Obama’s likeness used to sell fried chicken in China
While President Barack Obama seeks the secret recipe for U.S. economic growth, a fast-food restaurant in China is inferring he’s already privy to Colonel Sanders’ secret for fried chicken.
The short arm of trademark law.
The Daily Mail and other media outlets report Obama Fried Chicken is using advertising very similar to that used by KFC, aka known as Kentucky Fried Chicken before the word “fried” became a marketing pariah.
The Beijing business sign allegedly contains the phrase ‘We’re so cool, aren’t we?’ in Chinese, but Google translate cannot confirm that for me.
The restaurant’s name may be a way for restaurateurs to decry a tariff on U.S. chicken exports that, according to the New York Times, forces importers in China to pay twice as much per bird.
The restaurant’s sign was first spotted by TheShanghaiist.com.
Mediaite.com writes that using Obama’s likeness to sell fried chicken could be considered “unacceptably racist,” but this isn’t the first time such a thing has happened.
The Daily Mail article has pictures of U.S. businesses using the exact same name in Brooklyn and Harlem.
And KFC itself used an Obama lookalike in a television commercial that ran in Hong Kong. In that clip, KFC even borrows a sentiment from Obama’s 2008 campain … “Change is good.”
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117 comments Add your comment
Contentment Blues
October 3rd, 2011
5:04 pm
let’s just say that i am now dumb for having read your posts. Thanks a ton.
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
5:09 pm
yep, I can tell you were never smarter than a 5th grader
Hung Lo
October 3rd, 2011
5:21 pm
Asian culture has traditionally stereotyped Blacks
Violet
October 3rd, 2011
5:39 pm
It is sad that so many people should be working, but using their employer’s internet instead. Asians have stereotyped African American historically. Really, KFC should be angry at the apparent likeness of their logo. By the way, Cantor and that cry baby are trying to intimidate Bernake, and make him stop trying to stimulate the economy. Why didn’t Fox News report that?
HENRY
October 3rd, 2011
5:41 pm
I WOULDN’T BUY ANYTHING WITH THIS IDIOT’S FACE ON IT.
Xavier
October 3rd, 2011
5:52 pm
That’s the most he’s done for any economy anywhere. Hey, at least it’s a start.
Jake
October 3rd, 2011
6:10 pm
No wonder we have kids that bully . . .just listen to you people. And I mean all of you.
tiki
October 3rd, 2011
6:10 pm
All blogs in GA will more than likely trend towards racist comments. It could start off as Taylor Swift sings with TI then it trends to the n*gger is bringing Taylor down lets boycott her…Go fig. Ga is one the most racist states I have ever seen in business, in work environments, blogs, restaurants, neighborhoods, it’s an epidemic!
plow
October 3rd, 2011
6:24 pm
“Yet I met so many racist african americans in my lifetime” How old are you? Are you just a liar? How did you know that hey were racist? Did they call you a cracker as you walked by or did “they” just have the “look” that we all know as being racist. Did they string up some of your ancestors? Did they rape your grandmother and/or your grandfather and your family passes that story throughout your family? Tell me lady, I feel your pain.
Truth Spoken
October 3rd, 2011
6:40 pm
President Bush’s face was on a bill board to sell bbq in Armarilla, TX in 2001, so what? We went to the bbq place and didn’t think twice about it. Get over hating our “wonderful” black President. H8ters and tea-baggers are going down. Hahahahahaha!!!!