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El Reg reports:
KFC Germany has salted its meal trays with a thin, flexible Bluetooth keyboard. The "KFC Type Tray" has been used as a giveaway in new KFC stores. Punters can take 'em home and use the thin, rechargeable keyboards for whatever they fancy. The chicken chain's cunning plan, however, is that folks who wander into their neighbourhood's new source of salt, grease, protein, and eleven herbs and spices will be so chuffed by the keyboard that they'll go nuts on social media.
The embedded video suggests that plan worked and that KFConnoisseurs like the keyboard because they balk at smearing grease on their smart devices but don't mind sullying a tray.
[...] Don't bother dropping into a KFC in the hope of obtaining your very own Type Tray: they've all found good homes.
In the comments, PleebSmash asks:
If they are offering these things at restaurants, how come a slightly better Surface 3 keyboard costs $130?
...and Jake already beat us all to the punch with:
I think you mispleled [sic] "KFC common sewers".
[Editor's Comment: Original Sub: here]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2015, @11:58PM
Well, adding a link to the original sub on each story seems tad bit too much. I would prefer editors able to exercise a degree of editorial discretion without so much fuss. If preservation of original sub is desired, link to their queue somewhere else would be better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @03:03AM
Agreed bad form. If you are going to do this this clunky... Place old text with cross-out and yellow and new text in blinking blue. That is clunky and all on one page. Less you want the web traffic to compare to two!
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday May 27 2015, @07:20AM
Being I am seeing the "original submission here" on almost every subsequent story, I return here, the first instance of it I see, and put my two cents in.
I am a rather infrequent submitter of stories here. If I find something somewhere else that I think would make interesting discussion, I return here to let the editors in on it, but I often do not flesh the story out right or get the "trade dress" on proper to provide a uniform presentation to the other Soylenters.
I highly appreciate the editors taking what I found and getting the presentation right so we have a uniform format. We have some fine people here that I believe could make silk purses out of sow's ears.
I am not so sure I would even want my "original submission" seen, unless its to show others just how talented our editors are in fleshing out a story.
Especially the first several stories I submitted. They did a substantial clean-up on it and made it much more presentable than I did.
I am also aiming this comment at anyone else who finds a juicy tidbit out there but does not want to embarrass themselves with bad presentation skills. The editors here are quite good at taking a nugget, polishing it up, and it looks like jewelry when they put it up.
Anyway, that's my take on it. YMMV.
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