Will you ingest KFC's culinary masterpiece?

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Well, here it is, the official commercial for KFC's bunless abomination known as the Double Down, which goes on sale today. In case you haven't heard, it's a bacon and cheese sandwich with two pieces of fried chicken for bread. The commercial actually first aired almost a year ago, when KFC was testing this cardio-catastrophe. Reactions ranged from mortified concern to morbid curiosity, but it was clear the Colonel had one buzzworthy slab of Homer Simpson grotesquerie on his hands.

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