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Thanksgiving and Christmas meals are usually home-cooked affairs, with several family members working for hours—days, even—preparing cherished favorites, and, on occasion, culinary experiments that have gone terribly and irrevocably awry.
Unless you’re in Japan, you’re probably not picking up a bucket of chicken and sides for Christmas, but in the hectic run-up to the commemoration of Christ’s birth, the Colonel can be a clutch player, feeding the squad when there’s no time or energy left to cook. It’s no surprise then that the fast-food chain has released holiday-themed buckets for decades. For 2020, KFC is dipping into that long-held tradition for two reissues and a new design strongly influenced by the ghosts of buckets past.

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