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KFC, A to Z

ChinaSMACK has a post on shanzhai 山寨 brands. The first was this picture: Which reminded me I took this photo a year ago. When I took it, I thought to myself “I’ll bet there’s a KFC knockoff for every letter of the alphabetR... ...full story at Mutant Palm

from Mutant Palm on Tue, Nov 04 2008

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