Posted on 11/10/2011 5:42:09 PM PST by smokingfrog
The man who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken apparently had one more trick up the sleeve of his ubiquitous white jacket.
But this time around, its page-flippin' – not finger-lickin' – good.
Col. Harland Sanders, the mustachioed face behind fast-food chicken goliath KFC, is said to have penned an autobiography that chronicles his love of food and even shares some of his personal recipes.
KFC announced Thursday that a company employee stumbled across the "hidden" manuscript at a storage facility in Louisville, Kentucky.
"We've uncovered a new secret of the Colonel's and we want to share it with millions of KFC fans around the world," KFC Corp. CEO Roger Eaton said in a prepared statement.
But the world's fried chicken fans will have to wait for the Colonel's musings. KFC has decided to release the "food autobiography" next year.
In a plot that's thicker than a Double Down Sandwich, KFC said it plans to lock the manuscript in the same vault that houses the Colonel's trademarked original chicken recipe.
According to KFC, anyone who wants to be privy to the original autobiography or the Colonel's "secret mix of 11 herbs and spices" will have to crack open a custom-made fireproof safe that weighs more than 770 lbs.
Sanders is considered a pioneer in the realm of fast-food chicken.
Though he took an interest in cooking as early as age six, the "Colonel" built his chicken empire relatively late in life. At age 65, he turned a $105 social security cheque into the company that would come to be known as KFC.
By the time he died in 1980, Sanders had spent several decades on the road visiting his restaurants worldwide.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctv.ca ...
At the bottom it said... “Save a pretzel for the gas jets!”
Sadly, if tried today, he probably couldn't have done it....
"The Colonel suddenly reached over and put his hand on my leg,
under my skirt and reached for my genitals."
Drink your Ovaltine
105$ wouldn’t even cover the cost of the permit to dream about your own business today.
Perfect!
“me whole life flashed before me eyes, it was really boring.”
“They put an addictive chemical in it - it makes you crave it fortnightly!”
"Then he told me, 'I upgraded your coop to a suite.'"
I am always in awe of the total saturation worldwide of that Kentuckians visage.
No human image including that of our own Lord Jesus will be encountered so often in so many places.
$105 would just barely buy a couple of chickens, the cooking oil, and the 11 herbs and spices.
Drink your Ovaltine
Drink your Ovaltine
” If he could taste what his restaurants serve now, he’d be kicking someone’s butt! KFC is nasty! “
It may be urban (or corporate) legend, but I understand that when he made his surprise visits to KFC stores, he *really* kicked butt over cleanliness and customer service...
Too bad he’s not around today....
Flour, salt, pepper, and MSG. The real secret is the pressure cooker they fry it in. That line of hooey about “11 secret herbs and spices” used to apply to the gravy, but KFC got cheap after the old man wasn’t around to shame them anymore.
lol.
I was watching a Chinese movie with subtitles on some cable channel about a little boy left with his bent-over (literally) grandmother in a very rural area. He was spoiled and demanded things like KFC chicken instead of rice.
Years ago there was a great radio piece about how KFC was marketing to the black community with the dancing animated Colonel. At one point, it got to Sanders’ personal history, including the time, long before started KFC, that he shot a man in a dispute over something or another. The brilliant line in the story was “The Original Recipe gangsta shot his rival in the breast and thigh.”
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