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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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Louisville ranks 2nd among fast food saturated cities

February 10, 2011 – 11:26 am

Fitting for a place that headquarters Yum! Brands, Louisville is the second most fast food saturated city in the country according to a list compiled by The Consumerist, behind only Orlando, FL. From The Consumerist (h/t The Edit): Total fast food restaurants: 377 Fast food restaurants per 100,000 residents: 147.1 Most prominent chain: Subway Last [...]

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Yum! Brands pulls China TV ad mocking Obama

February 10, 2011 – 10:05 am

Whether it’s fake beef, fascist chickens or toaster oven-shaped stadiums, the Louisville-based fast food giant Yum! Brands is no stranger to bad press, but flattening President Obama with a fish sandwich in a foreign country might’ve went too far. Besides hiring an actor who looks nothing like the president, Yum! Brands apologized for the caricature [...]

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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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Independent Green lambasts Fischer, Heiner

October 5, 2010 – 4:04 pm

Independent Louisville mayoral candidate and public transportation advocate Jackie Green has released a concise yet scathing attack on his opponents via an email blast sent out earlier today. In it, Green offered harsh criticism of both Republican Metro Councilman Hal Heiner, R-19, and Democrat Greg Fischer.

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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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