Disaster KFC Germany apologizes for ‘treat yourself’ chicken promotion tied to Kristallnacht

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(JTA) — The German branch of international fast-food chain KFC apologized to customers Wednesday for sending out a promotional message tied to the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the evening of Nazi-led antisemitic riots that precipitated the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust.

“It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken,” KFC Germany said in an initial push notification message to customers, in German, advertising its “KFCheese.”

A short time after, the chain sent a follow-up in all-caps: “SORRY WE MADE A MISTAKE.” The company blamed the message on “a bug in our system.”

Germany takes the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass,” seriously, even though Germans do not call the event by that name. Memorial events and discussions take place nationwide each year on Nov. 9-10 to reflect on Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews.

Reaction to KFC’s “mistake” came swiftly. Daniel Sugarman, director of public affairs for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, tweeted that the promotion was “absolutely hideous.” Arsen Ostrovsky, head of the pro-Israel legal group International Legal Forum, said he was “utterly speechless and repulsed.”

Meanwhile, another German institution came under fire for a Kristallnacht controversy this year. Goethe-Institut Israel, the Israeli location of the German language and cultural center, rescheduled a planned panel discussion on “the Holocaust, Nakba and German Remembrance Culture” that had been set to take place on the anniversary of the violence. The “Nakba” is the common Palestinian term for the mass displacement and deaths that accompanied the State of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry had criticized the Goethe-Institut for linking the Holocaust to the founding of the State of Israel on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, calling it “the blatant cheapening of Holocaust and the cynical and manipulative attempt to create a linkage whose entire purpose is to defame Israel.”

This article originally appeared on JTA.org.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Please be patient I'm autistic.

KFC acknowledged that a bad thing happened to the jews, why are people upset? Is it because crispy chicken reminds them of the ovens? Because there is no discount code?

 

[Retink Retunk]

I don't get it, what's offensive about the KFC ad? Was there not enough homo flags in it or something?

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

Every time an accident like this happens, the journalist quotes several people from several different, but nearly identical, jewish interest groups.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

Please be patient I'm autistic.

KFC acknowledged that a bad thing happened to the jews, why are people upset? Is it because crispy chicken reminds them of the ovens? Because there is no discount code?

I think it's just in poor taste. Imagine if McD's ran an add campaign in honor of 9/11?
Except that actually happened so it'd be much worse.

 

[Thunk Provoker]

https://twitter.com/NTarnopolsky/status/1590365161419788290

The message:

 

[Paul Pelosi's Boyfriend]

You wonder why Germany is such a mess and then you realize they're required to spend six months out of the year mourning the Holocaust

 

[Meat Target]

Please be patient I'm autistic.

KFC acknowledged that a bad thing happened to the jews, why are people upset? Is it because crispy chicken reminds them of the ovens? Because there is no discount code?

I don't get it, what's offensive about the KFC ad? Was there not enough homo flags in it or something?

If my understanding of Jewish dietary law is correct:

Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken

Mixing dairy with meat is un-kosher.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

I think it's just in poor taste. Imagine if McD's ran an add campaign in honor of 9/11?
Except that actually happened so it'd be much worse.

But they describe the day as the Memorial of the Bad Day, the focus is being sad for the victims, not cheering the aggressors.

I think I'd be ok with McDonald's running a 9/11 deal, but it would have to be like "Free 6pc Nuggs for emergency responders and new Yorkers". Like, make it clear you don't support the event itself.

Of course KFC just has to be cheap about it and jew the jews out of a free meal.

Mixing dairy with meat is un-kosher.

Isn't that only if the dairy and meat are the same species of animal, because milk is supposed to nurture the child and using it to make it more delicious instead is a cruel irony? Chickens don't make milk.

Though I wonder if similar logic would apply to the egg that goes into the breading...

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I'll buy 6 million chicken pieces.

 

[Meat Target]

But they describe the day as the Memorial of the Bad Day, the focus is being sad for the victims, not cheering the aggressors.

I think I'd be ok with McDonald's running a 9/11 deal, but it would have to be like "Free 6pc Nuggs for emergency responders and new Yorkers". Like, make it clear you don't support the event itself.

Of course KFC just has to be cheap about it and jew the jews out of a free meal.


Isn't that only if the dairy and meat are the same species of animal, because milk is supposed to nurture the child and using it to make it more delicious instead is a cruel irony? Chickens don't make milk.

Though I wonder if similar logic would apply to the egg that goes into the breading...

It may have also had some association with pagan rituals back in Old Testament days. I'm not sure, I'm not a rabbi.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

But they describe the day as the Memorial of the Bad Day, the focus is being sad for the victims, not cheering the aggressors.

I think I'd be ok with McDonald's running a 9/11 deal, but it would have to be like "Free 6pc Nuggs for emergency responders and new Yorkers". Like, make it clear you don't support the event itself.

Of course KFC just has to be cheap about it and jew the jews out of a free meal.

It's not about that, it's the fact they're using a tragedy as a money making opportunity. It comes off as slimy and opportunistic.

 

[Male Idiot]

They propably just had a server send out messages on every "day" regardless of what it was about.

That said, the seething of the Juden is most funny.

 

[Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus]

Good, everyone should hate KFC. First for already being inferior to every other fast food fried chicken, and then they had the nerve to cancel popcorn chicken and potato wedges.

 

[Dom Cruise]

DER NIGHT OF DER LONG CHICKEN LEGS.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

“Hey we’re sorry about the ovens. Here’s some chicken.”

 

[Stabmaster Arson II]

Spoiler: lyrics

FIRST YOU LIVED ON A FARM
THEN YOU GOT YOUR HEAD CUT OFF
THEN I BOUGHT YOU IN A GROCERY STORE
PRETTY SOON, YOU'LL BE ON MY PLATE

INTO THE OVEN
INTO THE OVEN
INTO THE OVEN
I'M GONNA EAT YOU FOR THANKSGIVING

I'M NOT A FAGGOT VEGETARIAN
I DON'T CARE IF THE INDIANS LOST THEIR LAND
I THINK ITS REALLY FUNNY THAT THEY DID
I LIKE EATING LOTS OF FOOD ON THANKSGIVING

INTO THE OVEN
INTO THE OVEN
INTO THE OVEN
I'M GONNA EAT YOU FOR THANKSGIVING

 

[WonderWino]

So, KFC is now Kristalnacht Fried Chicken, so that makes their mascot Obersturmbannfuhrer Sanders then?

 

[BasedCentrist]

KFC is the cheapest goyslop, no way a chosenite eats that shit.

Also, it's eerie how every CEO of Fortune companies is a pajeet now.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

TBH, while I have little sympathy for (()), who thought it would be a great idea to tie this event to selling fried chicken? Like wut?