Fast Food Review: KFC Chicken Littles

I did not see this coming. I ducked into KFC for a quick lunch in Riverside with the intention of trying some items on their new value menu. And what did I find as their #1 combo but Chicken Littles. I could not have been happier if I had to gone to Din Tai Fung, and, while walking around the block during the inevitable wait, seen King Arthur's Pizza back in it's old location on Baldwin Ave. (OK, that's a lie: I would have been much happier if King Arthur's returned. A couple years ago I said to my brother that if King Arthur's returned it would be one of the 5 happiest days of my life. He paused and said "That would pretty much be #1 for me." We decided that even though we were in our late 20s we would still ask our dad to give us 4 quarters each to play video games like we did 20 years ago.)

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When I was a kid I loved Chicken Littles. The KFC up the hill from my parents' house sold them for 49 cents each and sometimes I would eat ten of them. I can't remember when they disappeared, but I'm guessing it was sometime in my early teens. When I was 21 I moved to Colorado and while going through a KFC drive-thru one night to pick up some food to watch Monday Night Football with my friend, I saw they had Chicken Littles on their menu. I got excited and ordered a dozen of them, only to be told by the employee "we just discontinued those yesterday and we haven't taken them off the menu yet." I figured that was the closest I would ever come to having Chicken Littles again.

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But here they were on the board in front of me. "You have Chicken Littles?" I asked. "Yes," the man said with a concerned look on his face (as if he was about to tell me they contained poison or something,) "but they take 5 minutes to cook." As if this was some kind of deal-breaker. I would have waited an hour if that's what it took.

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The Chicken Littles come served with a pepper-mayo sauce that is either delicious or disgusting, although in all honesty I've never decided which. I always put KFC's hot sauce on them, which I did again this time. I also tried one with honey mustard, although it was nowhere near as good as the hot sauce. They were fantastic. I only ate three of them (I can't overeat like I used to) but that was enough.
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They cost twice as much as they did when I was a kid, but they're still only 99 cents each. Basically the same price as the KFC Snacker, which I tried years ago and found to be inedible. I will be back again to this KFC to have more of them soon, although part of me is expecting that they won't be available next time. Hell, for all I know, maybe that KFC won't even be there. Maybe it was a fried chicken Brigadoon. I don't care, though. I got to eat Chicken Littles again.