the kentucky fried thread (pics)

I know the ad/marketing exec who came up with the idea of contracting the name to its acronym. The idea was that people shouldn't associate the name with the word fried, because friedhas unhealthy associations.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 15 March 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

haha yeah i can tell how much yr average kfc customer cares about his health.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 March 2003 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

What's Andy Richter doing in front of a KFC?

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 15 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305840083.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Newscaster: Here at our multi-billion dollar refinery in Fairbanks, we're extracting 2.5 billion barrels of crude oil each day from teenagers' faces.

[Master Klahn decapitates a prisoner.]
Klahn: Now take him to be tortured!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 15 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

A beautiful piece of work. And yes I own the DVD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 March 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

Good lord people, just watch this new KFC commercial:

mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/kfc-for_you.asf

"Remember how we talked about eating better? WELL." *slams down bucket of chicken*
"Sweetie, I can feel my arteries hardening."

(Read about it on Ad Age and Slate)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

being a kentuckian, i am so offended by this thread!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a Kentuckian too. My parents live only a few minutes away from this:

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I met hstencil's parents! OK, I just spent the night at their house. but still! great people! (even if we never did crack open the Derby pies)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

well there's always next year!

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking about this tonight! Er, is there a standing invitation for anyone who might want to visit?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

probably! I haven't gotten as far as to ask the 'rents yet, tho.

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

:-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wvec.com/news/local/mcchicken_head.jpg

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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