KFC pricing rip off

QrizB

My local McDs offers table service. And carpark service, for that matter.

But we digress!

Murphybear

Out of interest, what is the difference between a “pensioner” and a “pensioner type”?

Grumpy_chap

Well, I think a "pensioner" is clearly an individual that is drawing their (state or private) pension and may or may not be also in paid employment.

On that basis, a "pensioner type" might well be any individual that could draw their (state or private) pension but does not do so.  Essentially anyone over 55.

That seems a reasonable pair of definitions.  Others may have used the terms with a different slant elsewhere.

Albermarle

Murphybear said:

Out of interest, what is the difference between a “pensioner” and a “pensioner type”?

I would guess something like:

Pensioner - An exact definition - someone receiving a pension.

Pensioner type - Stereotypical old person. Always grumbling about the world and particularly their ailments. Never tried a KFC ( according to the poster in question). Feel hard done by considering they have worked all their life . Dislike of foreigners and  teenagers etc. Drinks a lot of tea and do not have a smartphone.
Someone like Geoffrey Boycott or Victor Meldrew. 

flaneurs_lobster

Albermarle said:

Pensioner type - Stereotypical old person. Always grumbling about the world and particularly their ailments. Never tried a KFC ( according to the poster in question). Feel hard done by considering they have worked all their life . Dislike of foreigners and  teenagers etc. Drinks a lot of tea and do not have a smartphone.
Someone like Geoffrey Boycott or Victor Meldrew. 

That stereotype describes me exactly in that I have never eaten a KFC. 

The rest is a curate's egg.

QrizB

On the other hand I'm within sight of retirement and have frequented KFC since I was a child.

Quite fancy one now, to be honest!

Skiddaw1

Slightly off topic but still KFC-related: I only discovered recently that in Japan it is the tradition to eat KFC on Christmas Day. 

Albermarle

Skiddaw1 said:

Slightly off topic but still KFC-related: I only discovered recently that in Japan it is the tradition to eat KFC on Christmas Day. 

Out of a bucket  ?

Skiddaw1

Presumably!

I only found out about the KFC tradition because friends of ours have a nephew married to a Japanese girl whose family came over to visit at Christmas and would apparently have been gutted if they hadn't had a KFC takeaway on Christmas Day. 

Sicard

I'm a pensioner and used to get a bucket and take to my daughter's family. It was delicious.

However, since learning about how they treat their chickens, I'll never eat is again.