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July 10, 2015 4:28 AM Subscribe
It's San Diego Comic Con weekend. Here's how KFC is celebrating it.
eleven secret herbs and spices blue
posted by HuronBob at 4:39 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by HuronBob at 4:39 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Wow, first Darryl Hammond and now this? A furry Colonel? Sanders must be spinning in his grave so fast his linen suit will ignite. (Wrong--his soul imploded long ago, when his eponymous company dropped the original gravy and potato recipes and began selling wallpaper paste.)
posted by kinnakeet at 4:44 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by kinnakeet at 4:44 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Honestly, I'd try KFC Blue once, Johnny. ... once.
posted by barnacles at 4:46 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by barnacles at 4:46 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
So, a dude, cosplaying a dude, cosplaying Yoda?
posted by Thorzdad at 4:53 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Thorzdad at 4:53 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
Meanwhile, Popeye's is still making the best damn fried chicken on the planet, with only a one-eyed sailor man (or maybe Gene Hackman) as a mascot.
posted by Strange Interlude at 5:10 AM on July 10, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by Strange Interlude at 5:10 AM on July 10, 2015 [10 favorites]
Daily Mash: Knowing about Comic-Con now somehow acceptable.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 5:24 AM on July 10, 2015
posted by TheophileEscargot at 5:24 AM on July 10, 2015
The Colonel has been into this for a while
posted by thelonius at 5:27 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 5:27 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
And here I thought this was going to be about importing the brand new KF Chizza from the Philippines.
posted by tocts at 5:57 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by tocts at 5:57 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Meanwhile, Popeye's is still making the best damn fried chicken on the planet, with only a one-eyed sailor man (or maybe Gene Hackman) as a mascot.
Just make sure you get the Spicy, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time. And don't forget to get that cajun gravy on the mashed potatoes. And biscuits. BISCUITS! Get extra. Extra extra.
so hungry
posted by leotrotsky at 6:14 AM on July 10, 2015 [5 favorites]
Just make sure you get the Spicy, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time. And don't forget to get that cajun gravy on the mashed potatoes. And biscuits. BISCUITS! Get extra. Extra extra.
so hungry
posted by leotrotsky at 6:14 AM on July 10, 2015 [5 favorites]
Meta as fuck.
posted by echocollate at 6:15 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by echocollate at 6:15 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Just make sure you get the Spicy, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time.
I've always assumed that the "regular" Popeye's chicken existed only as a way of weeding out the unready. If you ask for "spicy", you get your three-piece meal and a drink; if you opt for "regular", you're instantly dropped through a hidden trap door and are never seen again.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:24 AM on July 10, 2015 [4 favorites]
I've always assumed that the "regular" Popeye's chicken existed only as a way of weeding out the unready. If you ask for "spicy", you get your three-piece meal and a drink; if you opt for "regular", you're instantly dropped through a hidden trap door and are never seen again.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:24 AM on July 10, 2015 [4 favorites]
This is interesting. I went to Heroescon in Charlotte last month, and from the way people act there, it's 75% about talking to comics creators and buying art, and 25% about people not from North Carolina excitedly eating Bojangles' chicken and biscuits from the Convention Center food court.
Also, they make diet Cheerwine now. It's not great.
posted by almostmanda at 6:30 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Also, they make diet Cheerwine now. It's not great.
posted by almostmanda at 6:30 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Is this a good place to mention that I hate the new KFC commercials featuring a living, breathing, caricature of the real Col. Sanders with a fiery passion?
posted by yhbc at 6:33 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by yhbc at 6:33 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Just make sure you get the Spicy, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time.
I've always assumed that the "regular" Popeye's chicken existed only as a way of weeding out the unready. If you ask for "spicy", you get your three-piece meal and a drink; if you opt for "regular", you're instantly dropped through a hidden trap door and are never seen again.
Oh definitely. This is a common thing. Faidley's Seafood, Lexington Market, Baltimore. World's best crab cakes. Do you want a regular crab cake, or a lump crab cake? Geez, I don't know. A regular one, I guess. NO YOU DO NOT! You want a lump crab cake. Everyone wants a lump crab cake, they just don't know it. Regular crab cakes are for the tourists and rubes what don't knows no better. That's why it's on the menu. Weeds them out, offloads the subpar crabmeat on them, keeps them away from our good crab cakes. This is as it should be.
posted by leotrotsky at 6:37 AM on July 10, 2015 [4 favorites]
I've always assumed that the "regular" Popeye's chicken existed only as a way of weeding out the unready. If you ask for "spicy", you get your three-piece meal and a drink; if you opt for "regular", you're instantly dropped through a hidden trap door and are never seen again.
