I can confirm this is indeed true, I saw many people lining up yesterday to pick up their pre-ordered buckets of Kentucky’s finest to celebrate Christmas.
Even most of the big convenience stores here get into it now, offering their own fried chicken in a bucket etc.
A great marketing strategy by KFC, now a very strange tradition for a Christmas meal.
As is the ‘Christmas Cake’ here, essentially just a plain sponge filled with cream and fresh strawberries.
I thought you were in the UK?
Yep. My best mate has been there since 2017 and has got it every year, as you say - pre-ordered due to demand. It comes with a “collectable” dinner plate too.
I would kill someone for some FamiChiki from FamilyMart. My lord, the greatest cheap food treat ever.
Same. FamilyMart was like a second home when I was holidaying in Japan. 
According to Shoalhaven City Council a application has been submitted to build a 7/11, Carl’s Jr and Taco Bell at the site of Nowra IGA.
I can understand a 7/11, but Carl’s Jr and Taco Bell seems like a strange decision for the area.
Carl’s Jr is opening in areas where the rent is cheap - it seems that they want it to be more of a ‘destination’ restaurant where you get your friends into a car and make a road trip to get there…hence why they haven’t opened a restaurant in Sydney just yet. Seems to be working OK.
Carl’s Jr and Taco Bell will join McDonalds x3, Subway x3, KFC x2, Oporto x2, Hungry Jacks and Red Rooster. How many fast food restaurants can one town need? I know it’s a growing area but still.
Plans for the 7-Eleven service station, Taco Bell and Carl’s Jr can be found here.
It will soon be the first town heading down the coast from Sydney that you actually have to drive through. Every other fast food restaurant is bypassed.
Talking to a few people recently who are involved in designing and building these, all three (Carl’s Jr, Taco Bell and 7/11) are keen to expand their footprints in regional areas and fairly rapidly - although if you ask 7/11 directly they downplay that they’re expanding regionally.
Ballarat is set to get another burger place this time ,Burger road, and due to open at 4 pm new years day so this Friday. It will be located: 58-60 Lydiard street, Ballarat central which is right near the studios of 3BA and Power FM
https://www.colliers.com.au/en-au/properties/prominent-corner/aus-58-60-lydiard-street-north-ballarat-central-vic-3350/aus66009493
Bathurst has two DAs from Carl’s Jr, lodged in March/April of this year but neither have been approved by council. Not sure what the delay is there, or if it’s Covid related.
The Taco Bell DA was approved in October/November after 12 months of deliberations and a considerable amount of outrage. You know, the unique small-town country outrage that usually manifests with a group of residents with the arms folded on the front page of the local paper. Location, traffic, noise, all of that. Like Nowra, I’m surprised a town of Bathurst’s size can sustain so many fast food outlets.
Got McDonalds drive thru for lunch today.
Took about 30 mins to get in/out… I knew New Years Day would be busy, not that busy though.
Hangover cure?
Long serving News Corp editor and rabid Donald Trump supporter Col Allan will shortly leave the US where he has most recently been an advisor at The New York Post. As a thank you for his loyal service to Trump over the past couple of years, the president invited Allan to lunch at the White House where the menu was hamburgers, Andrew Hornery reports in the SMH. According to Hornery, Trump is so fond of McDonald’s that he:
The delicious meal was washed down with Coca-Cola.
It is possible that Trump ordered in the McDonald’s as the re-creation of the Quarter Pounder by the White House chef hasn’t always been a success.
As for “re-creating it”, someone should have just said… Menulog!
Hungry Jacks has new sippy cup lids (like coffee lids) for soft drinks, presumably for an imminent straw phase out.
That seems better than McDonald’s paper straws.
That’s brilliant. Paper straws are the worst.
Boost Juice paper straws are horrible too. My local store had both plastic and paper available and would offer which one you’d like, now they just have plastic.
I don’t like any straws … I always take the lid off and drink straight from the cup.