KFC has pulled a controversial advert from down under after complaints that it was racist.The ad features a white Australian cricket fan looking exasperated as black supporters- supposedly West Indian- are loudly cheering. The white fan asks aloud how to get out of an “awkward situation.” He then whips out a bucket of KFC chicken, and the black fans greedily stuff their faces.

The white guy then says: “Too easy.”

The racist stereotype of black people and fried chicken is pretty well known.

Some people, outraged at the outrage, have defended the international corporation, arguing that if it was Australia playing England, the ad would have shown the Barmy Army stuffing their faces. Somehow I just don’t see that happening. The ad works because it plays to the stereotype of black people loving fried chicken. In order to work in a Barmy Army context, it would need to be promoting tea, or some other English stereotype.

At the end of 2009, it was predicted that Australia would see a 20% drop in the number of Indian students choosing to study there, following perceived racist attacks. The Australian economy is expeced to lose about $70m (44m) in revenue.

And if that wasn’t enough,who could forget Harry Connick Jr speaking out against racist stereotyping in October 2009 on a highly rated Australian TV show.

On the judging panel for Hey Hey It’s Saturday, he was forced to endure an act by the ‘Jackson Jive’—six dancing white men in blackface.

Connick was less than amused, giving them a zero out of ten.

Host Daryl Somers apologized later in the show, noting “I know that to your countrymen, that’s an insult to have a blackface routine like that on the show.” Connick responded, “I just wanted to say on behalf of my country, I know it was done humorously, but we’ve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons, that when we see something like that, we take it really to heart. I know it was in good fun, and the last thing I want to do is take this show to a down level—because you know how much I love this show and this country—but I feel like I’m at home here, and if I knew that was going to be part of the show, I probably—I definitely wouldn’t have done it.”

Looks like it’s all fun down in Oz.