KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN HISTORY
Harland Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980), also known as Colonel Sanders, learned how to cook when his father died and he became responsible for his younger siblings.
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| Sanders at the age of seven, pictured with his mother |
The 40-year-old Harland Sanders took over a Shell filling station on US Route 25 just outside North Corbin, Kentucky, a small town on the edge of the Appalachian Mountain in 1930. He started to serve to travelers the recipes that he had learned as a youngster including fried chicken, Seven years later, he expanded his restaurant to 142 seats, and added a motel he purchased across the street, naming it Sanders Court & Café.
Colonel Sanders finalized in July 1940 his Kentucky Fried Chicken recipe with a secret blend of 11 herbs and spices. Although he never publicly revealed the recipe, Sanders admitted to the use of salt and pepper.
Colonel Sanders struck a deal his friend Pete Harman of South Salt Lake, Utah, the operator of one of the city's largest restaurants. to open the first KFC franchise. It opened for business in Salt Lake City in August 1952.
It was Don Anderson, a sign painter hired by Harman, who coined the name "Kentucky Fried Chicken."
Harman trademarked the phrase "It's finger lickin' good", which eventually became the company-wide slogan. He also introduced the "bucket meal" in 1957 ( larger portions of fried chicken served in a cardboard "bucket".)
Dave Thomas, the founder of the successful fast food chain, Wendy’s, worked at KFC prior to Wendy’s and ended up as a Regional Director in the 1960s. He was responsible for the red and white striped chicken bucket design.
When Kentucky Fried Chicken opened in China in the late 80s, the restaurant mistranslated its famous slogan "Finger-lickin' good" into Chinese as "Eat your fingers off."
Kentucky Fried Chicken is known as KFC the world over apart from in the French speaking Canadian province of Quebec. The strict language laws there mean it operates as PFK – Poulet Frit Kentucky.
Colonel Sanders is often considered one of Kentucky's most notable people. However, it should be noted that he was born and raised in Indiana, not Kentucky.
Colonel Sanders once tried to claim the cost of his white suits as a tax deduction. The IRS disallowed this claim.
Sanders made surprise visits to KFC restaurants, and if the food disappointed him, he denounced it to the franchisee as "God-damned slop" or pushed it onto the floor. If the gravy was't tasty enough he would bang his cane on whatever furniture was available.
It was Don Anderson, a sign painter hired by Harman, who coined the name "Kentucky Fried Chicken."
Harman trademarked the phrase "It's finger lickin' good", which eventually became the company-wide slogan. He also introduced the "bucket meal" in 1957 ( larger portions of fried chicken served in a cardboard "bucket".)
Dave Thomas, the founder of the successful fast food chain, Wendy’s, worked at KFC prior to Wendy’s and ended up as a Regional Director in the 1960s. He was responsible for the red and white striped chicken bucket design.
When Kentucky Fried Chicken opened in China in the late 80s, the restaurant mistranslated its famous slogan "Finger-lickin' good" into Chinese as "Eat your fingers off."
FUN KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN FACTS
Kentucky Fried Chicken is known as KFC the world over apart from in the French speaking Canadian province of Quebec. The strict language laws there mean it operates as PFK – Poulet Frit Kentucky.
Colonel Sanders is often considered one of Kentucky's most notable people. However, it should be noted that he was born and raised in Indiana, not Kentucky.
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| Colonel Harland David Sanders Wikipedia Commons |
Colonel Sanders once tried to claim the cost of his white suits as a tax deduction. The IRS disallowed this claim.
Sanders made surprise visits to KFC restaurants, and if the food disappointed him, he denounced it to the franchisee as "God-damned slop" or pushed it onto the floor. If the gravy was't tasty enough he would bang his cane on whatever furniture was available.
There was a romance novella set in medieval England featuring Harland Sanders as the love interest. Tender Wings of Desire was published by KFC as a promotional stunt for Mother’s Day 2017.
KFC was one of the first fast food franchises to move into Asian markets. However, the chain was forced to change its ‘finger-licking good,’ slogan in 2011 after it moved into China. The slogan was erroneously translated into Chinese as "eat your fingers off."
There are two Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in Japan that offer all-you-can-eat buffets—the Expo City location is home to a suit worn by the Colonel himself.
KFC, whose secret chicken recipe includes 11 herbs and spices, follows exactly 11 users on Twitter - six men named Herb and the five Spice Girls.
If we cooked every living chicken in the world, the chicken would fill enough Kentucky Fried Chicken 16-piece buckets to stack to the moon and back three times.
Kentucky Fried Chicken is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013.
KFC was one of the first fast food franchises to move into Asian markets. However, the chain was forced to change its ‘finger-licking good,’ slogan in 2011 after it moved into China. The slogan was erroneously translated into Chinese as "eat your fingers off."
There are two Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in Japan that offer all-you-can-eat buffets—the Expo City location is home to a suit worn by the Colonel himself.
KFC, whose secret chicken recipe includes 11 herbs and spices, follows exactly 11 users on Twitter - six men named Herb and the five Spice Girls.
If we cooked every living chicken in the world, the chicken would fill enough Kentucky Fried Chicken 16-piece buckets to stack to the moon and back three times.
Kentucky Fried Chicken is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 18,875 outlets in 118 countries and territories as of December 2013.
In Japan, it is a Christmas tradition to order KFC. This particular unusual festive practice dates back to the early 1970s when a customer at the chain’s Aoyama store observed that, in a land where it was difficult to get hold of the customary turkey for a celebratory dinner, fried chicken was the next best thing. The restaurant manager Takeshi Okawara had the idea to sell a Christmas "party barrel," inspired by the elaborate American turkey dinner, but with fried chicken instead of turkey. The KFC corporate offices got wind of the idea and the company started a huge advertising campaign in Japan called “Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!” (Kentucky for Christmas!) in 1974, which was ludicrously popular.
Takeshi Okawara was made the CEO of KFC Japan a decade later and held the role for almost two decades.
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