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Boorish mouths-full KFC ad riles British

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LONDON, April 26 (UPI) -- A British television ad featuring office workers trying to sing with their mouths full of KFC salad has set a record for complaints to regulators.

The ad, promoting the fast-food chain's Zinger Crunch salad, featured call center workers singing unintelligibly while eating the salad.

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The national broadcast regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority, said it received a record 1,671 complaints about the ad last year, almost double the previous record, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.

The majority of complaints had to do with manners, and the notion that talking or singing with one's mouth full sets a bad example for children. Other complainers said the ad made fun of people with speech impediments, and a few said it cast call center workers in a bad light.

The ASA did not censure KFC, as it said no rules had been broken.

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