Food Theory: The Conspiracy that ENDED Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
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Do you remember when KFC used to stand for Kentucky Fried Chicken? Maybe you didn't know that they officially changed their name! Loyal Theorists, we've already solved one of KFC's biggest mysteries - the secret recipe. Now, we are tackling the mystery of the big name change and what made them do it!
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I personally love the idea of a company creating an entirely different species of mutant chickens. Sounds like a good plot to a horror movie.
The Birdemic?
yup
Sounds like resident evil ,and im loving the idea
@@fen_scrawl04 no don’t give them more ideas
There is an arg abt smth similar, happy meat farms i think.
Another reason why they may have formally adopted "KFC" - it's cheaper for franchisees to buy signage for three letters than for 20. An image of the Colonel's face with three letters also stands out more vividly on signs when space is limited.
Oh, nice!
I thought this was the obvious reason
James Coney Island has done this recently enough. They shortened to JCI
Aight, lemme go fact-check that lol
@@protogaming4295 Please do. I'm not immune to the Mandela effect.
The version of the theory that I heard was that they were engineered to have no eyes, beaks or feet. It wasn't just the feathers that were missing.
Thats gruesome
I absolutely remember my teacher in high school going over this and they wanted us to draw a picture of what they thought this would look like. Ah memories!!
There’s nothing more American than trademarking a state name and suing people who already use it
Heheheh
Yeah
@Keebe The Kirby plush he isn’t abusing it for comment likes if he hasn’t deleted every single video and changed his name to a one word thing. Those people who abuse the check mark are the ones who make videos, deletes every single one then changed to name to “yes” or something like that. Shorthax is different because he’s an actual big CZcams channel who comments, not a commenter with a big CZcams channel
Yea. Except for the fact that this didnt even happen.
Why czcams.com/video/FSSFgWlDbJU/video.html…
is it just me, or does Food Theory have a COMPLETELY different, if not opposite vibe, than Film Theory or Game Theory? Like, Film Theory and Game Theory is all about proving the absolutely insane to even consider, and then Food Theory is all like "Stop being so weird, there are no real conspiracy theories with food, calm down"
I've never really thought about it, but you are right.
But it makes total sense. Game theory and film theory are about fictional properties, but food theory is mostly about real life.
Culinary arts student here but the most insane theory on food I can give is the fact you can eat a chicken when set on
165 for 1 second, this is true according to law, and it is kind of useless when you want good chicken, 5 minutes minimum for that
To be fair, out of any of these topics, you can mostly prove food related stuff in your own kitchen with very basic instruments... Not really much need for odd extrapolations.
@@Jaseoffire yeah that’s pretty much true
Yeah because food theory applies to real life situations and in real life there usually isn't such extreme conspiracies. And sure they often aren't really there in the others either but it's entirely unharmful to say something wacky about Mario, whereas it could be harmful to claim something wild to the extremes of GT and Film Theory about something as necessary and irl as food.
Being someone who used to work at KFC, I can tell you... Their chickens absolutely have feathers, and the meat pieces tend to be pretty average sized. The employees are required, and often find themselves, pulling the feathers out before breading it.
I love that at 6:44 you had a capture of Weird Al from the "Aluminum Foil" music video. Perfect song for alot of your content.
As someone who has worked at a KFC, if these chickens aren't "chicken", they certainly aren't featherless. Trust me, there's too many feathers that have to get plucked by the cook for that to be the case.
How much they paying you to say thisM
@@tracylovesherselftracy3108 not enough. Trust me.
To be fair, they actually only have half their feather count compared to other chicken
@@ceedubelu i worked there too and i was a cook who had to pluck feathers
some of them even end up still in the chicken
2:18 As a former KFC fry cook, I can confirm the chicken (or mutant meat) is not featherless. It arrived mostly featherless, but I still had to do a little plucking here and there.
Thanks for explaining!
QUICK WHATS THE KFC CHICKEN STRIP RECIPE
@@Happy_spider_boi Same as the fried chicken recipe, but with chicken strips.
@@Happy_spider_boi spray the chicken using a money gun
@@brrrrrr bro it comes to the kitchen with the batter already and frozen... what feathers are you plucking
I worked at KFC, I fried that chicken, I breaded that chicken, I pulled that chicken out of pre-organized and inventory bags of raw chicken, the only thing I could possibly call fake chicken in the entire place would be nothing, all I have to say is go work at a KFC for a few days and find out for yourself, then quit.
Because they honestly don’t pay enough for the work that you do there.
Chain letters (or Chain texts) were a BIG trend in my old school near the end of the year. They most of the time had manifestation and conspiracy attached that was honestly kinda scary 😢
That photo of Mat is like 10 years old, but MatPat still looks exactly like it
Yeah he looks so young
Or is it Mat?
Why the heck does this specific comment have so many spam comments
KFC Conspiracies are a certain kind of thing you don't expect to say when you wake up,but here it's basically like a funtime reunion--beautiful.
Same
This comment may one day be second!
You woke up at noon???
Why czcams.com/video/FSSFgWlDbJU/video.html…
Wait.. you just woke up?
It's almost the end of the day to me lmao
I have been bingy watching your videos since I found this channel a few weeks ago. I love these videos.
A conspiracy about KFC while I grow up in Asia: KFC makes the chicken mutate to grow out more legs and wings, so they can sell more legs and wings. It scared me so much, that I never been to a KFC until I moved to Canada years ago.
You have officially made me crave KFC, well played MatPat.
