Amid a region that has long been marked by instability, roiling upsets, and suffering, KFC has found the perfect place to deploy its Double Down Dog, its latest arm of a worldwide effort to replace all things with fried chicken—including, eventually, arms. That plot thickened and congealed over the fall, when KFC took its now-somehow-referred-to-as-“traditional” Double Down sandwich and added a bacon cheeseburger inside it. Now the race has accelerated considerably by KFC nestling a hot dog deep within a greasy, waiting “bun,” in a sentence that would be more appetizing were it actually a sexual euphemism.
Instead, the only obfuscating language here is that the “bun” is really a folded-up slab of fried chicken, wrapped around a tube of intestinal meat cheerfully referred to as a “hot dog,” and slathered in a neon-yellow slurry that is satirically referred to as “cheese.” Together they form the Double Down Dog, so named after the yoga position that involves putting your palms on the ground, then slowly distending your colon.