Distasteful': Kentucky Fried Chicken Gets a Bit Extra Crispy over Thailand Restaurant's Lookalike Logo Featuring Image of...

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Yeah, that guy.

And Colonel Sanders is probably spinning violently somewhere on a spit.

It all started when Andrew Spooner, author of the “Footprint Thailand Handbook,” checked out a new chicken joint in Bangkok—and discovered der Fuhrer had usurped the good colonel on the restaurant's logo:

(Credit: Twitter via The Braiser)

We'll let The Braiser tell the rest of the story:

The Huffington Post brought it to the attention of KFC’s parent company Yum! Brands, who stated that they were looking into taking legal action, because, y’know, Hitler. “We find it extremely distasteful and are considering legal action since it is an infringement of our brand trademark and has nothing to do with us,” a spokesman for Yum! said in a statement.

While the “Hitler chic” trend that seems to be sweeping Thailand, buoyed by a generation of young Thais who are “drawn to Hitler and his regime’s hallucinogenic visual propaganda” but know nothing about the human rights atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, it begs the question: so, uh, how does Hitler Fried Chicken taste? Does it taste like genocide and megalomania and burnt Reichstag? As expat Alan Robertson told The Sun, it’s actually fairly — and guiltily – tasty:

“Nobody quite knows what to make of it. I went in for a bite last week and got some fried chicken, which was pretty good, and asked the guy behind the counter why it was called Hitler. He just shrugged his shoulders and said the owners had thought it was good image...The Thai people are an odd bunch sometimes.”

(H/T: The Braiser)

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