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It started in the early 1970s, when KFC was still new in Japan. It began marketing chicken as the country's Christmas meat with the catchphrase “Christmas is Kentucky.”
KFC Japan expanded the promotion nationwide in 1974 with its long running "Kentucky for Christmas" (Japanese: クリスマスはケンタッキー) or "Kentucky Christmas" (Japanese: ケンタッキークリスマス) advertising campaign. [4] Eating KFC food as a Christmas time meal has since become a widely practiced custom in Japan.
A KFC in Japan was decked out in Christmas decor in 2016. Quality Stock Arts/Shutterstock In Japan , Christmas is celebrated in a more secular way than in other predominantly Christian countries.
In December 1974, KFC Japan began to promote fried chicken as a Christmas meal. [67] Eating KFC at Christmas time has become a "Traditional Christmas Eve Dinner" in Japan. [68] [69] As of 2013, Japan is the third-largest market for KFC after China and the United States with 1,200 outlets. [70] In December 2007, Mitsubishi assumed majority ...
A long queue of patrons running out the door of nearly every KFC has been a perennial Christmas sight in Japan but COVID-19 social distancing rules that discourage lines and place strict ...
On October 18, 2010, KFC restaurants in Canada began selling the fried version of the Double Down for a limited time. [16] It was reported that on its launch date, a KFC in Victoria, British Columbia was sold out of the Double Down by as early as 2 p.m. [17] In French Canada, it is known as "Coup Double", [18] [19] roughly translated as "Double Punch".
World map of KFC outlets, red showing current locations, pink showing Cuba whose only KFC is on a U.S. military base, and dark gray showing former locations. This is a list of countries with KFC franchises. In 2024, there are at least 29,000 KFC outlets in 147 countries and territories in the world where 10,000 of those stores are in China ...
The Japanese tradition of eating fried chicken on Christmas may be built on a lie. The man who helped make eating KFC at Christmas a Japanese tradition says the practice is built on a lie that he ...