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Re:Curse of the Colonel by dragonwriter on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:02PM (#29952570)
> 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.

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Re:Curse of the Colonel by glandium on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:33AM (#29954331)
And it spread well beyond KFC. Christmas is the fried chicken day.
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Re:Curse of the Colonel by ValentineC on Sunday January 16, 2022 @01:40PM (#29958595)
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...

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