Always watch what your automatic software is up to

[TheVat]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/kfc-apologises-for-kristallnacht-chicken-and-cheese-promotion

 

[exchemist]

52 minutes ago, TheVat said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/kfc-apologises-for-kristallnacht-chicken-and-cheese-promotion

 

This made me burst out laughing, it is so crassly ignorant and incompetent. The laziness of pretending to be local and neighbourly, without even bothering to have a German  sign off promotions referencing the local culture, is breathtaking. Some computer in the US seems to have been allowed to do it, unchecked, based on a calendar of anniversaries. 

[TheVat]

Yes, the missus and I both had a good laugh at this.  Not being a fan of KFC myself, I may have enjoyed this a little too much.   As I recall, the Germans have the perfect word for my pleasure: schadenfreude.