The recent television commercial for ***Kentucky *** Fried Chicken features the song “Sweet Home Alabama” as background music.
Am I the only one who thinks that this is just plain wrong?
Obviously, I’m failing English grammar. Just pretend there is a question mark at the end of the thread title.
At least they’re not using Hotel California -
“And in the master’s chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can’t kill the beast
Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
Relax said the nightman
We are programed to recieve
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave”
A scary image indeed.
Indeed. But upon multiple viewings of the commercial (also amusingly bad in the assertion that a KFC bucket is “real cooking”), I can’t tell if it’s really “Sweet Home Alabama” or just something remarkably similar to “Sweet Home Alabama.” I don’t think there’s lyrics at any point, just (nearly) the guitar riff.
Well, it’s not “Kentucky Fried” anymore, it’s “Kitchen Fresh”. Presumably there are kitchens in Alabama. Some might actually be fresh.
looks at her kitchen Frankly, “Kitchen Fresh” doesn’t really appeal to me.
Somehow “Kitchen Fresh Chicken” sounds to me like raw chicken. No sushi poultry for me, nosirree.
Does this really bother anyone that much? Moreso then the fact everything they serve is deep fried(It’s tasty, but still…)?
Is it deep fried? I thought it was pressure cooked or something.
The name is still “Kentucky Fried”. They’re just using “Kitchen Fresh” in their ads. It’s a marketing campaign, not a name change. In fact, I haven’t seen any Kitchen Fresh ads in a while now. I don’t think they’re using it any more.
No, the name is KFC. And the official line from corporate HQ would be that it does NOT stand for Kentucky Fried Chicken, nor does it stand for anything else. The company’s name is simply KFC.
Didn’t Texas A&M and ESPN do the same thing? The A&M no longer stands for Agricultural and Mechanical and the ESPN no longer stands for Entertainment Sports Programming Network?
It’s both actually, They deep fry it in a presure cooker. (It cooks faster that way)
Well, at least it’s not as bad as Mcdonald’s ad that they had on espn website.
In wich they showed the Mcdonalds $0.99 cheese burger, then in quotation marks they put: " I’d hit it."
Apparently the ad execs at Mcdonalds need to be given the link to urbandictionary.com :rolleyes:
Also AT&T, since one of the T’s is a little dated (namely “telegraph”).
And thank god for that. It just sounded gross to me for some reason.
It’s supposed to be generically Southern, and it doesn’t get much more generically Southern than that song.
Agreed. And Kentucky isn’t all that far from Alabama - just that one skinny orange state stands between them.
No no, they fail it for another reason.
Chicken Capital USA.
Where on earth is Chicken Capital. It obviously can’t be EACH KFC location right? I mean US states have one capital, and none of them are Chicken.
… Oh this is another marketing Campaign? It still sucks.
This seems to be the lastest fad in corporate names. BP (the chain of gas stations) no longer stands for British Petroleum. It’s just BP now.
The American Association of Retired Persons didn’t like the elderly connotations of their actual name, so the organization is now “AARP”, period.
A local bank in this area uses “Big Yellow Taxi” as the background music to their auto loan ads. Another “What were they thinking?” kinda thing…
Companies have been doing this for years (GE, for instance, has not meant General Electric since the 80s).
Don’t laugh at them. The reason is because people – like many on this board – can’t wrap their brains around the fact that a name is not a description. If GE remained “General Electric,” someone would put up a post here saying, “Why to they call themselves ‘electric’? They’re a finanace company.” :rolleyes: