• Nation's Restaurant News, Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:55 AM

The Double Down, the hit KFC sandwich without a bun, is getting one on July 5, Mark Brandau reports. "If you thought our sandwich without the bun was a hit," states an email promotion, "wait until you see what we're doing with a bun!"

Dubbed the Doublicious, it won't be run-of-the-mill grain holding the Original Recipe fillet, Monterey Jack cheese, bacon and Colonel's sauce together. It will be a sweet Hawaiian bread roll. A grilled version will have a grilled fillet, Monterey Jack, lettuce and honey-mustard barbecue sauce.

"The great thing about the Double Down -- aside from the obvious fact that KFC has sold more than 10 million of them -- is that it really got people talking about KFC and sandwiches, and that is continuing," KFC spokesman Rick Maynard tells Brandau.

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