The Freedom Scale

The Freedom Scale

Bear Refuses to Eat McDonalds. Cats Refuse KFC.

Fast food isn't good, and it's no longer fast and cheap. It's also not food.

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Christopher Cook
May 16, 2024
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The year was 1987 (or thereabouts), and I and my fellow 19-year-old housemates were living paycheck to paycheck. And some weeks, there was a little gap between those paychecks during which we were just plain broke.

One of those gaps happened to coincide with a major sale on Kentucky Fried Chicken’s “Chicken Little” sandwiches. When these were first intro…

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