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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Fletch
October 3rd, 2011
4:30 pm
laydeeliberty – HAHAHAHA
laydeeliberty
October 3rd, 2011
4:31 pm
@William – feel free to call the Republican party anything you’d like. I’m not a Repbulican so I couldn’t care less.
You do show your ignorance, however, by associating the Tea Party with the Klan. My guess is that you’ve never been to a Tea Party, so you are simply parroting the talking points that the racists at the CBC provide to you. Try thinking for yourself one of these days instead of being a blind puppet of the left. You may surprise yourself.
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:31 pm
@laydeeliberty
get a man and learn how to spell lady, but then again you are no lady.
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:32 pm
lady you have never been to tea, because there is no party when you have tea it is a formal social, so when the
klanI meant GOP have tea it is a lynching on the Presidentpeter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:35 pm
@lady,
stop with all the fallacies and hearsay, when have you heard someone glorifying education with being white, you are taking a superior stand as if white is good. Stop quoting Fox news and the klan give us real facts. Give us the facts on the 70% out of wedlock. Who said wedlock was good, are you imposing your tainted values taking an ego approach?
The United States of China
October 3rd, 2011
4:38 pm
In case you missed the memo, China owns the U.S. They can do what they well please.
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:38 pm
lady,
Do you eat:
a) KFC finger licking good
b) popeyes’
love that chicken from popeyes’ /c) churches’
D) mrs. winners
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:39 pm
G
October 3rd, 2011
4:39 pm
wow…AJC stirred up the pot this time…..or was it the Chinese….folks, forget the white/black thing….them Chinese won’t care what color we are when they own us more than they already do….google copper mines in Afghanistan, or rare earth metals, and other similar issues…they are cornering markets, retaking private businesses in China, and establishing policy that will make all of us slaves to their currency and whims…….we need to get along with each other, make friends with South America including Mexico…..cause when the oil runs out, and the crap goes down….at least we are all on the same side of the world together…..just sayin…..
Oh yeah, and I don’t care who ya are……OFC is kind of funny!
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:41 pm
@lady
Were you conceived out of wedlock? Did your parents get married? Perhaps they enjoyed the music of Georgia Satellite, “she said don’t give me no lies and keep your hands to yourself…no honky tonky signing until I get a wedding band.”
How do you feel about the white kids having all of those abortions? That is what kept the wedlock numbers down.