KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken - Marketing, and controversies

[Annie Adderall]

The skins are the only good part. The rest of KFC chicken sucks.

 

[Xarpho]

My tinfoil hat theory is that KFC is not going too well and Yum! Brands wants to divest it. It sounds a bit outrageous since it's one of their big flagship brands, but that was once true of Red Lobster and Darden.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

My tinfoil hat theory is that KFC is not going too well and Yum! Brands wants to divest it. It sounds a bit outrageous since it's one of their big flagship brands, but that was once true of Red Lobster and Darden.

Wouldn't be ironic if and when Yum! Brands sold KFC then KFC prosper again?

Btw, seems there was some brawls in KFC outside the U.S.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

The skins are the only good part. The rest of KFC chicken sucks.
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Only if we can just eat the skin, the gunk, and the grease.

 

[Picklechu]

I haven't had KFC in close to a decade, but every few months, I get a weird craving for it. I honestly might go through the drive-thru at the one down the street now that I'm thinking of it.

I've found the marketing over the past few years amusing. I don't see many ads anymore - YouTube (sometimes, depending on how I'm watching it), Hulu, and ads on Twitter and IRL are about it - so when I'm forced to trudge through one, I appreciate it not being some completely boring shit.

Investment-wise, Yum Brands is fine as far as a pure restaurant play goes, but I wouldn't go all-in or anything. I have a tiny amount of stock, but I have no intention of adding to it at any point in the near term.

 

[Pissmaster]

The Double Down was really good but that's about it

 

[Kulee Baba]

I'm betting the Colonel's worst regret was signing over the rights of his likeness to them. They've bastardized his image to kingdom come. The recent years long campaign of terrible comedians being chosen to dress up as him via blind dart throwing has to be the worst of it yet.

If you think Norm MacDonald is a terrible comedian you have bad tastes.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

If you think Norm MacDonald is a terrible comedian you have bad tastes.

I don't know him as a comedian only as that guy who says sorry a lot and then needs to say sorry because he said sorry the wrong way.

 

[Kulee Baba]

I don't know him as a comedian only as that guy who says sorry a lot and then needs to say sorry because he said sorry the wrong way.

Yeah he fucked up big time with all that. Still is one of the best standups of all time. His book is also one of the funniest things I've read. Can't recommend him enough.

 

[Toolbox]

If you think Norm MacDonald is a terrible comedian you have bad tastes.

Are you thinking I singled out any of them with that comment? They cycled through like 50 different people.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Are you thinking I singled out any of them with that comment? They cycled through like 50 different people.

Lol he was the only one I paid a attention to.

 

[celebrityskin]

Idk, I love their Spanish language account:

https://twitter.com/KFC_ES?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

 

[Begemot]

The Double Down was really good but that's about it

The double down is a glorious form of meaty degeneracy. You'd only want to have it once a year, though.

 

[Begemot]

Yeah, the double down was worth it. Might not eat it for a couple of years, though....