YUM! Brands, the Louisville-based parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver's, among others, recently pulled an ad that ran in Hong Kong for a fish sandwich marketed by KFC, featuring a black man acting as an obvious stand-in for President Obama calling for "change." The ersatz Obama is then squashed by a giant version of the fish sandwich.
KFC Parent Company Pulls Questionable Obama KFC Ad in Far East
Doublin' Down
The terrorists don't "hate our freedoms." They hate what we do with our freedoms. Case in point: Kentucky Fried Chicken's Double Down sandwich. In a time when the debate rages about how fast food chains are contributing to America's obesity epidemic, launching a sandwich featuring bacon, cheese and Thousand Island-style secret sauce fit between two pieces of fried chicken breast or grilled, if you're "health conscious" is a brazen display of chutzpah, if not an outright "fuck you" to those same critics.
Halal Chicken Showdown on Devon
Two fast food restaurants have opened halal outposts on Devon St, creating competition over whose chicken is the best and whose chicken is more halal. Kentucky Fried Chicken and Brown's Chicken and Pasta are battling it out for the hearts, minds and stomachs of observant Muslim fried chicken eaters. But not everyone is a fan.

