Australian KFC customers clucking mad over lettuce-cabbage switch

Wait, a 300% rise? Sure, ok. KFC buy a lot of lettuce. It's reasonable to believe they're paying 10 cents for a lettuce, or less. How many burgers to they get out of each lettuce? At least ten I'd expect. So their lettuce cost goes from one cent up to three. As a percentage of one ingredient, it's a lot; but as a percentage of the price of the burger, it's insignificant.

Companies love this "costs are going up" lie.

"The fact that you are replacing lettuce with cabbage makes me rethink my whole meal at KFC. There's 4 or 5 other things I would eat before cabbage Its such a weird choice," said one disgruntled tweeter.

Yeah..........you're eating fast food fried chicken sammiches. The thin vegetable inside isn't going to make a difference.

As long as it's shredded cabbage strips, it shouldn't really make a difference. If it does, just buy regular drumsticks and breasts. Gain some perspective on what you're eating.

Besides, it's not as bad as NOT giving gravy, like in Japan. Now THAT'S a deal breaker.

“Feels like a sign of the apocalypse," said another.

First world problems! Oh the suffrage!

8 bucks for a lettuce though ay? Howzaaaattt!?

Now’s the time to clear that plot folks. Grow your own!

I had lettuce with my lunch today.

Who said that the high life isn’t doable!

Yeah @Eastman - It's Russia's fault. Stop defending them, its falling on deaf ears Comrade.

I seem to recall that Subway in Japan did the same thing a few years back. Sorry, cabbage in a sandwich is just wrong. The Colonel has to either bump up prices by 10 cents or so, or just suck it up until food prices get normal.

Speaking of Subway, the turkey breast and club subs have also disappeared.... it is to weep.

My wife switched from lettuce to cabbage years ago as our go-to veg, and while I was disconcerted at first, I've come to love its much more sublime taste and crunchiness.

lettuce is overpriced so its Russia fault...what the....

No, it is mostly a shortage due to massive flooding. The Russia situation just adds to the cost by effecting other factors after the local supply shortage.

Besides, it's not as bad as NOT giving gravy, like in Japan. Now THAT'S a deal breaker.

AMEN.

I don't think people go to KFC for the lettuce anyway.

wow

what petulant little babies, just don't eat it

To tell the truth I never going to KFC because it’s all crap

I thought lettuce was commercially grown now with hydroponics, not in fields. Especially in a hot country like Australia. Lettuce plants bolt in hot weather so you need somewhere cool to grow them outside. Hydroponics is an expensive method, but prices should be relatively stable since it is not weather dependent.

The reason is most likely is that they are trying to recoup their losses in Russia when they puled out. So they take 1/20 of a lettuce put it in to a twister and charge you for the whole lettuce!

KFC?

Are there people who eat this garbage?

Lettuce think about this: It's Kentucky fried chicken not Kentucky fried vegetable, right?

Who goes to kfc for the salad? It's all about the battery farmed chooks deep fried in animal fat for me.

Ridiculous complaint. Cabbage instead of lettuce? Oh, the HORROR!

I'm more concerned about the 'living' conditions of the chickens in the factories. Absolutely crowded and diseased.

I would just as soon eat shredded paper on a sandwich as cabbage. FUBAR !

To give them credit, they did say ‘mix’ not total substitute. And sometimes lettuce leaves can be tired and pathetic.

Some of the finely shredded cabbage you can get here in Japan is light and sweet and delicious. I could take that over lettuce any time with no trouble.

The cabbage I had as a child was dark green, rubbery and tough and quite a different creature. The word ‘cabbage’ itself probably has an image problem in English.

Depending on which variety of cabbage you choose, and how you cut it could make a world of difference.

I still remember how funny it sounded to my American ears to hear an Australian KFC TV ad with an Australian actor trying to imitate a southern US accent o_O. It would be like an American trying to imitate a Queensland accent.

The joke in Australia (or maybe not) is that the chicken is actually rabbit (a feral animal there) and I much prefer my bunny with cabbage anyway.

The joke in Australia (or maybe not) is that the chicken is actually rabbit (a feral animal there) and I much prefer my bunny with cabbage anyway.

Bunny burgers? Bugs ain't gonna like that! Rabbit tastes good.