“The mutant chicken theory is what grabbed everyone’s attention and managed to stick around for 3 decades”
Tbh this is the first I’ve ever heard of this theory lol
There are reasons why the theory persists, iirc there was additional videos of an alleged KFC employee being filmed preparing a chicken burger order using PINK SLIME.
PinkSlime itself got into a controversy after the media made sensationalized reporting about it.
@@rashidisw You mean the nugget paste lol
@@rashidisw
Wasn’t that McDonald’s?
Same
@@rashidisw
Also to be fair, using ‘pink slime’ to describe the beef was always retarded. People who say it have nothing to show but theatrics of their disgust, which is really funny because if you put cubes of beef Chuck into a grinder it hardly looks like that coming out.
Food theory suggestion: What are the most optimized toppings and flavors for froyo. Froyo is priced by weight so you could figure out what toppings and flavors can get to 500 calories with the least weight.
That's actually a really good idea, it would be a very helpful video, and it's one that I think would be really interesting
Why is 500 calories the goal for a low-cal ice cream alternative? I mean, I get you'd need to pick a metric for optimization but that one seems counterproductive
@@Oblitherator28 im thinking they want a theory for the most volume of serving for the least cost per weight.
@@Oblitherator28 Your point is valid from a nutrition standpoint and I'd mostly agree with you, but this question is considering the price as more important than the food quality itself.
CANCEL The Food Theorists! It's not REAL theory.
That intro was enough to get my like! I love your vids keep em up!
7:50 i love seeing ridiculously rich companies and organizations try to bully people into paying them for no goddamn reason, and get absolutely jibbed.
One of my favorite versions of the "mutant chicken" story is the claim that KFC started genetically-engineering chickens with extra legs so they would be able to manufacture more drumsticks... only to find that the chickens were now too fast to catch.
…so Happy Meat Farms?
Squidbillies
I remember that (or something like that) being in a joke book
I remember Ronald Reagan telling this joke
KFC's trying to supply us with extra food, but they may accidentally create an army of mutant multi-legged featherless chickens...
I remember the whole "It's a chicken without a brain' argument that people were pushing about KFC and genuinely not understanding why they thought that would be a _bad_ thing. It's a meat animal that _cannot feel pain_ or at least _couldn't remember it_ . This would have been an actual win, as long as it wasn't notably worse for you than bog standard chickens.
So they’re vegan
I hope it happens some day. To eat delicious chicken without having to murder a conscious creature would be pretty nice.
Reminds me of the HHGG cow that is smart enough to explain in great detail why it wants you to eat it. X'D
@@thunderbolt64_ i mean technically itd still be an animal, jellyfish and sponges are animals but they have no brains, im an animal i have no brain,
I agree. Why is mutating some meat animals to be MORE HUMAINE wrong??? I can understand if they wanted to change all chickens, since it would be impossible to get eggs any more, but for meat chickens it would be okay.
Every episode, I get more hungry and want to eat the food that is presented.
I actually already watched that audition video and your voice is spectacular. Not new information but it’s still worth saying.
Does a chicken with a "shrunk bone structure" even make sense, when you want to have more meat?
I mean...doesn't meat/muscles need bones to "grow" on?
So wouldn't it make more sense to grow a chicken with enhanced bone structure, so muscles have more surface area to develop?
The idea was that it would be the same size or volume, but there'd be less space taken up that consists of bone, leaving more space for meat, but the connection you are thinking of is just scaling up proportions, larger bones leads to larger meaty section = larger overall chicken. Yea ratios make sense but its not as intriguing as the scientifically impossible
Bizarrely while I worked there for about 7 years we sometimes had to purchase raw product from the Albertsons next door. The Albertsons chicken WAS NOTICABLY larger in all factors than the chicken we got through our suppliers. We couldn't accurately cook this outsourced chicken normally due to how much larger the pieces were so had to use 2x the cooking racks to not have raw portions.
I would think you'd want big, jacked chickens. Like those Belgian Blue cows that are all disgustingly shredded, but chickens.
Wonder if they ever tested raising chickens in a elevated oxygen environment in order to get a bigger bird.
@@Norsedragoon im curious if thatd even work for chickens, theyre not exactly working out
A week or two ago while working, I served someone that looked exactly and sounded exactly like MatPat, I swear if he randomly makes a food theory video about Cinnabon I'm going to shat myself
Huh. Neat!
Honey, you met Matpat I'm sure
@@silvertheorist Nice to meet you, sure.
@@silvertheorist What?
@@johnbiluke8406 I'm speculating that if op met someone who sounded and looked like Matpat, it might just actually be Matpat
1:01 what about C.T
Consumption theory
2:51 literally the rap has fried chicken in it tho 😄
Hey Matpat, you should make a video on Jollitown, a TV series based off the mascots of Jollibee, a fast food restaurant chain. I want to know the lore behind the creation of the half food half kid mascots!
Fun fact, there was a fnaf fangame called Jollibee's that was taken down!
@fax ummmm wut
*gasp* yus
i know jollitown, but tbh is there really some deep conspiracy theories there?
Maybe this will be Mat's first Jollibee theory video :o
@@bedheadead Maybe if turing statues into real beings is actually property damage??? :p
I had heard that the Colonel required all stores to give discounts to older people (or some other distinction) as long as Kentucky Fried Chicken was in existence. So....they changed the name to avoid this stipulation. The nice thing about bullshit is the widely varied fragrances thereof.
That was a thing at one point and shortly after being rebranded kfc they dropped it.
