Picture of the Day: Obama Fried Chicken

Tags: Barack Obama

• Retired GI
  1:22 pm on October 12th, 2011 1

  I bet Colonel Sanders is pissed! Too funny. Watch — someone will rant about how RACIST it is.

• ChickenHead
  2:28 pm on October 12th, 2011 2

  OFC?

  Obama Funked Country?

• setnaffa
  2:29 pm on October 12th, 2011 3

  Zombie Obama!

• Atwork
  5:19 pm on October 12th, 2011 4

  #1,

  Depends on whether the restaurant owner is aware of the stereotype, which I doubt that he or she does. It would certainly have racist undertones if the restaurant was in the US.

• Leon LaPorte
  5:32 pm on October 12th, 2011 5

  UPDATE!:

  Obama Fried Chicken forced to change name to UFO amid KFC threat
  A fast-food restaurant in China has had to change its name from Obama Fried Chicken to UFO after KFC threatened legal action, saying the logo infringed on its trademark rights.

  http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/878128-obama-fried-chicken-forced-to-change-name-after-legal-threats

  Meanwhile in Gotham city:

  NYC’s ‘Obama fried chicken’ restaurants ruffle feathers
  Friday, April 03, 2009

  Two city fast-food joints are calling themselves Obama Fried Chicken – and the new names are ruffling some feathers.

  Eateries in Brooklyn and Manhattan plastered the new President’s last name on their awnings recently.

  And some passersby are cringing, saying the name change plays into old racial stereotypes.

  “Why name it that? Just because Obama is black, they’re going to put his name on a fried chicken place in a black neighborhood?” said Akilah Nassy, 16, outside the Brooklyn store.

  http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-04-03/local/17920702_1_brooklyn-store-first-black-president-brownsville

• Leon LaPorte
  5:33 pm on October 12th, 2011 6

  Then again, are stereotypes born in a vacuum?

• kushibo
  6:01 pm on October 12th, 2011 7

  Leon LaPorte wrote:
  

  Then again, are stereotypes born in a vacuum?

  When I imagine people who like fried chicken and watermelon, I think of Koreans.

  And I’m not alone. Some politicians are completely unaware of any stereotypes involving Blacks and particular foods.

• kushibo
  6:02 pm on October 12th, 2011 8

  Truth be told, THIS is what I’d prefer to associate with watermelon.

• Retired GI
  6:36 pm on October 12th, 2011 9

  NICE WATERMELON Kushibo.

  Oh and I told you it would “ruffle feathers”.

  As for my own observations; I see more Blacks, African Americans, People of Color (whatever they want to be called this year) than I do Anglos. Much more.

  conclusion: Leon is correct. Stereotypes are not born in a vacuum. Granted, it was a question but —-

• Conway Eastwood
  8:10 pm on October 12th, 2011 10

  #7

  Same here.

• Homeboy
  9:01 pm on October 12th, 2011 11

  President Obama will go down in the history of not only the U.S. but the world as one of the greatest leaders ever lived.

  Heil to the President.

  ** I would love to have that piece of fried chicken…

• johnny boy
  11:48 pm on October 12th, 2011 12

  #11

  did you mean hail or heil? one of those is commonly used in praising the commander in chief, the other was used for a guy in germany not so long ago.

• Conway Eastwood
  9:18 am on October 13th, 2011 13

  That bloke in Germany had a lot in common with the geezer in the White House today.

• ChickenHead
  10:06 am on October 13th, 2011 14

  “That bloke in Germany had a lot in common with the geezer in the White House today.”

  They both went to war in North Africa, the both had a black upper lip, and they both turned up the heat on the Jews?

• Not convinced
  12:25 am on October 14th, 2011 15

  -does the menu include an over priced chicken dinner that everyone in the resturant has to pay for everytime anyone else comes into the store?

• GI Korea
  4:21 am on October 14th, 2011 16

  I don’t know if anyone listened to Lee Myung-bak’s address to Congress but he said he liked eating the fried chicken in America.

• johnny boy
  11:53 pm on October 14th, 2011 17

  #16

  most of the time i prefer korean fried chicken joints over american. kfc and popeye’s don’t serve beer which i have always believed to be a potential goldmine for a chicken joint.

• chemlightbatteries
  6:58 pm on October 16th, 2011 18

  I have met some pretty racist asians. Perhaps it has to do with the largely homogenous population of these countries?

• chemlightbatteries
  7:01 pm on October 16th, 2011 19

  They have got him looking peculiarly like old uncle Mao!

 

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