The non-commercial radio station I work for has regularly gotten phone calls for Kentucky Fried Chicken. We're KFCF and when Kentucky Fried Chicken changed their name to KFC they didn't update their phone book listings. Remember phone books? We just got a new yellow pages a few months ago... and they are still listed as Kentucky Fried Chicken.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of danny burstein Sent: Monday, August 18, 2025 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [media] MSNBC, umm, something, something k On Mon, 18 Aug 2025, Steven Otte wrote: > Speaking of recursive abbreviations, one of my favorite fun facts is > that Nabisco originally stood for National Biscuit Company. Then they > KFC'd themselves and officially changed their name to just NABISCO, > not short for anything. Later still, they went back on that decision, > sort of. Now, NABISCO officially stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company. > Which, of course, stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company Biscuit Company. > Which in turn stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company Biscuit Company Biscuit Company. > And so on, and so on. Speaking of Nabisco, one of the secondary "networks" had a series of programs called something like "foods that made America great". Pretty good recreations of the early days of Entnmanns, Sunshine/Hydrox, NABISCO!, and lots of others. Probably avaiable online if you can figure out the names... And so it goes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/!%26!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAABexvPwUn31EnlSAaSdTx8fCgAAAEAAAAI5H6fp/P/9Dpo/ybrw0Ia0BAAAAAA%3D%3D%40rych.org.
