Word: kfc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was nothing remarkable about the two men who kept coming back for fried chicken at the new KFC outlet in Bangalore. Nothing, that is, until they proved to be undercover agents for city officials, who charged that the chicken they had bought was adulterated, misbranded, unfit for consumption and laced with dangerously high levels of monosodium glutamate--a seasoning that authorities claimed could cause cancer when consumed in large amounts. (Studies conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have found no link between MSG and cancer.) Shaken KFC managers, who denied the charges and pointed out that...
...pressure on KFC and its corporate parent PepsiCo was part of a growing anti-American furor that has made some multinational firms wary of the world's largest democracy (pop. 910 million). On the streets of New Delhi in recent weeks, Hindu nationalists have smashed cases of Pepsi-Cola and disfigured billboards for the soft drink, all the while chanting "Pepsi go home!" Not to be outdone, a socialist party has for more than a year held daily rallies outside Parliament against both Pepsi and Coca-Cola. Protesters have demonstrated inside as well: opposition lawmakers stormed out of Parliament last...
...upcoming show "Elvis: A Rockumentary in Puppets" certainly promises to do something completely different with your mind. According to Martin, the making of this "rockumentary" forced the Onion Weavers to deal with "wonderfully complex and horrible issues," such as the morally objectionable use of real KFC chicken as a prop. It also features lots of tacky upholstery (something about a blue suede...
Unless you grew up at KFC, home cookin' wasn't like this...
excuse for nutrition? (Whoops, how did that slip out? Sorry, MICHAEL "THE WEASEL" BERRY. What is this, backstage at a KFC...