KFC -Kentucky Fried Cloning

[Pufflette]

Unfortunately, the only thing on the menu for lunch on Saturday was KFC. MY colleague explained to me afterwards that KFC are no longer Kentucky fried chicken because they don't use chicken. Chicken wings and chicken fillets there are made from chicken wings and fillets that have been cloned and so the meat the punter eats has never actually been alive. IS THAT TRUE?!!

[geff_p]

cant imagine thts legal!

[taliesin238]

WOW thats mad!! I cant see it being true though!! To clone chicken you would have to clone the chicken and then the chicken would have to have grown to adult size to gain the meat. So therefor it would have had to have been alive??? unless you can literaly clone the meat and not the full chicken??? LOL this is mad!!

[EngTeach]

This rumor went around here in US a while back. I think the name change was due to financial issues. I believe Kentucky Fried Chicken" went under, and came back as "KFC"

[Panic Button]

Why would they bother when chicken is so cheap?

However why not use it as an excuse not to eat such unhealthy, greasy muck?

[weeal]

its been going a helluva long time that KFC, I am 43 and remember buying a kentucky bucket on my way back from work when I was like 18 ! cant see they'd get away with that

[gallapunk]

What about the bones?

[chongalolo]

I understood that the reason for the change was to get away from the word Fried which has an unhealthy image nowadays/

[WoWo]

You friend at work is correct, and also the word gullible is not in the dictionary either. Only an idiot would believe such rubbish.

In addition to what chongalolo said the name was changed firstly as part of a rebrand to promote a new menu which wasn't so heavily based on chicken (in the US) and also a general trend in business to use shorter more snappy names.

[webbo3]

Heres some info

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.asp




Dave.

[Pufflette]

Thank you WoWo. I feel stupid for believing that but then again these multinationals will try anything; like Enron turning off the power to the entire state of California!

[Sgt_Roanin]

Kentucky Fried Chicken Hoax.

An active Internet hoax, of the urban legend type, falsely claims that KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) is using genetically engineered organisms instead of chickens. The hoax includes reference to an unspecified study of KFC done at the University of New Hampshire and there is no such research or study that was done here.

When you read the message carefully you can see it has all the hallmarks of a hoax. It starts with a well known subject (KFC) and a timely topic (genetic modification of animals and plants) and then spins out a story that progresses from possible, to improbable, and finally to impossible. As an extra touch of false verisimilitude, there is the vague reference to a study at the University of New Hampshire!

For a discussion and analysis of the hoax, see any of these links:

The Urban Legends Reference Pages.
David Emery on "The Curse of Frankenchicken" at About.com Media URL: http://www.unh.edu/BoilerPlate/kfc.html
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