Dishing Out Obama Fried Chicken
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Posted: 8:54 AM Oct 4, 2011
Dishing Out Obama Fried Chicken
Offensive -- or just original? Jeanne Moos reports on some controversial chicken restaurants that may be in questionable taste.
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It's one thing to have colonel sanders on a bucket of chicken; but President Obama bow-tied up like the colonel and instead of KFC -

"OFC."

"I think it's hilarious."

"It's not hilarious. It's shameful and disrespectful."

"Wow dressed as Colonel Sanders. That's very offensive."

The sign, making the rounds on the web, is for a chicken joint in Beijing, China. The real KFC says we're considering legal action as it is a knock-off and has nothing to do with us and it infringes on our brand trademark. We find it distasteful. Sort of ironic because earlier this year, KFC in Hong Kong released a commercial featuring an Obama look-a-like.

"Change. Not only for America, but for you, for your stomach, for a better taste."

KFC ended up pulling the commercial. As for OFC featuring the president as Colonel Sanders, you'll never guess who's criticizing it - the folks at a take out restaurant in Harlem called Obama Fried Chicken.

"Mockery."

(reporter: Mockery?)

"Yes it's mockery."

He says it's not the name, it's the picture that's bad.

"We don't have a picture. We just tried to get his popularity to make money off of it."

Actually there are two places in New York City called Obama Fried Chicken. It's a tribute, says the owner of the one in Brooklyn.

"But I mean you're just associating black people with chicken."

"You know that's like using a watermelon."

For a while, the Harlem store dropped the "O" and the "A" and just called itself Bam Fried Chicken. Now the Obama is back. Talk about chickening out. Look what happened when a rap group making a music video used obama fried chicken as a backdrop. Every shot of the sign at the Brooklyn Obama Fried Chicken ended up being edited out.

"I understand I'm back by popular demand."

And when a German frozen food company tried marketing Obama Fingers, test marketing was cut short after public criticism.

Just for the record, customers say that Obama Fried Chicken in Harlem serves. "Delicious chicken."

I'm just gonna use this as a placemat.

But does good tasting chicken -

"It's finger lickin all right."

Make up for being in questionable taste?


Latest Comments

Posted by: L on Oct 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM

Hahahahahahahaha it's funny cause black people love chicken, right? Right? Get it? That's what the joke is. ...But seriously people, if I were the Sanders, I'd be offended. KFC has every right to sue on trademark infringement. That's just a politically correct way of saying, "Don't ruin a good thing for us."
Posted by: Bolillo Location: Wakulla on Oct 5, 2011 at 10:41 AM

A Halloween decoration is offensive, but this headline is not?
Posted by: Franklin on Oct 4, 2011 at 08:51 PM

If I was the owner of KFC or a family member of Harlan Sanders,(The real Colonel)I would be highly offended that the jug eared one was anywhere near my business; either in person or his face on one of my chicken buckets.
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