The Chicken Recipe that everyone in Rhode Island Read

I love chicken, and I love free chicken even better than the kind you have to pay for. Oprah, I'm not that wild about, and she never gave me a Pontiac or a set of teakwood ice tongs or a Persian terrycloth lounging robe (not that I lounge anyway, per se. I loiter, more than lounge.)



But - and you chicken lovers already know this - KFC is making another attempt to get away from the "Fried" connotation. They really want to get the "F" out of here, so they are promoting their new grilled chicken.



What better forum to present this gift of poultry than to have Ms Winfrey tell her fans (and me) to go to her website to download a coupon that entitles the bearer to two pieces of grilled chicken, two sides and a biscuit, free for nothing.

OF COURSE people - the millions of Oprahphiles who hang on her every word - are taking this as an eleemosynary act, donated by the queen of TV, as if she had decided that this new chicken was so finger-lickin' good that she felt the urge to purchase some for every man, woman and child. Hence this admiring note on her website, just to the right of where you'll soon be clicking for your cluck:



Thanks so much for being so generous. You are an Angel sent by God to feed the people of your country considering the circumstances of today.



All she did was allow KFC to promote their stuff on her website, which places the act just outside of the realm of generosity, but "considering the circumstances of today," maybe that's angelic enough.



Come and get your chicken! Hot sauce please!