Why do Japanese people call KFC "Kentucky" ?

That's interesting about the name change; I remember a recent ad campaign where KFC tried to reintroduce a different meaning to the acronym: Kitchen Fresh Chicken. What a bunch of hooey.

Anyways, the colonel statues are quite interesting, and he surely does look amiable, especially in his summer garb. Here's a photo I took in Kyoto :
 

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The Colonel looks pretty good in his yukata!
 
kaistuck said:
We actually lived just a couple miles from where Colonel Sanders lived before he died, but still, I've never seen a STATUE of him!
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Me neither, until I went to Japan. Odd, isn't it?
 
Change isn't always a good thing though, Sizzler's all you can eat buffet in Japan looks like America's Sizzler's all you can eat buffet (at first glance,) but after closer examination you find out that their soups aren't really soups.

In America's Sizzler's restaurant you'd find (on a daily basis,) a chicken noodle soup, veggitable and meat type soup and then either a chowder or a chilli and I mean I preach about Sizzler's in Japan any chance I get but when you look at their soups they have: Onion soup (pretty much like onion flavored hot water,) Corn soup (pretty much like corn flavored hot water with a little bit of corn in it,) and then another flavorless one.

So Yeah KFC in Japan has statues, lucky you, Sizzler's has flavored hot water for soup in Japan, poor me :)

Josh
 
ghettocities said:
Does anyone know the reason behind

every Japanese person calling Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC just the word "Kentucky." Or does anyone know the reason why Japanese people call Baskin Robbins 31 flavors "Thirty one" , or why Japanese people call French Fries "Potato". And the list goes on! Now with the clues I've set out for myself it would seem that the Japanese people re-word words over the whole L's for R's madness or to shorten up a would be waste of time but there are things like Wendy's in Japan having "Super value meal" and they don't call that just "super" etc.etc. , What's the deal? What kind of logic is this?! I don't understand it when Japanese girls ask me if I "want to eat Kentucky" , Kentucky is a state and states aren't edible.

Josh
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Yep i agree with Blututh just culture differences. Like in the north they call soda "pop" and down here we call them "cold dranks". Just differences.
 
The amount of different accents and words used in the US can be a real eye opener if you travel a lot.
 
The original poster was just being a posterior. Even in the U.S. you might hear "let's eat McDonalds." So he was just complaining for no good reason and without any logical basis. Hopefully all those Japanese girls asking to eat Kentucky with him escaped a life with Josh.
 
The OP always reminded me of Eric Cartman on South Park. His outlook on life and the world around him were sure different.ec.webp
 

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