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The folks at Kentucky Fried Chicken thought the television ad was funny. After all, who wouldn’t laugh at people trying to sing with a mouthful of food? The Brits, that’s who. More than 1,600 of them have complained about the ad to the nation’s Advertising Standards Authority, which monitors the industry, setting a new record for complaints. Viewers said they feared the KFC ad would encourage bad manners among children and that it mocked people with speech impediments.
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