Beyond me. Maybe I'm not on the right drugs.

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 7:50 pm

Beyond me. Maybe I'm not on the right drugs.

Its off the scale weird ... dunking a bloke in a River of brown stuff and he becomes a chicken nugget is bonkers ...

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 7:50 pm

Beyond me. Maybe I'm not on the right drugs.

Its off the scale weird ... dunking a bloke in a River of brown stuff and he becomes a chicken nugget is bonkers ... Soylent Green or what

And what's the big golden egg all about?

We really dont want to see what is going on today,bring back the old days and sanity,they were the best days ever,for normal people,brought up the proper way,god help us !

Whether it drives sales will be getting analysed thoroughly.

In the meantime, here's a thread on the subject of KFC so it appears to have done what it set out to do in terms of making itself noticeable and memorable.

People don't think what they feel, don't say what they think and don't do what they say.

This one?

https://youtu.be/SVHHQKmzYOc

jjclaret wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 8:19 pm

This one?

https://youtu.be/SVHHQKmzYOc

Yup ... Weird or what

Errrrr ok ...... WTF

Enjoyed that!
I’m sure Devils Advocate will be along soon to explain

Speechless after that!........best to leave that stuff alone anyway..

The best thing about having a Freesat PVR box is that you can pause and then fast-forward to what you are actually trying to watch.

I’ve not had KFC for time, but watching that has given me a craving for their delicious gravy.

This is why the youth of today don't like football

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:11 pm

This is why the youth of today don't like football

Thats even more cryptic than the bleedin advert

I’d rather they just concentrate on making the chicken like they used to… last time I had it, albeit about 18 months ago, it was bland, and the gravy’s gone the same way too.

Pay more for your service and don't watch **** ads...

If it's on TV, what the **** are you doing still watching "tv"?

https://youtu.be/i17pORf_iE4?si=4pVVY_3ZFvz8sKCP

More chicken related weirdness - 'The Chickening' which was posted on here many years ago. (Warning: video contains some swearing).

Yep, weird af.

But you’re all thinking about KFC now, aren’t you?

On the subject of KFC, their official Twitter (or X) account follows 11 people:


in other words, 11 herbs and spices.

It’s probably slightly better then Fatty David Dunne’s advert.

To be fair, it’s a win if everyone is talking about a wacky ad and delicious gravy instead of some revolting factory chicken farm.

There are far too many choices out there for people to still eat KFC

When I saw it first it immediately reminded me of a weird film I saw called "Soylent Green." It was a futuristic movie released in 1973 of a world where the authorities offered euthanasia to the masses and used the bodies to make protein (Called Soylent green) to feed to the remaining masses. I recall one scene where the masses were chanting "Soylent Green is people" unaware of its origins. I now think that KFC is people! I don't frequent their establishments so am not too worried about what goes into their buckets.

I've always found only 1 in 5 visits to KFC have been any good.
Usually my go to hangover meal if I'm on a lads trip but I generally avoid fast food shite if I'm of a sound mind

Years ago, our mum and dad would call off at the KFC at Samlesbury while we were heading back home after a day out on the coast. It was a massive treat back then in the mid-to-late 1970s. Afterwards, they would complain about it being a rip-off for the rest of the journey.

I've not had a KFC for a good few years. These days, I find it way too greasy for my taste, and this includes their skinless chicken. Fried food is rank if it's not been given time to drain before boxed/wrapped up.

Enola Gay wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:29 am

Yep, weird af.

But you’re all thinking about KFC now, aren’t you?

True

But at no point during that advert, or since, has it made me want to eat a KFC. Its bad weird. Not funny weird

The twitter follow thing is very clever though

Roosterbooster wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:08 am

But at no point during that advert, or since, has it made me want to eat a KFC. Its bad weird. Not funny weird

Exactly what I'd expect a Rooster to say..

Smacks of "new ad agency throwing out leftfield curveballs, look how cool and edgy we are"

As other have said. It gets people talking.

But has it made me want to go and get a KFC? Absolutely not, which is the endgame for them surely?

Just looks a massive waste of money if you ask me.

I, for one, welcome our avian overlords

I don't think it's aimed at my age group but it has a fairly obvious meaning, which is that in a post truth world you can't believe in anything but Chicken.

I find a lot of adverts now tend to be more about the brand than the product, which is odd when you come from a generation that is used to housewives washing their whites whiter than white holding a pack of the stuff that does the job.

It's kind of hamfisted and does nothing for the product but if their target audience is 20 something Uni grad Social Science students then it might work.

Enola Gay wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:29 am

Yep, weird af.

But you’re all thinking about KFC now, aren’t you?

I'm thinking how I wouldn't feed one to the dog.

Right, this thread has forced me to watch it. Weird KFC religious woodland cult baptises someone in a lake of KFC gravy - and that's about it. I'd describe it as 'meh' and hardly something to get worked up about.

If only we could go back to the days when adverts on TV were a form of high art. Like the Shake n Vac one or the R Whites lemonade one or the nuts whole hazelnut one.
Young people in advertising today, a good spell in national service would sort them out.

RMutt wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:51 am

If only we could go back to the days when adverts on TV were a form of high art. Like the Shake n Vac one or the R Whites lemonade one or the nuts whole hazelnut one.
Young people in advertising today, a good spell in national service would sort them out.

