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Old May 22, 2016 | 3:01 am
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Originally Posted by roberino
I was told (by a bloke down the pub) that Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC because the state of Kentucky wanted to charge them a licence fee to use the name Kentucky. Nothing to do with "Kentucky-made". Now if only there was some arrangement of cables and electromagnetic waves that could connect me to some sort of information repository where I could
confirm this...
My understanding is that at the time Pepsico purchased Kentucky Fried Chicken, they worried that the word 'Fried' reflected negatively in the context of too much fried food in the diet. The decision was therefore made to rename the company 'KFC'.
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