I remember this very well. I remember my grandmother taking me there one day and I asked if we could get something different instead but she said she got a discount due to her age if we went there instead of somewhere else.
When Yum Brands took over KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell all of them drastically started to decline in quality and customer service year after year. I stopped going to all of them ages ago.
...this happens to many food service companies that are a publicly traded company. To keep their stocks going up, the sacrifice has to come from the customer's end. All three had much better food in the early 1980s, late 1970s.
i heard this as well. Military, civil service, and those with obvious disabilities, plus young mothers included. Effectively 10% of the US population at the time he owned the franchise
Random dump of ideas:
-The Gros Michel, the most widely available commercial variety of banana, went extinct. They had to replace it with another type of banana, the Cavendish, which is now also at severe risk of extinction.
-The American Chestnut was the most prominent variety of Chestnut in the United States, but it also went extinct. The song "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" refers to these chestnuts.
-Acorns are edible, and were used by many native american tribes to make bread. Maybe you could go out and find some acorns and make something out of them.
-Raspberries are not berries.
-Corn was created by the native americans out of a scarcely recognizable grass called Teosinte. It looked nothing like modern corn, like, at all.
-Potatoes are nightshades. Every part of the plant except for the tuber is deadly poisonous. Early European settlers thought that even the tubers were toxic, and were originally brought to Europe as ornamental (decorative) plants.
-Apple seeds and apricot pits are toxic as well.
-Tomatoes are nightshades as well, and are not native to Italy. They are native to Mexico and never reached Italy until the voyages of Christopher Columbus. The Romans had a pizza-like food that was also very similar to modern Focaccia, but it was only ever made with pesto.
-Cashews are related to poison oak and have similar toxicity unless prepared correctly. Poison oak isn't actually toxic, but 90 percent of people have some kind of allergy. I myself have rubbed up against it many times and never gotten an allergy, but it can develop over time even if you're immune.
-Fugu, the pufferfish, is extremely deadly if prepared improperly, but is a delicacy in Japan.
-Marshmallows were originally made from a plant called the marsh mallow.
-Grass is edible! (But not very nutritious)
-Why don't more people eat insects? We eat their close relatives crabs and lobsters, which not too long ago were viewed in the same light. I'm genuinely curious, could you do a video on this?
-Why do doritos taste so good? Another stupid question I have.
-Lobsters can live up to 100 years, and never die unless either something (like me) eats them or they have trouble molting.
-It takes 40 gallons of raw maple tree sap to make one gallon of purified maple syrup.
-Are clams, oysters, and mussels vegan? They are not sentient and don't feel pain, as far as I know. What stops them from being considered vegan?
-Are oreos vegan?
I don't eat sea insects. Anymore... delicacy my cockroach...
Some answers and more rabbit holes:
Doritos taste so good because MSG. That's the magic!
The chestnut is making a comeback in America! Thanks to industrious americans.
Strawberries are not berries
Tomatoes are not vegetables, nor peppers. And yes both from the America's, south americas. Also the plumeria.
Apples contain arsenic. Mostly in the skin. Perhaps that's what's in the seeds too?
Some vape liquid is vegan. Though I don't know what vaping and being vegan have to do with each other... maybe they taste the nicotine? It is a plant 😂
Google says clams and the like are animals and not vegan safe.
There's not a horse alive today that wasn't shaped by mankind's hand. The closest is the prezwalski horse (probably butchered that!) But even it's genetics are tainted by human hands.
The Ford class carrier is 1092ft long. That's 3 American football fields with room in between for hot dog stands and a some fair rides.
Canada has a national maple reserve like the USA has a gold reserve. Both under guard as well
The holy land argues which religion lived there first when it wasn't any of them. It was pegans.
Rubber was originally from a rubber tree. The song woops there goes another rubber tree plant was in reference to war in the region of the world they were grown.
Hot peppers are a psychedelic that make you think your burning so you don't eat the fruit. It only effects mammals because we digest the seeds. It's the plant trying to be selective, but it never met humans! I'm fairly certain they are related to cannabis. The general structure is about identical. The major differences are leafs and fruits, they are also both psychoactive. I've grown both if that helps too.
The chicken is the evolved form of the velociraptor. Think where your future might be headed! And if you wonder what dinosaur tastes like, now you know. Like chicken tacos!
If the building blocks of life were alien. Does that make us all alien.
Why has life been a never ending arms race since the mouth evolved? Or was it the a$$ hole?
Coffee might be doomed with global warming. Global projections surpass its tolerable conditions for survival.
Batteries are basically crushed up rocks on fly paper made of metal all rolled up with some leads to positive and negative. And yet a rechargeable drill battery goes as high as $300.00 from Milwaukee.
Most olive oil in the grocery store isn't 100% olive oil. When they say blend, they don't mean a blend of olive oils. So if your trying to get the health benefits of olive oil. You're adversely effecting yourself with not olive oil.
Not all cinnamon is equal. In the US if it just says cinnamon it's cassia cinnamon, where if it's the real good stuff it will say Ceylon cinnamon. In the EU cassia can't even be labeled as cinnamon. The difference is notable. Ceylon cinnamon is much softer on the palate and way better hands down. It is also healthier. If taking cinnamon as a supplement use Ceylon. Regular cinnamon has much more inflammatory ingredients in it. Or if you care about cinnamon at all for baking, use Ceylon. The brits won't even let anything else be called cinnamon.
