Traditions Vary

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Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC

The sub-headline:

How a fast-food marketing campaign turned into a widespread Yuletide tradition for millions.

From The Beeb and Reporter By Eric Barton, 19 December 2016.

Here is the lede plus one:

Every Christmas, Ryohei Ando gathers his family together for a holiday tradition.  Just like their father did as a child, his two children will reach deep into a red-and-white bucket and pick out the best piece of fried chicken they can find.

Yes, it’s a Merry KFC Christmas for the Ando family.  It may seem odd anywhere outside Japan, but Ando’s family and millions of others would never let a Christmas go by without Kentucky Fried Chicken.  Every Christmas season an estimated 3.6 million Japanese families treat themselves to fried chicken from the American fast-food chain, in what has become a nationwide tradition.

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Regards  —  Cliff