Posted on 01/26/2018 6:07:24 AM PST by EdnaMode
Love Reba but I don’t think she’ll be able to save KFC - their commercials suck as bad as the old Burger King ones did before they realized they were killing their business and needed to get more conventional...
Trump should get the role in 2025
Oh, PUHLEEZE!
Who is supposed to remotely believe a female Col. Sanders? This should go over about as well as “New Coke” did in the mid-’80s. I like Reba, but this is among the dumbest marketing ideas that I’ve ever heard of.
Just make good food for a good price, and you’ll do fine. Focus on your competitions’ weaknesses, and get rid of your own.
I remember Colonel Sanders , he always made it sound Finger Lickin Good
Here in my locale it's quite good... at all locations... in all parts of town.
I’m waiting for the first non binary Col. Sanders
Chic fala is so much better.
Is nothing sacred? Geez!
What’s next?? A white Aunt Jemima? A male Aunt Jemima? A white Uncle Ben? A female Uncle Ben?
I saw George Hamilton in person in Denver where at the time (decades ago) I believe he was hawking fur coats at a department store. He was quite the looker. I see no mention of him selling those coats anywhere, but I do remember he had a cigar shop in the NY NY casino in Vegas as well. It’s been gone for quite some time.
KFC needs to hire Norm Macdonald back permanently. He reminds me of the old goofy adds about everyone trying to steal the Colonel’s secret recipe. Norm’s Colonel look and humor are the perfect fit to the original Colonel. Pay big for him!
Give Bernie Sanders a chance at it.
You are quite correct as to the service being controlled by the franchisee.
There are several KFC’s in my area, one of which I have been to twice and will never darken their door again. Undercooked, underseasoned, unsorted, short counted both times. Slow, surly, distracted, unpleasant are the nice things I can say about the product and staff there. Of course, it’s the one closest to my home.
Then there is the KFC enroute to work. Properly seasoned and cooked, with the proper number and types of pieces in every order. Pleasant, friendly, enthusiastic staff. Pity the seasoning has changed since I was younger, though.
Reba as a pretend Colonel? Sure, why not? It should be good for a snicker. It might help with sales.
I read where a Marketing guy said that that was one of the most brilliant selling slogans ever devised. He said that KFC was selling a greasy food and brainstormed how to make it sound palatable, and some genius coined that phrase.
I read where he’d buy homes, live in the m with his mother, then resell at a premium b/c a “star” lived in it.
He also had a restaurant at one time.
“they have to get Christopher Walken as a colonel”
I bet after you wrote that you imagined Walken doing the commercial and started to laugh. I know I started thinking about Walken as the Colonel and I am still laughing.
If nothing else, that would make for a great SNL skit.
Why not Samuel L Jackson as the Colonel?
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