So a couple of years ago, perhaps over a decade, every kid in the western world decides to fatten up like oompaloopas and all of a sudden we have an obesity pandemic. Problem at hand needs solving and being humans, we like to take the easiest way out. Bugger the effort of exercising. Let's just blame someone!
The first in line to suffer the wrath of bubble-wrap politics were fast-food restaurants. Fair enough too, for walking into a McDonald's used to automatically equate to an extra five minutes of your life lost. However, under immense pressure from health experts, family groups, and cows, McDonald's changed its ways. Healthy was the new cool, and ordering an apple from Maccas became the new thing. It's a pity that people who do order this said apple are met with glares of bemusement and genuine calls of "wtf?!". The 6 year old kid working the counter obviously has no idea what an apple is judging by his face. "App...Appel?"
Anyway, all of society's other notoriously unhealthy, saturated-fat havens caved in likewise. Except for one.
KFC ... Mmmmmm. All-star boxes and ultimate burger meals would remain soaked in sodium and drenched in palm oil. "Bugger what the others say! We're keeping our recipe the same. If you die of heart failure it's your own damn fault!" And that was quite a real prospect too, since consuming palm oil is the equivalent of clamping your main artery at three different points with metal clothes pegs.
But alas, those days are over since KFC (in Australia) have finally buckled, and will now use healthy oil. No palm oil?! Palm oil was the secret recipe Colonel Sanders conjured up when he wasn't funding the KKK (probably a rumour but eh ...). Not only that, but there's now going to be less salt!
I used to love you KFC .... *sniff*
