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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A caricature of President Obama is the face behind a Beijing chicken restaurant, Shanghaiist points out.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The New York Post reports that the slogan on the sign featuring Obama's head on Colonel Sanders' body can be translated as, “We’re so cool, aren’t we?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rev. Al Sharpton told The Post that the sign is "insulting, offensive and plays to racial stereotypes.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Washington Post's BlogPost contacted a <b>KFC China</b> spokesperson, who said the company is not pleased with the Obama Fried Chicken logo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“We’re considering legal action as it is a knock-off and has nothing to do with us and it infringes on our brand trademark,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “We find it distasteful.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the Atlanta Journal Constitution points out that a KFC China ad also used an Obama lookalike in a television commercial that ran in Hong Kong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Obama Fried Chicken</b> is not the first poultry restaurant to use Obama's name, either. The New York Post notes that there's an Obama's Fried Chicken in Harlem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Using Obama's name or image to push chicken isn't a guaranteed money-maker. CNN notes that when a German frozen food company tried selling Obama chicken fingers, public outcry caused the company to halt test marketing.</span></div>