KFC planning on ditching Colonel Sanders

[Anonymous No.17057081]

You can figure why
https://archive.md/tI4dT

[Anonymous No.17057086]

D R O P P E D

[Anonymous No.17057090]

>>17057081
Norm died and they cant fine someone to do the voice?

[Anonymous No.17057094]

>>17057081
The company turned its back on the colonel years ago. I'm surprised they didn't do this sooner.

[Anonymous No.17057104]

Inb4 they turn it into some awful flat logo that just says KFC because muh modernism

[Anonymous No.17057112]

>>17057104
can't be worse than pepsi

[Anonymous No.17057117]

>>17057081
Because he has been dead 42 fucking years? It's past time. Wendy's didn't keep featuring Dave Thomas, himself a protege of Sanders, in all its marketing after cancer killed him. ("Wendy" is still alive and well.)

[Anonymous No.17057119]

remember that one KFC commercial that had a song and said something like "....and a big ol' cookie"?

[Anonymous No.17057120]

>>17057081
because no one know who he is?

because they haven't used his recipe since they bought it from him?

[Anonymous No.17057121]

They should make george floyd the new mascot.

[Anonymous No.17057124]

You cant have a mascot that's a race cause that's racist

[Anonymous No.17057131]

>>17057090
Nah, they intended that to be a rotational thing

[Anonymous No.17057142]

>>17057121
You can't have a black person be a mascot for fried chicken! Wait that's racist we can't bar black people from things. Uhhhmmmm

[Anonymous No.17057144]

>>17057104
My bet.

[Anonymous No.17057149]

It's over white man.

[Anonymous No.17057160]

>>17057090
>>17057131
This, but they also didn't tell Darrel Hammond that he was going to be replaced quickly. I remember him saying he thought it was going to a a multi-year gravy train kind of gig and feeling pissed that they didn't let him know.

[Anonymous No.17057173]

At least give black santa a fucking white beard

[Anonymous No.17057174]

>>17057149
Great Negro Saint Nigotoungamyanus

[Anonymous No.17057178]

>>17057149
Fake

[Anonymous No.17057185]

>>17057178
Fuck off nerd.

[Anonymous No.17057207]

>>17057081
KFC was dead to me as soon as they dropped the potato wedges.

[Anonymous No.17057214]

>>17057149
debunked

[Anonymous No.17057218]

>>17057207
They've been dead to me since the grand opening of their 2nd location.

[Anonymous No.17057224]

>>17057117
She's also quite fat.

[Anonymous No.17057253]

>>17057218
you were alive then? Holy fuck.

[Anonymous No.17057255]

Bless Wendy's and Papa John's for assisting KFC in achieving the Holy Trifecta of fast food founder-spokesmen combos.

[Anonymous No.17057269]

>>17057255
Also let it be known that Papa and Sanders were both Hoosiers and carries on the tradition of fellow Hoosiers.

[Anonymous No.17057443]

>>17057269
Amen

[Anonymous No.17058368]

What about Japan? They love shoving Colonel Sanders in all the KFC commercials.

[Anonymous No.17058374]

>>17058368
Japan most likely has different set of regional leadership.

[Anonymous No.17058381]

I don't eat there anymore it's shit.

[Anonymous No.17058389]

They're just putting the final nail on the coffin, KFC has been progressively getting worse.

[Anonymous No.17058399]

>>17057104
this is probably what they'll do, logos like this don't risk offending schizophrenics on twitter

[Anonymous No.17058402]

KFC has been dead for at least 10 years now.
New marketing strategy wont change the fact that a nigger behind the counter will inevitably ruin your day if you walk in there.

They need to up salaries and hire better employees so things are hot, accurate, and timely. Delivery with a smile every time is a huge plus and goes way further than some fucking tv ad.

[Anonymous No.17058412]

My wife wanted KFC last night. When she got there, they were out of half of the stuff she wanted. We ended up with a bucket of chicken, mashed taties and gravy, and biscuits. Still the best fried chicken out there.

[Anonymous No.17058415]

>>17057149
Its not all bad.

New York(CNN Business)
Coca-Cola thought personalized bottles might bring some summer fun to its fans. Instead, it met the internet.

The company's make-your-own label promotion lets customers write short messages on custom Coke bottles. Although Coca-Cola (CCEP)tried to block some slurs and trademarks, social media users were quick to discover that the company's restrictions were hardly comprehensive — and in some cases blocked inoffensive terms.

For example, "Black Lives Matter," is blocked. But "White Lives Matter" isn't. Coke included a special rainbow label for pride month, but you can't write "Gay Pride" on the bottle. However, you can write "I hate gays." "Hitler" and "Nazi" are banned, but users can customize bottles with the phrases, "I am Hitler" or "I am a Nazi."

[Anonymous No.17058427]

>>17057081
KFC is absolutely dogshit in the UK

[Anonymous No.17058434]

>>17057081
Because Fried chicken is a culturally Black food and having a white cracker representing black food culture is inherently racist.

[Anonymous No.17058450]

>>17058434
It's from medieval eruope...

