No Joke: KFC Offers a Fried Chicken Corsage for Prom

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • April 14, 2014
Yes. We checked the date. We're way past April 1st and this not an April Fool's Joke. This is real. KFC is actually promoting corsages made of its fried chicken drumsticks to tie around your prom date's wrist–because what a carnation can do, a...
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