Oh definitely. This is a common thing. Faidley's Seafood, Lexington Market, Baltimore. World's best crab cakes. Do you want a regular crab cake, or a lump crab cake? Geez, I don't know. A regular one, I guess. NO YOU DO NOT! You want a lump crab cake. Everyone wants a lump crab cake, they just don't know it. Regular crab cakes are for the tourists and rubes what don't knows no better. That's why it's on the menu. Weeds them out, offloads the subpar crabmeat on them, keeps them away from our good crab cakes. This is as it should be.
posted by leotrotsky at 6:37 AM on July 10, 2015 [4 favorites]
Is this a good place to mention that I hate the new KFC commercials featuring a living, breathing, caricature of the real Col. Sanders with a fiery passion?
See I'd agree with this more had not Col. Sanders himself also been a living breathing caricature.
After being recommissioned as a Kentucky colonel in 1950 by Governor Lawrence Wetherby, Sanders began to dress the part, growing a goatee and wearing a black frock coat (later switching to a white suit), a string tie, and referring to himself as "Colonel".[19] His associates went along with the title change, "jokingly at first and then in earnest", according to biographer Josh Ozersky.[23]
He never wore anything else in public during the last 20 years of his life, using a heavy wool suit in the winter and a light cotton suit in the summer.[23] He bleached his mustache and goatee to match his white hair.[18]
posted by leotrotsky at 6:40 AM on July 10, 2015 [4 favorites]
See I'd agree with this more had not Col. Sanders himself also been a living breathing caricature.
After being recommissioned as a Kentucky colonel in 1950 by Governor Lawrence Wetherby, Sanders began to dress the part, growing a goatee and wearing a black frock coat (later switching to a white suit), a string tie, and referring to himself as "Colonel".[19] His associates went along with the title change, "jokingly at first and then in earnest", according to biographer Josh Ozersky.[23]
He never wore anything else in public during the last 20 years of his life, using a heavy wool suit in the winter and a light cotton suit in the summer.[23] He bleached his mustache and goatee to match his white hair.[18]
posted by leotrotsky at 6:40 AM on July 10, 2015 [4 favorites]
Is this a good place to mention that I hate the new KFC commercials featuring a living, breathing, caricature of the real Col. Sanders with a fiery passion?
This is the place!
I like those commercials, especially the one in which the Colonel sings "Chicken in the bucket, chicken in the beans, Chicken in the bucket, chicken in the beans..."
posted by notyou at 6:42 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
This is the place!
I like those commercials, especially the one in which the Colonel sings "Chicken in the bucket, chicken in the beans, Chicken in the bucket, chicken in the beans..."
posted by notyou at 6:42 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Sorry Colonel, you can't convince me through a variety of costumes and wifi hotspots that your biscuits are better than your competitors (on the rare occasion they're not over baked).
posted by Atreides at 6:42 AM on July 10, 2015
posted by Atreides at 6:42 AM on July 10, 2015
That marketing worked. My grandparents always called it "Colonel Sanders" and never Kentucky Fried Chicken.
posted by Fleebnork at 6:42 AM on July 10, 2015
posted by Fleebnork at 6:42 AM on July 10, 2015
See I'd agree with this more had not Col. Sanders himself also been a living breathing caricature.
The whole Kentucky Colonel thing was basically cosplaying in a "southern gentleman" costume. He wasn't even from the south, he grew up in Indiana.
posted by octothorpe at 6:54 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
The whole Kentucky Colonel thing was basically cosplaying in a "southern gentleman" costume. He wasn't even from the south, he grew up in Indiana.
posted by octothorpe at 6:54 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Not to mention that the title of "Kentucky Colonel" is 100% ceremonial, and denotes neither military rank nor any special privileges. To become a Kentucky Colonel, all you have to do have a friend send a request to the KY governor's office + a nominal fee and 6-8 weeks later they send you a suitable-for-framing certificate proclaiming you as a Colonel of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It's such a common retirement and/or birthday gift here in SW Ohio that I know at least four or five individual Kentucky Colonels personally, including my own dad.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:04 AM on July 10, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:04 AM on July 10, 2015 [10 favorites]
Oh, hush. Next thing you'll tell me Dave Thomas wasn't really that nice a guy after all and hated cheeseburgers.
posted by yhbc at 7:09 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by yhbc at 7:09 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Paired with this post, I hope those ceremonial Colonel certificates come with a photo frame where you can put your face in place of the Colonel's, complete with his white hair and suit.
