The Reykjavic Kentucky Fried Chicken

KFC has changed a lot since the early 80s. This was a time when KFC was actually known as Kentucky Fried Chicken. My dad actually convinced me that my grandmother personally knew Colonel Sanders so that I would eat the chicken at her house. How much times have changed, where KFC is the most ghetto restaurant in the country (with the possible exception of Popeye's.)

Not in Iceland. You have never seen anything like the scene at the Reykjavic KFC like I saw this past summer. I'm not kidding you when I tell you that there were 200 people in this place. I went in there to go to the bathroom and I was so amazed that I actually had to try something from there. The girls I was travelling with would obviously have nothing to do with KFC no matter what the country was. They had the number system there (like at a deli.) So obviously I took my number and then waited around like a space cadet not realizing that it would be called in Icelandic. There was probably a 20 minute wait anyways, but I waited about 45 minutes. Until this friendly (normal looking) Icelandic gentleman noticed that my number was like 20 behind his. He pulled some strings with the KFC lady (who was hot) to get me back in the cue.

While I was waiting for my chicken meal which was literally equivalent to $13.00 I began speaking to this friendly gentleman. I asked him why there were so many people at KFC. It was a zoo in this place. He had no concept of what a KFC was like in the USA and why I would be surprised at how popular it was there. I couldn't even explain it to him. He just told me that the kids like it for the (McDonaldland type) playground that they had there and they would come there every now and then for the kids. But he personally didn't think it was that bad.

Well you those gastrointestinal issues that you get after you eat KFC here in the US? Its the exact same there. Just as disgusting but about $8 more and a playground.