KFC Urges Loser College Grads to Stop Living With Their Parents

Somehow this sells bite-size chicken pieces

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There are a lot of different labels now for breaded, deep-fried bits of chicken sold at fast-food joints. They're called popcorn chicken, chicken stars, chicken tenders, meat slurry. But there's really only one name for an adult who moves back in with his folks: loser. Oops, I meant millennial. Comedy Central and KFC have created an online mashup of these two phenomena in a just-launched campaign that will try, via a national sweepstakes, to hype the new Original Recipe Bites—and to root that slacker out of the basement and land him in his own apartment.

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