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Business, Food, International

KFC INTRODUCES ITS BLACK FRIED CHICKEN

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Photo taken at KFC's chicken farm in Louisville, KY
Photo taken at KFC’s chicken farm in Louisville, KY

Louisville, Kentucky (The Adobo Chronicles) – Move over, Burger King black burger, here comes KFC black chicken.

Just weeks after the fast food giant Burger King introduced its all-new black burger in Japan, Kentucky Fried Chicken has announced that beginning September 15, it imageis adding a new item to its menu — the black fried chicken.  It is made from the meat of all-black chicken raised in a company chicken farm in Louisville.

Initially, the KFC black chicken will be available only in the U.S. and Canada.

KFC customers have a choice of ‘crispy’ or ‘original’ when ordering the black chicken. It is served with a special honey blackberry sauce. However, It only comes in ‘dark meat.’ Ya think!

Business, Food, LGBT, Politics

FILIPINO AMERICAN LGBTs PROTEST NEW ‘HECHO’ NAME OF FORMER BANDIDOS MEXICAN RESTAURANT

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Mapa
Mapa

San Francisco, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – Yesterday, The Adobo Chronicles reported that the newly-opened Mexican restaurant in the Castro changed its name from Bandidos to Hecho.

The name change came after a small group of Latino Americans headed by openly-gay Latina comedian Marga Gómez protested the name Bandidos which they said was offensive to Mexican Americans. It is a Spanish word for “criminal” or “outlaw.”

Well, the name change didn’t put an end to the controversy. Now a group of Filipino Americans living and working in the Castro is protesting the new name. In Tagalog slang, the plural of Hecho sounds too close to  a Filipino term, echos, which means “lie.”  When someone is called echosero or echosera, it means he or she is a liar.

“We are thrilled that a new Mexican restaurant has opened in the Castro,”  the group said, “especially because Mexican cuisine is similar in many ways to Filipino food. But to name the restaurant  Hecho is offensive to us, Pinoys (slang for Filipino).

The group is headed by openly-gay Filipino American actor and comedian Alec Mapa, a San Francisco native. It is scheduled to meet with Hecho’s owners early next week.

Will Bandidos, a.k.a. Hecho change its name yet again?  How about just “The Mexican Restaurant?”

 

 

Business, Politics, Religion

ANTI-GAY GROUP CALLS FOR A BOYCOTT OF COCA-COLA

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imageWashington, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – The Christian fundamentalist group American Family Association (AFA) has again reared it ugly anti-gay head by calling for a boycott of Coca-Cola.

Earlier the group urged its members not to accept mail that is postmarked with the Harvey Milk stamp, saying that the late first openly-gay elected politician fom San Francisco does not deserve to be memorialized in a postage stamp.image

Today, the AFA called on its members and the consuming public to stop buying Coke products, or if they absolutely need to drink soda, to buy Pepsi instead.

It’s all about Coke’s extremely popular summer marketing campaign in which coke bottles are personalized with common names of people like Jane, Chris or Paul.

Well, it has come to the attention of AFA that Coca-Cola has been producing a lot of coke bottles with the names Adam and Steve.  Placed side by side, these two bottles become an affront to the biblical characters Adam and Eve. “We’ve always maintained that God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, not man and man, Adam and Steve,” an AFA spokesperson said.

Coca-Cola has not returned calls from The Adobo Chronicles seeking comment on the boycott.