KFC International wants to warn you that that “KFC” in Fallujah is a knock off.
KFC says:
This store is not approved by KFC International and we have [been] working with the US Military to warn the troops of this situation.
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I heard they made them call it “KFC” in Iraq, ’cause, ya know, they don’t use chicken anymore !
I first read this as KFC asking the military to get involved in getting rid of this knockoff. Visions of tanks and M-80s firing into the building, chunks of breast and thigh meat flying in the air with shrapnel filled my head, and I was about to go into a rant about corporations abusing the US government to do their dirty work. Then I realized they just asked the military to let the troops know it was fake. Is it sad I find that disappointing?
@Bladefist:
Not exactly an unbiased soruce, but a good read nonetheless:
[www.huffingtonpost.com]
What It’s Like To Watch Fox News For 24 Straight Hours
It’s Kurdish Fried Chicken, not an impostor.
Now I know where all those stray Iraqi dogs end up!
@chikarin: @lannister80: Did you not read what I posted? No more discussion of Fox News in this thread and a warning to each of you to abide by our comment guidelines (particularly when they’re explicitly noted by staff in the thread).
@Consumerist-Moderator-Roz: Someone hasn’t had their donuts
@Consumerist-Moderator-Roz: Debating pros and cons of Fox News = not OK.
I don’t see why this isn’t OK. This is only an story because the existence of a KFC in Iraq was falsely reported by Fox News. Many people consider Fox News to be a poor quality/biased news source and the quality of Fox News is extremely relevant to this story.
I appreciate the change in tone around here since the comment code was instituted on Consumerist, but I think you are sometimes too quick to shut down avenues of debate that are relevant to the stories.
@rainmkr: Last I heard, they were still working their way through the Nation Zoo.
I can see the security aspects of why the military and KFC would be concerned with a fake globally-known restaurant existing in a near warzone.
Yeah this place is lacking the addictive ingredient in the chicken.
How long does it take to inform the military that it’s a fake? It’s a fun rumor, and don’t they have a military email addy?
@MissTicklebritches: I look at the warning as being justified. Things that seem familiar and safe may not be. KFC can be a comfort place fro some troops and they should be aware that it is not affiliated with Kentucky Fried Chicken. It could be Kabul Fried Cat.
Take your petty partisan carping to the sites that pander to that. That goes left and right. Thanks.
Kennedy Friend Chicken has been getting away with it for years, so why not them?
10 piece IED meal please.
@MissTicklebritches:
Hah, nice save.
@desertdust:
You understand this!
@Puck:
Your argument is ad hominem. And as Bladefist stated, why is it that it’s such a travesty that one news channel leans to the right when all the rest lean left? Conservatives cried for years that television media was biased because zero out of some 4-6 mainstream channels were “conservative”; and now that there is one “conservative” news channel out there among those same other 4-6 channels, the liberals say the media is unfair and biased. Whatever the case, this is neither the time nor place for that type of debate. Neither side will change the other’s mind anyway.
@The_Gas_Man: I’m probably tempting the fate of Roz here, but the other channels are not left-leaning. There’s been studies and such refuting this trope for years, and here’s a recent one pointing out that the media’s been tougher on Obama than McCain, despite claims to the contrary.
But like you said, neither side’s going to change the other’s mind here. There’s not much left of the dead horse to beat, and the maggots are long gone.
A KFC in Fallujah? Democracy just kicked in!
They’re interfering with KBR mess halls/barracks with showers that’ll electrocute soldiers.
Time to send a Predator into that hotbed of terrorism keeping KBR from a prime profit situation.
@Consumerist-Moderator-Roz:
Because this was on Fox News, the story’s credibility changes as the credibility of the network is established. It’s completely legitimate and not thread jacking. At all.
The first time I served in the Middle East I thought I would play it safe and just eat salad bar stuff instead of curry chicken, curry potatoes, curry rice, curry [insert food here]. The food contractors were from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and every other place that made curry a staple.
When I got food poisoning from the salad bad the good ol’ health inspector found the locals rinsing vegetables using water from a sewer runoff.
Dear Japheaux’s wife…..your husband went to war and unfortunately was killed by parasites and bacteria, not mortars or IEDs.
After recovery, I figured I might as well eat whatever the locals would sell off the street and opted for the Shawarma King. I never really knew what it was as they just kind of called it ‘meat,’ but it didn’t kill me and didn’t have that stupid curry on it.
One point is…after eating day in and day out in the same place, even a knock-off KFC may look good. Maybe they just feel loyalty that ‘the Colonel’ is serving dinner.
@Puck: gee thanks for the eleitist insult puck….now i know better than to be a moderate (racist) conservitaive! but in all seriousness I agree with The_Gas_Man and Bladefist why cant conservitives hae just one news net. but in more on topic news:KFC in the middle east OMFG! how awesome is that!
I am glad Consumerist posted this. Next time I am in the mood for KFC Chicken I won’t bypass the one that is around the corner from my house in New Jersey and make that trip to Fallajuh I was dying to make.
@Zephyr7: a big-ass MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner?
oh wait, right….
Stuff like this also happens in the US, believe or not. I’m not going to disclose any information about the store, but I spotted what looked like a fake store of a popular ice cream chain in an area of Chicago with a huge immigrant population.
@jonworld: See also: [www.notfoolinganybody.com]
They have a whole section devoted to knockoffs of Canuckistani coffee chain Coffee Time, too.
@sahhhm: SFC and PFC are enlisted ranks and might not have the right associations for U.S. Army soldiers.
That said, any sort of knockoff version of home greaseball fast food has got to go over well after a year or more in the desert.
@TideGuy: they all have biases. The only real liberal media out there was Air America Radio. And they had the cojones to admit it, while Faux News took years to drop the “fair and balanced” tagline.