Does the "new" Colonel Sanders creep out you folks, too?

[Ken Burch]

(It would have been more interesting if they'd gone with Zombie Colonel S...indicating that the "eleven herbs and spices" might have reanimating effects).

What response do the rest of you have to the Colonel-From-Beyond-The-Bluegrass-Grave?

[Lochloosa]

1. LOL. YES.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Yes.

First I thought it was joke. Then it creeped me out.

[Ken Burch]

3. Thanks for the response.

BTW...what on Earth is that "smilie" or "icon"? It looks like an enraged bran muffin.

[Chan790]

11. If you run a Google image search for it...

most all of the results call it "angry muffin" so...it's seemingly exactly what it looks like.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. It's an angry attack muffin. Somebody posted it here and I swiped it.

[GoneOffShore]

4. The old Colonel Sanders creeped me out.

As weird as that Burger King King.

Weirder, even.

[mackerel]

5. Norm Macdonald? Am I reading that right?

[Ken Burch]

8. It's Norm MacDonald playing the New Colonel?

Guess the guy has to do something to keep himself in cut-priced ramen.

[Solly Mack]

6. I've spent time with the real Harland Sanders.

I was a child at the time. The Colonel and I were relaxing on the porch swing, discussing whose chicken tasted better.
It was Grandma's Biscuits (Atlanta area restaurants) v. KFC. I told him I liked his but that I like crispy chicken best.

We also talked about how school was going and other stuff.

I don't like any of the new commercials. Not put off by them, merely don't like them.

Harland Sanders was very well-mannered and nice. He was kind to me.

[Ken Burch]

9. No slight to Original Recipe Colonel intended

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(it's just weird that they'd have someone play him in the ads again when the actual guy has been dead for years now and everybody knows it).

I sort of liked the Extra Crispy, but it always bugged me that they didn't use the Eleven Herbs and Spices on it. Left it tasting crunchy but bland. My fave was Barbecue Style(messy as hell, but good!!!!!)

[Solly Mack]

13. Of KFC, I preferred the original recipe.

But I liked Grandma's Biscuits fried chicken best.

I occasionally have fried chicken now, but I make it myself.

I think it's weird they have people playing him in commercials. I'll wager some people don't know he was a real person.

[mnhtnbb]

12. What a totally cool memory. I liked crispy chicken best, too!

[Solly Mack]

14. He found me "pert". He said so.

I agree about the new "Wendy".

I prefer the actual daughter.

[mnhtnbb]

15. OK. Throwback Thursday...next week...

Will you post a photo of the pert Solly Mack of yesteryear?!?

Or at least the porch swing?

[Solly Mack]

16. I'll send you one via PM.

[madinmaryland]

7. Yeah. They've all been doing something creepy with that Wendy girl.

[Ken Burch]

10. Not a sentence I ever wanted to read, but...you're probably right...

Lately, it looks like Wendy is wearing an obvious red wig, too.

[alphafemale]

17. Maybe this is like the giant Burger King head thing

Acknowledging how creepy their brand icon is/was before abandoning it and moving on.

And romanticism of antebellum slave culture is bizarre.

[Ken Burch]

18. Especially when you're selling a type of food(fried chicken)that was invented by slaves.

(On another note, that was an aspect of ALL IN THE FAMILY that no one on the show ever commented on was that Archie Bunker was rabidly anti-black, yet his favorite foods were generally soul-food dishes).

[Laffy Kat]

19. OMG, yes!

Wonder if it's intentional?