Anyway, Denny's is the master of internet weird, with their blog, as recently re-captured on Imgur. "They knew their restaurant was the equivalent of 3am nightblogging and they just went with it."
posted by filthy light thief at 7:16 AM on July 10, 2015 [7 favorites]
Anyway, Denny's is the master of internet weird, with their blog, as recently re-captured on Imgur. "They knew their restaurant was the equivalent of 3am nightblogging and they just went with it."
posted by filthy light thief at 7:16 AM on July 10, 2015 [7 favorites]
Giant corporation attempt to co-opt popular trend. Guess that's never happened before.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 7:16 AM on July 10, 2015
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 7:16 AM on July 10, 2015
Is this a good place to mention that I hate the new KFC commercials featuring a living, breathing, caricature of the real Col. Sanders with a fiery passion?If you hadn't brought it up, I would have.
Or rather, I'm not per se opposed to having an actor portray the Colonel Sanders persona, just to the performance of the specific actor they have chosen. I find him off-putting in ways I can't even describe. It's as though they held their casting call in the tiny hamlet of Uncanny Valley, KY, and he was the only one who showed up..
posted by Nerd of the North at 7:31 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Loving Colonel KFCentaur here, but I still prefer Bojangles to KFC.
posted by oceanjesse at 7:33 AM on July 10, 2015
posted by oceanjesse at 7:33 AM on July 10, 2015
Also.. I predict that fur-suit Colonel Sanders is going to have an internet life in the gif-o-sphere that extends long past this advertising campaign.
posted by Nerd of the North at 7:34 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Nerd of the North at 7:34 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
Not sure how gif-worthy a statue is, but sure.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:37 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 7:37 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Or rather, I'm not per se opposed to having an actor portray the Colonel Sanders persona, just to the performance of the specific actor they have chosen. I find him off-putting in ways I can't even describe. It's as though they held their casting call in the tiny hamlet of Uncanny Valley, KY, and he was the only one who showed up..
I don't know if it's been mentioned here yet, but the actor in question is SNL performer Darrell Hammond, who's been doing quality celebrity impressions for decades now. I think the ad campaign is ill-advised and creepy, but he's not the one to blame here.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:44 AM on July 10, 2015
I don't know if it's been mentioned here yet, but the actor in question is SNL performer Darrell Hammond, who's been doing quality celebrity impressions for decades now. I think the ad campaign is ill-advised and creepy, but he's not the one to blame here.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:44 AM on July 10, 2015
"The whole Kentucky Colonel thing was basically cosplaying in a "southern gentleman" costume. He wasn't even from the south, he grew up in Indiana."
Is *Kentucky* in the South? I drove through once, stopped at a KFC (dogs in the car, couldn't stop for real food).
They did not have sweet tea.
I am pretty sure this makes it a non-Southern state, no matter what the other indicators are.
posted by galadriel at 7:51 AM on July 10, 2015
Is *Kentucky* in the South? I drove through once, stopped at a KFC (dogs in the car, couldn't stop for real food).
They did not have sweet tea.
I am pretty sure this makes it a non-Southern state, no matter what the other indicators are.
posted by galadriel at 7:51 AM on July 10, 2015
Denny's is the master of internet weird
Maybe so, but Burger King has apparently resurrected The Subservient Chicken, from 2001 (the year, not the movie, though that would have been awesome)
posted by moonmilk at 7:57 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Maybe so, but Burger King has apparently resurrected The Subservient Chicken, from 2001 (the year, not the movie, though that would have been awesome)
posted by moonmilk at 7:57 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Back in 2005, I used to travel thru the Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta. In many of the terminals, there was this sit-down restaurant - i'm not sure if it specialized in Fried Chicken or Southern-style cooking, but they served (to this uneducated Canadian at least), the best Fried Chicken and collard greens I have ever had.