Nah. National Service and possible war is too damn good for 'em! Oh for the days of putting a Chrysler Sunbeam in your life, one Cornetto, and the red car and the blue car had a race. Pure art, I tell thee, pure art.

Big fan of kfc, however have had many bad experiences in different outlets. Still only a visit once a month/ every 2 months.

Have our usual KFC place which is always good. Not sure why they're so different when have same suppliers/ recipes.

Might be a little weird advert, but aren't many ads weird now? Jaguar? Anything perfume related

RMutt wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:51 am

If only we could go back to the days when adverts on TV were a form of high art. Like the Shake n Vac one or the R Whites lemonade one or the nuts whole hazelnut one.
Young people in advertising today, a good spell in national service would sort them out.

Luxury ...

NottsClaret wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:13 am

Exactly what I'd expect a Rooster to say..

This made me chuckle. Great work

It’s absolutely brilliant, as was the previous one

There was an academic called David Graeber whose theoretical proposition was that as the workforce has become more automated the world replaces real jobs with what he referred to as Bullsh*t jobs.

So, instead of having Human Beings making stuff we now have machines making it and human beings making stuff up.

So, you have HR Departments full of people inventing surveys that ask you what you think of the company with the implicit threat that if you actually tell he truth you will be in trouble or WellBeing departments that basically ministrate to bullsh*t departments because they are the only ones who are pointless enough to be allowed to take time off.

So, the pointless stay put and fill in surveys and the purposeless leave and then come back again because all companies have surveys and bullsh*t departments full of bullsh*t people wanging off about wellbeing while not really giving a t*ss. And on and on until you have UK PLC with a dog of an economy that can't even grow with a million immigrants coming here to contribute.

And finally, when you run out of things to say about bullsh*t KFC release a new Ad that is bullsh*t personified because absolutely no one wants to rush out and buy a KFC because of the Ad because deep fried food with chips and beans is bullsh*t food.....! So, you have bullsh*t people making bullsh*t about bullsh*t because everything has gone to sh*t.

Of course, I don't think that David Graeber does - I'm just paraphrasing what he said....!

RMutt wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:51 am

If only we could go back to the days when adverts on TV were a form of high art. Like the Shake n Vac one or the R Whites lemonade one or the nuts whole hazelnut one.
Young people in advertising today, a good spell in national service would sort them out.

Hope it’s chips, it’s chips.

Weird adverts have been around for decades. Anyone remember the Tango ones (and the Tango man ones were the least weird!)

RMutt wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:51 am

If only we could go back to the days when adverts on TV were a form of high art. Like the Shake n Vac one or the R Whites lemonade one or the nuts whole hazelnut one.
Young people in advertising today, a good spell in national service would sort them out.

Presume this is a **** take?
Its a bat **** crazy suggestion and shows the demographic on this forum should be largely ignored (including myself)

It is the post Colonel Sanders campaign. Up until now, it has been Col Sanders recipe and finger lickin' good.

They have dropped both. Now not even Kentucky Fried. Just KFC. Chicken is king.

I like Kentucky Fried Chicken.

martin_p wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 4:05 pm

Weird adverts have been around for decades. Anyone remember the Tango ones (and the Tango man ones were the least weird!)

If you see Sid, tell him!

(Not Tango, obviously!)

fidelcastro wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:27 pm

If you see Sid, tell him!

(Not Tango, obviously!)

I saw the White Tide Man when I was little.

Trivia question ... What did the "Lady" in the Milk Tray" advert give the "Milk Tray Man" for Christmas in a Christmas Ad ...

This was a question in our Friday quiz in the pub a few weeks ago.

Clovius Boofus wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 8:55 am

Years ago, our mum and dad would call off at the KFC at Samlesbury while we were heading back home after a day out on the coast. It was a massive treat back then in the mid-to-late 1970s. Afterwards, they would complain about it being a rip-off for the rest of the journey.

I've not had a KFC for a good few years. These days, I find it way too greasy for my taste, and this includes their skinless chicken. Fried food is rank if it's not been given time to drain before boxed/wrapped up.

In the 60's and 70's my aunty lived in a house on the main Preston road at Salmsebury (next door to what at the time was a petrol station) At the time it really was extremely busy as it was the main road from East Lancashire to the Fylde coast and when that KFC was opened just a few hundred yards from her house it was (I believe) only the second one in the country. My aunty got a job working evenings and weekends there and on one famous occasion was actually visited by "The Colonel" himself, over from America, looking extremely old and exactly like he's portrayed in the logo.
As an aside, the guy was never a colonel or indeed in the military, but was a car salesman (amongst other jobs) before retiring and at 66, hard up and bored, started a single fried chicken joint somewhere in the states. The rest is history and at 80 he was a multi millionaire! (Haven't double checked all those facts, but that's the gist of it I believe)

cricketfield73 wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:47 pm

https://youtu.be/i17pORf_iE4?si=4pVVY_3ZFvz8sKCP

More chicken related weirdness - 'The Chickening' which was posted on here many years ago. (Warning: video contains some swearing).

Weird yes, but it did make me laugh in parts!

fidelcastro wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:27 pm

If you see Sid, tell him!

(Not Tango, obviously!)

If you see Sid, you're probably at a sex party.