TIL KFC promoted a contest coinciding with the final season in 2009 called "Frak Pak Sweepstakes." Once KFC found out what "frak" meant, they changed the name of the contest ...

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Battlestar Galactica@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Here’s one of the promotional images.

Here’s what you could win.

Here’s the edited/censored version.

And this is a blogpost from 2009 discussing the contest, and a follow-up post after the name change.

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