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KFC apologises for Kristallnacht chicken and cheese promotion
- version_five 4y agoThis looks like a cautionary tale about automated marketing. Crafting a "celebrate $HOLIDAY with a bucket of chicken" seems to save an unnecessarily small amount of time while leading to this kind of embarrassment. It certainly doesn't look like it was malicious though, just stupid. Nostalgically, I feel like there was a time when "holidays" were in a separate category from days of remembering an atrocity, so in the past this might have been safer. Though I can't really picture any holiday where KFC would be appropriate
- rmason 4y agoActually in Japan celebrating Christmas with KFC is huge. It's literally KFC's biggest day of the year. https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/international-headlines/japans-kfc-christmas-obsession-continues-with-covid-safety-measures/ https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/international-headlines/...
- sschueller 4y agoHoliday != anniversary. Either this was deliberate or we really need to fix education especially since I highly doubt only one person saw this before it was put out.
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- dang 4y agoKFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33547031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33547031 - Nov 2022 (16 comments)
- rroot 4y agoI think this is way beyond a "a fault in our system" error. Until KFC publishes a detailed incident report I'd be keen to assume this was done by more than one Nazi sympathizer.