KFC Demonstrates Its Atomic Intentions
Forget Iran and North Korea, maybe it's KFC that poses the world's most daunting new threat of developing the atom bomb.
Reader RandomHookup snapped this photo of a sign at a KFC that tips off the true intentions of the seemingly benevolent fast food chain. Providing a pleasant "atomsphere" can only mean one thing — that the Colonel's secret recipe not only makes you crave it fortnightly, but also is actually some sort of Manhattan Project.
Either that or it was just a mistake, in which case we can all point and laugh and bask in our superiority, ebcause we ecertainlee evner mipsell htings.
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No no no, you have it all wrong. An Atomsphere is not a weapon. It's the protective shield that all KFC's have to protect the customers from the gamma waves PETA constantly bombard their franchises with.
So... typos and grammatical errors in Consumerist postings are to be brought to the attention of the editor. Typos and grammatical errors anywhere else in the world are to be brought to everyone's attention.
The restaurant is only a couple of miles from MIT. Perhaps it's a secret code word.
The atoms that make up the greasy, over-seasoned original recipe chicken are anything but pleasant.
Or someone was typing too fast and had a typo and the proofreader was asleep or at Chick-Fil-A?
Or someone didnt really care, or it was a secret plan to generate more attetion?
So, based on the sign's intentions, in other words, eat your food and get out!
@PunditGuy: Yes. Because "atomsphere" is actually pretty funny. Particularly given the mysterious nature of the industrial food-product they serve.
The pleasant atomsphere must be the sleepiness induced by eating a ton of cholesterol and fat in a half hour and downing starches.
Everyone so obsessed with atoms they didn't see the immediately misspelled at the end?
Obviously some have never gone to engrish.com
@dancekat1: Usually unless it's a small local company, whoever is making the sign will print whatever you send to them. The manager probably shot off an email to whatever sign company KFC has contracted (which is probably a big faceless corp) and said, "print this white on red".
Incidentally, the manager also misspelled "immediately".
They misspelled "Immediately" also.
Hah! You spelled "wee" wrong!
LOL! That sign. How do they decide when you become a loiterer? Anyway, I read recently that KFC's "grilled" chicken is coated in beef fat. I have also noted over the last 30 years that the chicken pieces are getting smaller and the price is going up and have you seen those TINY portions on their side items! On TV commercials, they have to zoom in tight with nothing else to reference the size of their portions to make their servings look bigger. Sad downhill slide of an American institution.
Atomsphere? For some reason I'm picturing Mr. Burke in Fallout 3, with a suitcase containing the Colonel's secret recipe handcuffed to his wrist, sitting in the corner of Megaton's KFC making shifty eyes at the Lone Wanderer snapping a cellphone picture of this sign.
I think I need more tea.
Clearly they are reffering to the Earth's atmosphere. So be nice or they will have you flung off the planet.
The bomb you should be aware of at KFC is a stomach bomb. I don't eat there anymore after getting sick twice.
I bet there is a sign there also noting that they don't 'except' certain coupons.
...look at all thie idiots who are apparently "professional" sign makers who can't even use an apostrophe correctly. Drives me nuts...everything from handwritten signs in shop windows to lighted storefront signs to billboards and even government signage ("Truck's use right lane").
@henrygates: I just had a stencil company helpfully "correct" my stencil without contacting me.
It was a stanza of an e.e. cummings poem. It did not need correcting. I did need contacting. Have they never heard of Teh Google?
Aye, I always hated the Colonel, with his wee, beady eyes and that smart look upon his face that says, "Oooh, yer gonna buy my chicken!"
@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!):
As a proofreader, I can think of nothing funnier than a naive but well-meaning printer editing the capitalization of an e.e. cummings poem.
@YouDidWhatNow?: I used to work at a sign company and was explicitly told to not correct things regardless of how bad they were. My boss told me about a customer whose english he corrected only to be screamed at -- apparently the customer thought his version was correct and my boss' was wrong. The sign ended up being a freebie to appease the irate customer, who had come back several times afterward with other signs that were misspelled.
"Idiots are always pissed when you correct them and pissed customers are bad for business, so it's easier to just not correct them."
"immediately" didn't come out quite right either.
one mistake...it happens, and should have been caught.
two mistakes....fire the sign makers!
This is right down the street from me in Somerville, MA! There are actually two "atomsphere" signs in the eating area. I laugh and point them out to friends whenever I go. I always wonder if the mistake originated with the sign maker or the order itself--"Well it clearly says 'atomsphere,' so I guess that's what they want."
BTW I tend to think of this place as a Taco Bell because it's one of those combined establishments. They didn't take the coupon either.
That reminds me of the tax preparation service I drove past last year. They were advertising that they could help people who spoke a lot of different languages. They accomplished this by having a custom banner printed up that read: "WE SPEEK YOUR LANGUAGE!"
Wow, my brain looked over the typos and I had to read it three times in order to see it. My brain even fixed the typo for me when it was in the text next to the picture. WTH.
"Idiots are always pissed when you correct them and pissed customers are bad for business, so it's easier to just not correct them."
...that's why you should hire the Punisher to kill them. Kill them all! YARRRRR!!!!!
Thank you for the "So I Married an Axe Murderer" reference Phil. It made my day and I wanted you to know that it didn't go unnoticed. :)
I can't get a job even with my extensive skills and experience, but some idiot that can't spell basic words gets to get paid to make signs. He should have to give his job to somebody else!