In one of his more famous bits, comedian Patton Oswalt starts riffing on the KFC Famous Bowl, a conglomeration of mashed potatoes, chicken, corn, and gravy into a singular bowl. In this sketch, Oswalt makes light of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s curious need to provide adults their favorite comfort foods pre-mixed for easy and quick consumption, without the need to use utensils and other such accoutrement of civilized society. The criticism as comedy works because we’re used to having nearly instant access to anything and everything we want in terms of consumptive media, even if those things shouldn’t be combined together all willy-nilly.
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