While our Burger Kings are putting fries in its burgers and our McDonald's are offering chicken wings, KFC's in Japan are reportedly deep frying soup.
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Rocket News 24, which previously reported on such Japanese fast food weirdness as the guy who went into Burger King and ordered a Whopper with 1,050 pieces of bacon, says that The Colonel's newest food invention takes corn potage (soup), breads it, and “cook(s) it to a crisp.”
The fritter, Rocket News 24 says, will be available across Japan starting September 5. OC Fair's Chicken Charlie, in the meanwhile, is probably taking lots of notes.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.