The ongoing saga of the misguided meal mascots

[ceagle]

One of the funny themes that intrigues me is the bizarre concept (what were they thinking?? will they ever learn?) of companies that use a critter on their menu to sell the food... I've reported on this before, and as your devoted journalist, I intend to keep you posted with every new known revelation :D ... And here's the latest........



He seems thoroughly enthralled to be pawning off a well-cooked ..who? Maybe that one in the skillet willed itself to be served up as a tasty-useful part of the afterlife?.. Maybe like in that Heinlein book... who knows...

If that wasn't goofy enuff, their previous logo is still printed on the receipts...

LMAO!

This fellow seems to be rather maniacally enjoying the act of dancing around in those flames! Makes me wonder if this logo was the inspiration (or vice versa) for an SNL skit... http://www.hulu.com/watch/2317/saturday-night-live-cluckin-chicken

eeeeeeeeeeeeessh.. heh!

Comments

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Last logo translates as Saint's Chicken more or less and then BBQ Chicken underneath it. Somehow a BBQ'd saint seems wrong :P

-Mako

Holy Cluck!

[phoenix-audubon.livejournal.com]

"The Chicken of the Saints," literally...although, if you're peddling the roasted remains of your fellow fowl...just how saintly are you, hmm? XP

Maybe it's just a before-and-after perspective...or a "which came first," even if the answer is rather obvious. XPP

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it! The first thing I thought of was the SNL skit 8)

"Hear that sizzle, that's me! Five hundred and fifty degrees!!!!!"

Maybe your poster chicken is a member of the chicken-mafia. "Dis is wat happens when you cross da family, capiche?" Ending up in a styrofoam coffin with a side of corn......

[jedd-marten.livejournal.com]

For 30 seconds, logic is suspended. ;)

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Animal mascots for certain restaurants is kind of obvious-- yet, thinking about it too much is creepily disturbing. I guess the form meat comes to us in is so abstract-looking that most folks don't even make the connection. It's a little easier when the meat has a different name than the animal (pork/pig; beef/cow, etc.), though I was always disturbed by the naked, prancing pigs that often adorned sausage factories and BBQ's when I was growing up. Maybe pink, fleshy pigs are too close to a human form (as opposed to a big, spotted cow or a feathery bird).

Then again, I doubt that a restaurant that called itself, "Suicidal Chicken Fry" would attract that many people...

[stokerbramwell.livejournal.com]

You are what you eat!

[symphonic-rp.livejournal.com]

That puts me in mind of something I ran across today.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FurryConfusion

[orv.livejournal.com]

The first picture also ought to be on Photoshop Disasters. I particularly like the bowl of corn that appears to be hovering in midair.

[rede4bed.livejournal.com]

Great pics! Totally made my day and gave me a laugh

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Hog's Breath Cafe do that and so many seafood and pork places do that too o.O
I tend to think of them as traitors :D

[woulfcat.livejournal.com]

Thoughts of Chicken Boy came to mind...

http://www.chickenboy.com/