KFC Debuts Sporks For Your Fingers To Pick Up The Last Drop Of Gravy

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KFC’s famous “it’s finger-lickin’ good” slogan just doesn’t have the same zing as it did pre-pandemic. Though, if you’d like to relive the experience, you’re in luck—the fast-food behemoth is giving out ‘Finger Sporks’ that keep those fingers grub-free.

As the name suggests, the new eating utensil is a spoon-fork hybrid that you carry on your fingers. Not only that, but it also promises an “ergonomic and gastronomic” solution to “tableware-tech” with “precision prong articulation, anterior branding optimization and sporkasticity technology,” says the press release.

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In other words, this product is a want, not a need, taking inspiration from the ‘As Seen on TV’ products touted by television channels from back in the day.

KFC says the ‘Finger Spork’ is an update to the original sporks that Colonel Harland Sanders brought to his Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in the early 1970s. It’s optimized to scoop up that last bite of macaroni and cheese or corn kernel, the chain describes.

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Outside of meals, KFC imagines the piece of cutlery being useful for things like “enhancing high-fives” and playing the saxophone.

The utensil comes free as a pair with orders of the KFC Sides Lovers Meal at KFC locations in the US, the KFC website, or KFC mobile app through July 12, while supplies last.

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“KFC Finger Sporks are taking sides off the sidelines and putting them in the spotlight,” says Nick Chavez, CMO of KFC US. “Every detail of the innovative Finger Spork has been carefully crafted and pressure tested—by way of eating many KFC sides—for the optimal finger-lickin’ good experience.”

[via NDTV Food and Food & Wine, video and images via KFC]