Man throws epic KFC party for girlfriend – with gravy fountain and a chicken bouquet

David Goodings, a DJ from Chesington, Surrey, wanted his girlfriend, Gemma Whittaker, to enjoy her 30th birthday so he pulled out all the stops – and even made his own gravy fountain

A bloke surprised his girlfriend with a KFC -themed birthday party – including a bespoke gravy fountain and bucket of chicken made of cake. David Goodings, 28, wanted to make sure that his partner, Gemma Whittaker, had a 30th birthday to remember so he pulled out all the stops.

Knowing that her favourite food is KFC, he decided to throw her a party themed entirely around the Colonel. He hid pieces of fried chicken in a bouquet of flowers, ordered a 10-piece bucket, and designed a special graphic to go on the TV.

But he didn’t stop there, he also sourced a chocolate fountain and modified it to work with KFC gravy – and had a cake made to look like a bucket of their signature chicken.

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David said: “My girlfriend, Gemma, was celebrating her 30th birthday over the weekend – her birthday is actually December 17 but we did it early as I’m working next week.

“She loves KFC, if we’re ever having a takeaway we always choose KFC, we live just around the corner from one – which is great, but it’s not great for our diets. We have a balanced diet, but we do love our food.

“For us, we just love the chicken, but the best bit has got to be the gravy.

“There’s something about it that’s quite special, and we love the popcorn chicken, the thighs, we love it all.”

Gemma, who works as a field sales executive, loves KFC so much that every time the pair decide to order a takeaway it’s her go-to choice.

David continued: “For Gemma’s birthday, knowing that she loves KFC, I decided to put together a whole afternoon with a KFC theme.

“We got red and white balloons, I made a little graphic for the TV with the logo on and it had a message saying happy 30th Gemma.

“I put out on FB marketplace and asked if anyone had a chocolate fountain that they no longer want and someone got back to me saying I was more than welcome to their chocolate fountain. I spray-painted it red and made it a gravy fountain.

“It went down really well, it was like a chocolate fountain but with gravy instead, I think they should be on sale in the shops because it went down a treat.

“I bought some flowers from the shop and then I stuck chicken pieces in the flowers to keep it in the theme, and then I also got a local cake baker, she’s really talented, she made a whole KFC-based cake which looks completely real – If you’ve seen the show Is It Cake?, you get the idea, it looks so real you wouldn’t know.

“The chicken bits on top were actually cake, it’s made to look like a bucket but of course, it was all made of cake.

“Apparently the chicken on top, to make it look real she used bits of broken-up cornflakes, she did a really good job on it and it tasted amazing too.

“It didn’t taste like chicken, weirdly the chicken cake bits tasted better than the actual cake, I guess it’s the texture of the cornflakes and the icing, and the psychological thing as well.

“Gemma was completely surprised by it, she didn’t know what was going on, I kept it top secret from her and she loved it. In her words, she said she couldn’t have asked for a better present and I know her too well.”

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