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KFC dominates the season, with 3.6 million families in Japan making advance reservations for bespoke Christmas chicken.
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 ...
Eating KFC food as a Christmas time meal has since become a widely practiced custom in Japan. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] As of 2019 [update] , in Japan, Christmas sales of KFC made around Christmas Eve account for nearly five percent of annual revenue.
In December 1974, KFC Japan began to promote fried chicken as a Christmas meal. [69] Eating KFC at Christmas time has become a "Traditional Christmas Eve Dinner" in Japan. [70] [71] As of 2013, Japan is the third-largest market for KFC after China and the United States with 1,200 outlets. [72] In December 2007, Mitsubishi assumed majority ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
KFC rice—also known as devil cooked rice, [1] devil's takikomi gohan (Japanese: 悪魔の炊き込みご飯, romanized: Akuma no takikomi gohan), Kentucky takikomi gohan (Japanese: ケンタッキー炊き込みご飯, romanized: Kentakkii takikomi gohan), [2] and KFC takikomi gohan (Japanese: KFC炊き込みご飯, romanized: KFC takikomi gohan) [3] —is a variation of takikomi gohan using ...