KFC's Zinger and Tower burgers, both of which contain a thick piece of chicken breast, are no longer available in most of its 140 outlets nationwide. The two sandwiches reportedly account for 15 percent of KFC's overall sales.
KFC said the discontinuation was mainly due to a supply shortage of large chickens after the bird-killing virus, avian influenza, broke out earlier this year. It said the fillet used for the popular burgers come from these larger chickens.
However, the supply of chicken breasts shrunk by 40 percent after the bird flu led to the killing of hundreds of thousands of chickens in farms across the country, according to industry experts.
Given the popularity of the sandwiches and the chain of restaurants, I'm surprised we didn't see any candlelight vigils protesting unsafe product being potentially sold.
Lots of bad news in the KT today. Four Koreans were killed when their car drove off a mountain on Fiji. Sadly the group of seven consisted of three newlywed couples on their honeymoon, but I'll thank you for not making any remarks about couples taking honeymoons together.
Local police assume careless driving to be the cause of the tragedy.
*sigh* And a notable internet user and commenter "Jeon" beat her mother to death after her mother told her to go outside and get a life. The most-viewed story remains the one about foreigners busted for smuggling and using drugs.
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Really? No more Tower burgers at Gwangju Bus Terminal KFC?
Damn, I did leave at the right time then :p
I heard KFC for the first time in years on Tuesday, namely a Tower burger at the KFC at Seongwoo Resort in Kangwaondo... :)
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