Posted on 12/30/2020 9:14:36 AM PST by mylife
Kentucky Fried Chicken founder and mascot Colonel Sanders is an American icon, but until recently, he wasn’t exactly known for his sex appeal. That changed in 2017. The sexualization of the Colonel has intensified in the past few years with an advertising campaign titled “The Return of the Colonel” that hits erotic highs not seen from corporate fast food since the boom times of Hooters, or the “slutburger” era of Carls Jr. From romance novels to this month’s Lifetime mini-movie, both marketers and KFC fans have been hard at work making a gentle old man possess the charm of early-2000s Brad Pitt, a transformation that’s taken blood, sweat, and chicken grease to pull it off.
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I’ve read that in Asia KFC is by far the most popular just food franchise. Here in my community the deli at Kroger’s has the best carry out fried chicken.
Creepy is more like it.
I don’t think the Colonel is looking for ladies.
Not that there is anything wrong with it..
Norm Macdonald has been my personal favorite Colonel impersonator.
That sounded good, for a couple of nights.
But we figured out pretty quickly that the stuff they gave us was stuff they were going to throw away, and we were making fresh pizzas for them.
So that didn't last very long.
Alton Brown’s impression is not bad.
The voice grates on me.
“And aren’t many KFC customers black?”
No self respecting black would step in a KFC. Popeyes and Vhurches Chicken is their Krypton.
Just as no self respecting Hispanic would eat at Taco Bell.
KFC is white honky food.
Trashy and stupid isn’t sexy.
A gal friend of my girlfriend has a husband who has similar looks to Kenny Rogers. Women throw themselves at him even knowing he is married.
Sadly it’s the world I find myself in.
A commercial for KFC.
I think.
It’s got me wanting some Cat, so hat’s off to the ad agency!
As i understand it, the first, real, original colonel sanders was an old letch who if he was still alive today, would be sharing a cell with harvey weinstein.
Don’t forget Bojangles.
Way back in Georgia, I had a barber who looked just like Kenny Rogers. He was a cool guy.
History had that excellent series Food That Built America. Sanders, Kroc, Birdseye, Heinz, the Kellogg’s, Hershey, etc were great men, whose accomplishments in the vital food industry were analogous to the accomplishments of Edison in communications, or Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie etc in heavy industry. That KFC mocks their founder like they do makes my skin crawl. You don’t see any other company founded by these titans doing that
I'll go somewhere with full size chickens.
When will the colonel be changed to a Black man?
Is that Shawn Michaels?
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