Forget turkey. In Japan, Christmas is a time to feast on KFC. CNN Travel explores how the American fast food chain grew to be synonymous with the holiday season.

A KFC Christmas meal. Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty The Christmas tradition grew, from simple buckets of fried chicken to today's Kentucky Christmas dinner packages with chicken, shrimp gratin, cake and more.

KFC Japan records its highest annual sales figures during the run-up to Christmas, with Dec. 24 serving as the chain’s "busiest day of the year — 10 times busier than KFC Japan’s annual ...

KFC Japan's busiest day is usually Dec. 24, on which they usually sell about five to 10 times more than typical days. "As Christmas approaches, KFC commercials play on TV — they look very delicious.

KFC is offering daily deals and a chance to win free rent for a year to help Aussies beat the winter blues.The announcement:It might be the middle of winter, but now more than ever Aussies need a ...

Almost every year since she was a child, Naomi has looked forward to her family's traditional Christmas meal: a KFC "party barrel." ...

KFC's popularity can be traced back to a highly successful marketing campaign that began nearly 40 years ago. At the time, the Christmas holiday wasn't as widely celebrated in Japan.

KFC’s Christmas collection appears to only be available on the website for the UK and Ireland, so fans in America will have to stick to traditional wrapping paper.

Christmas is a secular holiday in Japan and in the 1970s there weren’t many established holiday traditions. In 1974, KFC started a marketing campaign called “Kentucky for Christmas.” ...

Forget turkey. In Japan, Christmas is a time to feast on KFC. CNN Travel explores how the American fast food chain grew to be synonymous with the holiday season.

Precisely how that happened is opaque. On the website of the Mitsubishi Corporation, which first brought KFC to Japan in 1970 for the Osaka World Expo, it’s noted that by 1974 the Christmas ...

Forget turkey. In Japan, Christmas is a time to feast on KFC. CNN Travel explores how the American fast food chain grew to be synonymous with the holiday season.