Everybody’s feeling the recession in one way or another, so on Tuesday Oprah decided to post a downloadable coupon on her site for…(wait for it)…(wait for it)…Free Chicken!!!
The coupon, which was available for download for a limited time, is good for a 2-piece grilled chicken meal from KFC and expires after May 19th.
So what’s the problem?
Well for starters her site was so overwhelmed with visits and downloads that many chicken lovers were unable to download their free ticket to the savory salvation of 12 herbs and spices. Then of course there were quite a few KFCs that weren’t honoring the coupons or had simply stopped honoring them at a certain point. All of this lead to over 5700 comments being posted on Oprah’s “free chicken page“, from both happy and politely unhappy chicken lovers. There have even been reports of “sit-ins” at certain KFC’s that aren’t honoring the coupon. I would call bullshit on these reported “sit-ins”, but after the recent Popeye’s promotion it’s not unbelievable.
Btw, did you know that Oprah received the “Person of the Year” award from PETA last year?
That’s funny because KFC sources its chicken from Tyson, which uses controlled animal feeding operations which are dark and tightly-packed coops where the chickens are often unable to stand up or move. She even did a special last year on the hazards of factory farming which is still up on her site.
Good lookin’ Harpo.
Question: Am I missing something? WTF is going on with all of these chicken giveaways/promotions?
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