Posted on 09/08/2025 5:25:15 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Who Was Colonel Harland Sanders?
At the age of 40, Harland Sanders was running a popular Kentucky service station that also served food—so popular, in fact, that the governor of Kentucky designated him a Kentucky colonel. Eventually, Sanders focused on franchising his fried chicken business around the country, collecting a payment for each chicken sold. The company went on to become the world's largest fast-food chicken chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sanders died in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 16, 1980.
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I don’t have any experience with it; I’m a Popeye’s fan...
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I agree.
I met the 'Colonel' twice, both times in Florida, I think. He was not all that impressive but his chicken was out of this world!
After he franchised, he began to lose control of his product. Eventually he sued his successors for changing the 'secret' formula of 'spices'! ❗
It’s changed a great deal, my family has been in Easton since 1909, and still run a business founded in 1929. It’s changed a lot, but it was truly “The Land of Pleasant Living” for a long time. Maybe the bridge shouldn’t have been built.
Mom is lucky enough to live in a farmhouse on 300 acres so she doesn’t have to deal with retired GS-14’s thinking they own the world.
I do remember legendary Tilghman Island character Captain Buddy Harrison who was busted back in the day for wet t-shirt contests and would get his cousin to raise the drawbridge if you tried to stiff him on your bar bill.
Good times that, my dear friend. The shoots were a high point of the year. So much here that I miss now. Be well.
Maryland Fried Chicken... They spread around a bit but never as big as KFC!
Before the KFC nonsense, Maryland fried chicken was the gold standard. Not content with stealing our chicken, the last Rye distillery in Maryland closed in the 70’s.
Sometimes I want to declare jihad againt Kentucky.
I saw my first ‘shooting star’ on Tilghman; I was smashed behind the seats of a little sports car and just happened to look up.
Before I met the NC Outer Banks, that area was my favorite in the world.
All the good places are gone or going. When I want to relive them I pour a couple fingers of drinking stuff and read Robert Ruark’s “The Old Man and the Boy”.
😉 Maybe Kentucky moonshine was better...
Good article, but he was a bit wilder than that.
Heretic! :)
I guess they’re practicing respect the deceased...
No, this wasn’t a chain:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/08/camp-david-restaurant-closes/13760815/
My guess is that he’d want the full monty obituary, warts and all.
I’m sure the tongue wagging took care of that, and his full story isn’t forgotten.
One story I heard was a bachelor party had a dispute over the bill and the locals chased them out. Buddy had the bridge raised, and the miscreants called the State Police who had to arrive by helicopter to rescue them from where they were hiding in the marsh.
😄 I was a wee slip of a lad around Thunder Road!
LOL
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