Balsamic vinegar is a crazy industry. The real stuff has regulations similar to champagne and little bottles can sell for $100 or more. I can tell you a 10 dollar little bottle is way better than an 8 dollar normal bottle. But I draw the line somewhere...
Terminator keeps mulling over judgment day because it's pretty sure one day it's finally going to happen. Meanwhile jurassic park is trying to sell mutant dinosaurs to battle tanks and kamikaze drone armies...
Speaking of which. America's new anti vehicle drone replaces the javelin. Increasing range by 10x and reducing cost from 250,000 to 10,000 each.
Pinky and the brain was the best cartoons! "Tonight pinky, we are going to take over the world"
Yes, Oreos are vegan. The creme doesn’t actually contain any dairy.
These ideas seem cool so i'll sub to u :D
So impressed that your research was better than all of those big name publications!
(Sorry for grammer issues.)
Food Theory Idea: What Sports Drink is really the best Sports Drink.
Basically, what it would entail is going over the most popular sports drinks and even water, and then seeing which drink makes the athlete perform the best and what drink is the healthiest. I think it would be a good and honestly useful Food Theory Episode, that would be a great M.O.R.T.Y.
No beverage (unless it’s laced with a drug like coke🤣🤣🤣) will really enhance performance... sports drinks basically just replenish lost salts, water, etc which prevents cramping of muscles (chocolate milk or a banana and some water does the same thing).... so performance isn’t enhanced perse but you are preventing issues just as stretching prevents issues (also many ppl don’t like drinking a lot of water so the flavoring of sports drinks helps them drink more and stay hydrated)... it’s more for sports that take a lot of energy over a long period and thus preventing muscle cramps is beneficial... but FR there are top athletes who do coke and that’s why they’re on another level 🤷🏼♀️ Most just aren’t stupid enough to get caught unlike an NFL hopeful who not only did coke but dealt it while on a full scholarship and was dumb enough to record on tapes doing it and dealing (and keep all the tapes) 🙄
@@candicecart9786 there's another aspect as well (though also isn't restricted to sports drinks). The "wall" (or at least on of them) people hit during physical exertion is glycogen depletion; basically your body is saying, "ack! We've run out of the energy we have on hand! We need to stop or we will starve!". However, a sweet liquid in your mouth settles the "starvation panic" of your body and makes it easier to keep going as your body starts converting energy stores into glycogen; you don't even need to swallow it, just swish it around your mouth. So the sugars in sports drinks DO, potentially, help athletes to reach their potential by lowering the "wall".
Sports drinks are such a scam. The marketing of "electrolytes" is ridiculous. You should not consume that many vitamins. Every time I've tried those drinks they make me sick.
I don't know, the water and the pbj video already covered a lot of athletes' intake before and during a game.
This is the funniest thing... I just did a huge science project about the exact same thing! Coca-Cola is easily the worst, Red Bull and other hyper-caffeinated drinks don't help at all. Caffeine doesn't help with energy. Would love to see if he got similar results!
Occam's Razor: The simplest answer is often the correct one.
Of the theories listed here, the one where it was just a business decision to navigate an otherwise hostile market is the simplest compared to mutant chickens and trademark laws.
Yea>..
Actually that’s inaccurately paraphrased. It’s more like when you have 2 explanations that both have the same end result, it is better to pick the one that requires the least amount of assumptions. I might be wrong in that interpretation so fact check me
I feel like Occam's Razor applies to most things like this. As much as we may want to believe that there's something sinister and more interesting going on, the answer is, most likely, much simpler than we'd like to think.
Plus. They call the actual food. Chicken.
If they had to change the name of the restaurant because they didn't serve chicken. They also wouldn't be allowed to call the actual food Chicken
@@rubenaguilar6277 Well that interpretation still applies here; the "business decision" theory requires fewer assumptions and logical leaps than the other two.
Lol am I the only one who sings along whenever the MORTY intro come up in a video? The tune is just so catchy!
I guess it depends on the source of the chicken. Others have mentioned they had to pluck feathers. Well, as a former KFC cook in Western Canada, our chicken was sourced from Lillydale. I rarely ever had to remove a feather, but I did have to remove "guts" (ie: liver remnants) from the thigh pieces. Used to have to rip the tails off, too.
The best part about using Lillydale chicken was the pieces were HUGE. Used to have a hard time racking a whole bag. Often would struggle with pieces touching (which was a big KFC no-no) but there was nothing you could really do about it. The girls up front often had a hard time packing 20 pieces into a bucket - the lid wouldn't go on!
I ate so much chicken that spring. *sigh* I loved it.
So as a meat chicken farmer, whom one of our main customers happens to be KFC I can confirm that no, sorry MatPat. Mutant chickens do not exist. At all.
Broilers are well bred to grow VERY quick, but they are 100% real, normal, living breathing walking chickens.
....however lab grown meat is 100% a real thing that's being developed. It's not mutant chickens, but it is pretty crazy to think about
I don't think he said anything about it being real.
Mat came to this exact same conclusion, did you even watch the video?
@@mr.p215 he was probably just affirming what he said and added more info
@@sirseseme "no, sorry Mat" gives me less the idea of affirming what Mat said and more saying, you are wrong, mutant chickens aren't real
@@mr.p215 did you watched the end of the video. He says that if someone has information about the mutant chicken theory he would love to hear it.
I feel like pretty much that you nailed a pretty good conversation starter there with the selective breeding. You know if you really want to go down the mutant chicken road that's probably the closest you're going to get
Selective Breeding is time consuming, and have to eyeball the trait changes to keep.
