KFC's Pixelated 'NSFW' Tweet Proves a Bit Too 'Hot & Spicy' for the Internet

Chain apologizes for smutty shot

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Brand Twitter fails are few and far between these days, which is either good or bad, depending on your schadenfreude levels. But here's a bizarre and baffling one from Australia, where KFC somehow thought it would be a good idea to pixelate what's clearly meant to look like a sexual image to sell "Hot & Spicy" chicken.

The tweet, from KFC Australia, lasted only about an hour before being deleted, and the chicken chain quickly issued an apology.

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