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pineapplelover ,

Went to some kind of restaurant chain once (red robin I think?) and there were ads as we were eating.

pikmeir ,

Yeah they put ads on that little screen you use to pay. Also it never has any receipt paper loaded.

asdfasdfasdf ,

optimal performance

WTF

bartolomeo ,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Secret? My god, the sense of entitlement of capital.

Just to be clear, is the implication here that people should use ad blockers in secret and that the "right" thing to do is to consume whatever media (and expose open tabs, history, etc) corporate wants you to see?

LavaPlanet ,

They're kinda telling on themselves, 'no secrets' what does watching an add have to do with secrets, unless they want you to have no secrets from them, and give you all a your data. Then that sentence makes sense. That sentence has some real twist / projection / gaslighty vibes. Why do corporations feel like my abusive ex.

ExfilBravo ,

Because they are. They need you financially but they hate your guts too.

bartolomeo ,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Exactly!

dangblingus ,

What ads are even on a Pepsico website? Why would Pepsi need 3rd party advertising on their own website?

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Probably telemetry, which most ad blockers also block. I think you meant kfc instead of pepsi

Captainvaqina ,

KFC is under the PepsiCo monopoly

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

TIL. Damn it

Sendbeer ,

Not anymore though. They spun kfc, taco bell, and pizza hut years ago and they are under the yum brand now. They still have exclusive contracts regarding fountain. Not sure what other connections are left.

CosmicTurtle ,

Yeah..

Hate to break it to you but our world is owned by like 11 companies

thedirtyknapkin ,

no it isn't, it's owned by yum brands, a Chinese restaurant conglomerate. not better, but not pepsico either.

droans ,

A Chinese conglomerate publicly traded on the NYSE who reports in USD and files with the SEC? A Chinese conglomerate with their headquarters in Kentucky whose majority investors are institutional? A Chinese conglomerate with most shares owned by people or companies in America and whose executives are all American?

slurpeesoforion ,

They could be owned by sewer rats. But that wouldn't matter 'cause I don't eat the mother fucker anyway.

Cris_Color ,
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world avatar

Yum! Brands, Inc. (sometimes called simply Yum!), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American multinational fast food corporation listed on the Fortune 1000. Yum! operates the brands KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, except in China, where the brands are operated by a separate company, Yum China. Yum! previously also owned Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants. The company was created as a spin-off of PepsiCo in 1997.

I went and looked up the Wikipedia page out of curiosity when someone disagreed that they're a Chinese conglomerate and thought I'd share for anyone else reading the thread.

Short answer: not a Chinese conglomerate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum%21_Brands?wprov=sfla1

thedirtyknapkin ,

well shit, i didn't look that close. i just knew it wasn't PepsiCo.

Cris_Color ,
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world avatar

Glad I could provide additional context :)

Hope you have a good one!

droans ,

Yum (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut) split from Pepsi a couple decades ago back in 1997.

GhostFence ,

You order online for delivery to avoid COVID only to catch a computer virus from an ad. I used to watch my relatives browse to a news page and IMMEDIATELY get hit with a "MICROSOFT ERROR CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx TO FIX IT". Then I put ublock origin on their PC aaaaaaand good game ads!

Grass ,

I don't eat there anyways, but I wish I could even more not eat there now.

viralJ ,

Maybe you should cook some food and deliver it to your local KFC - would that count?

LifeOfChance ,

Nah, delivering better food is a loss

MonkderZweite ,

They didn't understand what an adblocker is for? Their privacy vs. your privacy.

Annoyed_Crabby ,

That 11 herbs and spices is probably not a secret anymore.

Pronell ,

You are correct!

Atelopus-zeteki ,
@Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run avatar

No longer a secret:
The recipe found by Joe Ledington reads as follows:

11 Spices – Mix with 2 cups white flour

2⁄3 t salt
1⁄2 t thyme
1⁄2 t basil
1⁄3 t oregano
1 t celery salt
1 t black pepper
1 t dry mustard
4 t paprika
2 t garlic salt
1 t ground ginger
3 t white pepper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC_Original_Recipe#Recipes
or
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-are-kfcs-11-herbs-and-spices/

Please eat less fried foods, for your own health.

corus_kt ,

Amazing, had no idea this was ever revealed!

Feels like nobody cared because current KFC is so average to bad quality. No point stealing that recipe outside for laughs/nostalgia.

