Thailand Earthquake 2012: KFC Apologizes For Improper Quake Posting

BANGKOK -- KFC Thailand has apologized for posting a Facebook message that urged people to rush home during Wednesday's tsunami scare and order a bucket of KFC chicken.

As people were being urged to evacuate from beaches, the company posted this message: "Let's hurry home and follow the earthquake news. And don't forget to order your favorite KFC menu."

Hundreds of angry commenters on Thai web boards denounced the company as insensitive and selfish.

By Thursday, the message was removed and replaced by one that asked for forgiveness.

Wednesday's earthquakes near Indonesia revived memories of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed 230,000 lives, including more than 8,000 people in Thailand.

KFC Thailand is managed by YUM Restaurants International (Thailand) Co., Ltd and Central Restaurants Group Co., Ltd.

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Comments

[rt1027]

11:38 AM on 04/15/2012

oh big deal

[beenzrgud]

09:55 AM on 04/15/2012

The Colonel must be turning in his grave, and I don't believe for a second that they're still using his original recipe either.

[rt1027]

11:38 AM on 04/15/2012

and your point is.......

[beenzrgud]

01:00 PM on 04/15/2012

KFC isn't the company it once was, it's nowhere near as good in many respects. Harland David Sanders AKA the "Colonel" would have despised how the company he started is now being run.

"Hundreds of angry commenters on Thai web boards denounced the company as insensitive and selfish"

I don't believe the description "insensitive and selfish" is one which could easily be applied to the Colonel.

As for the original recipe, which the company still says it uses, I simply don't believe it. The flavour of the chicken has totally changed over the years to the degree that nowadays it doesn't taste anything like it used to. It's nowhere near as good. I believe the Colonel himself criticized many of the recipes before his death in 1980.

Are you now clear about the point I'm making?

[clarkesantacruz]

01:27 AM on 04/15/2012

american corporations are like a cancer killing the planet

[rt1027]

11:39 AM on 04/15/2012

laughing

[Marco Lanz]

03:47 AM on 04/16/2012

Its funny you are writing your prattle on AOLHuffPo.

[Puzzlr]

08:12 PM on 04/14/2012

Sounds like it may have been a tag-line that was included on all messages. But what do I know?

[gotch]

04:23 AM on 04/14/2012

IDIOTS! Cashing in on an emergency and scary situation.

[gunkle]

05:45 AM on 04/14/2012

Makes the economy go round and round year after year.

[fullofmitt]

02:38 PM on 04/13/2012

Ever since KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN changed its name to KFC....to hide the fact they were selling FRIED FOOD....I knew they were never to be trusted..so this is no surprise to me!

[MrColdheart]

08:46 PM on 04/14/2012

You're running off of incorrect information. KFC re-branded with the shorter logo because marketing science shows that initials take to peoples memory quicker. You've even seen it with other brands in the past decade so stop believing in conspiracies.

[WilhelmKein]

12:18 AM on 04/15/2012

That's one of the laziest conspiracies theories I've ever seen.

People are all of sudden going to forget that fried chicken is fried?

[CharliePoole]

07:47 AM on 04/15/2012

You mean people forget there was a restaurant chain called Kentucky Fried Chicken? I somehow doubt that claim.

[sloop uk]

05:37 AM on 04/13/2012

While they're at it, they can apologise to the UK for surrending to Muslims' demands and removing all pork from their menu...

[kareemachan]

12:24 PM on 04/13/2012

KFC had pork on its menu? Never seen that.

[czs5056]

04:24 PM on 04/13/2012

they had pork?

[Happy scotty]

05:24 AM on 04/13/2012

Love KFC!

[fullofmitt]

02:40 PM on 04/13/2012

hope you have good health care insurance!

[mathamgri]

01:28 PM on 04/14/2012

I'm sorry.

[SeanMartin]

02:54 AM on 04/13/2012

Oh come on -- like any of us has never, ever said something similar. We'll sit there at the computer, waiting for the latest on some disaster just so we can post it as a Facebook update, usually coming on the heels of a photo of what we had for dinner that night.

[Crisdean Wulver]

02:49 AM on 04/13/2012

And just think, the guy who made the decision to produce the offensive ad is probably a CEO earning over a million a year.

Where do they find these people?

[fullofmitt]

02:40 PM on 04/13/2012

In the GOP!

[Crisdean Wulver]

03:24 PM on 04/13/2012

:-D

[maryncland]

02:03 AM on 04/13/2012

"Let's hurry home and follow the earthquake news. And don't forget to order your favorite KFC menu."

Order your favorite KFC menu? Huh?

[sifc33]

02:28 AM on 04/13/2012

HAHA, wow good catch!

[Broodax]

03:38 AM on 04/13/2012

yea the monday menu is krispy fried chicken tuesdays is grilled wednesday is chicken poppers so and and so forth until you hit sunday in which case you get a 50 pc bucket per person and have a eating compitiion

[HarleyOpenRoad]

01:23 AM on 04/13/2012

Nothing like watching a disaster while munching on the second-best tasting thing ever to come out of Kentucky.

[florencebrady]

04:44 AM on 04/13/2012

Okay I'll take the fall

Whats the first best tasting thing to come out of Kentucky?

[plzchuteme]

05:09 AM on 04/13/2012

I know this one. I once dated a very tasty woman from Kentucky.

[mathamgri]

01:31 PM on 04/14/2012

Dang. If KFC ranks this high on the best Kentucky has to offer, I'll stick to dining elsewhere!

[JAF54]

12:43 AM on 04/13/2012

Please don't eat it...They support ALEC...I will not buy KFC!!! If you care...help.

[Havana Thinks]

12:08 AM on 04/13/2012

It could have been worse, folks, MARY j. BLIGH could have been singing it!

[see-ellen2001]

10:47 PM on 04/12/2012

Obviously KFC also has fried brains. This your brain. This is your brain on KFC.