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Burger King trolls KFC by offering nine chicken nuggets for 99p

Burger King trolls KFC amid its chicken shortage
Burger King trolls KFC amid its chicken shortage

Burger King has trolled KFC by posting an advert offering nine chicken nuggets for 99p alongside the comment: “We don’t chicken out.”

The hamburger chain also offered a Chicken Royale for £1.99 as it posted on Twitter: “Here’s a special offer on chicken because we didn’t bucket up this week.”

KFC had to close hundreds of stores over the last week after a supply fiasco left it unable to serve up its signature food.

Almost 700 of its 900 of the fried chicken UK outlets have now reopened.

One person replied: "Ahahahaha! The shade has been thrown," while another added: "That's so evil."

Another wrote: "Hahahaha love it."

It comes after, earlier this week, an irate woman was filmed ranting "I've had to go to Burger King" in a hilarious outburst over the crisis.

The woman's rage featured on ITV's News at Ten and has since gone viral.

Meanwhile earlier today the fast food chain appeared to see the funny side by taking out a full page newspaper advert apologising for the fiasco and featuring an imaginative reordering of its lettering to spell 'FCK'.

KFC took out a full page newspaper ad to apologise
KFC took out a full page newspaper ad to apologise

Here’s a special offer on chicken because we didn’t bucket up this week.

The closures were the result of delayed chicken deliveries by DHL, which announced in November that it had been appointed alongside QSL to manage the supply and distribution of food products and packaging for more than 850 KFC restaurants throughout the UK.

"Due to operational issues a number of deliveries in recent days have been incomplete or delayed," DHL said in a statement.

"We are working with KFC and our partners to rectify the situation as a priority and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused."

The chicken chain detailed the problems in an earlier statement, which said: "We've brought a new delivery partner on board, but they've had a couple of teething problems - getting fresh chicken out to 900 restaurants across the country is pretty complex!"

"We won't compromise on quality, so no deliveries has meant some of our restaurants are closed and others are operating a limited menu, or shortened hours," the company added.

"We know that this might have inconvenienced some of you over the last few days, and disappointed you when you wanted your fried chicken fix - we're really sorry about that."