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KFC offers customers in India battery pack to go with fried chicken — CNET

By TechTaffy Desk

What is better than fried chicken? Fried chicken that can also charge our ever-dying cell phones. Not exactly the fried bits, but the box the chicken came in. KFC has launched a promotion in India – Watt a Box – that offers customers a 6,100mAh powerbank to go with the food. CNET’s Manish Singh writes. 

By the way, the KFC menu in India includes oven-baked omelettes and potato crispers.

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