Nothing Like a "Finger Lickin Good" Back to School Special Rant
Yesterday, I received a flier in the mail from none other than KFC. They had a spectacular photogenic family on the front dressed in white Gap T shirts and smiling from ear to ear as if they were worshiping the fried chicken gods.
"Back to School Family Special" for only $19.99 CDN stated the flier.
For $19.99 plus *HST tax, you too can have ten pieces of chicken, medium fries, and gravy with two containers of salad. Have you ever seen the size of their salads and where do they purchase the cabbage that produces such a neon green colour?
Obviously, the family on the front of this flier does not eat KFC Fried Chicken if you look at them closely. They are fit, do not have zits and I do not see one darn grease spot on their pristine white shirts. They certainly do not dress like the customers I see standing in line at KFC. In fact, they resemble a lot of the activists I saw protesting outside the chicken establishment yesterday about their buckets and what they do to the environment.
Just look at Dad closely - now there is a bucket protester if I ever saw one.
According to the forest activists in the "Dogwood Alliance", a sizable percentage of the Colonel's U.S. market red-and-white tubs were sourced from trees in the environmentally pristine Green Swamp in southeastern North Carolina.
The devil you say?
Do you honestly think the people I see purchasing chicken at KFC care about where their buckets come from?
There are no mashed potatoes and also no "Double Downs" sold in Canada as the country chose not to sell them, much like they turned down Fox News's application to broadcast.
All that juicy cheese stuffed between two battered chicken pieces that come with jumper cables to revive you were stopped dead in their poultry tracks at the border. No word if the grilled version made it through the lines.
Do you think Joe Canada's family pictured up there is munching down on a KFC chicken special right now? I honestly think that if they had choices they would eat the paper bucket instead. They obviously know it would be more nutritious and less harmful to your heart.
Colonel Sanders once quoted that there's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery as he said that you couldn't do any business from there anyways.
Obviously he never ate his chicken.
Images and Words Linda Seccaspina 2011
* HST - is the Ontario government's move to harmonize the federal and provincial sales tax into a single 13% HST -- Rule Britannia!
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on September 24, 2011 at 5:33pm -
Krystya.. all bow to free range chickens.. I agree
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Comment by Krystyna on September 24, 2011 at 5:02pm -
I used to be a chicken eater (yes I love KFC) and steadfastly avoided reading any horror stories about how chickens were being treated in those factories, precisely because I didn't want my chicken eating spoiled. And then I read something about someone who tries to rescue chickens from those places by buying as many live ones as she can a few times a month. That information crept up on me without any warning because it was in a women's lifestyle magazine and not an activist publication. Now I cannot bring myself to eat any fast food chicken and only buy chicken that have been allowed to live decent lives and then killed humanely. No creatures should have to be treated like that just because they are ultimately meant to be killed.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on September 21, 2011 at 12:07pm
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Thank you Mary!!
Lord scanner.. oh lordy hahaha
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Comment by Kenneth Sibbett on September 21, 2011 at 3:42am -
The Green Sea is almost in my backyard. I have heard nothing, nothing about these buckets, and even though I know it's bad for you, I have to admit, I eat at the Colonel's every now and again. There's no better chicken in the world. I say "moderation" in all things. That family happens to work at our local KFC and the kids actually kill the chickens in a building out back. They usually have blood all over those white clothes, must have been a holiday!
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Comment by Mary Katherine Manuel on September 21, 2011 at 12:20am -
I can feel the gunk clogging my arteries. Excellent reporting.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on September 20, 2011 at 11:26pm
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LOL jack heart.. you kill me
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Comment by Jack Heart on September 20, 2011 at 1:10pm -
All 4 of those people pictured in the ad should be
criminally prosecuted for lying if not for promoting the ingestion of poison by
the ignorant poor people who are the Colonel’s primary targets. If they are
found guilty they should be forced to eat only the Colonel’s poison for at least
1 year. Then I want to see the after pictures.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on September 20, 2011 at 1:00pm
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Peggy.. have you noticed they are closing them down one by ine in Lanark County?
Bleue: gross isnt it.
Steve: yuck
Marsha: LOl he has eaten some.. but yeah the cripsy skin..:)
Sheila: goes through people too fast.. that made me laugh
Matt: Nice to see chicken maan..:) I noticed he still has his beak so he is a okay haha
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Comment by Matt Paust on September 20, 2011 at 12:57pm -
My friend here likes this post very much.
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Comment by Sheila Luecht on September 20, 2011 at 12:32pm -
I think when I was a kid this was a decent indulgence, then it just got too icky, greasy for my taste. Like so much other fast too, it just goes through people too fast, and those it doesn't, well they wear it on the outside....in triple plus sizes...
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