Oh off a bit of that I thought I was
living in an alternate reality where
instead of people eating Christmas
turkey sprouts his stuffing on Christmas
Day people were lining up to brildor
Premium KFC from a premium Christmas
menu
oh wait
Christmas isn't technically a celebrated
holiday here in Japan with about 1% of
Japanese people estimated to be
Christian but as is often the case with
Japan taking foreign ideas and products
and adapting them for the domestic
market Christmas is no exception
instead the holiday focuses on a raw
commercialized aspects of Christmas
decorations gifts Christmas trees maybe
even the odds Christmas of like oh my
god my eyes and of course cheap holiday
discount some great upmarket branded
clothing
you should definitely buy it variety is
of the spice ding oh she's really good
all English speakers will think you're
cool if you read up definitely but due
to a lack of ovens big enough to cook
turkeys and Japanese homes back in the
1970s KFC launched a hugely successful
advertising campaign under the name
Kentucky for Christmas after some
foreigners in Japan struggled to find
Turkey on Christmas Day and settled for
KFC instead KFC saw this as an
opportunity to get piece of the action
and launched its first Christmas meal
for about 3,000 yen or $10 which at the
time was a pretty pricey meal but with a
strong marketing campaign the meal
became so popular that now every year
Christmas Day is the busiest day for KFC
here in Japan today's KFC has a special
premium series menu and for 5600 you can
order a fully roasted chicken now I
won't like last Christmas was a rather
depressing affair was my first time away
from my family but the day didn't really
inspire a sense of Christmas spirit what
was going to work an empty high school
getting a substandard haircut popping
over to North Korea for the North Korean
Air Show
one of those things didn't happen so
this year I wanted to raise my game I
wanted to do something and have
something to look forward to and what
better way to get in the Christmas
spirit than to eat Kentucky Fried
Chicken there's no doubt I felt just a
little bit sad going to KFC one month
before Christmas to preorder my chicken
now naturally I wanted fully roasted
chicken premium Emmy we got Johan but so
popular was the fully roasted chicken
they completely sold out already
what did you say it's so loud what do
you mean it's so well tell the Christmas
by daiminion the Christmas variety many
what believer they can't afford the
premium series peasant probably didn't
have which didn't handle it as well as I
could
so we had to sell for another premium
series alternative instead a chicken and
red wine sauce which is something I
never thought I'd be ordering from KFC
except in my dreams but then KFC Japan's
already the stuff of dreams because not
only do they have the fantastic
Christmas menu but last year Japan
Airlines took the colonel to the skies
and started serving KFC on its flights
over the festive period as even a KFC
branch in Tokyo with a fully stocked
whiskey bar I could route 25 and it
sells Midwestern American cuisine I'd
love to go there as soon as I finished
paying off the loan to the KFC Christmas
meal so this Christmas I headed off to
KFC with a smile and a briefcase full of
cash to fund the most expensive trip I'd
ever made to a fast food restaurant
oh my god Christmas cakes at Christmas
cake in the window well and the salad
without the local premium series letter
from the colonel himself put it in the
microwave okay
bread what appears to be a bag of
chicken it doesn't look too appealing
but it is the premium series of us
remind you so we know it's quality roast
the turkey who needs to roast the turkey
when you can use a microwave that really
needs cleaning roast turkey duties roast
turkey when you've got microwave
Kentucky Fried Chicken this turkey takes
hours of microwave chicken 3 minutes 500
watt
smells delicious it's supposed to be
chicken in a kind of wine sauce so well
that's good I was like maybe an eight
point five out of ten
maybe a nine the colonel the colonel
will be proud that is the face of
Christmas he's a man from Kentucky and
he knew how to batter chicken really
effectively
who knows in a few years we could be
leaving out milk and cookies for the
colonel instead would that be a bad
thing yeah probably