A REMOTE Yorkshire Dales pub has become embroiled in a legal battle with a multi-national fast food outlet.
Solicitors acting for Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) have written to the Tan Hill Inn, near Richmond, over the pub's use on its website of the term "family feast".
KFC says the pub - the highest in England - has broken trademark law by using the term to describe its Christmas Day menu.
In the letter, Giles Pratt, from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, said: "In the circumstances, please confirm that you will adopt a different name to describe your meal deals."
When asked whether she planned to change the website, Tan Hill landlady Tracy Daly said: "Am I heck as like.
"I'm baffled and lost for words - and I'm never lost for words.
"We're in the middle of nowhere and being bullied by some big American company, but we don't back down easily."
Ms Daly was caught out by an April Fools' Day joke this year.
A letter, sent by two regulars, claimed that a pub would be built 70 yards further up the hill - making it the new highest pub in England.
Ms Daly thought the letter from KFC's solicitors was another joke.
But when she called the firm, she was told the issue was "no laughing matter".
Ms Daly had another scare yesterday when she was called by a man who claimed to be from Holiday Inn. He said the word inn was protected and the pub was breaking the law by using it - the call was a hoax.
But a spokesperson for KFC said last night: "Family Feast is a registered trade mark of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
"This particular instance is being dealt with by our solicitors."
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