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: 3, Interesting) by captain normal on Tuesday May 26 2015, @03:57AM
Of course I guess you could pay the extra Euros and get the "official" German keyboard. with the "Z" and "Y" interchanged and "Strg" (for "Ctrl"), "Entf" (for "Del") and "Druck/S-Abf" (for PrintScr/SysRq"), instead of saving some Euros and buying a QWERTY off Amazon. Like the folks I know.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday May 26 2015, @04:31AM
And call Ctrl - "String"? Nah, get outta here ;)
"- 'Just use "String-V"'
- 'I don't have a string "v", asshat. I name my variables properly.'"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:05AM
Of course, "Strg" is short for "Steuerung", which is the German word for … wait for it … "control".
However for some reason, even on German keyboards the escape key is labelled "Esc".
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:52PM
Yeah, been there, done that: "Hey, did you know it's actually 'Steuerung'?" "Really? Well, I'm used to calling it 'String', [turns to student] so press 'String+C' [...]"
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday May 27 2015, @07:22PM
However for some reason, even on German keyboards the escape key is labelled "Esc".
Esc from Colditz?
(Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:15AM
Hmm, maybe we know entirely different people. Everyone I know uses the QWERTZ layout in Germany, because a) it is in fact cheaper [amazon.de] and more broadly available and b) it contains the umlauts ÄÜÖ and the "sharp s" ß.