What would you do for a Klondike bar? How about going to jail?

by Bruce Watson, Posted Aug 19th 2008 @ 1:00PM

When most people look at commercials for Klondike bars, I imagine that they see silly people doing fun, wacky things in return for yummy ice cream treats. Personally, I see cruelty, torture, and the dark side of addiction. Hunger is a harsh mistress; luckily, I've never been placed in a situation where I've had to do something embarrassing or illegal to get fed. To my shame, I have to admit that, under the right circumstances, I would probably humiliate myself for a Klondike bar. If the reward was a nice crême brûlée, there's no doubt: all bets would be off.

Because of this moral shortcoming, I can, to some extent, understand Tremayne Durham. A Brooklyn thug who was being held in an Oregon courthouse, Durham recently admitted that he did, indeed, kill a man in cold blood over a failed business deal. In return for his candor, he's probably facing life imprisonment.

What caused Durham to admit to his wrongdoing? Was it depression, guilt, a need for forgiveness, the first step on the road to redemption? No, Durham plead guilty to aggravated murder in return for a gargantuan fast-food feast. He received a bucket of KFC chicken, a bucket of Popeye's chicken, a serving of mashed potatoes, a serving of coleslaw, a slice of carrot cake, a pizza, two calzones, a tray of lasagna and a bucket of ice cream. The entire proceeding cost the state of Oregon a mere $41.70.

As Durham discovers that justice is sometimes served with a side of cole slaw, I'm going to start taking the idea of fast food addiction a lot more seriously...

Filed Under: Food News, Ingredients, Fast Food
Tags: america, cole slaw, ColeSlaw, comfort food, fast food, FastFood, fried chicken, fried chicken killer, FriedChicken, FriedChickenKiller, KFC, Klondike, Oregon, Tremayne Durham, TremayneDurham

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8-19-2008 @3:42PM SaraFist said... That man is a fool. He should have held out for Popeyes.
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8-19-2008 @3:40PM John T said... It was kind of a weird thing to open the paper to the other day, however it did seem that they had him, and I figure he knew that so he bargained with them. Guess jail food really is bad huh?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/07/food.guilty.plea.ap/

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