Kabul Fried Chicken == Afghan Fried Chicken

Nov 08, 2009

It was another one of those sorties into the city, trying to explain to the driver that we needed to go to the local KFC - Kabul Fried Chicken. Not for the food I hasten to add, but to reshoot some of these photos - which have served well to explain the street hack culture prevalent around the world. Except that the three local branches of Kabul Fried Chicken are no more, shut down and now replaced by AFC - Afghan Fried Chicken, which actually does a decent job of serving up fast food - in the fast, air-conditioned, calorific sense of the word, itself no mean feat for Kabul.

How does Afghan fried chicken differ from the fast food joints of your 'hood? For a start - a guard with a submachine gun loitering outside, fast food being an obvious 'foreign' target.