KFC Threatens Legal Action Against 'Hitler' Chicken Restaurant

[Doktor]

call it 'old faithful'. Works for the 2 biggest religions on the planet & growing in popularity in East Asia.

This is some new trend in Thailand it seems...



"Hitler" fried chicken better surrender its logo, because the Colonel's ready to fight.

Kentucky Fried Chicken told The Huffington Post Friday it may take "legal action" against a fried chicken shop named Hitler that sports a storefront emblem very similar to KFC's, only with Adolf Hitler's head replacing Colonel Sanders.

"We find it extremely distasteful and are considering legal action since it is an infringement of our brand trademark and has nothing to do with us," a spokesman for KFC parent Yum! told The Huffington Post in an email.

Hitler, which recently opened in Bangkok, Thailand, first garnered attention after Andrew Spooner, author of the "Footprint Thailand Handbook," snapped a photo of the restaurant and tweeted it out in May:

Andrew Spooner @andrewspoooner

Very bizarre Hitler Fried Chicken shop in Thailand. I kid you not. Complete with pic of Hitler in bow tie A Hitler Fried Chicken shop in Thailand. I kid you not. Compl... on Twitpic
11:02 PM - 28 May 2013

Alan Robertson, 43, who lives in Bangkok, told The Daily Mail the chicken was "pretty good" and said a server told him the proprietors thought Hitler was a "good image."

The restaurant appears to be an outcrop of what CNN recently dubbed "Hitler chic," a new trend in which pop culture icons are recreated to resemble the former Nazi leader.

KFC Threatens Legal Action Against 'Hitler' Chicken Restaurant (PHOTO)

[kato]

Very Asian.

What's Pepsi saying about the sign? Provided they still care about such trivialities now that Sermsuk left them for Coca-Cola and there pretty much is no Pepsi left to be sold in Thailand.

[xinhui]

So wrong at so many levels. Anyways, there was a Obama fired Chicken chain in China which started as a joke among a group of college kids. now it is a real deal.

[kato]

now it is a real deal.

The Iraqi guy who has his booth right behind the local NATO HQ sold "Saddam Ribs" back in '03. Was quite a hit with US soldiers, he didn't do well with people who didn't like the cannibalism connotation. I think he took them off the menu after Saddam's execution. *shrug*

a new trend in which pop culture icons are recreated to resemble the former Nazi leader.

See also http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...hai-youth.html

As for the original theme of the thread:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingn...n-off-the-menu

The story has a basis in fact but the 'Hitler' restaurant has long since undergone an image makeover as the owner wanted to avoid criticism of any Nazi association. The Daily Mail observed that Hitler's image has appeared and continues to appear in many unusual places in Thailand.
The restaurant is in Ubon Ratchathani, not Bangkok as reported by the Daily Mail. Today it is known as 'H-ler' and bears a different sign, a local correspondent in the northeastern province said.
The picture used in the Daily Mail story was taken sometime in 2011 and copies have appeared in various online forums including Amusingthailand.com.

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