[Anonymous No.17058490]

>>17057144
How much money for the rights?
>>17058399
Why should they care about 5 people and 10k people that pressed like without reading?

[Anonymous No.17058616]

>>17058415
>Black Lives Matter
>inoffensive
They are literally a terrorist organization

[Anonymous No.17058888]

We'll always have Claudia Sander's Dinner House, where her husband Colonel Harland Sander's portrait hangs above the fireplace, and will never be taken down.

[Anonymous No.17058953]

>the colonel was an actual person

[Anonymous No.17059430]

>>17057149
So Santa now steals presents from under the Christmas tree?

[Anonymous No.17059436]

>>17057081
Why the fuck should I care about a company's logo or marketing strategy.
Fuck Americans for always making everything "political", you guys are pathetic snowflakes, I am praying for that faggot Xinnie the Pooh to drop their new supersonic nuclear missiles on your asses.

[Anonymous No.17059475]

>>17057081
That's okay, I ditched KFC years ago. Greasy scrappy chicken, damp inferior fries, nothing worth going for anymore. The Colonel being removed at this point is a positive for them, they don't deserve his image anymore.

[Anonymous No.17059521]

Maryland Fried Chicken is exponentially better.

[Anonymous No.17059554]

The only time I recall getting food poisoning was from this garbage. Twice.

[Anonymous No.17059555]

>>17058953
The colonel's story is actually pretty fucking tragic. His company got taken over by a bunch of pencil pushers who didn't share his dedication to quality food. After a few public outbursts where he rather viciously criticized the direction they were taken the restaurant in, he basically got demoted from revolutionary owner and founder to an irrelevant mascot character who could be played by any old guy with a beard.
The colonel himself ended up moving to Canada with his wife in an attempt to at least keep the Canadian branch of the chain true, but that didn't work out.
He ended up opening a restaurant back in Kentucky dedicated to serving KFC chicken true to his original vision. KFC turned on him and sued him for it, forcing him to sell it off and remove the "colonel" branding from it.

Even in his twilight years, he was still sending in letters to newspapers and anybody who would listen to him about how utterly garbage KFC had become.

[Anonymous No.17059605]

>>17059555
Source? I'm interested

[Anonymous No.17059619]

>>17059605
There's no official biography for the guy, but he left a trail of court cases and litigations behind like this gem:
https://law.justia.com/cases/kentucky/supreme-court/1978/563-s-w-2d-8-1.html

>And while he was on the subject of something Kentucky Fried Chicken should do differently, the Colonel thought of a few other things.
>"The stuff on the mashed potatoes, for instance."
>"My God, that gravy is horrible. They buy tap water for 15 to 20 cents a thousand gallons and then they mix it with flour and starch and end up with pure wallpaper paste. And I know wallpaper paste, by God, because I've seen my mother make it."
>"To the `wallpaper paste' they add some `sludge and sell it for 65 or 75 cents a pint. There's no nutrition in it and they ought not to be allowed to sell it."
>"And another thing. That new `crispy recipe is nothing in the world but a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken.'"

[Anonymous No.17059642]

>>17057081
i'm calling BS...but who cares? nobody eats this crap anyway.

[Anonymous No.17059667]

The nearest KFC is like 50 miles away. They were too stupid to figure out that with free trade schools no one will work in a fast food at minimum wage.

[Anonymous No.17059676]

>>17059667
Shit, where are you at? In Canada, it cost me around $1k per year plus mandatory textbooks your never used to get my sparky certificate. Fucking government grant didn't cover it in whole unless you had an axewound between your legs.

[Anonymous No.17059709]

>>17057081
why put all this money into branding when you could just make the actual restaurants not shitty

[Anonymous No.17059738]

>>17059709
Pretty sure the franchisees are responsible for upkeep of the restaurants while the main corporation is effectively hands off.
To my knowledge, corporate is always separate. Wal-Mart has both corporate and customer facing employees.
Also, tax write offs for company expenses, advertising included..

[Anonymous No.17059739]

>>17059555
>He ended up opening a restaurant back in Kentucky dedicated to serving KFC chicken true to his original vision. KFC turned on him and sued him for it, forcing him to sell it off and remove the "colonel" branding from it.

So is the restaurant Claudia Sanders dinner House from >>17058888 ?

[Anonymous No.17059751]

>>17059739
Pretty sure. He originally opened it as "The Colonel's Wife", though they had to remove that from the branding as a part of the agreement post-lawsuit.

[Anonymous No.17059760]

>>17057104
didn't they do this like 20 years ago
did they go back to the guy at some point

[Anonymous No.17059776]

>>17059751
Wow. I took that picture there last week. We went on Sunday and had the buffet. I ate 3 chicken thighs. It was legitimately the best fried chicken I have ever tasted and the sides tasted like Grandma cooked them.

[Anonymous No.17059779]

>>17057117
Wendy has so much r34 it's unreal. I wonder how Melinda Thomas feels about it.

[Anonymous No.17060256]

>>17059779
Did anybody contact and ask?

[Anonymous No.17060283]

>>17058434
>a culturally Black food

"Culturally black" food is the same shit everyone eats north, south, east and west. For some reason, when they flop their slop onto a plate they call it "soul food" and think it's uniquely theirs.

