Seems you can have your chicken and eat it too...albeit a little later than expected. After hordes of hungry Oprah fans were turned away from KFC outlets across the country earlier this week, the fast-food chain is now sending out rain checks to appease them.
On Tuesday, Oprah Winfrey announced on her show that coupons for a free Kentucky Grilled Chicken dinner would be available on her website. But the demand was so overwhelming that KFC could not accommodate everyone. Traffic near a KFC in Greensboro, N.C., created such a hazard on Wednesday that police ended up blocking access to the restaurant. And in New York City and elsewhere, disgruntled customers staged protests.
According to KFC, the company has never had such a response to a special-meal offer. "It's unprecedented in our more than 50 years," said KFC spokeswoman Laurie Schalow told the AP. "It beats anything we've ever done."
The funny thing to me is though that people will rush to a store to get anything that is "free" and even "protest" if there isn't enough freebies to go around and yet some of these same people would walk past a homeless person or never even take a second glance at a person perhaps poorer than themselves. And let's not factor in the many that might have gone to the KFC's more than once to get a free lunch so-to-speak. So while I commend KFC for their adding of a more healthy item to their menu and Oprah for highlighting it I think that we as a people need to get a grip and fight over what's really important in life.
Oh you know that is right. People waiting on line for chicken like it was going out of style. I saw a lady on the news crying about how they didn't have the chicken when she got to the store. The store told her that they had to cut the offer but would do it again the next day and all she could do is wail about how "unfair" it was. Get a clue, the chicken was "free" bitch! What difference does it make if you get the free chicken on that day or a rain check? Stupid and greedy people!
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