with the burger here.
So this is the vegetarian chicken burger.
So it's vegetarian because it comes with mayo,
so I got it without the mayo,
so it's just a burger on a bun
with lettuce,
smushed to shit.
So I'm gonna be adding some of this mayo myself at home.
There's a lot of debate online about
whether the bun is vegan or not.
Again, it varies from country to country.
I looked at the ingredients for the Canada buns,
and there was nothing in there that would lead me
to believe that it's not vegan, so I got it on a bun,
but you can get it in a wrap if the buns
in the country where you live are not vegan.
This is what it looks like.
So this guy definitely, like, it's pretty thin,
it's a very thin burger.
It kind of looks just like your standard veggie burger,
it just, I guess they have, like, a chicken--
it's like a chicken cutlet, almost.
Whereas the one in the UK definitely
looks more like fried chicken.
Like, it has, like, more of a, like, crackly skin texture.
It looks a lot thicker and bigger.
Right off the bat, it looks a little sad.
The fries are vegan,
so we got that.
I will say that everything is fried in the same fryer,
so if that is a thing that bothers you,
you're kinda shit out of luck.
I don't really care.
I mean, for me, I just want
these companies to have vegan options,
so I'm happy to support them and
the more demand we create for them,
the more likely they are to keep them on the menu.
There's almost cross-contamination--
no, there's cross-contamination,
like, almost everywhere you go,
so it's very hard to not
come across some sort of cross-contamination,
whether it's in a fryer,
or you go to a restaurant or whatever.
Unless it's a fully vegan place.
I don't really care,
my veganism is more of a ethics than anything else.
I will also say that a lot of these options,
like, these kind of fast food options,
they're not really meant for vegans.
Like, it's nice to have something quick and on-the-go
if you're in a pinch, to go to a fast food place,
but this is the transition food for people
that are interested and curious.
Veg-curious, let's call them veg-curious.
This is for the veg-curious people that would like
to cut out meat from their diets or slowly try and do it,
and they want recognizable foods,
or transition foods, as I call them.
So this, even, I wouldn't even say that this is
necessarily geared towards vegans,
but I would say that before y'all blew up
my comments section with all that stuff.
The two sauces that are vegan are
the Sweet and Smoky Barbecue,
and then also the Southern Plum Sauce.
I'll tell you what is also vegan at KFC,
but the place near me just didn't have it,
apparently you can get the corn on the cob,
as long as you get it without butter,
the green beans are vegan,
the House Salad with the Golden Italian light dressing,
the KFC gravy, not the crackling gravy.
Oh, I hate even the name of that.
Apparently the original KFC gravy is vegan in Canada,
based on the ingredients,
and then the sweet barbecue dipping sauce,
like I said, and the plum sauce.
All right, should we try this thing?
I'm going to add some mayo to it,
because it's gonna be very, very dry.
Why I'm doing this on my sofa
and not near a table is beyond me.
I'm trying to add an amount that a fast food would add.
So, I feel like it's always, like, the biggest,
globbiest amount of mayo ever.
I don't know that this would fill me up,
but I'm also a burger queen,
so I can eat, like, three in one sitting.
Yeah, it tastes like a chicken burger.
So I will say, this chicken thing
kind of tastes like any other
like, vegan chicken nugget, or chicken finger thing
that you can buy at a store that's vegan or vegetarian.
The breading is that kind of, like, KFC--
definitely, it's that, KFC-like flavor punch in the face,
with their, like, 12 secret spices
or whatever the hell it is. I dunno if that's in there,
but this is kind of what I remember KFC tasting like.
This actually reminds me of the chicken sandwich
from Burger King that I used to have as a kid.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not mad at it.
It's good if I'm in a pinch, if I'm on a road trip
and I need somewhere to eat really quick.
Would this be my first choice, like, in life?
No. You know, if I was on a road trip and this was
what I could eat on the side of the road, I'd eat it.
Do you wanna try one?
I got you one too (muffled speaking)
I remember fast food, as a child,
like, being so excited and, like, delicious and fun-looking,
and now, every time we do this--
- It's not as exciting.
- It's, like, sad.
- It kind of looks like one of those sort of store-bought
I bought this in a box with,
like, eight other pieces of chicken.
Like, vegan chicken.
I think it's cool that brands are adopting
this more frequently, cause it means that people
who aren't vegan are, like, slowly transitioning.
- Exactly.
- Partially, it's like, corporations,
like, they're driven by money.
If you say you want more people to go vegan,
and then these companies are obliging,
and then you get mad at these companies for doing that,
kind of backwards.
Like, ultimately, maybe everything they do
doesn't align with your morals or ethics,
but at least it's a shift.
Oh, Harley stole a fry!
(laughing)
At least they're moving in that direction.
It's better than nothing,
and that, you're voting with your dollar.
So it shows, like, more companies
will have faith in doing more product.
I mean, it's not like--
it's not bad.
It doesn't taste like, when you think of,
like, KFC chicken, you're gonna feel
like, really crackly, and--
I mean, I know you don't like that word,
but that like, really crunchy texture.
It doesn't really remind me of that,
but it does give me the same kind of spice combination.
Like, I'd eat this again. - Me too.
You wanna go to London and try some UK KFC?
- I mean, I'm not--I'm not down.
(laughing)
- I remember KFC fries being better.
- You know, this reminds me a little bit
of the McDonald's McChicken.
It has the same kind of, like, texture.
So I will say, like, it does nail the chicken--
like, the fake chicken feel, cause that,
like, those McChickens aren't really chickens.
I mean, it's questionable as is--
- Right. - But like,
mouth-feel wise, it does feel like meat,
so I think that you could be happy with that,
but like, don't go into this expecting
like a bucket of chicken from KFC.
- No. - No.
- All right, well, I was expecting this taste test
to be a lot more fun with all the sides and everything.
Now we know.
- And now you know.
- All right guys, well, let me know
what menu item you want us to try next.
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