I am certain that the person who sent this to me thinks it’s serious (he also sent it to about 97 other people), which makes it all the funnier.
IF YOU EAT AT KFC, TAKE A MINUTE TO READTHIS ONE!
KFC has been a part of our American traditions for many years.
Many people, day in and day out, eat at KFC religiously. Do they really know what they are eating? During a recent study of KFC done at the University
of New Hampshire, they found some very upsetting facts. First of all, has anybody noticed that just recently, the company has changed their name? Kentucky Fried Chicken has become KFC. Does anybody know why? We thought the real reason was because of the “FRIED” food issue. It’s not. The reason why they call it KFC is because they can not use the word chicken anymore.
Why?
KFC does not use real chickens. They actually use genetically manipulated organisms. These so called “chickens” are kept alive by tubes inserted into their bodies to pump blood and nutrients throughout their structure. They have no beaks, no feathers, and no feet. Their bone structure is dramatically shrunk to get more meat out of them. This is great for KFC because they do not have to pay so much for their production costs. There is no more plucking of the feathers or the removal of the beaks and feet.
The government has told them to change all of their menus so they do not say chicken anywhere. If you look closely you will notice this. Listen to their commercials, I guarantee you will not see or hear the word chicken. I find this matter to be very disturbing.
I hope people will start to realize this and let other people know. Please forward this message to as many people as you can. Together we can make KFC start using real chicken again.
Amusing, but utterly bogus: see KFC at snopes’ site for a debunking.
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“Kings die, and leave their crowns to their sons. Shmuel HaKatan took all the treasures in the world, and went away.”
It’s the lawyer in me, I know, throwing a wet rag on everything, but I’d be very careful about “trade libel” issues in posting this sort of stuff . . . .
Actually I had read somewhere (and forgive my lack of an exact site), that KFC couldn’t use the old name because of the word Kentucky.
The article stated that the State of Kentucky, to boot tax reveues had tradmarked it’s name or some such thing and was charging any company who used it’s name for a royalty or some such nonsense.
She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
True, and if I gave the impression that I thought otherwise, I humbly apologize to beefymeg.
Aside from my inherent pedantry, however, I though it good to post a pointer to a refutation before…ahem…a certain other person could frantically write: “It’s true! It’s true! I know it’s true because Art Bell said so, and if you disagree with me you’re part of the Evil Konspiracy™ to force us to eat genetically-modified chickenoids!”
Incidentally, if the GM chickenoids have no feet, how do they run around? (Alright, I’ll leave without causing more of a disturbance.)
“Kings die, and leave their crowns to their sons. Shmuel HaKatan took all the treasures in the world, and went away.”
Am I the only one that read it and thought “Hey! That’s a good idea!”? I mean, hell, we just breed them to eat, why not genetically change them into a better form? More efficent food animals are the wave of the future…
Then again, I think that a perfect clone of myself, only without anything from the neck up, would be a good thing to keep around just in case something goes wrong on the body I’ve got. True, it would be just as likely to go wrong on the other body as well, but at least I’d have two chances.
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There’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but not all of them will being you lasagna at work. Most just cheat on you.
I think that this is where the plot for The Matrix came from. I wonder if the borg-chickens have a computer generated virtual reality world to fool them into thinking everything is okay.
“Beaks and talons, we need lots of beaks and talons”
“Popeye? Hm? He’s not much of a judge of women!” King Blozo
Blerg. I last ate at KFC in late November, shortly before waking up at 2 AM, vomiting until I was empty down to my socks, and losing the ability or desire to eat for four days.
(Alright, I’ll leave without causing more of a disturbance.)