Hitler Chicken

[arely staircase]

Kentucky Fried Chicken told The Huffington Post Friday it may take "legal action" against a fried chicken shop named Hitler that sports a storefront emblem very similar to KFC's, only with Adolf Hitler's head replacing Colonel Sanders.

"We find it extremely distasteful and are considering legal action since it is an infringement of our brand trademark and has nothing to do with us," a spokesman for KFC parent Yum! told The Huffington Post in an email.

Hitler, which recently opened in Bangkok, Thailand, first garnered attention after Andrew Spooner, author of the "Footprint Thailand Handbook," snapped a photo of the restaurant and tweeted it out in May:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/05/hitler-fried-chicken_n_3550351.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

[flamingdem]

1. I wonder what tourists think when

they see this? yikes

[BainsBane]

2. What is with the Hitler stores?

There was a story a few months back about someone with a clothing shop called Hitler.

[KittyWampus]

3. free advertising?

[BainsBane]

4. That is not advertising most people want

Witness KFC's reaction. What does Hitler chicken conjure up in your mind? For me, it's not remotely appetizing.

[KittyWampus]

7. I have a pretty black sense of humor so I better not post what my mind conjured.

[Electric Monk]

5. Ve have vays to do chicken RIGHT!

unlike those Keepers of Felonious Chickens, who are ze real imposters!

[cloudbase]

6. Take it from der fuhrer.

Try our oven roasted recipe!

[Dash87]

8. lol

So bad, but I laughed.

[hootinholler]

9. And *I* was thinking

This must be some sort of potentially lethal game.

Actual chicken never entered my mind.

[arely staircase]

10. lol like dare vs. double dog dare nt

[hootinholler]

19. I had it more like a scene in a hot rod movie n/t

[arely staircase]

21. like this?

I challenge you to a game of Chicken!

Oh yeah, I challenge you to a game of Hitler Chicken!

[hootinholler]

23. Yeah

But where's the gas?

[KittyWampus]

14. Russian roulette with a bucket of chicken wings…. one of which is laces with arsenic?

[treestar]

11. Wonder what legal action can be taken in Thailand

Why they named the shop that way is another question - who are they appealing to?

[bluedigger]

12. I think I finally know why the chicken crossed the road.

[cali]

13. Believe it or not, there's a lot of admiration for Hitler in Thailand and even more in India

[Douglas Carpenter]

25. Many people do not realize that Thailand declared war on the United States and the UK

right after Pearl Harbor. The U.S. State Department chose at the time to declare the government in Bangkok to not be the legitimate government of Thailand and therefore did not recognize the declaration of war against them. But there were a lot of place all over the old colonial world that thought since Hitler was fighting the dominant colonial powers - he was just swell. Most people in such places did not know anything about Nazism broader philosophy and agenda.

[parkia00]

28. Very true.

It was the same way if the the Japanese in South East Asia. A lot of the regional Nationalist movements welcomed the Japanese invasion foolishly thinking that the Japanese would free their countries from their colonial masters and basically pass on the ruling of the countries to the local political parties. They were very wrong. In most places these side note of WW2 were swept under the rug or limited their exposure as many of these political entities still exist today in some form. Certainly not taught in schools.

[Xithras]

31. There's a lack of education about the Nazi's across much of Asia.

European and North American history classes tend to focus heavily on WW2 and the Nazi atrocities, so most younger westerners know what the Nazi's were all about. Western history classes go into a lot of detail about the Germans simply that part of the war was fought on western soil, with westerners as their primary victims, and the Nazi defeat was achieved by our own fathers and grandfathers. Jewish groups have also been very effective since WW2 in making sure that Holocaust education is included in history courses, as an effort to keep the past from repeating itself.

Asian history books, on the other hand, don't spend nearly as much time on WW2 in the first place, and when they do spend time on it, the focus is almost entirely dedicated to the actions of the Japanese and the fallout after the war that led to the end of Asian colonialism. The entire presentation is very different, with very little focus given on the European end of the fighting. Given the dearth of Jewish groups in southeast Asia, there is also little to no time dedicated to Holocaust education for students until they reach college. Even at that point, it's taught from an Asian perspective, and is often presented as another example of European barbarism. We tend to view the Nazi's and Hitler as part of "our" history. Asian history books present it as part of "Europe's" history, and don't see it as having involved their society.

[WinkyDink]

15. You rang?

[cali]

17. Hitler hasn't been this funny since The Producers

I love this thread.

[WinkyDink]

20. "Springtime for Hitler and Germanyyyyy."

[KittyWampus]

24. Baby!... Why does he say this "baby"? The Führer has never said "baby"

[WinkyDink]

29. If I had a nickel for every time I've acted out this scene...!

[hootinholler]

22. DUzy! n/t

[dogknob]

16. Beautiful.

Should be done with Coke, Disney, Roundup... etc... visibly and often!

I wonder what Blackwater is calling themselves this week (Academi, Xe)... and if their logo resembles the SS logo, even very loosely.

[HiPointDem]

30. blackwater logo is a grizzly print inside a stylized bullseye. but craft international's logo

is a skull:




which is very german:




(SS cap)

[MrSlayer]

18. Hitler is big. Maybe bigger than he ever was in life.

Lots of Nazi and Hitler themed stores and businesses in India and Southeast Asia. And he's inspired tons of Internet memes. He's really big with the younger generation in America too with all races and creeds. It's weird, they don't see him as one of the most infamous guys in history, they see him as a punch line.

[SQUEE]

26. Much Late 70-80's anime has a very.. um Tuetonic twist to it.

Manga and Anime often used Wehrmacht designs and styling cues in a fairly unashamed manner. It doesn't carry the same baggage it does in the West.

[leeroysphitz]

27. It's Hitler-ific! n/t