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For many people in Japan, KFC is central to their Christmas celebrations. Every year at Christmas, 3.5 million Japanese families opt for KFC, according to an Instagram clip shared by BBC.. Per the ...
KFC Christmas pack. In 1970, Takeshi Okawara—manager of the first KFC restaurant in Japan—began promoting fried chicken "party barrels" as a Christmas meal intended to serve as a substitute for the traditional American turkey dinner.
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.”
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 ...
In Japan, a bucket of KFC fried chicken has become a holiday staple. Christmas Eve in Finland can involve going to the sauna with your whole family. Christmas is a time of celebration and ...
Japanese-style Christmas cakes in a display case at Nijiya Market. Japanese Christmas cake, a white sponge cake covered with cream and decorated with strawberries, is often consumed, and Stollen cake, made locally, is widely available. A successful advertising campaign in the 1970s made eating at KFC around Christmas a national custom. Its ...
KFC dominates the season, with 3.6 million families in Japan making advance reservations for bespoke Christmas chicken.
The second is a Christmas Festive dinner held on January 7, when the meat dishes and alcohol are already allowed on the table. The dinner normally has 12 dishes which represent Jesus's 12 disciples. Both Christmas dinners traditionally include a number of authentic Ukrainian dishes, which have over thousand-year history and date back to pagan ...