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Nov 22 2008 4 Comments

Kentucky Fried festivities?

As Christmas decorations have been common in the capital for quite some time now, it’s not really surprising to see fried festivities now forcibly pushed to the fore,

Japanese KFC Christmas

with premium picks,

Japanese KFC Christmas

as well as more basic barrel-based buffets available.

Japanese KFC Christmas

All cleverly coupled with commercials that are almost as sickly as what’s being sold.*

And of course Christmas simply wouldn’t be Christmas (even though it’s not even nearly Christmas) without the practically traditional practice of cosplaying colonels.

Japanese KFC Christmas

*This is last year’s commercial as the current one hasn’t been illegally uploaded yet, although rest assured they are very similar, with grinning and grease the main ingredients.

Categorized: Food and Drink

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  1. headbang8 says

    11/22/2008 at 9:29 pm

    Of course, you know that Kentucky Fried Chicken has become a Japanese Christmas staple because the Colonel resembles ol’ St. Nick, and a good many confuse the words “Santa” and “Sanders”.

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  2. locohama says

    11/23/2008 at 12:25 am

    Really Headbanger? Didn’t know that, about the Santa Sanders thing.
    KFC sucks anyway. Popeye’s is the bomb!

    Oh and btw thanks Lee for the add to the roll (-:

    loco

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  3. jyamasaki says

    11/23/2008 at 2:02 am

    when I was in kobe for christmas, there was a 3 hour wait for premium chicken – insane

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  4. gb says

    11/25/2008 at 11:28 am

    I’m just culturally tuned to the Coca Cola Santa image, with his jolly fat stomach and beard. I just can’t see the Colonel as Santa no matter that he wears the suit. I guess KFC beat Coke to the punch in Japan and made the Colonel the Face of Santa over there, right?

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