KFC Millburn

Driving past KFC  at Millburn Road Inverness  again today. Every time I pass it I get annoyed. What hellish ugly signage!  How did HC Planning Services ever allow this eyesore?  It has an enormous twenty foot high sign at the entrance with a six foot picture of  Colonel Saunders ; then a ten foot high sign on the side of the building and  another big KFC in the roof.

If you were driving through a town in the US where there are lines of fast-food outlets all vying for customers you would say the KFC looked totally in place

. The image of *Colonel Saunders suggests a Confederate Army Officer: a kind of Bullalo Bill type of Western hero.  But what does it signify here? Not much. In the same way that Disneyland Paris was described as a ‘cultural Chernobyl’ the KFC franchise signage doesn’t translate to the UK. To me it looks crass and garish.

On the other hand,  I have to admit there seems to be no shortage of people who like to eat  ‘pressure fired’ chicken wings out of a bucket.

*In fact, Colonel Saunders was never in the army. It was an honorary title given to him by a Governor of Kentucky.