I think the restaurant is/was a chain/franchise. With this extremely vague information, anyone know the name of the restaurant, and if their fried chicken is indeed good?
posted by bitteroldman at 8:09 AM on July 10, 2015
I think the restaurant is/was a chain/franchise. With this extremely vague information, anyone know the name of the restaurant, and if their fried chicken is indeed good?
posted by bitteroldman at 8:09 AM on July 10, 2015
Is Kentucky in the South?
Historically, it was a border state in the Civil War; although it was under Union control, it was kind of the poster child for the whole "brother against brother" concept. In the modern day, there is an extremely noticeable shift that happens once you cross the Ohio River from OH into KY and go over the first few stretches of hills along I-75. Things look less Midwestern (rolling farmland) and more Appalachian (mountain faces) and you start to see a lot more Southern cultural signifiers as you near Tennessee.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:13 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Historically, it was a border state in the Civil War; although it was under Union control, it was kind of the poster child for the whole "brother against brother" concept. In the modern day, there is an extremely noticeable shift that happens once you cross the Ohio River from OH into KY and go over the first few stretches of hills along I-75. Things look less Midwestern (rolling farmland) and more Appalachian (mountain faces) and you start to see a lot more Southern cultural signifiers as you near Tennessee.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:13 AM on July 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Strange Interlude: "Meanwhile, Popeye's is still making the best damn fried chicken on the planet, with only a one-eyed sailor man (or maybe Gene Hackman) as a mascot."
My daughter in law works at a Popeye's. Extra everything for free, FTW. To clarify, the DIL does not steal. Her manager always overfills the boxes for us. So.. I guess the manager is stealing...
Anyway, great chicken.
posted by Splunge at 8:19 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
My daughter in law works at a Popeye's. Extra everything for free, FTW. To clarify, the DIL does not steal. Her manager always overfills the boxes for us. So.. I guess the manager is stealing...
Anyway, great chicken.
posted by Splunge at 8:19 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Is *Kentucky* in the South? I drove through once, stopped at a KFC (dogs in the car, couldn't stop for real food).
I discovered last month that I had an ancestor who rode in the Confederate Kentucky Cavalry (he deserted a Virginia cavalry unit to do so). There's the geographic south and the cultural south, they do not perfectly align and Kentucky falls smack dab in the center of the Venn diagram for both. There are parts of Indiana, for example, that people claim has Southern cultural characteristics, but obviously is not part of the geographic South for example.
I'm mixed on Daryl Hammond's Colonel, as it's stretched into an uncomfortable place of wanting to respect the image of the Colonel, while restraining itself from being a mockery of the Colonel. (Hammond most definitely would be fantastic mocking the Colonel).
posted by Atreides at 8:45 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
I discovered last month that I had an ancestor who rode in the Confederate Kentucky Cavalry (he deserted a Virginia cavalry unit to do so). There's the geographic south and the cultural south, they do not perfectly align and Kentucky falls smack dab in the center of the Venn diagram for both. There are parts of Indiana, for example, that people claim has Southern cultural characteristics, but obviously is not part of the geographic South for example.
I'm mixed on Daryl Hammond's Colonel, as it's stretched into an uncomfortable place of wanting to respect the image of the Colonel, while restraining itself from being a mockery of the Colonel. (Hammond most definitely would be fantastic mocking the Colonel).
posted by Atreides at 8:45 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Or just get Jason Sudeikis to do a slight variation of his insane judge character from the Maine Justice sketch.
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:03 AM on July 10, 2015
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:03 AM on July 10, 2015
bitteroldman: Are you thinking about Paschal's? Because yes, their friend chicken is indeed amazing.
posted by Panjandrum at 9:13 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Panjandrum at 9:13 AM on July 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
tocts: "And here I thought this was going to be about importing the brand new KF Chizza from the Philippines."
Fucking goddamn this is like the Event Horizon of food products, all Colonel Sanders wrapped up in barbed wire and razor blades for eyes leering at you with a weirdo hummin' gyroscope portal oozing out chicken parts and tomato sauce behind him
posted by boo_radley at 9:21 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Fucking goddamn this is like the Event Horizon of food products, all Colonel Sanders wrapped up in barbed wire and razor blades for eyes leering at you with a weirdo hummin' gyroscope portal oozing out chicken parts and tomato sauce behind him
posted by boo_radley at 9:21 AM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
I don't know what you folks are going on about Kentucky for. The restaurant is called KFC. I think it stands for Kholesterol-Free Chicken or something like that.
posted by straight at 9:40 AM on July 10, 2015
posted by straight at 9:40 AM on July 10, 2015
"I don't know what you folks are going on about Kentucky for."
