Due to Coronavirus, KFC Is No Longer 'Finger-Lickin' Good'

New York Post — For chicken heads who refuse to let a single juicy morsel of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s “special blend of 11 herbs and spices” go to waste, you might want to consider utensils.

That’s because the Southern-style fast food chain is suspending their iconic “finger lickin’ good” advertising campaign — a move to preserve the health of their customers amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Colonel Sanders slogan originated in 1956.

Coronavirus is really leaving nothing in its wake. It came for the NCAA Tournament. It came for the NBA and NHL. It came for Major League Baseball. And now it has come for KFC's iconic "finger lickin' good" slogan.

I'm just glad the Colonel isn't alive to see this.

Coronavirus is obviously incredibly serious, but it is objectively funny that KFC thinks there are enough people out there licking their fingers solely on the advice of impersonators of a man who died in 1980 that the suspension of that slogan would help slow the impact of the virus.

Disneyland is closed for just the fourth time ever and Kentucky Fried Chicken is no longer finger lickin' good. Coronavirus is canceling everything.

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However, I suppose if this is true, that slogan probably should have been amended a little while before coronavirus anyway. Everybody stay safe out there and please do not lick — or eat — your fingers, regardless of the advice of Colonel Sanders.