KFC's Double Down - The Bunless Sandwich - Gets College Buns!

Remember the unique KFC chicken sandwich where there are no bread buns - it is bacon and cheese with two pieces of chicken as the acting buns -- the Double Down?

The KFC marketing department has found a very unique way to promote this sandwich involving recruiting females on college campuses. Paid 500.00 a day - the young women will wear pants with the Double Down logo upon their buttocks and hand out coupons to fellow students.

Hopefully, one of our reader's can get us some mobi media to post here!

Northwest Sighting of Oddly Green Jack's Links Jerky Bags

We can now confirm with our veteran mobi reporter B2 that a sighting of what appears to be tainted in some fashion Jack's Links Jerky bags. Franklin went out on a field mission and spotted 2 bags on the rack in this condition - being they were jalapeno flavor - he looked at other bags of the same flavor. All others appeared to be of the quality we love from Jack's Links. Expiration dates checked out on weird bags - perhaps its those little 'preservative pouches' popping open?

Veteran FPT Mobi Reporter Finds "Funky" Jack's Links Jerky Bag

Our honorable man in Las Vegas Mr.B2 - spotted what he says was a "green tinge" upon the contents of the bag of Jack's Links Jerky in the photo above. Upon receiving this casual report from him, we realized that we have seen Jack's Links on-sale ATM at really low prices - 2/6.00 - in our area. That is like 50% off normal price. We are going to send Franklin to the store with said sale - mobi media device equipped - and see what the funk is up. Perhaps nothing - also if you have seen or had a similar experience, please share it with us.

Jamba Juice - Buy One Get One Free Coupon & Street Sign Dancer Mobi Media

Medfor Mel sent us a heads-up that Jamba Juice is doing a BOGO deal on their website right now.

Thanks to Mel for the info and Yancy for the video. Click Here For Coupon

Huarache Loco - Mobi Report from West Virginia Hill Areas

Regular reporter Etathed checked in with this news of a new establishment in his hill areas of West Virginia:

"Just visited a new Mexican Restaurant here in the hills of West Virginia, it is called Huarache Loco. I have no idea what that means but their food is a damn good deal. My meal was 2 steak tacos which come with beans and rice, as well as chips and salsa, I added a side of the dippin cheese with this order. Also atached is a picture of the menu I was givin to take home. I am pretty sure that guy on the menu is wasted as his eyes are all wonky."

Media Misleads - Fat Pride News Byline: Whale Woman Gets Harpooned

The media is running wild with the true story of a woman who was accidently harpooned by a diver while she swam in Budva, Montenegro. Terms being thrown around are "Thar she Bl-ows", "Roly Poly", and eben "Whale Woman".

The FPT team stayed up late tonight and engaged in some truth-seeking internet scouring. Many of the news sites are running the story with no photos as a one photo of her would kill their spin on this.

Maja Georgi, 28 - (who appears just slightly overweight in other web found photos) has vowed to go on a diet after she was harpooned by a diver as she swam in he sea off the coast in Budva, Montenegro - "I might need to lose a few pounds but I'm not exactly Moby Dick either".

This post meant as a general bulletin to our FPT First Responders so you know not to assemble our "Priders Helping Priders" crisis crew.

Chinese "Takeaway/Takeout" How to Plate Tutorial from New Zealand Reader

Our longtime friend from New Zealand has sent us his patented smooth move for getting your Chinese food out of the container and onto a plate - Kiwi style:

"From the FPT Antipodes Test Labs in New Zealand comes this meal tip for the many of you who enjoy partaking of Chinese takeaway meals. Like the rest of us you will have had trouble getting the meal from the container and onto your plate in a manner worthy of a connoisseur. New research means you will no more have to suffer the indignity of unceremoniously shoveling the evening's meal from its container and onto said plate"

Step 1. Observe your tasty meal from your favorite Chinese takeaway and brace yourself for step 2.

Step 2. Close the container and turn it upside down then open the bottom (now the lid).

Step 3. Place plate face-down over open container.

Step 4. Hold plate firmly to avoid spillage while you turn the whole thing over.

