Meetings with famous meats

Sooner or later in the making of a new Chinese acquaintance, I will have to start a conversation about Kentucky Fried Chicken.

This is not an option for me; I have to do it. Not because I must express my fervent love for all eleven of their herbs and spices, and not because I'm being compensated for word-of-mouth advertising; it's because inevitably my new Chinese friend will ask the following question:

"Where in America are you from?"