KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich contains no bread, just chicken 

KFC's bosses reasoned that burgers just don't contain enough meat, so have released the Double Down Chicken Sandwich, which says 'no to bread' replacing it with chicken that sandwiches bacon, cheese and the Colonel's special sauce. 

The KFC Double Down sandwich website says "this one-of-a-kind sandwich" features 'two thick and juicy boneless white meat chicken filets (Original Recipe® or Grilled), two pieces of bacon, two melted slices of Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese and Colonel's Sauce'.

They also inform hungry customers that along with a whole slab of cheesy meat, the sandwich contains 540 calories, 32 grams of fat and 1,380mg of salt. 

The Vancouver Sun tested one of the pre-launch burgers, on trial in Rhode Island and Nebraska and concluded that there were 1,228 calories.

This figure is almost double KFC's claim and half a man's recommended daily calorie intake. 

A KFC spokesman insisted: "Some media sources speculated on the nutritional information for the sandwich, and published numbers that were inflated."

The Double Down is set to launch in America on April 12. There are no plans to bring the meaty monster to Britain.