# Obama Fried Chicken!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 4, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581 "2011-10-04T18:01:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581/1 "2011-10-04T18:01:18Z")

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Man, when Al Sharpton and KFC are on the same side you know the end times are wacky. Link generally safe for work. Wonder if it has MSG in it?

> **[China's "Obama Fried Chicken" Restaurant Cooks Up Controversy](https://www.delish.com/food/news/a38667/obama-fried-chicken-knocks-off-kfc-in-china/)**
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> Barack Obama wears many hats: president, father, husband,
> beekeeper, beer-maker, gardener, dog-owner, and now ... fried chicken spokesman?

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581/2 "2011-10-04T18:09:40Z")

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I wonder if they have a Ho Chi Minh chicken in Vietnam. They wouldn’t even have to change the logo from the Colonel.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581/3 "2011-10-04T18:13:14Z")

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I would so eat there. They so cool!

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581/4 "2011-10-04T18:25:34Z")

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Eh, just seems like a Chinese restaurant connecting one of the most famous Americans to a famous American food, and marketing it as such. Like a cigar shop calling itself “Castro’s Cigars” or a distillery selling something called “Putin’s Vodka.”

Copyright infringement? Maybe. Racism? I don’t see it.

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581/5 "2011-10-04T18:36:22Z")

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The oddest thing is in doing Obama as Colonel Sanders, they went with a 1930’s ching-chong chinaman style caricature, which just seems bizarre in China.