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KFC Australia pulls controversial ad
New York Daily News ^
| 01/07/2010
| BY Rich O'Malley
Posted on 01/07/2010 12:43:22 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
KFC Australia has pulled an ad that sparked cries of racism around the globe.
The fast food chicken joint became embroiled in controversy after a commercial showing a lone white Australian man surrounded by a raucous crowd of black West Indies supporters at a cricket match. He asks “Need a tip when you’re stuck in an awkward situation?” and proceeds to share a bucket of fried chicken with the crowd.
In a statement on its Web site, the company called its "Cricket Survival" ad campaign "tongue-in-cheek," but said after being "made aware that a KFC commercial being shown on Australian television has apparently caused offense, particularly in the United States ... KFC will cease running the commercial immediately."
The company also said that the ad was reproduced in the U.S. "without KFC's permission" and was "intended for Australian audiences only."
In a Daily News online poll, more than 65% of respondents thought the ad was "just lighthearted and fun."
KFC Australia apologized for any offense taken by the ad and noted that Yum! Brands (the owner of KFC) was named as one of Black Enterprise magazine’s ’40 Best Companies for Diversity’ for the fifth consecutive year in 2009.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/01/07/2010-01-07_kfc_australia_pulls_controversial_ad.html#ixzz0bxfFhFJC
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kfc; racism
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posted on
01/07/2010 12:46:00 PM PST
by
Perdogg
("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")
To: Responsibility2nd
So I guess it's still ok for Papa John's Pizza to create an add showing a soccer match with a bunch of high strung Italian fans screaming and hollering and all of a sudden a hush comes over the stadium when the doorbell rings and there's the pizza.
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posted on
01/07/2010 12:47:51 PM PST
by
shadeaud
("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin)
To: al baby; Artemis Webb; Extremely Extreme Extremist; lainie; lewisglad; PennsylvaniaMom; ...
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posted on
01/07/2010 12:49:17 PM PST
by
Perdogg
("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")
To: Responsibility2nd
The sensitivity police go international.
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posted on
01/07/2010 12:51:48 PM PST
by
YankeeReb
(Pray for 0bama Psalm 109:8 ; May his days be short. May another take his office.)
To: Responsibility2nd
thin skinned liberal political correctness...what we ever do without it???
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posted on
01/07/2010 12:52:06 PM PST
by
lonster
To: Responsibility2nd
The relationship between fried chicken and racism is stritctly a liberal-driven, poltically-correct cultural phenomenom unique to the US.
The rest of the world scratches its head and wonders, "WTF?".
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posted on
01/07/2010 12:52:15 PM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Responsibility2nd
Political correctness: 1
Sense of humor: 0
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posted on
01/07/2010 12:55:27 PM PST
by
Elpasser
To: shadeaud
You should see us when we play Bocce at the Italian American Citizen’s Club! “High strung”? We’re googoots!
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posted on
01/07/2010 12:59:36 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Responsibility2nd
LOL
I got a post pulled on FR for mentioning KFC and that summer watery fruit delight in the same post.
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posted on
01/07/2010 1:02:07 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Responsibility2nd
this is better than Ralphie May’s watermelon gum routine!!
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posted on
01/07/2010 1:05:11 PM PST
by
ronniesgal
( I miss George Bush. Hell, I miss Bill Clinton!!)
To: TomGuy
I had heard the mods do not want.
That they pull that image when they see it.
We shall see.
To: Responsibility2nd
"OY! You cobbers get your grubbies offa my chicken!"
To: Responsibility2nd
Protecting sensitive African-Australian ears.
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posted on
01/07/2010 1:13:13 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(I'd rather be an AGW denier than a dumbass Watermelon)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
01/07/2010 1:29:12 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: Responsibility2nd
NEW KFC DINNER ........
We all remember the “Hillary Meal”-— small breasts and big thighs..
Now, KFC has announced an addition to their chicken dinners.
It’s called the “Obama Cabinet Bucket”.-—
It consists of nothing but left wings and a**holes.
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posted on
01/07/2010 1:29:56 PM PST
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: TomGuy
Some of the mods are still held captive to political correctness.
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posted on
01/07/2010 1:36:00 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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