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Havn't noticed, but that is odd. Shouldn't Kentucky Fried Chicken use a song about Kentucky (My Old Kentucky Home or Blue Moon of Kentucky maybe)? Or better yet a song about chickens (Little Red Rooster or Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens). Not that there's anything wrong with Sweet Home Alabama though (I just don't know what the song has to do with Kentucky or Chicken).
for a long time the kfc commercials have been aimed at black people. maybe they're trying to entice more good ol boys in.
One more slam against the South. We're not all obsessed with fried chicken, dangit! Some of are too busy with our stills to worry about how our chicken is seasoned.
True. After a few sips from my still, it could be a rubber chicken and nobody would notice.
^ heheh ^
by mojo on Sun Jul 31, 05 5:42pm
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I noticed that too mojo. KFC is just trying to get KKK members, hicks, and southerners to eat the chicken as well as the ghetto peoples they already sucked in. I hate KFC. They won't be sucking me in.
oh, and I won't even think about giving KFC scraps to my cats, its that bad =^..^=
I wondered about that too. Is that song public domain now? Are they going to change their name to Alabama Fried Chicken? Did the Colonel bang his slaves? We may never know.
Is it true that Colonel Sanders was a Klansman? I've heard from some people that a percentage of profits go to the KKK.
Sweet Home Alabama like fried chicken is a southern thing, so it kinda goes together.
P.S. Answering the questions in the 2 post above mine. No, Colonel Sanders was not in the Klan, that rumor is an urban legend. There is no truth to it at all. He did not own slaves as he did not even live back then, in-fact he wasn't even born yet, he didn't die until 1980. He's not even from Kentucky, he was born in Indiana then moved to Kentucky. He was known for giving away large sums of money, so much his family had to watch to make sure he didn't give more away then he could actually afford. In-fact, he sold KFC before the real money started coming in. ( not that he didn't make it very rich, but he sold it in the 60ies and stayed on as the spokesman ) Before anyone ask, he was not a Colonel in the military, he was made an Honorary Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky. He started out selling his fried chicken in a gas station in Corbin Kentucky. He was retired and living off his social security checks when he started KFC at the age of 66. Being from Kentucky, my GUESS as to the rumors of the KKK is because he was linked to Corbin Kentucky. Growing up here I always heard rumors about how racist Corbin is and how big the Klan is there, but those may just be rumors to. I've been there and haven't seen anything odd about the place. It just looked like a small country town to me, but I've only been in that area a couple times. So maybe people in Kentucky started the rumor because of the rumors of Corbin. That is a very bloody area in Kentucky's past. Although it was a war between white families that gave it the bloody reputation it has. It was a feud that made the Hatfield's and McCoys look like kids playing together in the street. It lasted for over a hundred years and killed something like 150 people. Just type Clay County War into google and check it out. The History Channel also has a special about it if your into stuff like that.
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