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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ATL's Own
October 3rd, 2011
4:41 pm
@laydeeliberty I was done until I saw your 4:26…Long sigh…What you referenced in your last comment is UNEDUCATED vs. EDUCATED! It applies to rednecks and poor black and white folks.
This comment here applies to a broader range of folks than black folks and again, it applies and is practiced by people who are below a certain economic level!
“I also realize that a lot of their problems are self-imposed (glorifying criminal behaviors and taunting hard work as “being white”, 70% out of wedlock birth rate guaranteeing a continuation of poverty, an entitlement mentality versus an accomplishment mentality) and none of that can be blamed on anyone else.”
I am a Harvard graduate, with three different degrees! I earned my way through college, just like our President. I have paid my dues and I earn a great living. All of the people I know do well for themselves as well! I grew up poor and busted my azz to get to where I am now and believe it or not, I am 100 percent black!
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:43 pm
Mi amigo…se habla espanol…all jokes aside G, you have a point
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:48 pm
Well I saw ladeeliberty you can catch her in that trailer just below Griffin, GA with theheehaw sign and the conferderate flag. She is a dishwater blonde, and she wears that those hunting jackets as if she is always on the hunt for a fresh squirrel or chipmuck. She is a beer girl and she smokes Marboro lites…often times she will drive that 4-wheeler to Walmart to get her snuff, eggs, buttermilk…she have the hazard lights flashing. I know her
ixon1
October 3rd, 2011
4:48 pm
It is amazing but not surprising just how blindly racist that some of you on this comment page are. “It is foolish for the oppressor to tell you to forget about the oppression that he inflicted upon you”. Until America pays it’s debt to African Americans,accepts her responsibility for the crime against a race of people deemed inferior because of the color of our skin. You justify your racism, your hatred because you do not want to feel guilty for what you know was a crime against humanity. (laydeeliberty ) you especially need to reexamine your mindset and realize that the lifestyle that your may have could quite be possible because of the oppression of African people. And in order for you to not feel guilty ,you have to put on the mask of hate. Who knows, you may even want,desire and crave to be black yourself! It’s ironic that the majority of you don’t even know that reason that you are predisposed to hate black people. it could be generational because your father’s, fathers father was one who celebrated the death of black people on Saturday night, but attended church on Sunday morning. But then again we have given so much to America and gotten nothing back but hatred,bigotry,animosity. So many of you say “You want your country back’! Question, It was not yours from the beginning. You stole it,kill,murdered,bushwhacked to attain what was not yours. However, as African Americans we have to step up and become that which we are to be. We are socially engineered to be dysfunctional and that is an issue that we as a people have to come to grips with. We are Americans and “Together we live to live together or the country will perish
Contentment Blues
October 3rd, 2011
4:49 pm
LOL at ATL’s Own….. look at me…look at me!
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:50 pm
I forgot to add she plays that Redneck woman song as her man bubba fix up his truck
southerngurl
October 3rd, 2011
4:52 pm
laydee
Who glorifies criminal behavior? I don’t. I DETEST it. Who said hard work is a “white thing.” I work at least 60 hours per week. It has nothing to do with thinking, Oh I am acting white because I work hard. No I like to eat and live decent. Has nothing to do with trying to be white. Seriously. Entitlement mentality? For what? Really? I agree with you, on paper we are the land of the free, I do beleive in meritocracy. Your ability to pull yourself up by your boot straps will be different from my ability to pull myself. I know that you would never believe it, because the entitlements that you were born with. Think about that. Have you ever heard of institutinalized racism. It thrives in Georgia.
Contentment Blues
October 3rd, 2011
4:53 pm
annnnnnd peter deter takes the lead for dumbest/most obvious attempt at offending a group(s). I’ll now take you to show at 4-1.
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:55 pm
ladee entitlement and being lazy was crossing the pond and stealing people to nurse your children and cook your food.
ladee stop thinking your race is getting it right when they have slaughtered animals (endangered species list) and mankind Native Americans. As for violence you all started every war in this world. It is getting close to supper go this bubba his biscuits and gravy.
peter deter weter
October 3rd, 2011
4:57 pm
Blues please list your credentials before you try to judge, because only a fish-eyed-fool would turn this into a contest.