Fred's Fun Fact: Japanese Christmas Tradition!

Fred tells us about a Japanese Christmas tradition!

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Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh this is for Ukiki?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Did you know that in Japan a major Christmas apparently,
a major Christmas tradition is eating KFC. What so? It
started from a nineteen seventies advertising campaign called Kentucky for Christmas.
Apparently now KFC is so popular on Christmas Day in

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Japan that you have to reserve a bucket weeks in advance.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
That makes sense because I always see KFC in random
locations around the world, Like I don't see other restaurants there,
but I always see a KFC.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
There's always McDonald's, it seems, yeah, the KFC.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's always like I was in the where's Rihanna from Bodo? Yeah,
and the only restaurant they had was like a KFC.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah. When I went to the Bahamas for for Thanksgiving,
my parents were there and uh and landlot pup pup
plane in the Bahamas, and a guy landed in front
of me and he gets out a plane. He was
like a regular on this place. And he gets out
and he hands the guys that work at the airport
like two huge buckets of KFC and they treated him
like gold. I looked at him and I was like,
I don't know you, but that would have been a
nice thing for me to know. The way that I

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had a time that in Duncan. People around the world.
Rop when I went to Cuba, people were getting on
the plane. Cuban's going back to Cuba. We're getting on
the plane with just stacks of Dunkin Donuts. Really. Yeah,
It's like a delicacy.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Every morning. I have to have it, so I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
They are good. Yeah, I mean I am to every
morning I walk in with a donut and a chicken leg. Man,
I'm just just gnawing away and people are like why,
I'm like it'd speakers.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Shout out to the KFC workers right.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Exactly in Japan.

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