Posted on 12/16/2023 7:01:45 PM PST by DallasBiff
It’s that time of the year again: the illuminations have gone up and the first Christmas bucket orders are being placed at KFC. Wait, what? Yes, you read that correctly: Christmas and KFC are completely intertwined in Japan.
Around December 25, families gather around the table to eat a bucket of fried chicken for the occasion – something that would be all but incomprehensible in countries with Christian foundations, where Christmas is generally, uh, fast food-free.
Orders for buckets of deep-fried drumsticks and breast can be placed from early November, and even then you’ll have to wait in the massive queues that form outside KFCs across the country on Christmas Day itself to pick one up. But why?
Turns out the entire thing can be traced back to one man: Takeshi Okawara, the enterprising manager of the first KFC in Japan, opened in Nagoya in November 1970.
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I was u Der the impression that Japanese serve birthday cake on Christmas. No context. Just the cake. Perhaps passe now
It was a brilliant marketing move by KFC in the early 80s. Christmas=American, KFC= American, and you can get a discount KFC meal with little perks if you reserve ahead of time.
And hanshin tigers won the pennant this year, so the colonels curse has lifted.
The lighting illuminations there make our best look crude.
The story I want to read/hear about is the Japanese family that is treated to a real, traditional, American Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Nothing more over-the-top than what a traditional holiday meal already is compared to a good, evening dinner at home. Then get their reaction afterwards. Especially if they did the KFC thing for fun.
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The same goes for many of the 50 countries around the world that I've visited.
It’s smiling at me.
My wife knew about this, says she has forever.
I did not.
You learn something every day!
Well it is someone’s birthday after all. :)
Fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNai9ZD8D_I
Found one short video of someone’s Japanese parents having Thanksgiving dinner. The father seems to be very happy about it.
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When I was a kid, my mother at her Christmas party had a birthday cake saying,"Happy Birthday Jesus", I cringed at the time, but now I say God bless her soul.
That was good! Looks like they all enjoyed it. As you note, the father especially!
OFC chicken = overpriced chicken = not really chicken.
But, hey. If you’re a member of a protected group, it’s free. Just pass your bill back to the nearest taxpayer in the line.
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