Posted on 05/16/2013 5:57:14 PM PDT by Former Fetus
For six years, Rafat Shororo longed for the taste of a KFC sandwich he had eaten in Egypt. This week, he got his finger lickin' fix at home in the Gaza Strip after a local delivery company managed to smuggle it from Egypt through underground tunnels.
"It has been a dream, and this company has made my dream come true," says Mr. Shororo, an accountant, as he receives his order from the delivery guy.
The al-Yamama company advertises its unorthodox new fast-food smuggling service on Facebook. It gets tens of orders a week for KFC meals despite having to triple the price to 100 shekels ($30) to cover transportation and smuggling fees. The deliveries go from the fryers at the Al-Arish KFC joint 35 miles away to customers' doorsteps in about three hours.
The fact that the tunnels operate quickly and cheaply enough for the Colonel’s secret recipe to be enjoyed in the tightly controlled Gaza Strip shows just how much of a sieve the Egypt-Gaza border has become.
"All you need to have any KFC product is a short phone call and a few hours, then you can enjoy the great taste of fried chickens," says Shororo, checking over his chicken pieces, salads, and apple pies. Like other customers who are acquainted with KFC from their travels abroad, he says he doesn’t care how much it costs. “I just want it.”
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“Abdul, I think you ate the bones!”
How about KFC for peace in the middle east ?
Oh good Lord.
Most of that isn’t even in English.
No English, no chicken for you!
Is this farce?
Wait till they try Chick-fil-a. Oh wait, that might be too infidel.
The al-Yamama company …Oh great. Now I’m thinking that this story might end up being a hoax. (Sounds too much like “Sheik Yerbouti”, YKWIM?)
Through the tunnels? How hot was it in Gaza today? Ptomaine is now a WMD! Gaaaaa
wonder if anybody told them KFC *may* use oil that has port products.
That would make it easy to find the hidden tunnels...just follow your nose!
“Hello, in the name of MoHamHead the Explosive(Peas Be Up His), can you send me a three piece piece Dinner Box Meal with a side order of C4 and a side order of Semtex? My name is Ali and I will meet you at the end of tunnel # 3. I’ll be wearing a keffiyeh.”
Just think - if they were to progress to say 9th or 10th century civilization, they could have their own KFC! ;-)
Maybe if it was the Yamama Bin-Ahround company...
what? no potato wedges? go back, you bastard, now .. runnn..
When they are smuggling in Chicken it is a sure sign that their borders are as porous as ours.
Reminds me of The South Park episode where Cartman was snuggling KFC chicken
And it is just a coincidence that the KFC recipe for its fried chicken uses PRESSURE COOKERS.
I hope the franchise police are keeping an eye on this.
And it is just a coincidence that the KFC recipe for its fried chicken uses PRESSURE COOKERS.
I hope the franchise police are keeping an eye on this.
Finger Lickin' Good. KFC... may I have have the GAZA STRIP KFC franchise?? Instead of Chicken, I'll hide bombs in the buckets so they can visit 72 Helen Thomases sooner.
($30) Overpriced!! Col Sanders said KFC ruined his recipe.
“Abdul, I think you ate the bones!”
But they were *dry* bones.
Ezekiel connected them dry bones
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
Here we go (ululating)!
Your claw bone connected to your drumstick bone
Your drumstick bone connected to your thigh bone
Your thigh bone connected to your boneless back bohner
Your back bone connected to your gizzard bone
And then suddenly, I just got dog-tired—Allahu ..whew!
Them bones, them bones gonna walk around
Them bones, them bones gonna walk around, yes yes
I bought a tub of that `boneless’ KFC chicken. It had bones.
So I’m going back to frankfurters: no bones.
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