Kentucky Fried Chicken
Kentucky Fried Chicken
The brand name Kentucky Fried Chicken was perfect in its simplicity. You knew exactly what you were getting when you showed up to Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 1980s. But by the early 1990s, health foods were becoming much more mainstream and Kentucky Fried Chicken was basically the opposite of health food.
Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC in 1991, and despite a strange and opaquely sourced article from Snopes about a legal fight with the state of Kentucky, it was obviously because “fried chicken” was associated with unhealthy food.
There was also a weird urban myth that circulated on the early internet about KFC’s chickens being some kind of mutant variety that couldn’t legally be called chicken. That was also untrue, though it would’ve been a much more badass reason.
