Re:Curse of the Colonel
by pezezin on Saturday January 15, 2022 @08:58PM
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Your memory is correct. Fun fact: many Japanese people celebrate Christmas Eve by eating KFC, and Christmas Day by eating a strawberry cake. My understanding is that decades ago it was promoted as some kind of exotic Western tradition, and it stuck, even if no Western country actually does it.
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Re:Curse of the Colonel
by dragonwriter on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:02PM
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> Fun fact: many Japanese people celebrate Christmas Eve by eating KFC, and Christmas Day by eating a strawberry cake. My understanding is that decades ago it was promoted as some kind of exotic Western tradition
Actually, it (well, the first half) was promoted (via actual promotional giveaways of chicken and bottles of wine) by KFC in the 1970s as a new way of celebrating Christmas, not an exotic Western tradition.
And it spread well beyond KFC. Christmas is the fried chicken day.
Re:Curse of the Colonel
by ValentineC on Sunday January 16, 2022 @01:40PM
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Some Singaporeans used to celebrate National Day (our independence day) with fried chicken, since our then-president looked a lot like Colonel Sanders [1][2]. :)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Tan
[2] https://mothership.sg/2017/09/8-top-moments-in-tony-tans-pre...
Re:Curse of the Colonel
by KineticLensman on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:13AM
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> many Japanese people celebrate Christmas Eve by eating KFC
And in Sweden there is a tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas day afternoon. I found this quite bemusing when I spent a Christmas in the country once.
[0] https://www.thelocal.se/20181222/swedishchristmas-the-tradit...