The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

Eat your heart out PETA, KFC isn't going away anytime soon. In fact, quite the opposite as just yesterday, Colonel Sanders got a makeover.

It wasn't much of a makeover, they just added a red apron to the image, and I think the new image is slightly dorky with that apron, but it's enough to make me happy knowing that it's probably killing PETA right about now.

I'm sure they're plotting their next strategy as we speak, trying to incorporate a red apron into their lame protests.

And, it seems KFC is taking things a step further by ensuring they'll be the fast food of choice for alien life forms: KFC Advertises To Extraterrestrials

The KFC Corp. on Tuesday launched a rebranding campaign with an 87,500 square-foot image of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert which the company says makes Kentucky Fried Chicken the world's first brand visible from space.

"If there are extraterrestrials in outer space, KFC wants to become their restaurant of choice," KFC President Gregg Dedrick said in a statement.[more]

What more do we need?

UPDATE: Committees of Correspondence has more on the topic in his article, The Great Brand Space Race. I wonder how McDonald's plans to top that, too.