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"The Colonel was a visionary," Mirwais says. "He was the first to envision fried chicken as a commercial food. I see myself as the Afghan Colonel Sanders." Indeed, Mirwais' chicken tastes, at least to the expatriate palate, remarkably similar to its American inspiration - and he's not disclosing the source...
Kabul Fried Chicken is, if he is to be believed, the brainchild of Mirwais Abuldrahizmi, who long ago observed that the young people of the Muslim world like to express their cosmopolitan yearnings through their consumption habits. And returnee Afghans, like himself, bring with them visions from exile of girls...
Jamshed spits a bit when he talks - hopefully he cooks in silence. He claims that after being told by the (real) KFC regional HQ in Lahore, Pakistan, that opening a franchise in Kabul would cost him a few hundred thousand dollars, he opted to go the pirate route. He claims...
Jamshed and Mirwais have something of a rivalry between their respective Kabul Fried Chicken outlets. They refer to each other euphemistically as "friends more than partners," though in reality they're neither. Each claims to be Kabul's original KFC imitator, and accuses the other of stealing the recipe from...
But while both owners defend their own knocking off of a global brand, they share a moral flexibility that allows each to complain of the other's transgression. Each claims Kabul Fried Chicken was his idea (sort of). And now there are four.