Location: 3401 Dufferin Street, North York (inside Yorkdale)
Website: https://www.kfc.ca/
The Festive Chicken Sandwich at KFC is one of those things you pretty much have to try. Or maybe that’s just me? Maybe normal people don’t feel an odd compulsion to try every weird new thing from a fast food joint? Who can say!
The KFC website describes the Festive Chicken Sandwich as “buttermilk marinated chicken fillet and savory stuffing, drizzled with buttery garlic oil, plant-based mayo and cranberry sauce.”
It’s an amazing idea in theory, though in execution, it’s just okay. The main problem is that the fried chicken and the stuffing are both so salty that the whole thing adds up to a pretty serious salt bomb.
I’ve never particularly thought about how much KFC’s fried chicken kinda has the same flavour profile as cheap, store-bought stuffing — but once you’re eating them at the same time, it’s pretty much all you can notice.
The cranberry sauce is actually pretty essential to offset some of the sandwich’s saltiness and cut through the richness a bit, but there wasn’t that much of it, and there’s only so much it can do.
As for the “buttery garlic oil,” if it was there, it was completely overwhelmed by the chicken and the stuffing. I couldn’t taste it.
Otherwise, the sandwich was fine. The chicken itself was pretty dry and had obviously been sitting out a bit, and the overall flavour is very one-note salty. But it’s not unpleasant to eat, I guess.
Michael Eats 