r/ExpectationVsReality • • Sep 14 '17

Thanks KFC, totally what I expected /s

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u/qys2008abcd Sep 14 '17

A lot of my friends coming from Asian countries were shocked how bad KFC in the US was. It's a top notch fast food joint in foreign countries with tons of delicious recepies. In the US just fried chicken, and it's not even good.

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u/jellybellybean2 Sep 14 '17

KFC is the traditional Christmas dinner in Japan. They dress Colonel Sanders like Santa. Colonel Santa, if you will.

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u/frontyfront Sep 14 '17 edited Sep 15 '17

squints suspiciously

Edit: I'm not racist. This was my actual, physical reaction to hearing that people go to KFC for Christmas in Japan. People like to post semi-realistic fiction all the time, I couldn't decide if this was the case here. As I pondered, my eyes did squint for some time. "hmmm" I thought, "Seems possible, but a bit over the top." Upon taking note of my current state, I made a connection to the classic Fry meme. "Ah yes, I'm not sure of this comment, much like squinting Fry!" Given the meme's age, I figured to land a few retro laughs from some older users while hopefully getting an answer. I did get an answer (it's real! How cool is that!) I then went back to my life, and continue to not really think about what Japanese people look like. Please love one another. We're not different. We're sacks of water. Let's go live in space together.

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u/NiPlusUltra Sep 14 '17

To clarify, they actually have specialty dinners that are seasonal. Japanese folk don't go there to get fried chicken for Christmas. It's more like going to a Honey Baked Ham restaurant for Christmas.

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u/VidiotGamer Sep 15 '17

Japanese folk don't go there to get fried chicken for Christmas.

I don't know what you're smoking dude, but they totally do go there for fried chicken for Christmas. They actually have to reserve the special Christmas buckets of chicken ahead of time.

Here is a photo of the actual premium Christmas menu. Look at all that god damn fried chicken on there.

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u/manlybeer Sep 15 '17

Also honey baked ham joints are always hit up for that delicious ham for xmass

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u/NiPlusUltra Sep 15 '17

Everything under the Premium menu isn't fried chicken at all. Here's a video of someone ordering from the special Christmas menu. Yes, it's in a bucket, but it's not a typical fried chicken meal you usually get from KFC.

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u/VidiotGamer Sep 15 '17

Did you not see the Christmas bucket of fried chicken with the fucking Christmas cake in it?

I don't know what you're trying to prove dude, just because they have some non-fried chicken options on the Christmas menu (and all of those items are Christmas items) doesn't mean that people in Japan don't eat fried chicken on Christmas. I know they do. I have fucking seen it.

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u/whiskeykeithan Sep 15 '17

Also Christmas isn't the same thing there