Website dedicated to Colonel Sanders tells story of his legacy

[Turborama]

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The collection of photos, videos and testimonials tell the archetypal American success story of a humble man who, at the age of 65, turned a $105 social security check into a global chicken empire.

Though today the chain serves 12 million customers in 109 countries around the world, the multinational chain started in the humble kitchen of a service station, where the colonel served what is now known as his original recipe chicken on his own dining table.

Prior to his success, the sixth-grade dropout had worked as a farmhand, an army mule-tender, a locomotive fireman, railroad worker, insurance salesman and tire salesman before opening up a service station in Corbin, Kentucky, at the age of 40. There, he fed hungry travelers his signature chicken and soon invented the "home meal replacement," complete meals he called "Sunday Dinner, Seven Days a Week," created for busy time-strapped families.

When a new interstate highway forced the closure of his restaurant, the colonel, then 65, took his "secret recipe" of 11 herbs and spices and his $105 check and pounded the pavement, striking handshake deals with restaurant owners who agreed to sell his fried chicken.

Full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/website-dedicated-to-colonel-sanders-tells-story-of-his-legacy-2329550.html

The website: http://www.colonelsanders.com/

[trackfan]

1. He was a Democrat.

I remember him appearing at the Democratic Party Telethon in 1972.


http://www.yummyeats.com

[Solly Mack]

2. I met Harland Sanders when I was a little girl.

He was having a chicken lunch at Grandma's Biscuits on Hill Street in Atlanta, Georgia. We sat on the porch of the restaurant and talked a bit. He sat in the swing and I sat next to him. He said his meal was very good...just not as good as his chicken. lol

[Turborama]

7. Wow, what a cute annecdote.

And exactly the sort of thing that would fit right in on the legacy site.

:hi:

(PS I'll be coming back to the photography group soon and am really looking forward to catching up with everyone there and getting back into it again. I've been overwhelmed with work until now and haven't had time for my poor lonely camera. Having said that, our first child (daughter) is due to arrive at the beginning of next month so it's probably only a brief window of opportunity. Then again, maybe I'll share a choice few of the hundreds of baby photos I'm sure to be taking...)

[Solly Mack]

8. The group would LOVE!! baby photos.

How exciting! A new baby!! A FIRST baby!!

Congratulations to you both!!!


He was a very nice man.

[Mimosa]

18. Cool!

Is it true that 'Italian dressing herbs' (as in Hidden Valley's product) are similar in flavour to the 'secret' herbs and spices? I've never tried the mc with chicken.

[Solly Mack]

19. No idea. Never thought about it really. Haven't had KFC in a long time.

[Turborama]

20. Thank you for the congrats

It is really exciting.

I'm looking forward to sharing pics of our bundle of joy with the world.

See you there soon...

[Canuckistanian]

25. I saw him in 1981 at a restaurant in Toronto

And no, it wasn't a KFC. It was at a local chain steakhouse.

Me and my date had just finished booking a table then we turn around and there was Col. Harland Sanders sitting right there in the waiting area, decked out in his full signature white suit.

I later found out he owned a home in Oakville, Ontario and visited there often.

He even donated an entire wing to a local hospital, the Colonel Sanders Family Care Centre.

[fishwax]

26. I think he held on to the Canadian KFC's even after he'd sold the American chain

so it makes sense that he'd be active in the community up there.

That would have been pretty cool to see him in a local steakhouse :)

[ClarkUSA]

3. Yum! owns it now. My only fast food weakness is for KFC chicken. Thanks for the fascinating story.

K & R

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Hey! We agree on something!

Yummy stuff.

[ClarkUSA]

6. Well, whaddya know...

:toast:

Damn, I'm going have to revise up my opinion of your judgment now. ;)

Yummy indeed. Man, I'm hungry now.

[JI7]

10. i always get cravings after the smell, i like the hot wings

[ClarkUSA]

16. Yummy.

This is torture. Now I'm smelling things...

You do realize that because of this thread, I've already eaten a carob-dipped rice cake AND a slice of leftover birthday cake.

But what I really want is a bucket of KFC Extra Crispy. Yum.

[rpannier]

17. You're on the "Negated Diet" too I see

When you have something with a lot of calories (birthday cake) you offset it with a low-calorie food (rice cake) and therefore the calories of the high calorie food have been negated.

[ClarkUSA]

28. ROFL!

Yes, thanks, that's what I'm doing. Exactly.

:rofl:

[alfredo]

5. He would visit with the hippies in the park. Sometimes he'd

bring food.

Sometimes he'd change places with his chauffeur just to tweak the noses of the uptight white people.

[Turborama]

14. The "I Will Never Pass Anybody Up" quote is a live link to a video that gives testimony

...to where his empathy and philanthropy came from. It's at the top of the page and pops out when you click on the image.

Going by the chauffeur story t sounds like he was a mischievous character with a great sense of humor, too.

I have to admit to not really knowing anything about him until reading the article and finding the site. Sadly, high profile ethical role models like him are few and far between these days.

Edited to add the link again to save scrolling up... http://www.colonelsanders.com/

[alfredo]

23. Such behavior would be frowned upon at the local Chamber of Commerce.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. I recall seeing him interviewed on the Merv Griffin show

He was quite the southern gent that one would imagine. Apparently he wasn't happy with the extra crispy recipe, and said it tasted like a dough ball on a stick or something and pissed off the people who were running KFC at the time.

[indurancevile]

12. i liked the old kfc food. it actually tasted homemade. it doesn't now.

[AngkorWot]

11. his secret recipe is one of those recipes that's good enough for a successful franchise.

Everything else on the menu, not so much.

[PSPS]

13. Colonel Sanders records a radio commercial

http://www.snarkrocket.com/audio/campchaos-colonelsanders.mp3

[Warren DeMontague]

15. That mass murdering psychopath?

Come the poultry revolution, there's gonna be some SERIOUS payback, man!

[sabrina 1]

21. He sounds like a great person. And if he had not had that SS

check, there would have never been any KFC!

That gave me an idea!

I saw a documentary recently also on the guy who founded the Heinz Corporation. He also seemed like a really nice guy.

Hi Turborama. I loved the Mark Fiore video you posted in the Somalia thread ...

http://www.markfiore.com/political-cartoons/watch-somalia-famine-al-shabab-obama-un-hunger-relief-animated-video-mark-fiore-animation

Mark Fiore is a genius.

[Turborama]

24. What's the idea?

If it's for a related thread please PM me a link so I don't miss it...

Mark Fiore is a genius. Until recently I used to check his website regularly, but that one being on TV just before I came across your OP was synchronicity in action.

[sabrina 1]

27. I will PM it to you. It is just an idea re SS and the Col.

As you know it is a huge issue right now, so this story is relevant considering The Col. started his business using his SS check.

'Synchronicity in action'. It definitely was. I wish more people had seen it, I would have included it in the OP as it was so appropriate to the topic and why we are not really in a postition to do much for any of these people, Pakistan eg, during the floods as you remember. So sad too because the US could be such a great force for good.

Thrilled, btw to hear about the baby coming. :-)

[saras]

22. It's too bad he couldn't create a company with his values...