It does sound like a very well-executed joke.
EDIT: And that said, 3min on Google Patents hasn't found the relevant patent.
Practically I kinda doubt you'd want frying temperature anywhere near a computer, but you should be able to get warm enough to safely hold already cooked chicken.
Edit: I think this is the KFC patent for the combi-oven: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5077065A/en
But ultimately I think it is vaporware and they are just pushing the “it’s real” narrative for social media reach.
CM could be taking the piss, but it would be kinda neat if it was real. I don't see a price or ordering information on the page, yet. So 50/50 chance this is legit.
[0] https://ew.com/tv/mario-lopez-colonel-sanders-lifetime-mini-...
It may become a collectors item in certain circles just for the meme of it.
It can be a product without being a mass market retail product.
Their Japanese division offered a custom keyboard in ~2014 as a contest prize.
KFC has a deditcated 'KFC gaming' account that tweets memes that appeal to gamers [0]. It jokingly tweeted a video featuring a rendering of this console back in June as a joke to play on the new gen console wars [1]. Apparently the reception was so good that it found a wing man in Cooler Master. This case modder / engineer in particular [2] spent a couple of months designing and fitting working hardware plus a chicken drawer into a hot new case design as close to the original tweet as possible.
As the result turned out to a not entirely half baked pc build, KFC has stated that it plans on release the console. We'll have to see wether that will turn out true or not, but as the harware probably consists of of-the-shelf components I have no doubts that there will be at least a couple be built.
source: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/kfcs-kfconsole-is-real-...
[0] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming
[1] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming/status/1341428570388901891
[2] https://timpelay.se https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbBVdzAPR8/
They might have to redesign the case a bit, however.
"Honey, can you make me some chicken too?"
"Sure, no problem!"
(compiles firefox)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5tFlmRUIc
For Coolermaster's part, they seem like the kind of company that would dedicate a few engineers to a silly idea for the hell of it.
(Apologies for injecting humor on what is clearly an otherwise serious posting)
With a Core i9 they have the hardware to fry the chicken, not only to keep it warm.
No wonder Apple keeps shoveling money into their bank vault.
A chicken fryer would compete with KFC, while a chicken heater would heat KFC-fried chicken.
(maybe an enterprise version with franchise-enabled deep-fried deep-learning chicken?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ust_Er_oX5A
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Especially the worst corporations, like those in the fast food industry, that are a net negative to our society.
I’d like to see KFC and other fast food chains start being taxed heavily on undesirable macronutrients like sodium and saturated fat, individual items exceeding reasonable calorie limits, and regulated against marketing toward children like the tobacco industry (unless macronutrients of their meals meet health standards). Junk items should have disclaimer labels stating that daily consumption of those items will shorten your lifespan and/or cause health problems, just like cigarettes.
Obesity is our #1 public health epidemic and nobody’s doing anything about it. I think I read that obesity is a factor in 6 of the top 10 most common causes of premature death in the United States.
Over 80% of Americans are overweight and close to 40% are obese.
At least it distracts them from their focus of "shortening your lifespan".
Also as far as marketing to kids goes, KFC is not really the problem that other fast food chains are, so its not really fair to level that criticism at them.
This was shown at trade shows as an optional module for the expandable case, but wasn't a real product.
There's a couple of pictures of the full Rocket ship here: https://twitter.com/ItsBBP/status/1327563474550059009