Step 5. The plate is now the right-way up. Brace yourself for step 6 as you remove the container.

Step 6. Observe perfectly-prepared meal that looks like it's straight out of a recipe book. Consume like a pro!

Thanks for your time.
In case you wondered, the meal above was sweet and sour fish.

Fairlight Bakery Cookies - MMMM

Someobody on the FPT Team brought a few of these around and oh man these are the real deal. We are too full of pastry and egg nog at the moment to google the brandname "Fairlight Bakery" - but soon we will have more info on these EXCELLENT cookies!

Condiment Creations - Sauce 12 of 20

Late the other night in the FPT test kitchens, we were having some tater-tots (4 large bags between us) and we needed serious sauce plates. It struck someone that we should mix the Heinz Ketchup with the Lawrys Baja Chipotle Marinade. They were absolutely right. We did infact create this new combo condiment and also documented such with photos. However, this pre-mix photo is all we can find at this moment. We are still proud to endorse this condiment-combo and suggest you give it a try or create your own and contact us with the info for publishing!

U.S. Air Force Military Meal - Nice Plate For Our Fighting Men

One of our fine readers from the U.S. Air Force sent us a mobi media pic and quote: "It was good".

(Sante fe chicken with potatoes, peas, & carrots. Cherry cobbler & cocola)

Awesome Canadian Potato Chips Flavors - From Rookie Mobi Reporter J. Knecht

Please welcome our newest Mobi Reporter - John Knecht from Canada. He contacted a mutual friend of Team FPT and put something together for us to show you that is truly awesome. We did know that in Canada they offer some interesting chip flavors. We have heard of "Zesty Mordant & Dressed All Over" - among others. Thanks to John, we realize what we have been missing and are assembling an international travel team to acquire cases of the chips he mobi-photoed.

Picture is a screen shot of the actual active page - click below to view the big pics - no logins or anything - just click and WOW.

To quote John:
"My first contribution to FPT. I'm hoping this consistent with what is expected from a mobi contributor" - (No worries John - You nailed it solid!). Why can't we get chip flavours like this in the U.S.? I'm getting tired of the classic BBQ... I couldn't resist the Buffalo Wings & Blue Cheese and they rocked".

Click Here For John's Awesome Chips Gallery

Amazing Food Finds: The Coffee Tanker Truck - From Barnabus

Our friend Barnabus (professional Oregon Coast drifter) was off entertaining his wanderlust when he spotted this bad-boy and used his mobi-device to capture this intriguing photograph.

Nobody here has ever seen anything like it - and we are very confusables. Is this just an advertisement painted on, or is this bad boy hauling what may one of the largest coffee brews there has ever been?

Oreo Blizzard Cookies: A Closelier Look

As promised here is a tight close-up of the New Limited Time Oreo/Dairy Queen Blizzard partnership cookies.
They taste really good after about 11pm.

Oreo Blizzard Cookies - Limited Time Offering With Dairy Queen

Around the FPT test kitchens Oreos are not disliked, but we never seem to have any around. However, staffer Jenni found these "Limited Edition" Blizzards and WOW. We are liking these the white stuff actually has some body and flavor - definately grab 2 bags if you see them. We got ours for 2/5.00 - the nice price!

Sorry Mobi-Media issues with open-cookie picture - working on this as you read.

KFC 70th Anniversary Fried Chicken Special Meal/Bucket Deals

Our good friend Tomas D. received a mailer with some pretty impressive savings on KFC meals & buckets and volunteered to try a few of them and present a mobi-media report for us. Now this KFC bender stretches from a Sunday to the following Wednesday AM.

Sunday afternoon, Tomas enjoyed the chicken strips meal pictured above for only 3.99 - not too bad. However, the 'fake' butter and honey 'sauces' were a true letdown. That evening, having been on a bender, he opted to use the 5.99 for 7 pieces bucket coupon and visited again - twice in like 6 hours. Tomas managed to eat 4 or maybe 5 of these original recipe pieces, then power-napped and in his hypno-sleep gave the leftovers to a neighbor on a fogwalk.

