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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
1971 KFC ad positions itself as mildly psychedelic antidepressant
Jim Leftwich found this bizarre old Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial after viewing the Jolly Green Giant commercial. Eat a drumstick and the Colonel will come and soothe you from your stressful day. (Businessmen still wore hats, albeit ones with puny brims, in 1971!) Link
Reader comment:
Jesse says: Do you feel like "Get back to the easygoing life" is just KFC Kode for "Re-institute slavery"?
Maybe so, 35 years ago. But when I drive by my local KFC nowadays, the message seems to have become "This is a good place for roid-ragers to park their hawt pickup trucks and engage in methamphetamine transactions." -- Mark
posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 07:56:57 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments
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