How is this for service with a smile, and some serious delivery service at that. An Egyptian delivery company, although not the average delivery service, managed to smuggle some finger lickin’ good chicken through an underground tunnel to the Gaza Strip. Rafat Shororo had been craving the chicken goodness for six years ever since he had eaten a KFC chicken burger in Egypt. Shororo said:

It has been a dream, and this company has made my dream come true. All you need to have any KFC product is a short phone call and a few hours, then you can enjoy the great taste of fried chickens.

The delivery company advertises their fast food smuggling business on Facebook. The delivery takes about three hours and is three times the normal price you would pay for the chicken, but with hundreds of orders piling in, it seems people don’t mind the wait or the charge. Security on the Gaza Strip cannot be that tight with tasty chicken burgers making their way through the tunnels. Tunnel smuggler Abu Iyad said:

I wonder why people pay a lot of money to buy a small meal of chicken. I can buy four chickens for the price of one meal.

al-Yamama company employees one day decided that they wanted KFC and ordered some chicken meals from a KFC restaurant in the Egyptian city of al-Arish. One of the employees contacted a friend in al-Arish and asked him to place the order and bring it through the tunnels. This led to the company’s idea of bringing the service to Gazans. Financial manager at al-Yamama, Mohammed al-Madani said:

Most of those who order are people who are accustomed to travel and eat KFC food around the world.

After getting the orders, we call our partner in al-Arish and ask him to make the orders, after getting the meals, he goes to a specific tunnel and asks smugglers to transfer them into the other side of the tunnel; this may take a few minutes.

Moving chicken through the tunnels is not the norm. According to tunnel smuggler Abu Iyad; basic food stuff, construction materials and maybe people are the things that normally get smuggled through the tunnel. But the chicken is a first. Business in the tunnel smuggling business has been bad and it’s for this reason that Iyad accepts and smuggles KFC. Iyad said:

The tunnel business is not like before, things are going worse and barely work, especially after the Egyptian army started to tear down the tunnels.

[Source: The Christian Science Monitor]