Annals of PR bad taste

What next? Hostess brand hosts? Stanley brand ecclastical mitre? Dassani baptismal font? Whatever pays the legal bills. Kim M

I am absolutely outraged at KFC's gall and am going to send them an e-mail about it.

Hey, is it true that in Greece the McDonald's have an entire menu they roll out called "McLent"?
At times I kind of wish for some options like that at lunch!

We've had the fish snackers in our area KFC's for quite awhile; they're not bad, but Burger King, IMO, has the best fast-food fish sandwich. Still KFC's attitude is a tad galling -- someone should write them a letter, if only for the halibut. (sorry--couldn't resist).

(Pray you never post anything about dairy products. My friends--both of them---can keep you abreast of how long I can milk that topic for cheesy puns before getting creamed. It's an udder topic that just keeps me going, so butter not try.)

Richard, well done, thanks, I haven't laughed so loudly in a while.

Kim M.
Don;t laugh...my son was Christened in a Colonial chapel with not electricity or running water. The priest had done it a few times at this remote site and showed up with a bottle of Aquafina. We thought he was thirsty until he started praying over it. He puored it in the font and said (NO joke) "Let's roll!"... so I have been brend loyal ever since. We sent a photo to Coke in Atlanta...we hope they'll use it in an ad some day...bad taste? Maybe. heeheehee... The fish snacker thing....agreed...completely untoward...

I dunno, I like the idea of restaurants creating lenten menus. In Russia, even the finest restaurants offer vegan items during Lent. If we had that here, it would make going out to eat a little easier.

This is on Yahoo!, which means its on the wire, so joke, or no joke, it's out there.
I do know this. People who write press releases do get awfully bored, and KFC's marketing people are even more tone deaf than McDonalds. Remember the "healthy" fried chicken ads?
I mean, how hard can it be to market fried chicken? It's chicken, it's fried. Here's you ad slogan "You like fried chicken right? Of course you do. Come get some."

At least they bothered to think about us... well, at least the marketing crew. Thanks KFC, Colonel... now if you would only treat your animals better, I'd feel Kosher about eating your food.

And then what, pop in a Testamint to freshen your breath afterwards?

For those concerned with the conditions chickens are kept; Do you think it would be better to let them roam wild and free on reservations until its time to cut off their heads for the supper table? A commercially raised chicken has a life-span of 90 days from hatch to slaughter. I d not suggest that the conditions they are kept in are nice , but economically speaking, unless you want to pay $50 per chicken, there is little choice. Like it or not Chicken and other forms of quick meat form the staple diet of many people around the world. We are not yet at a point where we can support a fully vegetarian society; socially, technologically nor financially. As it is, the only vegetarians (and vegans) I know are able to afford the exorbitant prices of imported and specialty foods to supplement their meatless diets. I don t think your average family of 4 could afford it, certainly not in America. (More so vegans than vegetarians.) So for now, the chickens, turkeys and pigs stay. Having said that, I do not eat beef (since I was 13) nor seafood (ever) and I adhere to a largely vegetarian diet - not out of moral or religious convictions, but simply for personal health concerns. I d rather eat cardboard before slathering my intestines and arteries with greasy KFC, and the smell/taste of seafood (fish, lobster, seaweed, oysters, etc.) makes me want to vomit.

One of my family's greatest pleasures was the annual Good Friday Steak Dinner which we had at a local restaurant while the Roman Catholics miserably ate their fish and had to try to explain to their children who wanted a hamburger why they couldn't have meat while a whole table next to them did. Ain't theological disputations wunnerful?

The huge agribusiness complexes that raise animals for food are billion dollar entities who. The whole problem with western ways of eating are that we build a meal around the meat, instead of doing it the other way around. Instead of emphasizing more fruits, grains and vegetables with a small amount of meat we build more and more food outlets that give us faster and fatladen chicken, beef, etc. Meat still has a status in the west that it doesn't deserve. So let's have less of it, pay a little more for it if we want it, and in the long run be healthier, more humane and environmentally minded. Those huge hog farms are ruining our waterways and the amount of water used by agribusiness to raise animals is phenomenal.

It's nothing new. Seth Godin pointed out that part of what made Crisco a huge product was the fact that it was declared a great step forward for Jewish cuisine by an influential rabbi. And Crisco was only invented it to get a corner on the cottonseed oil market. Good for KFC to add fish to their menu.

People always moan about how much it will cost if we don't have industrial food plants, spinach from 1200 miles away (soaked in chemicals), and -- most important of all -- a deluge of illegal immigrant labor to keep the price of lettuce from going up to a thousand dollars a head. So silly. You wonder how Americans fed themselves before

One of my family's greatest pleasures was the annual Good Friday Steak Dinner which we had at a local restaurant while the Roman Catholics miserably ate their fish and had to try to explain to their children who wanted a hamburger why they couldn't have meat while a whole table next to them did. Ain't theological disputations wunnerful? chuck | 02.22.07 - 11:06 am | # Actually, things like that were an important part of my spiritual formation as a kid -- we who have been blessed with the gift of faith, are observing these dietary restrictions as a sign of our faith and our devotion to God. The poor benighted heathens at the next table might be enjoying their steak now, but they won't be laughing so hard in Hell. So don't assume the Catholics at the next table were miserable, Chuck. They just might have been laughing at *you*.

As a Catholic, this KFC story just strikes me as funny. It's certainly nothing "blasphemous" as some here have suggested. If anything, I'm glad they offer a fish option for Lent, but I don't see any cause to get worked up about this at all.

But Rod, it's Finger Lenten Good!