Piogre314 ,

Chicken Grease Salt

Holyginz ,

Honestly I doubt they use anywhere near that many spices anymore.

meliodas_100 ,

Why are you using edge bro use firefox or librefox.

dangblingus ,

They're using firefox...

Blisterexe ,
@Blisterexe@lemmy.zip avatar

What? They're using firefox

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

More importantly, why are you eating KFC (unless you’re outside of the US where it’s actually edible)?

SkybreakerEngineer ,

KFC in Japan is actually worse somehow

zipzoopaboop ,

KFC in Canada is fucking atrocious. Aside from seeking out the worst staff possible, they have the worst quality food of any fast food places I've been to. Every 5 or so years I tend to forget just how bad it is, give them another chance, and something about the meal is inedible. Last time got a chicken sandwich and there was a chunk of the bun that was ultra hard and they forgot to put fucking fries in the bag, so I had a meal of a chicken patty of mostly batter and a mostly water diet Pepsi.

Skua ,

KFC in the UK is responsible for the only time I got chips (fries) while drunk on a night out that were so bad that I binned them

BruceTwarzen ,

I've been in a kfc in Germany and was blown away how people actually eat that shit. But at the same time, people also enjoy McDonald's and burger king, so maybe it's just me

corus_kt ,

To add on to the list of countries, Singapore KFC is the only fast food franchise where you can occasionally find overcooked blackish terrible tasting chicken. Macs, Popeyes, Arnolds, BK, Jollibee, etc - not even once (yet).

In my opinion even the Seattle KFC is better.

ConstipatedWatson ,

I've had the pleasure (?) To eat KFC in the US and in Europe. Besides the fact that it was junk food either way, the European version was just so much better.

I can believe that in its distant origins, KFC was actually tasty, but right now I'd sooner enjoy being punched in the stomach than eating there (a similar statement is true by replacing KFC with McDonald's or Burger King or several other fast food chains, though for only these three I've tried both US and EU versions of these products)

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

KFC in Australia is pretty good. It's no Popeyes, but it's not bad.

I live in the USA now and while most KFCs I've been to here are pretty bad, there's one KFC near me that's strangely pretty decent. Chicken is always hot and fresh and they never make any mistakes with the order. I just wish they'd bring back the potato wedges since the fries are horrible.

The chicken sandwich at KFC is pretty decent too.

Aurangutan ,

See though, the thing is my idea of "optimal performance" means using an app without seeing any ads. So, no I don't think I'll be turning it off.

Demonmariner ,

The ad blocker fight is getting really strange. I don't use a blocker, but this morning I couldn't read an article on google news without disabling my ad blocker which I don't have.

Vash63 ,

Maybe your browser is blocking tracking or other cookies that adblockers also target.

Demonmariner ,

It's not on a browser as such. I use the Google News app on my phone. I can't believe it would block anything at all.

droans ,

The most common one I've seen on Google News uses DNS checking, too. If it can't resolve an ad domain, it assumes you're using an ad blocker.

kubica ,
@kubica@kbin.social avatar

Very important has to be the thing that I'm doing so that I have to open a browser without ad-block. For most things the close tab button brings me more peace of mind.

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

You heard KFC no secrets allowed from them and from you. Open the cookie wall you must be tracked.

Cheradenine ,

They block TOR too. I have never had KFC, I was just curious how bad one of those sites was.

Bonehead ,

Don't bother trying it. It's gotten really bad over the years. The chickens have gotten smaller, and now they cut the normal 9 pieces of chicken in half in order to get more out of a chicken and provide extra mechanically separated meat for all the new sandwiches. There are much better fried chicken places around.

Kerb ,
@Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

aparently even Sanders himself complained about the drop in quality since he sold it back in the 60s

KnightontheSun ,

The man was very rigid with how he felt his wife’s chicken should be prepared.

His whole story is interesting. He did not start his chicken endeavors until his late 50’s after an already quite colorful life.

There is a documentary on youtube somewhere and it’s worth seeing.

conditional_soup ,

It's not even like the kind of phenomenally bad that you have to try, it's just the most completely mediocre fried chicken you can imagine. Last couple times I tried it (in laws always order it when we visit for some reason), it's been soggy with grease, not even crispy, and all the oil stops you from really tasting anything. You might as well just slop some bread crumbs into some vegetable oil if you really want the KFC experience.

QuantumSparkles ,

I read the pop up in the robotic voice of the Colonel Sanders Simulation Rocket

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Its finger licking good Disable your ad blocker

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