My Fast Food Woes

Jenna · #1 (**permalink**) 09-07-2004, 08:12 PM

I'm so tired of this crap!!!! First, KFC or "Kitchen Fresh Chicken" if you will, stops selling Chicken Littles. Now Taco Bell doesn't have Mexi Nuggets anymore!!!!

Next thing you know McDonnalds won't carry the Big Mac and Dairy Queen will drop the Blizzard!

It's getting hard for a gal to go out and stuff her face with fat and calories these days

janet troll · #2 (**permalink**) 09-14-2004, 05:42 AM

BTW...its "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Sorry just had to point that out. Also sorry they stop serving what you want.

Wildflowerz · #3 (**permalink**) 09-14-2004, 07:48 AM

Yeah, but they're calling themselves Kitchen Fresh Chicken now, for no apparant reason.

Jenna · #4 (**permalink**) 09-14-2004, 08:19 AM

Janet... It's been "Kitchen Fresh Chicken" for I think about 2 years now, lol. One wouldn't really notice though since all their signs say "KFC".

I believe the name change had something to do with the word "Fried" being bad these days... but I could be wrong.

I think it's a bit of a sin to change a name that they've had forever.

SarahMorgan · #5 (**permalink**) 09-14-2004, 09:26 AM

I heard on the news a while ago that they had to get rid of Kentucky because they werent giving Kentucky any money for using the name, or something really silly like that.

Mamachick · #6 (**permalink**) 09-14-2004, 07:38 PM

I just KNEW it had been "Kentucky fried chicken" before, but my dh said I was crazy and it was always "Kitchen fresh chicken".

Why couldn't they come up with a better slogan than that?

Jenna · #7 (**permalink**) 09-14-2004, 08:57 PM

Wow... Sarah is right for the most part!!! Here's the scoop on snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/lost/kfc.htm

In 1991, Kentucky Fried chicken announced that it was officially changing its name to "KFC" (as well as updating its packaging and logo with a more modern, sleeker look). The public relations reason given for the name change was that health-conscious consumers associated the word "fried" with "unhealthy" and "high cholesterol," causing some of them to completely shun the wide variety of "healthy" menu items being introduced at Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets. The new title and image were designed to lure back customers to a restaurant now offering foods branded as "better for you," we were told.

It sounded good, but the real reason behind the shift to KFC had nothing to do with healthy food or finicky consumers: it was about money -- money that Kentucky Fried Chicken would have had to pay to continue using their original name. In 1990, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, mired in debt, took the unusual step of trademarking their name. Henceforth, anyone using the word "Kentucky" for business reasons -- inside or outside of the state -- would have to obtain permission and pay licensing fees to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It was an unusual and brilliant scheme to alleviate government debt, but it was also one that alienated one of the most famous companies ever associated with Kentucky. The venerable Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, a mainstay of American culture since its first franchise opened in Salt Lake City in 1952, refused as a matter of principal to pay royalties on a name they had been using for four decades. After a year of fruitless negotiations with the Kentucky state government, Kentucky Fried Chicken -- unwilling to submit to "such a terrible injustice" -- threw in the towel and changed their name instead, timing the announcement to coincide with the introduction of new packaging and products to obscure the real reasons behind the altering of their corporate name. Kentucky Fried Chicken were not the only ones who bravely refused to knuckle under. The name of the most famous horse race in North America, held every year at Churchill Downs, was changed from the "Kentucky Derby" to "The Run for the Roses" for similar reasons; many seed and nursery outfits that had previously offered Kentucky Bluegrass switched to a product known as "Shenendoah Bluegrass" instead; and Neil Diamond's song "Kentucky Woman" was dropped from radio playlists at his request, as the licensing fees he was obligated to pay the Commonwealth of Kentucky exceeded the peformance royalties he was receiving for the airplay.

Stupid Kentucky! LOL

As for being "Kitchen Fresh Chicken", it's because well, they can't use "Kentucky". Nothing offically states the name change but it's their advertising slogan now.

banshee · #8 (**permalink**) 09-15-2004, 12:24 AM

Jenna if it could make you feel any better where I am I have never heard of or seen on the meal Mexi Nuggets.