Creepy old KFC ad

[Gillfan]

Don Draper must have been drunk when he pitched these:


1967 Scary Kentucky Fried Chicken Commercial - Lie Detector (full)


1967 Kentucky Fried Chicken Commercial - Escape (full)

[McDougals House of Horror]

Those are absolutely priceless -- thanks for posting Gillfan!! In '67 we ate a lot of KFC but I don't remember those commercials. I read recently where KFC is basically going to eliminate The Colonel from its imagery as it is going to try to "upscale" its menu and "restaurants". Great -- foo foo fried chicken.

[Unknown Primate]

I actually ate at the very first (supposedly) KFC while on the southern wrestling circuit! 

[Hepcat]

I read recently where KFC is basically going to eliminate The Colonel from its imagery as it is going to try to "upscale" its menu and "restaurants". Great -- foo foo fried chicken.

Doesn't need upscaling! The product is just fine as is.



The only thing I'd like is sit-down restaurants with a proper counter and booths that serve Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sometimes I get tired of standing in line to pick up food at a counter.

[Fester]

I actually ate at the very first (supposedly) KFC while on the southern wrestling circuit!

Was that the Colonel's original place down in Corbin, Kentucky?

When he opened up franchises, the first one was bought by Pete Harman in Salt Lake City, UT.  Technically "Murray," but it is all one big town anymore.

I grew up eating at that place.  It actually had tables and booths and, for a while, had waitresses too.  The old place is gone.  I last ate there just before I moved to Spokanistan in 1984. When they tore the old place down in 2004, my parents sent me a newspaper clipping about it. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595057690/Colonels-landmark-KFC-is-mashed.html

But they built a new one there complete with a museum of stuff from the old days.

Pete Harman was a real nice guy--always had time to chat with the regulars and say hi to the kids.  At last count, he is still alive--in his 90s--all that KFC could not have been too bad for him!

My parents are in their 80s and still go to "Harman's" for their fried chicken fix.

Gillfan, thanks for the TV Blast from the past--creepy as they were.

[marsattacks666]

Those are awesome KFC commercials. KFC's chicken was much better thousands of years ago. Today's KFC is average.

[Unknown Primate]

Was that the Colonel's original place down in Corbin, Kentucky?

Yep - must'ave been.  We hit London & Barbourville (along with a thousand other small towns, ), and Corbin was like, smack in between.  Man, hadn't thought about that for years.  Damn good eating!  Ask my heart!!

[Hepcat]

KFC's chicken was much better thousands of years ago. Today's KFC is average.

I'm not so sure of that actually. I think the quality of KFC may have stayed unchanged. But competitors have had to raise their game in order to compete with KFC, and they have - meaning that there's a lot more good fried chicken out there in the marketplace today than there was fifty years ago.

[horrorhunter]

I'm not so sure of that you know. I think the quality of KFC may have stayed unchanged. But competitors have had to raise their game in order to compete with KFC, and they have - meaning that there's a lot more good fried chicken out there in the marketplace today than there was fifty years ago.

Yep. Zaxby's may have terrible commercials, but their chicken is very good. I like it better than KFC, or any other chicken joint for that matter.