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


(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.
 
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Corporatism was a mistake, but I doubt the outrage would have been as intense if they offered matza balls or any traditional Jewish meal.
 
Dergint said:
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...
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It's any milk ( other than human milk) with any meat, eggs do not have a special status.

This is a vast oversimplification that ignores the history and your question about why chickens are considered meat for this purpose when they dont lactate
 
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WE MADE A MISTAKE!

We meant to say that for a limited time only, all our crispy chicken sandwiches will come with one slice of yellow cheese cut into the shape of a star.
 
I was expecting Germans apologizing for selling fried chicken because niggers lol. Close enough.
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
It's any milk ( other than human milk) with any meat, eggs do not have a special status.
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1. OK, you're right, I looked it up and apparently the origin is a quote about cooking a kid in its mother's milk, but in practice nobody cares about the "its mother's" part. It's admittedly impressive that they're willing to interpret the quote in the more restrictive way instead of doing automatic oven style rules lawyering. Good for them.

2. What's the story behind needing to make a specific exclusion for human milk? Is that for a specific recipe, or did a baby just bite his mom's nipple off one day and everyone decided that doesn't count?
 
I'd treat myself to some Popcorn Chicken if you didn't remove it from the menu. Nothing tastier than some popcorn chicken, fresh out of the over that houses 6,000,000 souls of ritually murdered sin chickens.
 
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Kermit Jizz said:
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.
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Ah, that brings back memories of the Onion's Subway ad.
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Dergint said:
1. OK, you're right, I looked it up and apparently the origin is a quote about cooking a kid in its mother's milk, but in practice nobody cares about the "its mother's" part. It's admittedly impressive that they're willing to interpret the quote in the more restrictive way instead of doing automatic oven style rules lawyering. Good for them.

2. What's the story behind needing to make a specific exclusion for human milk? Is that for a specific recipe, or did a baby just bite his mom's nipple off one day and everyone decided that doesn't count?
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Technically chicken doesn't count as meat that is prohibited from being mixed with dairy but to avoid the appearance of looking like you're sinning the rabbis decided that chicken is a prohibited meat. In Judaism you're allowed to enact stricter rules on already existing laws but not to loosen rules on existing laws.

Human milk is considered ok to drink because humans are not kosher* and as so the milk is considered not to be dairy. You can drink human milk or even cook with it but it's forbidden for anyone but a baby/infirm person to directly drink from the breast, it must be put into a cup first. It's like honey, a kosher product made as a byproduct by non kosher animals.

*No other human products are acceptable to eat, human meat because humans aren't kosher and human blood because blood isn't kosher.
 
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I don't get it, what's offensive about the KFC ad? Was there not enough homo flags in it or something?
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Kicking and stomping on chickens that are kept in crowded living situations is acceptable, but God forbid you forget to plaster the Progress Flag everywhere. Not the ordinary rainbow flag, the one with the ugly arrow thing of mismatching colors invading the flag.
 
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Dergint said:
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?
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There was, but they didn't like it being a 14 day period where people got 88% off their order
 
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