@@Aereto Not if they know what they're already looking for and know what to breed to get it, like is done with the Cornish Cross chicken.
The end about the coffee just makes me wanna work for him lol i love coffee
0:02 can I interest you in everything all of the time? A little bit of everything all of the time?
Good taste
The back of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup packaging (the big bag) says that they go with literally everything. Please, test it Matpat.
(Everyone else, please report all bots)
I have reported the bots only cause they were attacking me before
I always report the bots that are comment threads and bitcoin scammers who say to go with a specific person then several accounts who have just opened and commented once say to give a specific person money to buy bitcoin.
Reese's is just mars without caramel
You got bombarded with bots because you said bots
I was being bombarded before I said bots
I’m disappointed that you didn’t cover the other lost legend of KFC, the one where they plan to breed spider chickens, aka chickens with extra drumsticks and wings because of the higher demand for those pieces of meat vs say chicken breasts.
As far as Morty, I will put 2 in
1) Mary Poppins is a tardis
2) from Star Trek lower decks, the “Clone” of Boimler that remains on rykers ship is actually an alien imposter, planted by the true masterminds of the Packlids (it’s not the one Klingon captain). They carefully set up a situation where a clone could have been produced, and then inserted their operative into the federation using the clone idea. It’s why the clone acts so different from the actual Boimler, and next levels their way into staying and getting rid of the original to avoid comparison so they don’t stick out as much. I would also like to believe that there is an actual Boimler clone out there that was produced, but is being held captive bc it would blow the operatives cover if there was suddenly triplets
I like the morty theories they're thought out
Sus
umm al bundy chernobyl chicken umm no pieces are rather large though..
Is spider chickens just false memories from a South Park episode ?
SUS
4:34
Ok now i want a video dedicated to wacky chain letters and the less well known ones that didnt spread.
Who knows what hidden theories or conspiracies lay hidden that never took off.
"The chickens are mutated to be meatier!"
No one who believes this has ever handled raw, whole chicken.
true lol
@Ysabela no one cares
What the heck is with all the bots on so many videos suddenly???
Ikr, just shove food down them, and viola they grow up meaty af. Also why would you need to mutate them to be featherless, if all it takes to defeather them is like a minute and that's by plucking and then brazing manually.
Why czcams.com/video/FSSFgWlDbJU/video.html…
It took me far longer than I’d like to admit to realize IHOP stood for anything. For a good long while I thought IHOP and the International House of Pancakes were 2 completely different restaurants 😅
Wow
I didn't even realize IHOP was a restaurant until I saw the International House of Pancakes sign....
Same, I thought i was the only one
@@wabc2336 phew :D
International House of Poon-tang.
Haha loved the electroboom reference there!
OMG I BELIEVED ALL OF THIS AS A KID OF THE 90S!!! Thank you for setting the story straight!
Snopes: Hey guys, don't forget that this isn't true and it's just an article to show how you should always fact check everything and not just blindly believe everything you hear!
Everyone: **starts believing that the story is true**
Snopes: F*ck
Perfect “Colonial nurse explains how she helped her patients, is accused of being a witch because no one in court had taken a science class” moment.
Not the best allegory, but I’m sick and tired.
@fax wut
I was about to say. Doesn't Snopes rephrase questions or re-word them?
Snopes went woke
@@akumaking1 Been "woke" for a long time. Now they're so "woke', they're in a coma. They did an April Fools article which shattered all credibility in my eyes.
I mean, never heard this one, but one that was prevalent in school about KFC was, while genetically altered (not featherless though), that they wrapped blended chicken around the bones so a thigh was a mix of other parts of the chicken (kinda at the height of McD's pink slime for their nuggets theory). Granted, it was a verbal rumor during the late 90s, which was going into my early middle school years.
Why czcams.com/video/FSSFgWlDbJU/video.html…..
I recently ate kfc and that thigh was quite skinny so idk about that one. I had heard of the genetic altered thing for mcdonalds nuggets while eating them one time because apparently school taught that to my older sister and she told it to us. Glad I didn’t believe it but still remember it
Fun Fact:
The pink slime was very real, but that was beef, not chicken. It was used in McDonald’s and other restaurants and even sold as meat products in grocery stores. As it turns out, all it was was beef ground up so well that it turned into practically liquid. That’s it. It was just overly-ground beef. Funnily enough, the people responsible for spreading the misinformation that it was some crazy blend of the entire cow or chickens or whatever, were not conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones or…
Uh….
I don’t know any other conspiracy theorists lol
Whatever, anyway, it wasn’t Jones or anyone like him.
It was ABC News.
Now if that was a true theory any smart business person would start marketing and selling boneless chicken wings
@@kaleenar963 I see what you did there. Fancy nuggets
Soylent Green is … _people!_ (1973)
Now do "Kentucky-fried owl" and "Kentucky-fried rat".
You should do a story on Boston chicken and how it became Boston market because when you look at their Chicken on their rotisserie you can tell that they're not real chicken
When I worked at a "Kentucky Fried Chicken" in 2000, a corporate representative came in to explain the name would be changing to KFC.
When I asked them why, the responded with the following:
We want to move away from the word "fried" as we move towards introducing more healthier meal alternatives...and most people already calls us "KFC" anyway.
So it's a win-win.
We move away from "fried", but keep our brand recognition.
Cool! Thanks for sharing!
Awww
Why should we trust you on this?
