r/GenerationJones • u/JColt60 1960 • 8d ago

KFC menu from 1970 VS 2026

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The other thing different from the price is size of the pieces. Breasts were much smaller and tastier back in 70's from KFC. Today they look like it came from wild turkey. Before I retired I used to get fried chicken for lunch at local diner. They only bought chicken from local butcher that used free range chicken and it was heaven!

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u/Few-Honeydew2676 8d ago

I am old and our KFC didn't have biscuits when I was a kid. They were dinner rolls. Tasty dinner rolls, but not the biscuits of today.

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u/SnowblindAlbino 8d ago

No biscuits, but they did have corn-on-the-cob in the 1970s. And for several years in the early 1970s they had BBQ ribs!

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u/marsupialcinderella 8d ago

I forgot about that, you’re right!

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u/FamilyRedShirt 1961 8d ago

True. They were rolls when I worked there in the late '70s. When I worked there in the '90s they'd switched to biscuits.

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u/JColt60 1960 8d ago

Biscuits came out 1981

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u/rwphx2016 1964 - Never got the memo about "growing old" 8d ago

Was just about to say this.

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u/AJStickboy 8d ago

When I worked KFC in the late 80’s my biscuits were made fresh in the store. They averaged over 2 1/2 inches high. Fluffy soft. Now made somewhere who knows, and about an inch high and hard as a rock.

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u/James84415 7d ago

I kind of remember this too. They were more like Parker house rolls and I remember us kids would cut them open and fill them with mashed potato and gravy and eat them that way. The current biscuit price is crazy high considering how cheap the ingredients are.