Monday passed uneventful - however Tuesday PM Tomas found himself driving by the KFC and remembered the clerk gave him back the coupon to use again - which is pretty cool all around! Snatching up another 7 piece bucket, Tomas went home and ate 5 pieces, saving 2 for grub in the AM as he had an early awakening set. Upon returning home Tuesday AM he managed to gorge the kast two down and pass back out.

Let us do the math here people:

4 Chicken Strips
Taters & Gravy
Biscuit with fake sauces
12 pieces original recipe chicken

Time Period: 63 hours

Most priders would laugh and this and say get me another bucket. But something went teribly wrong for Tomas. His gut clenched up and he could not float his snakes properly. Basically he lied in bed for 3 days - finally passing the end of it Saturday morning.

Now Tomas can hold his own when it comes to quantity eating - we watched him eat a whole spiraled ham at the staff X-mas party. How much KFC should one eat and in what time period? This question remains unanswered. Maybe it wasn't the chicken? Anyone care to share any similar bird-bender tales?

Yancy's Post 8 - Doritos Flavors Collision Event Press Conference

Making a rare appearance, our food friend Yancy hald a press conference today to give a de-briefing of his Doritos Collisions event and field questions from the media reps who attended.

To the best of our knowledge, he now holds the World Record for flavored chips collisions. Just another notch in the belt of a well-rounded common man.

New Domino's Pizza Recipe - They Made Their Pizza Better So We Should Buy A Shirt From Them?

Certainly most of you readers have seen the latest Domino's Pizza advertising campaign where they admit they made crap pizza in the past and now offer a better improved product. We respect their honesty about making crap pizza in the past - but we have not tried this 'alleged' new more better pizza they are making.

As you can see in the photo above of an ad in a nationwide newspaper - they also claim to have beaten Pizza Hut & Papa John's in a taste test. Great. But they also want you to buy their gear - 14.95 for a hat and 12.95 for a shirt.

Do we need to break this down any further to see how wrong this is (in our opinion). They should be give-aways or contest/customer promos or shot out of tubes at MLB games. Asking the consumer to fork over 14.95 for a hat declaring Domino's Pizza the best - after serving crapcan pizza for 10+ years, TEAM FPT believes is in poor taste.

Blues, Brews, and BBQ festival at Snowshoe Mountain Resort

New sharp media report from Etathed, our "Mountain Folk" embedded reporter in West Virginia:

"Here is some media from the Blues, Brews, and BBQ festival at Snowshoe Mountain Resort this past weekend. This fest features over 30 different beers to sample and tons of BBQ plates to enjoy - USA!"

Tater-Tot Takedown 2010

This year's Tater Tot Takedown is a rumble between FPT staffer Mel and regular contributor B2. As you can read a few posts down, this year's event was very competitive with both sides talking some serious trash. Each party was allowed to introduce one additional 'thing' edible or not to the tater tot plate. Well it is time to deliver and here we go.

PLEASE take a moment and vote for your pick of the two via the poll found on the right side of your browser. No holds barred match.

First up is the challenger B2: "I started with premium Ore-Ida Tater Tots. Cooked them at 450 degrees for 20 minutes. Tots where then topped with a shredded Mexican 4 cheese blend and baked for another 5 minutes. For those who did not know. Ore-Ida is short for Oregon-Idaho"

Reigning champ Mel offered up the dish below with this commentary: "These Ore-Ida brand Tater Tots were oven-baked to perfection on a slab of aluminum foil. Upon pulling them out of the oven at the exact perfectly glowing crispy time, I had to float one off so I used the foil to make a solid almost sealed oven-ball which kept them nice and hot when I returned app. 6 minutes later".

Yancy 8-Flavor Doritos Collisions Post Event Press Conference & De-Briefing

Yancy has informed the FPT staff that within the next 48 hours he will indeed be having a press conference to talk about and show the leftovers from his epic event (which is video watchable if you scoll down).

He has invited a number of people from the media and will be taking questions on his podium and unlike the videos there will be bright light - as the photo above shows.