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Honey with habanero behind it, and the habanero is the part worth noting. It's a considerably hotter chilli than the jalapeño used elsewhere in the range, so this sits at the top of the heat scale rather than in the middle of it, and KFC marks it with three flames on the packaging. The sweetness arrives first and the heat builds afterwards, which is the pattern hot honey depends on. Sugar coats the palate before the capsaicin registers, so the burn feels delayed rather than immediate. Hot honey has spread quickly across British fast food, turning up on McDonald's chicken and on two Domino's pizzas in the same year. Pushing it to habanero is what separates this version from the milder ones on other menus. It came in with the 2026 batch of nine dips that joined the KFC core menu.
Twenty-six new items across four chains in five days. Buffalo chicken at Greggs, hot honey at Domino's, nine dips at KFC and another rotation at McDonald's. All of it, with prices.
