This lovely story of Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in the UK not having any, erm, chicken, is producing more than its fair share of foolishness. There are actually people complaining to the police about it all. Which, given the rather large number of alternative outlets willing to provide dead bird to the consumer does seem a tad de trop:
There was panic on the streets of London as the ‘KFC crisis’ rolled into its fourth day, with more than half of its 900 UK stores closed due to a chicken shortage.
Frustrated chicken lovers resorted to contacting their MPs and calling the police, who warned “fried chicken is not a police matter”.
Panic really does seem to be just a little too much.
Which brings us to what is actually happening here. There is no chicken shortage. None at all. There are still tens of millions of the birds fattening up to be fried, enough dead bodies around to be supplying the stores and so on. What has actually happened is that KFC has changed the company they use to ferry them to the shops. And that’s it really.
Well, except, the company they’re using. That’s DHL, now owned by DeutschePost. Yep, the Germans. And we’re not supposed to mention the war these days but that was one of the great failures of the Wermacht, they never really did get logistics properly sorted out. The great KFC shortage is brought to you by the people who couldn’t get overcoats to soldiers in Russia in winter. Not really something to report to the police although the historians might be interested.
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Panic in the streets of London?
What about Birmingham?
Isn't this proof that private capitalism has failed miserably? That we leave something this essential in the hands of profiteers, who get rich by starving the populace, is unacceptable in this progressive age.
The government should step in to manage this situation immediately! Longer term, the government should be managing the entire food supply chain, as many other regimes have done in the past.
The further failure of capitalism this illustrates is that the masses are being fed (or now, not fed) culturally appropriated, racist food that is also not good for them. Even the evil tories agree that we need to be told what to eat. The government would be able to see that people received an appropriate and fair daily ration (in fact, one of the greatest achievements of past government intervention in food supply was ensuring people did not get fat), cooked at temperatures that ensure no cancer-causing flavours develop and thus promote the general well being of society.
Ah, but OP says this function was not left in the hands of profiteers but of Germans! Yes, bring in government; we have never known government to fortify its own position by starving large numbers of people, have we?
Nutritionists are now in firm control of food product labels, but I'm waiting for a scholarly paper that explains how devising a balanced menu requires at least a four-year degree and cannot be left in the hands of individual eaters.
I knew someone would be sufficient drumsticks short of a bargain bucket to swallow it!
Corbyn Fried Chicken? "CFC"?
Sounds good, kinda catchy, until he starts charging 50 pounds per wing and they're made out of chopped and formed chicken parts.
"What about Birmingham?"
And Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee and Humberside?
Birmingham had its own crisis when ASDA ran out of Sunny Delight.
Panic in the streets of London?
What about Birmingham?
Isn't this proof that private capitalism has failed miserably? That we leave something this essential in the hands of profiteers, who get rich by starving the populace, is unacceptable in this progressive age.
The government should step in to manage this situation immediately! Longer term, the government should be managing the entire food supply chain, as many other regimes have done in the past.
The further failure of capitalism this illustrates is that the masses are being fed (or now, not fed) culturally appropriated, racist food that is also not good for them. Even the evil tories agree that we need to be told what to eat. The government would be able to see that people received an appropriate and fair daily ration (in fact, one of the greatest achievements of past government intervention in food supply was ensuring people did not get fat), cooked at temperatures that ensure no cancer-causing flavours develop and thus promote the general well being of society.
Ah, but OP says this function was not left in the hands of profiteers but of Germans! Yes, bring in government; we have never known government to fortify its own position by starving large numbers of people, have we?
Nutritionists are now in firm control of food product labels, but I'm waiting for a scholarly paper that explains how devising a balanced menu requires at least a four-year degree and cannot be left in the hands of individual eaters.
I knew someone would be sufficient drumsticks short of a bargain bucket to swallow it!
Corbyn Fried Chicken? "CFC"?
Sounds good, kinda catchy, until he starts charging 50 pounds per wing and they're made out of chopped and formed chicken parts.
"What about Birmingham?"
And Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee and Humberside?
Birmingham had its own crisis when ASDA ran out of Sunny Delight.
Perhaps the left wing doesn't know what the right wing is doing?
Perhaps the left wing doesn't know what the right wing is doing?
luftwaffe was just as bad. Overpromising under delivering. Goering promised a 300 tonnes a day "airbridge" to supply the stalingrad encirclement. Didn't average anything like that.
I recently found out that my local KFC in Rotherham is Halal only. I won't be buying there again.