Besides, the astronaut Zinger commercial isn’t nearly the most oddball way KFC has advertised.
In all seriousness, KFC deserves credit for consistently finding new (and admittedly pretty weird) ways to promote its new offerings.
Whether it’s by bringing in Rob Lowe to play an astronaut Colonel Sanders or cycling through SNL vets, the restaurant chain tends to be creative.
I have to give the edge in that particular race to the KFC scented candles that were available not so long ago, if only because I’m pretending that the fried chicken-scented sunscreen and the edible nail polish never happened, because… ew.