PhotoLONDON — When KFC found itself in an extra-crispy predicament this week when it was unable to provide the one thing customers expect from the restaurant chain — chicken — it had two choices: Laugh or cry. A mischievously contrite ad in Britain on Friday featured an empty chicken bucket with the image of Colonel Sanders. Advertisement Continue reading the main storySo the closure caused no small amount of grief and rage in a country where fried chicken — whether at KFC or at one of its many imitators, like Chicken Cottage, Tennessee Fried Chicken and Dixie Chicken — is never far away. The police were forced to tell people that chicken shortages at KFC were not really a law-enforcement matter. And a video of a peeved customer complaining that “I’ve had to go to Burger King” was widely viewed.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2018 15:45 UTC