How KFC Made Colonel Sanders Sexy

food and wine ^ | 12/29/2020 | pearse anderson

[mylife]

Kentucky Fried Chicken founder and mascot Colonel Sanders is an American icon, but until recently, he wasn’t exactly known for his sex appeal. That changed in 2017. The sexualization of the Colonel has intensified in the past few years with an advertising campaign titled “The Return of the Colonel” that hits erotic highs not seen from corporate fast food since the boom times of Hooters, or the “slutburger” era of Carls Jr. From romance novels to this month’s Lifetime mini-movie, both marketers and KFC fans have been hard at work making a gentle old man possess the charm of early-2000s Brad Pitt, a transformation that’s taken blood, sweat, and chicken grease to pull it off.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#24: "Norm Macdonald has been my personal favorite Colonel impersonator."

My vote would go to Christopher Walken on SNL as Colonel Angus.

[Blurb2350]

I did not know that! “Live and learn,” as my mom used to say.

[a fool in paradise]

Revisionist history.

What do they have against the 20th century Southern “Colonel”?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Who next, Dave Thomas?

[a fool in paradise]

I take it from that photo that KFCpepsiCo. is using artificial hormones in their products.

[setter]

“I did not know that! “Live and learn,” as my mom used to say.”

I did not know it either until I lived in Memphis and worked with black people.

[a fool in paradise]

Could that be a disinformation campaign spread by KFC corporate when he was going around complaining about what they had done to his product/recipes and said that their mashed potatoes taste like wallpaper paste?

[a fool in paradise]

Ford and Rockefeller don’t want too many eyes on the lives and beliefs of their founders. They established “charitable foundations” to stockpile their wealth and as a PR move.

[Dr. Sivana]

No self respecting black would step in a KFC. Popeyes and Churches Chicken is their Krypton.

Just as no self respecting Hispanic would eat at Taco Bell.

I lived in Columbus, Georgia for four years, and plenty of black folks eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken, it is Chick-Fil-A that is short on black people (except my daughter, who likes it).

I now live in Phoenix, Arizona, and plenty of Hispanic folks eat at Taco Bell, though more at Filberito's.

Places like Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell are not regarded as "authentic" by either group, but it serves as fast, convenient, comfort food on its own terms in a pinch.

[lowbridge]

I dont know when that was. But these stories date back to the 1960s when he travelled from place to place for publicity for his restaurants and he hired various female employees to pose for advertisements and such. Some of those ladies are the ones who called him “an old letch”

[Stravinsky]

Increasing the quality of their food (especially their sides) would make it a lot “sexier” to me.

[Stravinsky]

Lots of black people eat at KFC.

[Stravinsky]

Oh, how I miss Filibertos. Best Mexican-ish fast food I’ve come across.

[mylife]

I bought a chicken pot pie there once that had NO CHICKEN! $6!!!

Never been back.

[mylife]

Gibbme day chicken from Popeye.

[Dr. Sivana]

and said that their mashed potatoes taste like wallpaper paste?

But they do.

[Albion Wilde]

I'll stick with the sexy UPS driver.

[mylife]

All yours.

[mylife]

I'm sending this guy :)

[SaveFerris]

Norm MacDonald did a great job as the Colonel.

Always enjoyed his ads. The best, by far.