KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken - Marketing, and controversies

The skins are the only good part. The rest of KFC chicken sucks.
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My tinfoil hat theory is that KFC is not going too well and Yum! Brands wants to divest it. It sounds a bit outrageous since it's one of their big flagship brands, but that was once true of Red Lobster and Darden.
Wouldn't be ironic if and when Yum! Brands sold KFC then KFC prosper again?

Btw, seems there was some brawls in KFC outside the U.S.
 
I haven't had KFC in close to a decade, but every few months, I get a weird craving for it. I honestly might go through the drive-thru at the one down the street now that I'm thinking of it.

I've found the marketing over the past few years amusing. I don't see many ads anymore - YouTube (sometimes, depending on how I'm watching it), Hulu, and ads on Twitter and IRL are about it - so when I'm forced to trudge through one, I appreciate it not being some completely boring shit.

Investment-wise, Yum Brands is fine as far as a pure restaurant play goes, but I wouldn't go all-in or anything. I have a tiny amount of stock, but I have no intention of adding to it at any point in the near term.
 
I'm betting the Colonel's worst regret was signing over the rights of his likeness to them. They've bastardized his image to kingdom come. The recent years long campaign of terrible comedians being chosen to dress up as him via blind dart throwing has to be the worst of it yet.
If you think Norm MacDonald is a terrible comedian you have bad tastes.
 
Yeah, the double down was worth it. Might not eat it for a couple of years, though....
 
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