@@SKULLFIRE100 Why shouldn't we
@@SKULLFIRE100 you can not believe it if you want
Could you do a food theory on ramen??!? Doesn’t matter what it is. How unhealthy it is or if you can eat it. How much water it would need to counter react the amount of salt is has. It be awesome!
Water won't get rid of the salt, now you just have salt and extra water
@@JohnDoe-on8gl salty salt.
Salty person
@@alexkelley6410
The kidneys use water to flush out the salt in the body.
Its not always awesome, its just like any other noodle. Idk wat ur talking about.
I think this came from the true story of companies not being able to call boneless chicken wings "wings" and saw them being called "wyngs" instead as they were just chicken nuggets with buffalo sauce.
I love that a KFC ad played during this vid when I was rewatching this
I've been wondering if the "Got Milk?" campaign really did its research and can honestly state that drinking milk helps create strong bones, makes kids taller and can ward off the effects of osteoporosis in the elderly.
You can look it up. It's easy enough to piece together that it had more funding then things like cancer research to purposely find any supposed benefits.
If compared to an individual deficient in the nutrients milk provides, absolutely. Milk has a lot of great nutrients. But among healthy individuals no.
Btw you need a vitamin C source so your body can absorb calcium a little better
Just look at the Dutch
It made Mario really big so I was like "Okay now time to drink a crap ton of it all the time" and I did. Yet to be fair now I'm tall and amazing.
I was always told the reason they changed the name of the restaurant was to make it more marketable internationally. There's probably a lot of people who don't live in The U.S. and therefore don't know its geography. Calling it KFC prevents anyone from having to ask what Kentucky means.
Nah, unlike Americans, the rest of the world knows at least enough geography to know what the word Kentucky means.
@@EvieOConnorxoxo yeah your partially right
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Well... to this day in Mexico KFC is still called by the clients just "Kentucky (Quentoqui)" so here "Kentucky" is never related to something else than KFC, maybe if Kentucky is in the super bowl then some people remember Kentucky is a State of the United States.
@@fenrirgg Kentucky doesn't have an NFL team, so it can't be in the Super Bowl. Interesting fact about Mexico though.
When I was in high school in 88-89 one of my teacher's family had a contract to supply chicken to both Swiss chalet and KFC known as Kentucky fried chicken back then .
the blue panel in the theory logo should honestly be the conspiracy theory- would be cool :) and would definetly give it a watch
There are only two reactions upon seeing a new Theory:
"YES!" or "Oh no". There is no middle ground.
Yeah but hey that's just a theory a...
Or just plan confusion
Why would there be no middleground
You forget the outlier "hmm, interesting"
@@zackposop FooT!
The irony of the "mutant chicken" theory is that the bones in a drumstick today are just as big as they were 40 years ago when I was a kid. And you still occasionally find a random pinfeather that didn't get plucked.
@ Matt - There's a KFC related theory I think you should look into. When I was growing up in Cincinnati I was told that KFC in and around Kentucky used a different set of recipes to the rest of the franchise. And I think there may be some truth to that, or KFC simply changed their recipe in the early 90's. I remember the mashed potatoes and gravy having a much more peppery taste and better consistency, and the chicken being much more seasoned.
By the time I moved to Kansas City in 1992 the mashed potatoes and gravy were like something you'd get in a cafeteria, and the chicken wasn't much better. The gravy is bland now, and the chicken is boring. Popeye's is my favorite now, but even their spicy chicken has been tamed down over the years.
Maybe you could do a FT story on recipe changes in fast food?
Love how you said FT but uhh all brands are like that. I watch trash taste who they talk a lot about traveling and fast food around the world obviously not all the time but they had and they talked about how american fast food is super fatty compared to other places and I THINK they said UK’s KFC were the best KFC compared to other countries. If you ever visit starbucks in Japan apparently they have like different flavors for different prefectures so yeah it makes sense why they are different since they are so far away and each country has different available resources America can grow lots of corn while Japan barely has any land which is why Japan prefers quality over quantity
@@lettuce1626 you’re right. The interesting thing I find is how different each country takes on American fast food brands. KFC here in Australia is renowned for their amazing hot chips (you could use the word fries I guess but they are thick cut, not thinly cut). I also think Aussie McDonald’s along with some European ones, are much better because food isn’t fully pre made and sit in a heater. They do pre cook the stuff which stays in the heater, but they put the stuff on the bun to order. Makes a lot of difference.
Yep. The genetic modifications that have happened in chickens haven’t been to increase food production, but simply efforts to keep chickens healthier against diseases that affect poultry. And most of it hasn’t even been GMO efforts. Some has, but most has been “accidental” genetic manipulation caused by years of medicating chickens with unnatural crap.
When things were at their very worst:
2 Suns, Cross in the sky, 2 comets will collide = don`t be afraid - repent, accept Lord`s Hand of Mercy.
Scientists will say it was a global illusion.
Beware - Jesus will never walk in flesh again.
After WW3 - rise of the “ man of peace“ from the East = Antichrist - the most powerful, popular, charismatic and influential leader of all time. Many miracles will be attributed to him. He will imitate Jesus in every conceivable way.
Don`t trust „pope“ Francis = the False Prophet
- will seem to rise from the dead
- will unite all Christian Churches and all Religions as one.
One World Religion = the seat of the Antichrist.
Benedict XVI is the last true pope - will be accused of a crime of which he is totally innocent.
"Arab uprising will spark global unrest - Italy will trigger fall out"
"The time for the schism in the Church is almost here and you must get prepared now"
The Book of Truth.
