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The story
A thread popped up on 5ch (Newsspeed VIP, a rapid-fire anonymous board) where the poster announced he’d bought KFC and was starting a solo drinking session with it as his side dish. Between chatter about KFC’s upcoming anniversary combo and news of Uma Musume (a hit horse-girl gacha game) trading cards reselling for huge markups, the thread’s original poster revealed he’d dieted down from 110kg to 55kg — and things spiraled from there into how diabetes actually works and how many pachinko parlors have closed down.
What people said
(´;ω;`) Haven't bought KFC in a while (he says "keta-chiki," slang for Kentucky Fried Chicken)
(´;ω;`) Just forget I posted it
(´;ω;`) Can't wait that long
(´;ω;`) It's not dirty
૮₍ ･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა A similar one will only be ¥990 pretty soon anyway
The Founder's Pack kicks off around the 28th
(´;ω;`) Seriously?… Guess I'll have to buy it again then
Why are you eating again? You're eating way too much
(´;ω;`) Seriously???? I'm not into Uma Musume and figured I didn't need it, but did I just flush a bunch of expected value down the drain…
(´;ω;`) Honestly this is the best one in the end… I eat it right down to the bone
That mayo's loaded with sugar, you know…
(a mascot figure tied to the Umi Monogatari pachinko series)૮₍ ･ω･ ₎ა who's that
(´・ω・｀) You can get it even when you're thin
It actually has nothing to do with being fat or skinny
It's a symptom of your insulin running too high
(´;ω;`) I went on a serious diet and dropped from 110kg (about 242 lbs) to 55kg (about 121 lbs)
(´;ω;`) Honestly I'm fine staying like this… the only ways to get rid of the loose skin are building muscle or having it surgically removed
(´;ω;`) Is it actually true that pachinko parlors will be extinct in 20 years?
People were saying the exact same thing 20 years ago when the "5th-gen" machines came in (a regulatory generation of pachislot machines)
Back during COVID, when everyone said they were collapsing left and right, there were still about 9,000 parlors — now it's under 6,000
Well, I bet casinos will show up eventually anyway
Background and Key Points
Drinking Solo with KFC as His Side Dish: A 5ch Thread Where Diet and Diabetes Chatter Outran the Chicken
KFC in Japan isn’t a fast-food afterthought — it’s a cultural fixture, thanks decades ago to a marketing push that linked fried chicken to Christmas dinner, and the chain still leans hard into limited-time promos like the “birthday festival” (“Founder’s Pack”) discussed in the thread, timed to the brand’s founding anniversary each August. Pachinko, meanwhile, is Japan’s massive legal gray-zone gambling industry — technically a game of skill exchanged for prizes rather than cash, historically running in the tens of thousands of parlors nationwide, but shrinking for years under stricter regulation, an aging customer base, and competition from phone gacha games like the Uma Musume title also namechecked here. Uma Musume itself is a horse-racing-themed gacha game whose physical trading cards have developed a real secondary resale market, which is why a stray comment about hit cards fetching ¥10,000 (roughly $65-70) derailed part of the thread.
Where posters actually diverged was less about the chicken and more about causation: once the original poster mentioned his drop from 110kg to 55kg, the thread split between people assuming diabetes is purely a fat-versus-thin issue and a corrective reply insisting it’s really about insulin response, independent of body size.
What’s easy to miss is that the pachinko decline figures tossed out (roughly 9,000 parlors during COVID versus under 6,000 now) reflect a genuine, well-documented industry contraction, not thread exaggeration — and it’s a separate structural story from the diet or diabetes discussion, even though the conversation blurred all three together as they would in any casual, tangent-heavy 5ch chat.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “(´;ω;`) I bought some KFC!“
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