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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.
KFC dominates the season, with 3.6 million families in Japan making advance reservations for bespoke Christmas chicken.
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 ...
Company lore says the Christmas campaign was inspired by foreign customers in Japan who lamented that they could not find turkey during the holidays. KFC cuts queues to keep Japan's fried chicken ...
The statue following its 2009 recovery from the river. The Curse of the Colonel (Japanese: カーネルサンダースの呪い, romanisation: Kāneru Sandāsu no Noroi) is a Japanese urban legend that holds that the ghost of the KFC founder, Colonel Sanders, placed a curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
Colonel [a] Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol.
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Pingu currently airs as part of NHK's children's program Nyanchu's World, and also on Cartoon Network Japan. Various merchandise exclusive to the country has been created, including tie-in toys with KFC and Mister Donut, as well as various video games. A Japanese-produced reboot of the series, titled Pingu in the City, [22] was