KFC started changing their recipes in '87 or '88 after they were bought by Pepsico, but certain franchise units, to my understanding, were allowed to retain the older recipes for a fairly long period of time if they were doing well. That all changed when -The Fire Nation attacked- Pepsico spun their restaurant unit off as a separate company in '97 and that new company required everyone to conform to the then current recipes.
"Finger lickin lies." 😂
6:08 Which they don't They get them from Tyson. They don't get them from local farmers.
The mutant theory is false either way
A random theory Idea: how to make the a chip with the loudest crunch, What would that chip would it be made of? (corn, wheat, potato etc.) and how the cooking method needed to provide that crunch (like deep fry or kettle cook for example). Maybe there some secret to it. I am curious
eyyyyyyyyy i found the inspiration
@@Kevin-dt9xm seems like it, did not expect to find it myself though
Congratulations! Your idea was used in a video!
MORTYYY
Well, suggestion granted.
I have an idea for a "Sonic week"
Game Theory: which Sonic is the fastest Sonic?
Film Theory: Is the first Sonic movie a parallel of the very fist game? If so, what should we expect from the second movie? (also, a fun min-itheory : does Sonic just runs fast or he also manipulate time?)
Food Theory: How many calories should Sonic consume to run like he does?
By the way, great theory as usual
Archie Comics version is the fastest, Matt’s discussed it before.
@@imjustbudder I was actually referring to the "Sonics" from the videogames. Not all of them, of course
that is a good theory
this is spot on
have you shared this on the GT sub-reddit yet? it should get better coverage over there.
The internet: this ain’t Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore this Kentucky Fried *Mutants*
I’m 45 and remember that (mutant chicken) floating around while in high school!! Yes, I didn’t eat in KFC for at least 10 years due to it.
I’m mid 70s, and still don’t eat it, Church’s either because their chicken parts are unbelievably too enormous to not also be something that’s been tampered with.
I haven't been to KFC since 2010 or so.
I was working this job building a bed bath and beyond on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Across the street was a KFC. Anyways we had fairly fresh cement that hadn't cured for 28 days yet and according to building code we couldn't glue our floor down unless we used some truly exotic glue.
This glue was special ordered and made by 3M. IT COST $2,000 PER 3.5 GALLONS! It looked and felt like something slimer puked out that then lost its green and turned grey. If it got on anything it wouldn't come off.
This stuff got on my hands. For 2 days I was trying every soap, detergent, cleaner I could find. Acetone wouldn't do anything, pep boys pumice cleaner (nope), 409, dawn, you name it. Nothing would take off the glue. Until I sat down @ KFC.
Halfway through my meal I noticed the glue was separating from my skin. So I went to the bathroom to try and wash my hands. But it wasn't working. The sink stopped everything. So I went and grabbed my chicken. I brought it in the bathroom and proceeded to rub it on my hands like I was raised by big momma herself! I rubbed that fried chicken on my hands like it was the lords hand soap. And I did it with glee as the glue began working itself free. I abused that chicken in ways I never wanted to see and it me. I have never been able to step in a KFC since.
Nor can I get that glue out of my head. It looked like 3.5 gallons of grey loogie. With all its swirly web like stuff and opaqueness. And it was that kind of stuff you can't wipe off, you can only spread it around until it's really thin. At least it was super flexible! Unlike my bond with KFC...
MattPat and theorists, a humble suggestion, the 4th channel become Conspiracy Theory, just straight up conspiracy theories the big ones and the weirdest one at and the most absurd ones. Thank you, Snorn
what about gt live?
@@gloopgo7049 gt live is basically game theory
Book theory?
they mentioned some reason why they won’t do that but i don’t remember why
@@ServerGlitch I guess demonetization.
MatPat, thank you for uploading all of these!
@Help me reach 10k without a video I agree lol
funny intro 😆😆
whos them
Okay, the last bit of the intro was pretty funny
i loved the intro/skit at the start f the video
That's interesting about the whole Snopes Troll thing. I remember hearing about this ages ago as FACT and remember thinking, Huh that's interesting. But I didn't look into it more. But all this time I know I had heard that was the reason that they didn't call themselves Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore.
That is so hilarious “the approved acronym” :-)
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Back in my childhood, there was a different KFC batter that was thick, the way a mom would make it. Since maybe the 80's, the batter on the chicken is very thin, almost like a spray painted coating. Totally different.
I dont know if its normal at every KFC but in the one i work at it actually has a board that tells you what farm and what state the chicken came from in the dining room.
This channel is probably the most interesting theory channel out of the 3. I like it!
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Yeah and four bots in a row wow
probably cause it the most factual and about food something we need every hour.
MatPat: talks about Snopes accidentally spreading misinformation
Me, who remembers how Snopes labelled Babylon Bee, a satire site, as false information: *tugs collar*
Well yeah... it is not true information
@@RGC_animation But Snopes has an article specifically for satire, "Labeled Satire", yet they marked Babylon Bee, not as satire, but as false information.
@@joshuapersons4833 And when called out on it, they updated their rating of it and posted an article about how easy it can be to get fooled by satirical sites. What's the problem?
Edit: Looking into it, it was kind of a grey area anyways, as the Babylon Bee's article was directly and intentionally mirroring a news story that was in the headlines at the time.
@@thatryanguy It's just the fact that Snopes likely labeled them as such *intentionally* that makes it awkward. I am unsure as to the current status, but if it is corrected then Snopes has realized their mistake and corrected it, which I am glad for.
