KFC asks UN to recognize 'Grilled Nation'
By KVAL.com staffNEW YORK CITY -- Claiming 60 million "citizens" -- enough to rate as the 24th most-populated nation on Earth -- restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken wrote the secretary general of the United Nations Wednesday asking the world body to recognize KFC's Grilled Nation "in the name of delicious diplomacy." "Of the 192 Member States that currently make up the UN," KFC president Roger Eaton wrote in the letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, "we don’t think that any one of them can bring the world to the (dinner) table the way the Colonel can." The publicity stunt was part of campaign for Kentucky Grilled Chicken that includes a nationwide free public giveaway of sample pieces on Monday, Oct. 26. In the letter, KFC asked Ki-moon call a special one-hour lunch break so that members of the UN could try a piece of Kentucky Grilled Chicken. It was not immediately clear how the move would be seen in rural Grant County, Ore., where voters by a 2-to-1 margin in 2002 approved a measure banning the United Nations. KFC does not have a restaurant in Grant County, but citizens who travel to locations in nearby towns could presumably transport the product back across county lines inside their person.
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