What’s up with chicken promotions lately? Popeye’s offered cheap chicken and caused traffic jams and chicken shortages. Then we got reports of long lines and long waits for free KFC chicken — and now reader Jody says that the KFC in Pearl, Mississippi had run out of free chicken by 2 PM.

Jody says:

I went to my local KFC (Pearl, Mississippi) at 2:00 PM CDT (3:00 PM EDT) and this is what I found…

The first picture is the drive-thru speaker. It’s torn because it’s wet.. storming here in Mississippi today The second picture is the drive thru menu board, which you can also see in the first picture.

Denied. So I went to Wendy’s and bought me 2 classic double cheese burgers, no onions, no lettuce and a large fry.

Yum.

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