We know that the nation is trapped in the grasp of a tough recession and finding extra cash for dining out at the moment can prove a difficult feat — but this is just outrageous.

All Hell is breaking loose at Kentucky Fried Chicken locations across America thanks to a coupon from The Oprah Winfrey Show offering everyone and their Dad a free 2-piece order of KFC’s new Kentucky Grilled Chicken. Too bad most KFC Restaurants aren’t honoring the promotion. But if you thought folks were putting on their Big Boy Pants and going home with glum faces without their chicken, you guessed wrong.

Think rioting and sitting-in…..

One witness tells Gawker.com:

I just returned from my lunch break hoping to use the attached coupon to score some free KFC grilled chicken at the mid town location 47 E. 42nd Street. Well I guess around 200 people also had the same idea
with coupons in hand. When I finally gave up (after 30 minutes of aguing with other customers) a small RIOT started going on outside the store with people screaming at the manager while he wont let them use their free KFC coupons (issued by OPRAH)….

Another KFC patron reports: “If the coupon doesn’t print, consider it a blessing! the portchestoer NY store sort of honored a few before noon (2 wings, mash & no biscuit) and then told the remaining coupon holders (that were shunned into a separate line) that the chicken was gone. I eat at this KFC regularly and was treated like a vagrant because I had a coupon; that they issued!”

Folks in Pasadena, CA. are telling a similar story: “I just came back from the North Lake KFC in Pasadena California, where the sign on the door read ‘We are not accepting internet coupons.’”

Are these people serious? It’s chicken –and lousy chicken at that! Just cut your losses and go home. Sorry, but I’m more of a Popeyes kind of girl.

Have any of you had any success redeeming this coupon?

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