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Last week, KFC sent an actor dressed as chain founder Colonel Harland Sanders to the United Nations in New York to publicize its Oct. 26 UNFry Day for Kentucky Grilled Chicken. But it seems the actor and his entourage were a little too good as they were able to bypass United Nations security to pose for photos with Libya's Dr. Ali A. Treki, the current president of the UN Assembly.
"It should not have happened -- that I will stress, and very strongly," Michele Montas, spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, told Canada's National Post. She added there was "some lapse in security," with a guard ushering the Sanders lookalike "into the U.N."
A KFC official told Slashfood on Thursday that they never planned to send the Colonel into the U.N.
"The KFC Colonel was in New York City for a Kentucky Grilled Chicken sampling event outside the United Nations," Laurie Schalow, a KFC spokeswoman told Slashfood. "While serving free chicken on First Avenue, he was invited inside by a U.N. staff member, along with a photographer who was documenting the event."
The chicken chain did send "a tongue-in-cheek letter to the U.N. requesting that they allow their employees to "unthink" their usual lunch routine and sample Kentucky Grilled Chicken outside the U.N.," she said.
"KFC has the utmost respect for the United Nations and this lighthearted event in New York City was in no way meant to undermine the important work that the U.N. does around the world," Schalow said.
What do you think? Should the Colonel have gone to the U.N.? Let us know in the comments below.
[Via the National Post]
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10-29-2009 @2:25PM volcom53 said... This is NOT NEWS!
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10-29-2009 @2:47PM Franz said... It's all good. Fugettabowtit!
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10-29-2009 @2:38PM Doane said... This is a joke right?
What was wrong with this chicken stunt?
Has the whole world gone mad with political right and wrong?
Do the UN people not eat chicken?
Get real......I'm going to have KFC tonight and I hope they have a selection called "UN Get Out Of America" I'll buy two.
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10-29-2009 @2:55PM Kick Azz said... How did KFC get away with not giving us the free grilled chicken? I never got the mail in coupon.
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10-29-2009 @2:44PM Marilyn said... What on earth was wrong with this? He was invited inside for a photo op. I say it was great publicity, and it sounds like they had fun! How is this ANY sort of a problem? Are they so bored over there--not enough people to oppress or something--that they need to create an "incident" where none exists? My God.
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10-29-2009 @2:49PM dabotner said... Everyone knows that the UN is different than the rest of us. They are so much higher and better than us. They dont even put their pants on the same way we do. Id give them a big ol grease burger, clog their arteries and continue saving the good healthy food for US people who deserve it.
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10-29-2009 @2:54PM Lulusmom said... I agree with the other comments. What is the big deal and what did KFC do wrong?!?! Lighten up people at the UN. I think I'll have chicken tonight too.
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10-29-2009 @3:13PM irv said... Who cares. The U.N. is an almost irrelevant organization. With exception of feeding the hungry, for which they do not always get that right, they cause more geopolitical problems then they cure. For example, the Human Rights Commission is made of of members whose countries they represent have no human rights. Colonel Saunders would be a big improvement to their image.
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10-29-2009 @3:09PM GeryD said... They invited him in! Why the heck not unless KFC gave orders to stay outside. The issue here is with the UN Security staff not KFC or the look alike. The promotion itself was clever and permission had been given.
I hope everybody had a finger lickin' good time.
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10-29-2009 @3:10PM Chef Alfred Schrader said... Colonel Sanders was a genius. A lookalike is just a shell. There are a number of secrets about the colonel - the 11 herbs and spice are a hoax & not one of them. The chicken only has salt, pepper, and MSG. His first successful KFC is on 7th avenue and 119th street in Miami, Fla. around the corner from the first successful & only Burger King. I was there in 1964 when it all went down. One of his actual secrets, and I know a lot them, is his ambrosia gravy. There only two living people left that know how to make it me, and his daughter...Alfred.
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10-29-2009 @3:08PM wtmalicote said... Ky grilled chicken is a fraud anyway. They bake the chicken then they bring a very hot grill like device down over the chicken to make it look like it has been grilled by searing lines over the tops of the pieces, SOURCE: Nation's Restaurant News.
Late summer 2009. IT'S A FRAUD.
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10-29-2009 @3:15PM ChrisXena said... Get real! Do we really think terrorist are going to start dressing up as Col. Sanders and take jobs at KFC in order to infilitrate the United Nations?!!!
And this guy didn't TRY to get into the U.N. but was working a a stand outside the building and was INVITED IN!...by security none the less, so adding to the above senerio, would terrorist hang around dressed up as a character....waiting to get invited in? Heck no!
And frankly, sometimes the best ambassadors that offer "other then political & military" lines of commonality are other more basic ones, like food, basic medical needs, and music. Our political and miltary interests should be reflective of our basic common human and care commonality, not the other way around.
I'd be glad to have a few more Susan Boyles and KFC kind of connections be made. In fact I would LOVE to ssee/hear her sing her famous "Dream" before the United Nations...it just might refresh them on their main TRUE purpose there, to help the world unite to advance world people's dreams, and basic respect for each other, and basic common needs.
So KFC, please...no need for any apologies, and pass me a bucket of the good stuff!
ChrisXena
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10-29-2009 @3:11PM Saturn said... It's not really what KFC did wrong. It's the UN's security that's the problem. They ushered in Faux Sanders, bypassing security checkpoints, to take a photo op. What this means is he was able to infiltrate the UN...because they were amused by his costume. He could have been the most humiliating terrorist on the planet for all they knew. It's supposed to be a light-hearted "LOL" article, people, so stop freaking out over how the UN is evil.
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10-29-2009 @4:21PM Randy said... Now who really gives a toot in hell what they did at the UN. It is an impotent organization and what and where they eat their lunch is absolutely not meaningful. Find some real news, somewhere.
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10-30-2009 @9:13AM Kate said... I don't see why KFC is under fire. The security at the UN should be under fire.
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10-30-2009 @9:00AM hansibrian said... No news here, there must be something more important going on at the UN than this. If he was invited in by a member, where is the breach of security?
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10-30-2009 @9:01AM trizone said... I know security issues and the safety of our citizens has become a major issue in this country and the world. But a Colonel Sanders lookalike? We as Americans have EVERY right to be ushered into the U.N. if we want to visit! This is our country!!!
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10-30-2009 @9:02AM wosardunn1776 said... no, see the problem was he WASN't a terrorist, he meant no harm. i am beginning to think the only people that can get away with anything in this country is if you have intent to harm us in some way shape or form, if you have good intentions and mean no harm then boy look out..you are on the u.n. chopping block....i wonder if they took the food first then ripped him a new one?
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10-30-2009 @9:02AM hansibrian said... I'm more offended by the picture.
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10-30-2009 @9:19AM Willow said... The people involved have really blown this all out of proportion. First of all, I met the real Colonel Sanders many years ago. He was a very nice person. Second, I agree that if he was invited in by a staff member, what's the big deal? Someone's making a mountain out of a molehill. Get a life!
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