Posted on 06/04/2015 9:30:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Restaurant operator KFC said Monday it filed a lawsuit against three companies in China whose social media accounts spread false claims about its food, including that its chickens have eight legs.
The case filed by China's biggest restaurant operator comes as the government intensifies a campaign to clean up rumors on social media. Internet marketers have been convicted of trying to manipulate online sentiment on behalf of clients by posting false information about competitors or deleting critical posts.
In an announcement posted on its Chinese website, KFC said one of the best-known fake rumors was that chickens used by the company are genetically modified and have six wings and eight legs.
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It’s true. I’ve ordered 8-leg combos at KFC before.
8 wings too.
Chickety China The Chinese Chicken!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd4XaLwXpLQ
KFC’s Chinese chickens have 4 legs and a furry tail. Thought everybody knew that.
If they win, how will they collect?
Rumors like...
Boneless chicken farms
Worms in McDonald’s hamburgers
[The Colonel] puts a secret chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly.
I remember hearing all of those rumors when I was a kid. Nutty what people will buy into.
The craziest one I’ve ever heard of, though, was a smear campaign against a Brooklyn-based soda maker back in the 1990s. Someone (probably a rival) started distributing flyers that the low-cost soda was being bottled by the KKK and contained ingredients designed to make black men sterile. Yeesh!
Send more to Southside!
In states where cockfighting still exists, KFC’s “Bucket O’ Loser Special” is highly popular.
Hell, they were around before the Colonel was born!
From the “What’s time to a hog?” school of barnyard humor.
Three Legged Chickens
A man was driving along a rural road one day when he saw a three legged chicken running down the road. He was amused enough to drive along side it for a while, as he was driving he noticed the chicken was running a brisk 30 mph.
Pretty fast chicken, he thought, I wonder just how fast it can run. So he sped up and the chicken did too! They were now moving along the road at 45 mph!
The man in the car sped up again, to his surprise the chicken was still running ahead of him at 60 mph!!!
Suddenly the chicken turned off the road and ran down a long driveway leading to a farmhouse. The man followed the chicken to the house and saw a man in the yard with dozens of three legged chickens.
The man in the car called out to the farmer “How did you get all these three legged chickens?”
The farmer replied, “I breed ‘em. Ya see it’s me, my wife and my son living here and we all like to eat the chicken leg. Since a chicken only has two legs, I started breeding this three legged variety so we could all eat our favorite piece, an’ I figgered I could make some money selling to KFC!”
“That’s amazing!” said the driver “How do they taste?”
“Don’t rightly know, I ain’t caught one yet!”
(Criticism: This joke needs more humour & exclamation marks!)
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