Things On Fire For God Around The World #421

[webofevil]

Someone, and I honestly can't remember who, was telling me last year about this branch of KFC. For ages it was the only symbol of Western capitalism, American imperialism, dreadful processed chicken etc to hand in Peshawar, Pakistan's last frontier town before it abandons all pretence at civilisation and everything becomes an exciting whirl of mountains, heavily-armed Arabs and poppy-dust. As a result, every time there's a grievance locally, on a scale ranging from the current cartoon riots to general background grumbling about Jews and Freemasons, KFC cops it every time. Now here it is again, aflame as per. Working there must be as much fun as running a top hat, Union Jack and Pope-shaped-dog-toy concession on the Falls Road.

Apparently there's now a McDonald's in Peshawar as well, but there's no word as to its condition. It's possible that locals have become so used to torching KFC that they'd find it hard to envisage even wafting sparks towards any other restaurant.

EDIT: Ah.

Comments

[chiller.livejournal.com]

It's probably become so normal to burn the KFC that it's descended into shorthand.

"I was just talking to Dave here. He's on for this Thursday mate, you fancy it?"
"Yeah, go on then. It's been a few days."

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

It'll be the first time their bloody products get properly cooked.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

"What? McDonald's is American? By Allah, I had no idea. But where is the chicken? Really? Tell me more of these "nuggets"..."

the only symbol of Western capitalism, American imperialism, dreadful processed chicken etc to hand in Peshawar

They should count themselves lucky that there isn't a branch of Kennedy Fried Chicken, or Shalamars.

Accuracy note

[(Anonymous)]

The people in the area are Pashtuns, not Arabs. They're Central Asian in origin, versus Middle Eastern.
There's a Honda dealership in Peshawar...it gets flak pretty often too.

Re: Accuracy note

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Especially over the MPG of the new Honda Acord. That's rubbish.

Re: Accuracy note

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> The people in the area are Pashtuns, not Arabs

I was thinking about the armed nutters hiding out in the scrub, rather than the natives.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

One thing about those Peshwaris, though: they make great naan.