Cheetos Chicken Sandwich
A 2019 American limited run that sounds like a dare: crispy fried chicken with crunchy Cheetos and a bright orange Cheetos-flavoured cheese sauce on a bun. It was loud, salty and gleefully artificial, and it lived exactly as long as a gimmick should. Fans still bring it up.
The story
For a stretch around 2019 American fast food went through a phase of putting one brand inside another — crisps, sweets and cereal turning up on burgers and in milkshakes — because a mashup buys press coverage that an ordinary new sandwich cannot. KFC’s entry was a fried chicken fillet with whole Cheetos inside the bun and a cheese sauce made from them. It ran as a limited item, which is what these launches are for: the point was never to keep it.
What’s inside
- crispy chicken fillet
- Cheetos
- Cheetos cheese sauce
- mayo
- bun
Make it at home
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KFC began with Harland Sanders frying chicken for travellers at a roadside service station in Corbin, Kentucky, in the 1930s. The first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opened in Salt Lake City in 1952, and the Colonel spent the rest of his life as the face of a recipe built on eleven herbs and spices that the company still treats as a state secret.
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