Plus 1: I enjoyed Kenny Rogers' Roasters, especially after KFC was purchased by Heinz which abandoned the original Colonel Sanders' fried chicken recipe on the grounds it didn't taste enough like regular fried chicken.
Regards,
Fitzie
I guess I am out of the loop now. Haven't worked at KFC since 94. They still had the original recipe when I worked there. I don't remember who owned the corporation or the corporate stores since I worked for a franchisee that only owned two stores (one good, mine, and one losing money in another town and subsidized by their good store). Doesn't PepsiCo own KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco bell? Maybe I am behind the loop. I know they owned them when the Star Wars prequals came out in 99, 02, 05, as Pepsi had the marketing rights and they did cross marketing with the aforementioned restaurants, Pepsi soda products, and Frito Lay chips, which they also own. I guess at some point they sold it to Heinz, as in John Kerry's wife, the goddess of ketchup? What a disappointment. Messing with the original recipe would have Colonel Sanders rolling in his grave. Oh wait, almost forgot, the Colonel is frozen in KFC Coleslaw, to be thawed out only in the event of a cure for his cause of death.
Oh well, enough nostalgia for my youthful job as a cook at KFC. I'm sure it has gone downhill like just about everything else in the last five years or so (except TV choices with FIOS coming online and all that HD and a few other exceptions).
SyFy.... it is definitely stuck in my head. Random times throughout the day I see that silly new logo flash by in my head and it makes me think of the channel. A channel I typically don't watch much in recent years except for Scare Tactics. So maybe as bad as it is, it is good marketing. Any good marketing sticks. From an ugly jingle to a brand image like this that SciFi traditionalists cannot stand. This may drag in more viewers. Who knows.
Reading other people's posts and a few things I have read online in the media, I now wish I gave Battlestar Gallactica a whirl. Are they going to have marathon of the previous seasons or continue to air them? I would just need to see maybe four or five shows of the first season and if I liked it I would buy the rest on DVD or if I didn't like it, I'd forget it. Let me know if they will continue old season repeats and maybe I'll give that one a chance. Looks good.
Having that said, SciFi could certainly use a re-branding, but I think they could have made a better choice.
