KFC goes underground.

PositionTHE MIDDLE EAST - Fast food is smuggled in the uderground tunnel to reach the Gaza Strip - Brief article

For fast food, it's anything but fast or cheap: It takes four hours for the KFC chicken (at $27 for 12 pieces) to be smuggled from Egypt through an underground tunnel into the Gaza Strip--the 140-square-mile coastal area that's home to 1.7 million Palestinians and is being blockaded by both Egypt and Israel. "It's our right to enjoy that taste the other people all over the world enjoy," says the young man who arranges deliveries. The passage of goods and people into and out of Gaza is severely restricted. Israel says it's trying to prevent the militant...

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