KFC swaps lettuce with cabbage in burgers because price has rocketed so much

Iceberg lettuces have shot up in worth in Australia (Image: AFP)

KFC is now placing cabbage in its burgers and wraps in Australia as a consequence of a continual scarcity of lettuce.

Followers of the Colonel have been instructed to count on a mix of lettuce and cabbage of their favorite dishes after floods destroyed lettuce crops.

Australia, like so many international locations all over the world, is fighting hovering costs of on a regular basis meals objects.

Photographs of single lettuces on sale for 10 Australian dollars (£5.72) at the moment are commonplace on social media.

That's 3 times the standard worth.

KFC Australia stated: ‘As a result of current floods in New South Wales and Queensland we’re at present experiencing a lettuce scarcity.

‘So, we’re utilizing a lettuce and cabbage mix on all merchandise containing lettuce till additional discover.’

KFC sandwiches would possibly style a little bit completely different in Australia (Image: KFC)

KFC Australia issued a warning to clients on its web site

They added: ‘If that’s not your bag, merely click on “Customise” in your chosen product and take away Lettuce from the Recipe.’

It might sound off-putting for rooster lovers down below, however it's nonetheless a manner off the mass panic on the nice KFC rooster scarcity of 2018.

Onerous-up Brits needed to go to a kind of uncommon rooster outlets on the excessive road after greater than 600 branches have been pressured to shut.

It bought so unhealthy some Londoners referred to as 999 to demand the police kind out the disaster.

Annoyed law enforcement officials in Tower Hamlets tweeted on the time: ‘Please don't contact us concerning the #KFCCrisis – it's not a police matter in case your favorite eatery will not be serving the menu that you simply want.’

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