{"id":6109,"date":"2010-10-29T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2010-10-29T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:16:30","slug":"would-kfcs-double-down-have-been-a-hit-without-the-food-police-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/would-kfcs-double-down-have-been-a-hit-without-the-food-police-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Would KFC&#8217;s Double Down have been a hit without the Food Police panic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/10\/29\/lorne-gunter-the-new-beacon-of-liberty-kfcs-double-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lorne Gunter<\/a> salutes KFC and their surprise hit menu item:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Way to go KFC! Your Double Down sandwich has the health police in a tizzy. Those preachy, prancing, eat-your-peas pokenoses can\u2019t decide whether to tax you, shield their children\u2019s eyes from you or send you to re-education camp &mdash; or perhaps all three at once.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m am happy to hear your new bun-less concoction is your most successful new-product launch in company history. May the marketing mastermind who came up with the Double-D get an unhealthy bonus.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I can\u2019t even imagine trying one &mdash; two deep-fried chicken breasts wrapped around two strips of bacon, two slices of processed cheese and some sauce doesn\u2019t appeal to me &mdash; except maybe as a dare; a Double Down Dare. Still, I am genuinely pleased that you have had the chicken balls to come out with an item that thumbs its nose so completely at conventional public-health wisdom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never eat one myself, but I cheer on the spirit of those who tell the Nanny State&#8217;s food police where to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorne Gunter salutes KFC and their surprise hit menu item: Way to go KFC! Your Double Down sandwich has the health police in a tizzy. Those preachy, prancing, eat-your-peas pokenoses can\u2019t decide whether to tax you, shield their children\u2019s eyes from you or send you to re-education camp &mdash; or perhaps all three at once. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,74,66,10],"tags":[86,39,322],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-food","category-health-science","category-liberty","tag-criticism","tag-junkscience","tag-nannystate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Ax","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6110,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}