Behold the power of a free leg, thigh, two sides and a biscuit. Forget social injustice. You want to organize a sit-in? Try denying folks their right to free Kentucky fried…erm, um…I mean grilled chicken.
You see, yesterday Oprah offered coupons to all of her viewers that entitled them to one two piece grilled chicken meal. The offer is good from now until May 19th, 2009. First of all, the coupon server is way overloaded and it’s damn near impossible to get the thing to download. And even if you managed that, as many did, not every franchise operator is down with Oprah’s offer.
So leave it to the denizens of New York City to take their protest to the next level. According to eyewitnesses, folks staged a sit-in after being denied free grilled meat with sides. WTF?!? This aint a ’50s lunch counter folks.
“I went over to our nearest KFC a few minutes ago…and chaos ensued. Despite the very visible grilled chicken behind the register, the manager told everyone with coupons to leave and that the promotion was over for the day. The people there are currently holding a sit-in and refusing to leave until they get their free chicken .. .or the cops are called. Racial epithets were being spewed, people who actually wanted to pay for chicken were facing a potential beatdown, and the manager ran from the screaming horde. Oprah, what have ye wrought?”
Hah! No chicken for YOU! You may attempt to get your coupon here….but don’t hold your breath.
I’ve tried the new chicken twice, it’s ok, nothing great. Looks like it was put through a George Foreman “grill”. El Polo Loco is better.
I love it when Oprah steps in it.
#16 Agree. Glad you cited Bush as an example of ‘lower class’ sheeple voting in rotten presidents.
Bush was voted in on the premise of fear, Obama was voted in on the premise of change. I’m happy to side with those that voted for the latter.
#23 A little dense, aren’t you? Sheeple like you are the problem. Did you get your chicken?
I have a kitchen in my house that i can use.
Must be a very slow news day on Dvorak Uncensored if a story about a KFC coupon gets covered!
Missed your coupon? Here is a great recipe that’s cheap.”
Get a whole chicken,
Rub it with your favorite spices.
Bake it at 325F for about 90 minutes.
Fantastic!
yuck. Yeah, Oprah, you go girl. Kill more of the fat people…. let gluttony rein supreme (plus, it will make Oprah look thinner).
KFC – Killer Fucking Chicken
#28:
Would it please you if we all ate twigs and pebbles?
“let gluttony rein supreme”
Yeah, because two pieces of grilled chicken is the HEIGHT of gluttony.
This chicken endorsement is funny for a reason most of you don’t even know about. Back in the late 70s, early 80s, Oprah cohosted “People Are Talking” on Baltimore’s WJZ-TV. And on one show she interview chicken magnate Frank Purdue. And had the nerve to ask him, “What do you say to people when they say you look like a chicken?” To which he responded, “What do you say to people when they say you look like a chicken?” And Mr. Perdue responds, perfectly calm, “I don’t know, what do you say when people say that you look like a gorillla?” At which point the Tv screens, tuned into WJZ, went blank for a couple minutes. When the show returned, she wasn’t there. I didn’t see this myself, so I don’t know it for an absolute fact. But everyone in my family who saw this, distinctly remembers it. And there are enough witnesses on the internet who do too.
http://www.protozoic.com/2005/12/06/frank-perdue/
I believe the main reason she’s been successful, is because she’s been used to edge out any more socially effective (aka Liberal) talk show hosts, like Phil Donahue. What the hell has Oprah ever stood up for? I remember her brief run in with the beef industry. But I don’t know why. She’s certainly not a vegan, today, if she’s now promoting KFC chicken.
Apparently she’s just not wealthy enough, yet, that she can afford to turn down a fast food promotional contract. And she can’t be caught endorsing any mainstream religions either, so she start kissing up to Tom Cruise and his wacky xenu cult. Well I guess atheism pays better.
Fried (er, grilled?) chicken eh? Did she leave out the watermelon? Or hasn’t the produce industry paid her generously enough to promote those yet? And would she? I’m thinking, yeah, she would.
Even while The Beloved Colonel was still alive the quality of KFC’s food was going down, down, down and he wasn’t afraid to say so. (Never should have sold out, Colonel!) I tried a couple of pieces a year or so ago — it was so loaded with salt I had to drink about a gallon of water over the next few hours and really gave my kidneys a workout. I wish there were a Popeye’s closer than halfway across town…
As for Oprah, I don’t care what her motives were, anyone who builds a school, no matter where, is okay in my book. I wish she (or someone, anyone) would build a few thousand more. She and Bono could get together with Bob Geldoff and make it happen!
#32:
“anyone who builds a school, no matter where, is okay in my book”
the nazis built schools.
just sayin.
Idiot obese Americans queue in line to eat more unhealthy, fattening food because some stupid rich bitch on tv gets conned by KFC to give their new range of food publicity.
You Americans are almost as dumb as us Brits.
She’s a marketing con always using drama to sell products. She’s one of the most influential drama queens sure, but not influential in matters of real importance. It’s all about getting you to watch TV, be brainwashed by commercials so you have to then put them in your local shopping cart and she gets rich, rich, rich, and more rich, leaving you with a feeling that by watching her show and reading her book recommendations you are changing the world and learning everything you need to know about the world..
Anyone who says she’s “generous” is an idiot. Even Jesus spoke about such generosity saying that the poor man who gave a few pennies gave more than the rich man who gave millions. Every time I see her shallow fat blob of babbling nonsense, I wonder how is it that the world can be so stupid?
Her “healthy” promotion which added even more pork to her fat bank account, is a laugh when you look at all her hype about losing weight years ago, she’s fat fat fat again, she boasted about he weight loss, her books, her personal chef, on and on and now promoting healthy eating by telling her drones to grab her coupon and be healthy by going to a fast food restaurant to eat chicken that’s still covered in fat? Just because it’s grilled doesn’t mean that they don’t dump the chicken in grease prior to grilling it, yea, that’s what they do.
It’s healthier to eat one of those Texas steaks she boycotted than eat anything at a fast food restaurant. .
#34 I wonder why would that be…
#35 Let me tell you that you got it backwards. Oprah is not the creepy one, her audience is.
# 9 Dallas said, “While I think fried chicken is rather disgusting, a worse option is Long John Silvers! A mutant shrimp encased in a pound of batter. Oh good.”
Thanks for the heads up. Haven’t been to one in 30 years and started seeing commercials recently.
Forget it! There’s not enough time in the world to finish one of Oprah’s legs, never mind a thigh and a biscuit, even if a person were inclined to. Or did she mean chicken?
I actually got some chicken..It cost me nothing and it actually was pretty good..
Nothing stands in the way of a freeloader.