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I wasn't able to figure out what the lie was, exactly. Is it in the article?

• MikeAmelung 7y ago
  It's there but kind of easy to miss. A TV interviewer asked if KFC for Christmas was a popular tradition in the West, and he replied that it was, despite knowing that it was not.
  • tabtab 7y ago
    He could have said, "Yes, poultry is very popular during Christmas in the West." That's probably what a skilled politician would do: lie without lying. If pressed further about KFC itself, he could have said, "KFC is one of many stores which sell poultry in the West, but here in Japan, KFC is the largest store selling Christmas poultry[1]." However, you'd probably have to know the questions in advance to practice your wording. Most politicians ask for the questions in advance as part of the agreement to appear. A chicken sales-person probably doesn't have that luxury. [1] There was no concept of "Christmas poultry" in Japan outside of his own invention, with decorated packaging etc., so technically he's either true, or the concept was too ambiguous to be objectively false.
    • nkrisc 7y ago
      You could go one further and just say, "yes, Americans eat birds on special days."
      • tabtab 7y ago
        Nice!
• singlow 7y ago
  _With word of the Christmas “Party Barrels” making their way across Japan, the national broadcaster NHK interviewed Okawara about his role in bringing the Colonel to Japan and asked if KFC for Christmas was a common custom overseas. Unable to turn down such a glaring opportunity, the young entrepreneur said yes. “I still regret that, but people liked it because it was something good [they thought came] from the U.S. or European countries,” he told Household Name._
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