Renaming KFC’s Double Down

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We couldn’t help ourselves: The KFC Double Down was just such a wacky sandwich and product name that we had to try our hand at renaming it. What would you have named the Double Down?

Here are a bunch of our other, catchy names. Can you do better?

  • Chickadon’t (from Chickadee)
  • Chicken Out
  • Chicky
  • Clear!
  • Coq au Sin
  • Death by Chicken
  • Double Bypass
  • Everything But . . . (i.e., everything but the kitchen sink)
  • Fowl Sandwich
  • Glutton for Punishment
  • Gut Glut
  • Heart Attack in a Snack
  • Heart Attack Snack
  • Killer Chicken
  • Off The Scale
  • Plump Yourself Up
  • Run Afowl
  • Sickenin’ Chickenin’
  • Sicknin’ Chicknin’
  • That’s Just Wrong
  • The 911
  • The Bi & Bye
  • The Crapulent Chicken
  • The Occlusion
  • What is ya, Chicken??
  • You. Will. Die.

Reader submitted suggestions:

  • The Chicken Choker
  • Buy the Farm
  • Arterial Cluckage
  • Just Add Gravy
  • “Mmmmmm, bacon…”
  • “Who want’s to live forever anyway?”

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