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@GwilymLockwood this makes me wonder about a full taxonomy of KFC-descended fried chicken places1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
like, so the UK takes the name "kentucky fried chicken" and selects other members of the set of US states for the first word because that's a highly salient marker
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in new york tho the idea of a US state is maybe less novel? and KFC-alikes tend to vary on words that start with a hard K sound instead (crown fried chicken, kennedy fried chicken)
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and the knockoffs have knockoffs of their own: there's a "JFK fried chicken" in sunset park and a "royal fried chicken" in park slope
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the kennedy fried chicken wiki page opens up more rabbitholes: one of the purported originators of the name worked at a "kansas fried chicken"
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and kennedy knockoffs in other states apparently often take the name "new york fried chicken"
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