KFC has come up with a box meal tie-in for the new Guitar Hero: World Tour video game. The KFC Fully Loaded Box Meal consists of two Original Recipe Strips, an Original Recipe Snacker, your choice of a drumstick or thigh, two sides, a biscuit, and a 32-ounce drink for $7.99. That's more than 1200 calories and about 60 grams of fat. Maybe it's just me but I don't see how one person alone can eat this like in the commercial and not feel nauseous or the need to go run a marathon. So I have to give props to the guys at gaming blog Kotaku for taste testing it. Overall they gave it a D-. Some specific ratings... More

The fried chicken chain wants to choke any attempts at theft by upgrading security, moving the "yellowing sheet of paper" the recipe is written on to an undisclosed location. "I don't want to be the president who loses the recipe,' KFC President Roger Eaton said. 'Imagine how terrifying that would be.'" Only two company executives (whose identities are also undisclosed) have access to it at a time. [via Ellit]... More

The Onion The Onion reports that local man Jeremy Browning attempted to fit a nearly empty KFC bucket into his fridge by lowering the top shelf, transferring food items to the freezer, drinking half of a two-liter bottle of Pepsi, and filling the dairy compartment with smaller food items, like half a lime and a Ziploc bag of ground beef. Asked if there was ever a point during the reorganization of his refrigerator when he considered discarding the bucket and wrapping the remaining pieces of chicken in aluminum foil, Browning told reporters, "No."... More

Is it more cost-effective to buy a larger order of wings at KFC than a smaller one? Not really—Consumerist does the math and finds out that larger orders cost more per wing than smaller orders.... More

Wow, this is weird. The 87,500-square-foot of the Colonel was put together so it could be photographed from space by GeoEye's Ikonos satellite. The Chicago Tribune quotes Mark Brender, a spokesman for GeoEye as saying that the project is part of a new trend they call "astro-tising."... More