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Anyone remember the chicken place in Revelstoke, BC... just off the highway. Primary colour was yellow, and IIRC their mascots were brown bears. I remember the family stopping in there almost every trip out to Kelowna.
They also had a table top Asteroids game.
EDIT: Something in me thinks it was called "Browns"...
Anyone remember the chicken place in Revelstoke, BC... just off the highway. Primary colour was yellow, and IIRC their mascots were brown bears. I remember the family stopping in there almost every trip out to Kelowna.
They also had a table top Asteroids game.
EDIT: Something in me thinks it was called "Browns"...
Pretty sure it was Brownies..could be wrong though.
A couple of years ago when my sister's friend was being treated for terminal cancer, sometimes the medication would make him constipated and eating KFC was one of the things that could help cure it (I kid you not).
BTW, funny story OP.
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Someone had told me that they had to legally change their name because they had modified the chickens and pumped them full of hormones or whatever so much that they could no longer be called chickens. I replied that I thought it was odd that they had to change their name because it contained the word chicken, but everything on the menu still said chicken. I also commented on their gullibility.
I remember it being called Barney's as well. We used to only go to the Centre Street location so I have no idea if it was city wide or nationwide or whatever it was.
By the way, that Centre Street location was the first Kentucky Fried Chicken in all of Canada.
Yet another useless KFC fact - the name was changed when the company was acquired by Yum! brands (Pizza Hut, etc) but they actually only acquired 94% of them. That's why sometimes when you're driving around you'll see a restaurant which still has "Kentucky Fried Chicken" signage.
And finally, on the International recognition: I was in Spain this past summer and it was pretty ridiculous how many of them there were out there. I saw more KFCs (and Pizza Huts) than McDonald's. Maybe two to one.
We also called KFC "Barney's" when I was a kid. I think the guy who owned the Calgary locations was named Barney.
When we went to Penticton in the summers - we called KFC "Ernies" there.
I don't know why.
Woah. Flashback.
Did this have something to do with The Flintstones? I cant be certain but its ringing some bells. I remember years ago when I was a kid, the KFC in High River had a Barney burger on the menu and Im positive a Fred burger. I always thought it had something to do with The Flintstones, but I cant remember for sure.
They "won" by convincing people to forget about the "fried" part.
I don't really buy the premise, but that's the idea.
IIRC, they "rebranded" to become more "young and hip". They changed their corporate colors to red and blue, got rid of the old-timey time font and basically dropped the old man. They thought young people would like it because it was more modern.
As for hiding the word "fried" in an the acronym, maybe that's what they were doing. I think hiding the word Kentucky might be just as important. Kentucky doesn't exactly have the best reputation outside of, well, Kentucky. The perception is it's a place full of a bunch of hillbillies, and that movie Deliverance didn't do 'em no favours (and it ain't even set in Kentucky).
