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WHy noT get ChiNEse FOOD like OTHER non-BELIVers whO are GOING to roaST in A literaL lake of FIRE?
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Will the non-believers be first breaded in a secret blend of 11 herbs and spices before they are roasted in the lake of fire?
I find these religious questions endlessly fascinating!
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And after my family has unwrapped our gifts on Christmas morning, weâll all head to Bostonâs Chinatown and eat dim sum, a tradition Iâm told took root among non-celebrating Americans precisely because Asian restaurants were some of the only ones open that day.
Heading out for Chinese food has always been my familyâs Christmas Day tradition as non-Christians. To each their own.
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Fun with typos!
Last year, Masao âCharlieâ Wantanabe, the president of KFC Japan, bought
one of the Colonelâs signature white suits for $21,510 at an auction in
Dallas and promptly tried it on. âEvery child in Japan knows Colonel
Sandersâ face and his uniform,â an ecstatic Wannabe told an AP reporter through a translator, posing in the baggy suit for a photograph and flashing a thumbs-up sign.
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When in college, I worked as a waiter for a Marriott Hotel in ATL-- it was 1977 I believe.
I had the privilege of waiting on Col Harland Sanders and his entourage.
No. He didnât order chicken.
jw1
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This article is a freaking hoot! Considering the modern US Santa Claus is a fabricated marketing tool anyway, having a foreign culture mixing American metaphores is entirely understandable. Iâll have to ask a few of my Japanese friends if they ever experienced the Fried Christmas.
One brief note, the âKentucky Fried Chickenâ shift to âKFCâ was driven by the State of Kentucky copyrighting their own name and forcing private companies (KFC, bourbon producers, etc.) who used the name âKentuckyâ to pay royalties.
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I lolâd from start to finish on this one haha
Yeah, thanks for the interesting article, Ms. Osberg
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Great storyâŠloved the Curse of the Colonel nugget (a crispy one?)
Wow, a story not glued to the rotating wheel of cliché old media tropes could spark a trend.
Watched CBS, this morning, take yesterdayâs fascinating Papal speech to the Curia and turn it into uninformative mushâŠperhaps it struck too close to home?
PS-Clockâs running on a network stealing this story ideaâŠIâm betting on CNN.
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Their cut and paste machine is broken.
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Of course âChristmasâ itself is a marketing tool that took a pagan Winter Solstice celebration to market a new religion. In fact the Puritan colonies never celebrated it, and indeed forbade its celebration.
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Historical note, circa 1988 Tokyo television commercial for KFC included a jingle, translated approximately, âOur secret recipe is older than your emperorâ. (Emperor HIrohito died age 87 in 1989. Perhaps the claim was not accurate?)
Thanks for the history.
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They donât go to heaven where the chickens fly.
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Wonât see them again 'till the fourth of July.
When theyâre all served up piping hot
With instant mashed potatoes
And gravy in a pot.
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He was a frequent visitor to my hometown.
I think âirascibleâ would be more accurate than âsurly.â
You did not want to get him started talking about the sides at KFC . . .
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Fixed!
Indeed! Now I feel better about celebrating Christmas, being a non-practicing Athiest
Well, when I had the pleasure-- he was being assisted everywhere he went.
IIRC someone else ordered his meal as well.
jw1
I was born down south on a chicken farm near Mashville Tennessee
Twernât nobody there but a sky full of air
Seventeen billion chickens and me
And then one day I said âHey, hey hey. I think Iâll drop a little LSD.â
It blew my mind. I got real kind.
And I set my chickens freeeee!
And there was chickens in the pasture. Chickens in the barn.
Chickens in the cauliflower, chickens in the corn.
Chickens driving Cadillacs to Washington DC.
When I set my chiiickennns FREE!!!
I will remember this next time I celebrate Cinco de Mayo by eating at Taco Bell.