KFC Apologizes for Linking Chicken Promotion to Kristallnacht

Lol. Wow.

Reminds me of this:

It's a night the whole family wants to celebrate!

[quote]KFC Germany sent a message to users of its app with the title “Anniversary of the Reich’s pogrom night,”

quote]saying that a promotional message was sent in error as a result of an automated push notification.

I call absolute bullshit on their excuse. Someone wrote the "automated push notification" and put it into the system. That explanation makes absolutely no sense and is a complete obfuscation and abdication of responsibility.

They're pretending that it was some sort of "technical" glitch, as opposed to a willful act that slipped through whatever obviously limited controls they have for maintaining the integrity of their systems. It was not an error by any stretch of the imagination.

The explanation is that they meant to send it out as a advertising campaign for Nazis, but accidentally sent it out to Jews instead. It could have happened to anyone!

If I have to celebrate Kristallnacht, I want to do it with tender cheese with crispy chicken.

This is so unspeakably perverse. You really can't make this stuff up.

"You need a special oven to get chicken this crispy!"

R8 I’d be offended but that was on point.

We fired the headless chicken who thought that message had legs.

It's so nice, nice to feel

So good about a meal

So good about Kentucky Fried Chicken!

Spicy, extra crispy “chicken” thighs. No substitutions.

WTF? Years ago I met a woman at my synagogue who was 17 and in Germany at that time. I’ll never forget her telling me she wouldn’t even look at her non Jewish friends so as not to get them in trouble.

I remember Lauren Bacall promoting Winter Tulip Tumblers for Arby's and KFC Kristallnacht glasses for Purim.

OP = worse than the colonel

[quote] It's a night the whole family wants to celebrate!

Quite.

[quote] That explanation makes absolutely no sense and is a complete obfuscation and abdication of responsibility.

Their explanation went up in smoke.

[quote]It's a night the whole family wants to celebrate!

You are so right

It's fingers, licking good.

Just another day in anti-Jew America.

[quote] This is so unspeakably perverse.

Agreed. I had to take a shower after reading the article.

[quote] Just another day in anti-Jew America.

Chermany not America.

R22 America = 1930s Germany

R20 is a fucking moron.

R24 Adolph, is that you???

I tell you right now Germany will start the next World War. They always find a fucking way.

I tell you right now America will start the next Holocaust. See this thread for examples.

What’s with all the hee hate in the world lately? Dark times.

Jew hate I mean

[quote] What’s with all the hee hate in the world lately?

He He was ha-hated since her break up with Ellen and culminated with her fiery death.

Speaking of fiery deaths, can we get back to discussing the Jews and extra crispy fried chicken?

Was the chicken oven baked?

Hey. These things happen.

Fiddler Licking Good

KFC apologizes for Kristallnacht promotion By Mike Ives and Melissa Eddy The New York Times KFC’s German branch has apologized for seeming to encourage its customers to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht — the notorious Nazi pogrom against Jews — by eating chicken, saying that a promotional message was sent in error as a result of an automated push notification. The pogrom that began Nov. 9, 1938, is known as the “Night of Broken Glass” and is widely commemorated as the start of the Holocaust. It was a coordinated assault on German Jews and their homes, businesses and synagogues. On Wednesday, KFC Germany sent a message to users of its app with the title “Anniversary of the Reich’s pogrom night,” according to reports in the German news media and screenshots of the promotion that circulated widely on Twitter. The message invited customers to enjoy “tender cheese with crispy chicken.” KFC Germany quickly followed up with an apology within the app for having sent what it called an “incorrect” and “inappropriate” message. But criticism was swift and merciless. “How wrong can you get on Kristallnacht @KFCDeutschland,” Dalia Grinfeld, the associate director for European affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, wrote on Twitter. “Shame on you!” KFC Germany apologized again in a statement to news outlets, saying that its “obviously wrong, insensitive and unacceptable” message about Kristallnacht resulted from an automated push notification that had been sent by accident. The statement added that the company has a “semi-automated content creation process linked to calendars that include national observances.” “In this instance, our internal review process was not properly followed, resulting in a nonapproved notification being shared,” the statement said. When the violence of Kristallnacht ended, 92 people had been killed, 30,000 had been sent to concentration camps and 1,400 synagogues had been destroyed, according to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel.

KFC likely mixed up Kristallnacht with Rosh Hasanah

Who eats KFC nowadays??

Kristallnacht Sales at the mall!

The only way I could see this happening is if their push notification system had entries for every holiday, remembrance, and/or event already installed, and someone wasn't paying attention and said sure, here's an event today, let's promote it.

Which is fine if it's St. Patrick's Day and you want to send out a push notification saying "Top o' th' mornin' to ya! Eat chicken stuff today because it's a dumb holiday!" and not so great if it's the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

Is Kristallnacht a day celebrated in Germany? I doubt it

Ashkenazi or extra crispy, er, Sephardic?

[quote]I tell you right now Germany will start the next World War. They always find a fucking way.

They're partly/mostly responsible for this mess with Putin and Ukraine. That's why they did NOT want to help during the beginning of russo-Ukraine War. They even refused to let other countries cross through Germany or use their airspace to deliver supplies/weapons to Ukraine. Those fucking scumbag germans had to be publicly shamed into allowing other countries to use their airspace.

You'll notice that frau merkel retired right at the perfect moment, just before russia attacked Ukraine.

These KFC Kristallnacht bowls are are terrible -- and such small portions!

They should apologize for discontinuing the FUCKING POTATO WEDGES! I haven’t eaten one goddamned thing at KFC since and I WILL NOT EAT THERE UNTIL THEY BRING THE FUCKING WEDGES BACK!

R4 Exactly. Just say "we had a complete lunatic working here that posted that. We pulled it. Fired him. We are so sorry." And then never mention it again.

R44 Loved the wedges. What do they have now? Regular fries?

[quote] I’ll never forget her telling me

Never forget!

[quote] And then never mention it again.

It is through silence that we risk it happening again.

Oh, we can mention Kristallnacht just not KFC.

love that chicken from popeyes!

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Yes, I’m sure KFC wanted to pay tribute to the Nazis.

How did this get bumped? It happened three months ago.

Was it oven roasted chicken?

R44 Have you lost weight since they have been discontinued?

Very original, r53.

The absolute pinnacle of hee-larity. It was also funny the other several times it’s been asked.

Such wit.

^Like Patti LuPone, who reads only her part of the script, I don't bother with reading other people's thread replies. 99% of them are unfunny or moronic.

Sort of like you, R55.

Just wait til they debut their new limited-time promotional dessert, the Cyclone B Smoothie®. It's a real gas!

[quote]I don't bother with reading other people's thread replies. 99% of them are unfunny or moronic.

So why the fuck do you even come here then? You think you’re all that? Yours are the only posts that matter? How fucking arrogant! What a fucking supreme douche bag.

And it’s ironic that you accuse others’ posts of being unfunny and moronic when you posted something that’s both, after many other people tried it.

You’re just an asshole. Don’t bother responding because I won’t see it.

[quote] Have you lost weight since they have been discontinued?

R54, R44 was only skin and bones when the Americans liberated him.

Did KFC have any promotions today?