Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Cricket Survival Guide
by h8torade on Jan.07, 2010, under good eats
Even though it is now 2010, we still have corporations who lack common sense and put out a commercial that looks like it was produced by the Ku Klux Klan.
I understand that a big bucket of chicken can get most people out of an akward situation, but you want to make sure that you aren’t surrounded by a whole bunch of black actors when doing so. Mix in an Asian, Italian, or even an Arab. It just doesn’t look good when Whitey is sitting there, watching cricket, and throws up a big bag of KFC in order to be accepted.
I can kind of see where KFC is coming with this. When I find myself surrounded by a whole bunch of Chinese people, I usually offer up my German Shepard as a side meal.
Or, if I’m surrounded by some people from India, I offer to take their cow from them and make a couple 1/2lb cheeseburgers.
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January 7th, 2010 on 6:49 pm
Okay, here’s what I think the ad makers were thinking…
Aussie cricket fan finds himself in the wrong section of the stadium, surrounded by West Indies fans and can’t watch the game. To get them to ease off on the exuberance, he gives them something tasty to keep them busy, and he can get back to the game.
A non-offensive plot in theory, the only failing is that he gave them fried chicken.
In the ad agency’s defense, I’m not sure if the stereotype of black people loving fried chicken is well-known in Australia.
January 7th, 2010 on 7:57 pm
Wow, everyone is so ultra-sensitive to anything that may possibly be perceived as prejudiced or racist.
1. It’s fucking CHICKEN, people. EVERYONE likes that shit. I’m a vegetarian and I like chicken, I just don’t eat it. Chicken rules! Especially when you fry that shit. You can throw that stereotype on anyone: Croats love fried chicken! Just ask one.
2. I don’t think Australia or South Africa or wherever has a stereotype about black people and fried chicken.
3. It’s not exactly insulting to say that a group of people likes fried chicken. It’s not like saying they like to steal or some shit.
4. I bet real black people won’t complain about this. I’m not counting the Sharpton’s of the world who make their living fabricating strife. But ask that black dude you work with, I bet this ad won’t bother him.
January 8th, 2010 on 7:19 am
It’s fucking chicken! I would fuck a chicken up. The only way a chicken wont get fucked by me, if he dresses like a pig…
I agree with Jeff…
January 8th, 2010 on 3:06 pm
Yep, the commerical is offensive. Sorry Jeff…
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/
January 8th, 2010 on 10:14 pm
Yo, Michael in LA, I couldn’t find shit about chicken on that damn website! Wanna like, explain why it’s racist? At worst it’s stereotyping, at best it’s just some motherfuckers trying to sell some chicken.
January 9th, 2010 on 9:33 am
I tell you what if he tried that in the states that
bucket of chicken and his wallett would be gone quicker than you can say Martin Luther King
January 9th, 2010 on 10:13 pm
People are too sensitive. You put a bunch of Black folks together, behind the implication of a “Black stereotype” (i.e. dancing, rapping, eating specific meals) & out comes the race card(s). It’s not always that serious.
Yes, I’m Black.
January 10th, 2010 on 9:12 am
Was the advertising agency who produced this from the US or Australia?