[Anonymous No.17060374]

These marketing assholes are insane. Nobody is offended by the Colonel Sanders mascot. People stopped eating there because the core product–the fried chicken–has consistently become worse every year for 20 years. When people go there to buy fried chicken, IF they have chicken that day, and every time it's small, greasy, and shitty they just stop coming back. Fucking retards.

[Anonymous No.17060386]

Durr durr durrrr this brand doesn't identify with my core beliefs about racism and cell phone apps! No, you just have shitty chicken.

[Anonymous No.17060397]

>>17060386
Unironically what the colonel (pbuh) would be ranting about if he was still alive.

[Anonymous No.17060427]

>>17057081
Why not just turn him black? Being black is much more relevant to our time

[Anonymous No.17060429]

>>17060397
It is literally the same quality now as frozen TV dinner fried chicken.

[Anonymous No.17061507]

>>17057081
colonial systemic racism

[Anonymous No.17062104]

>>17057081
>>17057144
,

[Anonymous No.17062133]

>>17057090
SPBP

[Anonymous No.17062223]

As long as they keep the Kentucky part
Remember that Kitchen Fresh Chicken shit they tried to pull?

[Anonymous No.17062267]

>>17057081
without looking i'm guesing he's racist now

[Anonymous No.17062277]

>>17059676
Quebec
The KFC was literally in front of a trade school and near two industrial zones. It was in Vanier which is the shittiest and blackest neighborhood in the city.

[Anonymous No.17062278]

they'll eventually remove chicken from the name and menu too and change it to Kentucky Fried Cuisine.

[Anonymous No.17062410]

>>17059430
KEK

[Anonymous No.17062444]

>>17057117
Nobody cares about the real Colonel anymore, but his caricature IS the face of the brand. He’s taken on a Ronald McDonald-type status in pop culture, though not quite to the same level ubiquitousness. The vast majority of people just see him as ‘a cartoon southern gentleman’. I’ve never heard a jigaboo complain, in fact their kind seems to prefer KFC to almost all chicken joints. Maybe only Church’s or Popeye’s commands a bigger share of attention

[Anonymous No.17062453]

>>17058412
Try Bojangles’

[Anonymous No.17062456]

>>17057094
the fuck you talking about? I mean sure Colonel Harland maybe, but they had a fuckhuge marketing blitz swapping his character among a dozen celebrities, and his "voice" is still in commercials
If I were him I wouldnt want to be associated with them anymore, its disgusting how they dug him up and parade him even though he's dead. Imagine if Wendy's did that, had fucking Mario Lopez dressed up pretending to be 'sexy latino Dave Thomas'.

[Anonymous No.17062460]

>>17059555
What’s worse is that KFC was his Make or Break thing. From what I understand, he came up with the idea during a bout of depression after multiple failed business attempts left him practically broke and destitute. If KFC failed, he was going to kill himself. Mind you, he was already around 55 years old by that time

[Anonymous No.17062468]

>>17060283
They at least have some claim to the african-native vegetables and spices they use in a lot of ‘soul food’. But shit like waffles, mac n cheese, and fried chicken? Fuck right off with that “cultural appropriation”

[Anonymous No.17062473]

SAY HIS NAME

[Anonymous No.17062477]

>>17057081
and replace it with what, yamaneika saunders?

[Anonymous No.17062479]

>>17062456
The reason they could do that with the Colonel is because he made himself into a mascot back when he was still alive. He deliberately played up the ‘country gent’ stereotype with his goofy white suit, moustache, and bow tie in advertising specifically for brand recognition.
Dave Thomas meanwhile would just show up in a generic polo and slacks combo and say “hey, I’m Dave Thomas and I give my seal of approval on these burgers being good”. It was a different approach. If someone walked down the street dressed as Dave Thomas, nobody would recognise the reference. If you walked down the street in a snow white 3 piece suit, black string tie, black horn rim glasses, and a Van Dyke beard, people would call you Colonel Sanders.

[Anonymous No.17062481]

>>17058415
>users can customize bottles with the phrases, "I am Hitler"
BASED. I am Hitler.

[Anonymous No.17062492]

>>17057081
good. im tired of tha fat, greasy fuck. they should take a leaf from Japan's book and create a cute anime animal mascot to represent their restaurant. Way more marketable than a fat slob. When I look at Colonel Sanders, I don't think, "Wow, I want to eat at his restaurant." I think,"There is a man who has consumed nothing but grease in his life." I don't eat at KFC, but if they make their logo have a cute Pikahu fucker on the front of the restaurant, I might willingly give myself obesity.

[Anonymous No.17062495]

(they) won't stop until your culture is completely destroyed

[Anonymous No.17062507]

>>17062473
holy hypothyroidism

[Anonymous No.17062514]

>>17059475
Based. The only notoriety KFC has is for its disgusting food and the fact that a few of their restaurants were managed by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

[Anonymous No.17062553]

>>17058434
Which white cracker is representing black food? Colonel Sanders is Latinxyz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGUMA2LwskQ