@@joshuapersons4833 Yep, they changed it pretty well right away when people pointed out their mistake 2 years ago.
I have learned: dont let a wild matpapt into your store he will create a theory, A FOOD THEORY.
Dan is so funny. I love him. He is great.
Occam's razor
: a scientific and philosophical rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities
In other words, the simplest explanation is often the correct one.
exactly what i was thinking
Doesn't apply all the time, in subjects like economics, politics or even history, Occam's Razor just doesn't work all the time.
@@LuccianoBartolini What do you mean doesn't work all the time? The whole point of Occams razor is to start your inquiry with the simplest solution and if that fails expand to the next simplest one and so on. How can it even fail? You'd have to show the exact opposite, that more complex solution are generally correct.
Not "simplest" in how most people think, but as in "least requirements needed"
@@ruukinen I've seen Occam's Razor being applied multiple times (in economics, in example) that things like wages and prices are set by "evil corporativist" trying to harm everyone when economics has shown that it isn't that simple. Usually, prices are set by demand and wages are set based on what the job demands.
Same applies to stuff like politics, philosophy, etc.
Applying Occam's Razor loosely can end up in misinterpretations of life or, at the very least, an attempt to justify your own thoughts.
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@@tinkan6338 what are you saying
Shaaaaat up
@@kitten-whisperer it real
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
You should do a video to see if Santa can survive all the cookies he would consume.
I mean its obvious he couldnt. Thats got to be, at absolute bare-bones minimum, 100,000 cookies in a single night.
Alright MatPat. My Grandfather worked for the government until his retirement in the late 2000's. He worked in research and the only thing he ever told us about his classified work was that one time they created a chicken so massive it would terrify anyone who saw it. They never made another from my understanding. Take that with a huge grain of salt, but I want to believe in the mega chicken too MatPat. I do too.
And so, the legend of the chonken was born.
Big chickes
“And these chickens are scared! They don’t know why they’re so big!!” -Alan Partridge
I want to believe in mega chicken
That's probably when they were trying to get a dinosaur by reactivating inactive genes in the chicken genome as they are the closest living relative to the T-Rex
As a person who's currently working at KFC and even tasted the food there several times, I can assure everyone that KFC's "chicken" is an actual chicken.
The Kentucky Derby is still called the Kentucky Derby as a lifelong kentuckyan, I've never heard of such a licensing
I remember hearing this in the 90’s, though the version I heard was that they were genetically engineered to grow 4 legs instead of two, thus, a mutant and not a chicken.
"We'd have to believe that when faced with an outrageous act of cruelty, all the American goverment would be concerned about is the BRAND NAME."
...To be fair. That is the most plausible part of this story.
Agreed
as a cook at kfc in australia i often have to remove feathers from wings of original recipe (head as it is called by kitchen staff) and wings
This is my second time getting a KFC ad while watching a KFC theory, O-o how much does CZcams know man???
When I was living in China, probably around 7 or 8, I remember my aunts talking about this... in Chinese... And this memory stuck with me and to this day I still think about the farm of headless chicken. Can't believe this is coming around to be revisited by the FooT.
Why czcams.com/video/FSSFgWlDbJU/video.html…
I remember this and also the mcdonalds pink goo chicken nugget false rumor. I don't know what it is about chicken rumors that gets people.
@@namelessliberty9869 one word: mutants.
Hey MatPat, I've got a theory for you: if Food Theory is "Footh", does that make Film Theory "Filth"?
@Cosmikk WHAT IS SAWCON!!!!!!!!!!!??????
Game Theory is Gamth!
Finger Lickin Lies is a hilarious phrase lol
Wow, you used a clip from Fist of the North Star for nani. I didn't expect that
That one cut out of matpad is literally been used for centuries 😂
It’s another ranboo stan
@@kirby8008 lol no I can’t changed my profile picture
@@kirby8008 ok?
Lmao sorry I put matpad not matpat
Great video! I always assumed that the branding change to KFC was an even more boring/mundane one: That Kentucky Fried Chicken was expanding rapidly in other countries and they wanted to have a nice, short, catchy, memorable identity for non-English speakers. I was able to visit China in 2001 thanks to a college scholarship program - we started in Hong Kong and worked our way up the east coast to Beijing over 17 days - and KFC was EVERYWHERE. Tons and tons of KFCs (bested only by McDonald’s)… so “international branding simplicity” is why I figured they went with the streamlined “KFC” over “Kentucky Fried Chicken”.
Again, excellent video Matt! I really love Food Theory because of its use of skeptical thinking (in an insanely entertaining way, which is hard to pull off!).
BTW, fans of Food Theory may also like another channel called How to Cook That - the host, Ann Reardon, debunks a lot of completely faked CZcams and TikTok cooking content by creators like So Yummy that crank out nonsense and have literally caused severe injuries to people trying to replicate their “hacks” at home. Maybe consider a Food Theory / How to Cook That team up? Either way, keep up the good work! 😁
How to cook that is freakin' dope af can confirm.
Have a blessed day
When Kentucky Fried Chicken started it was just a good to be sold at other restuarants. There were many places that served Kentucky Fried Chicken in addition to their regular menu items. It wasn't until the 90's that KFC ended those agreements so that Kentucky Fried Chicken was only sold at KFC.
What i love is "what the fried is going on here"
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I love coming home from work on a Saturday afternoon to sit down, eat my lunch, and watch the latest Food Theory and Film Theory Episodes! Thank you for being so consistent with posting your content!
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