Well, but it's an article primarily about Colonel Sanders, yea? Whose sort-of colonel-ship was in Kentucky.
Upthread it was commented that he was not a born Southern gentleman. But I think that any state that can't serve sweet tea hasn't earned the name "Southern" anyway. The Colonel and the state can put their false Southern veneers on together.
posted by galadriel at 9:52 AM on July 10, 2015
Well, but it's an article primarily about Colonel Sanders, yea? Whose sort-of colonel-ship was in Kentucky.
Upthread it was commented that he was not a born Southern gentleman. But I think that any state that can't serve sweet tea hasn't earned the name "Southern" anyway. The Colonel and the state can put their false Southern veneers on together.
posted by galadriel at 9:52 AM on July 10, 2015
Still not sure if the "FSociety Mask" from Mr. Robot is trying more to copy the Colonel or the Creepy Burger King. Because he's no Guy Fawkes.
And is that a "KFCentaur" or a "UniColonel"?
But no modern junk food mascot will EVER out-creepy the original version of Ronald McDonald, portrayed by future TV icon Willard Scott.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:28 AM on July 10, 2015
And is that a "KFCentaur" or a "UniColonel"?
But no modern junk food mascot will EVER out-creepy the original version of Ronald McDonald, portrayed by future TV icon Willard Scott.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:28 AM on July 10, 2015
But no modern junk food mascot will EVER out-creepy the original version of Ronald McDonald, portrayed by future TV icon Willard Scott .
*closes browser, unplugs router, heads outside with axe towards the Comcast line*
posted by jquinby at 11:53 AM on July 10, 2015
*closes browser, unplugs router, heads outside with axe towards the Comcast line*
posted by jquinby at 11:53 AM on July 10, 2015
Are you thinking about Paschal's?
hmm name sounds very familiar, could be it!
but when I check the ATL Web site, they only seem to be in one terminal, when I remember them to be in so many more. then again, that was 10 years ago, so things change!
dang it, I want some Fried chicken now!
posted by bitteroldman at 11:54 AM on July 10, 2015
hmm name sounds very familiar, could be it!
but when I check the ATL Web site, they only seem to be in one terminal, when I remember them to be in so many more. then again, that was 10 years ago, so things change!
dang it, I want some Fried chicken now!
posted by bitteroldman at 11:54 AM on July 10, 2015
Oh, no. A corporation has co-opted a sacred tradition of nerd culture. Get me to my fainting couch.
posted by Ratio at 12:17 PM on July 10, 2015
posted by Ratio at 12:17 PM on July 10, 2015
The most def have more than one location at Hartsfield-Jackson, I think their website is maybe just a bit wonky (and autoplay-y with the music-y). Looks like Terminals A, C, and the Atrium. I don't know if they were all there 10 years ago, but Paschal's has been around for while.
I do know that I would kill a man for some fried chicken right now though.
posted by Panjandrum at 12:25 PM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
I do know that I would kill a man for some fried chicken right now though.
posted by Panjandrum at 12:25 PM on July 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
am i the only person who gets grossed out by viral pandering around here?
posted by p3on at 12:28 PM on July 10, 2015
posted by p3on at 12:28 PM on July 10, 2015
Do they have a cosplay alternate-universe-Colonel who's not afraid to be photographed next to black people? Because judging by the photos on the walls in KFC, that's a thing.
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:39 PM on July 10, 2015
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:39 PM on July 10, 2015
I love it when Mammoth Corpses agonize over being relevant.
posted by Twang at 2:39 PM on July 10, 2015
posted by Twang at 2:39 PM on July 10, 2015
I have been at the Con this week and these statues are the creepiest things ever. I keep thinking that if I walk by one a motion sensor will trip and it will lunge at me, Chucky style, and harvest my organs or something. No thank you.
posted by Hermione Granger at 11:45 PM on July 10, 2015
posted by Hermione Granger at 11:45 PM on July 10, 2015
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