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Bro's cooked, literally

This meme shows a live rooster standing directly outside the glass entrance door of a KFC fast food restaurant, which is known for selling fried chicken made from chickens. The top text reads 'No one can be braver than this...', creating an ironic joke. The original title 'Bro's cooked, literally' uses a pun: in slang 'cooked' means doomed or defeated, and here it is literal because the rooster is at a restaurant that cooks chickens for food, meaning he is literally doomed to be cooked.
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No one can be braver than this....

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This meme shows a live rooster standing directly outside the glass entrance door of a KFC fast food restaurant, which is known for selling fried chicken made from chickens. The top text reads 'No one can be braver than this...', creating an ironic joke. The original title 'Bro's cooked, literally' uses a pun: in slang 'cooked' means doomed or defeated, and here it is literal because the rooster is at a restaurant that cooks chickens for food, meaning he is literally doomed to be cooked.

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This meme originates from Reddit, originally posted with the title 'Bro's cooked, literally'. It is a viral humorous photograph of a real rooster outside an actual KFC location, that has been widely shared across social media platforms as a joke.

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