KFC story began at the turn of last century, when a young boy, Harland Sanders, became an accomplished cook through ‘family necessity’.
Sanders is known all over the world. Whenever people eat Kentucky Fried Chicken, the colonel’s white coated image looks down on them.
Harland Sanders was born of Henryville, Indiana on 9 September 1890. He died of leukemia in Louisville, Kentucky on 16 December 1980.
Sanders learned to cook as a small boy when, following the death of his father, his mother went out for work.
He spent considerable years doing casual work and serving in the United States Army, where he received the title ‘Colonel.’
Anyway, at age forty, Colonel Sanders purchased a gas service station, in a small town in Kentucky.
After a few years his gas station burned down. Sanders rebuilt it and added a motel and a place to eat.
Kentucky Fried Chicken was born and the good food soon earned Sanders some local fame.
Over the next ten years he tried different seasonings to flavor his chicken.
From this experimentation evolved ‘his secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices and the basic cooking technique which is still used today’.
He sold the business when the town was bypassed by a highway.
He then travelled the United States by car, cooking chicken for restaurant owners and their employees.
If the reaction was favorable Sanders entered into a handshake agreement in a deal which stipulated a payment to him of a nickel for each chicken the restaurant sold.
By the age of sixty five the Colonel had 600 Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchise outlets dotted across the United States and Canada.
This as 1964, the year is which he sold the American business for $2 million, leading to another rags to riches story.
The business continued to grow and twenty years later Kentucky Fired Chicken was sold again, for $840 million.
There are 11 authentic spices and herbs that go into making KFC the desirable take away chicken. It’s these 11 secret ingredients that differentiate it from its competitors.
This perception has been part of sophisticated promotional activities.
In January 2001 it was rumored that the original recipe of Colonel Sanders was in danger of being sold at public auction by a couple who supposedly had found the list. The story made headlines worldwide.
Although KFC believed it was improbable that the couple had obtained the secret recipe, the company took the claim seriously and asked a court to prevent them from selling or disclosing the list of ingredients.
KFC investigated the couple’s claim thoroughly and compared their list t the Colonel’s secret recipe.
According to KFC, the recipe found by the coke was nowhere close. KFC dismissed the lawsuit.
Secret Recipe of KFC
