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Yum! lobbies Frankfort so you can buy a Double Down with food stamps

April 5, 2011 – 12:06 pm

Welcome to America! A glorious land where we defund Meals on Wheels programs in order to replace them with government subsidized buckets of greasy fried chicken: FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Louisville-based fast food giant Yum! Brands Inc. is lobbying the Beshear administration to make Kentucky one of only a handful of states that allow food [...]

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Kentucky Fascist Chicken?

February 8, 2011 – 1:09 pm

Although the letters “K,” “F” and “C” don’t officially stand for anything anymore except profitable coronary thrombosis, the Western fast food brand most associated in the Arab world with brutal capitalist imperialism is taking on a new meaning in light of the revolutionary protests in Egypt. Turns out that the Colonel’s holy visage is being leveraged [...]

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Louisville denies PETA chicken statue permit

August 18, 2010 – 4:01 pm

Once again, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been denied a permit to erect a five-and-a-half-foot crippled chicken statue in downtown Louisville because a property owner objected to the idea. The property owner in question? Why, none other than the Kentucky International Convention Center, a quasi-governmental organization just a stone’s throw from [...]

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Chicken-frying corporation fries a (literal) ton of chickens

August 17, 2010 – 4:48 pm

Or, The End is Nigh: At 11:30 a.m., Louisville-based corporate fast food giant Yum! Brands — the company that owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and 37 pounds of your fat ass — set out to show the arrogant motherfuckers of Brookville, In., a thing or two, by cooking the most chicken the [...]

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Downtown Arena Named After Fattie-Factory

April 19, 2010 – 1:40 pm

It’s official, folks: The new home of the University of Louisville’s men’s NCAA basketball team shall now be known, henceforth, as the KFC Yum! Arena. Why? Because $13.5 million can get your name just about anywhere these days. Via The C-J: Yum! Brands, which once said it wasn’t interested in the naming rights, has agreed [...]

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KFC Doubling Down on Dead Fatties With New Sandwich

April 12, 2010 – 2:16 pm

And the folks over at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are nonplussed, to say the least. Via angsty press release: Louisville, Ky. — Timed to coincide with the debut of KFC’s controversial Double Down sandwich, PETA is announcing its national KFC hearse tour, which will kick off in Louisville—the home of KFC’s headquarters—in [...]

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The House That Chicken Built

October 5, 2009 – 5:45 pm

To atone for its creation of the Double Down Sandwich, KFC-parent conglomerate and Louisville-based grease-merchant Yum! Brands has awarded grants totaling $7,800 to six area non-profit organizations as part of Operation Brightside’s “NatureScape” program. Although none of these programs include provisions for emergency bypass surgery, the money is being used to fund, among other things, vegetable gardens [...]

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Yum! Brands Makes Empty Envrionmental Gesture

June 22, 2009 – 4:08 pm

What? Just because the toilet water in that KFC bathroom is rain water run-off somehow offsets the vast, fossil-fuel dependent distribution system required to transport millions of unsustainably harvested mutant chickens to your thrice-stapled American stomach? A KFC/Taco Bell co-branded store in Northampton, Mass., has been awarded LEED Gold certification, according to Yum Brands. Leadership [...]

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Oprah Fans Rabid For Trends, KFC

May 7, 2009 – 6:01 pm

Yet another sign that the economy is recovering only to get even sicker: Oprah Winfrey has singlehandedly heralded a return to inane consumer spending as we know it by imploring her legions of Snuggie-devotees to devour as much *free* grilled chicken sandwiches as they possibly can: A free grilled-chicken meal promotion touted by the talk [...]

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More About That Chicken…

April 8, 2009 – 11:23 am

Hopefully Rep. Yarmuth didn’t give his colleague, Rep. Joe Courtney, one of those exploding boxes of KFC (as per their little bet)… cause that would be bad. Oh yes: KFC’s popcorn chickens packages apparently have a tendency to ignite themselves when placed in the microwave. Like normal. [via The C-J] Should this fail to further [...]

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