Do you think white people knew enough about herbs and spices to create KFC?

Question

Or was the secret recipe invented by Blacks that did all the cooking on the plantation, and is it reasonable that a white should get the credit (and money!) for creating a food empire like KFC?

Answer 1

that is a good question, this is what I found. .....

KFC (formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken) is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc., and is based in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Founded by Col. Harland Sanders, KFC is known mainly for its fried chicken.

Sanders first served his fried chicken during the Great Depression at a gas station he owned in Corbin, Kentucky, and later at a restaurant and motel he bought across the street. He generally served travelers, often those headed to Florida, so when plans for the new interstate highway system in the 1950s failed to include Corbin, he sold his properties and began to travel the United States to sell his chicken to restaurant owners. Sanders entered into agreements where he would receive five cents for each piece of chicken sold. [1][2][3] The first to take him up on the offer was Pete Harman [4] in Salt Lake City, Utah; together, they opened the world's first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" outlet in 1952. (The Corbin businesses did not bear that name.) Sanders sold the entire KFC franchising operation in 1964 for $2 million, and it has since been sold three more times, most recently to PepsiCo, who made it part of their Tricon Global Restaurants division, now known as Yum! Brands, Inc. In 1997, Tricon was spun off from PepsiCo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC

Answer 2

Hate to break this to you, but Wonderwoman hit the nail on the head. Harland Sanders grew up poor and fatherless, learned to cook taking care of his family in a rural community, and built a food empire (which he ultimately lost to corporate maneuvering) virtually from nothing.
I actually met Colonel Sanders (who was an honorary colonel - a designation in the power of the governor of Kentucky) back in the 1960s. He was a great cook, a fantastic marketing icon, and a pretty nice guy.
Get over your bigotry, boyo. You really sound ignorant. If you want to hate somebody, hate the corporate trolls who forced Harland Sanders out of the business he created, turned him into just a trademark (like the Big Boy), and left him doing commercials at the end of life just to make ends meet. The corporation that became KFC (notice how they've lost their regional identity?) is the real villain of the story, not the old "white guy" who invented the recipe.

Answer 3

For the record, Colonel Sanders was born 25 years after the Civil War ended. He never lived on a plantation. His father died when he was six and his mother worked, so he cooked for the family. He worked at a service station and started fixing fried chicken for the customers. It took him 9 yrs to develop his recipe that is now owned by KFC. Is it reasonable to suggest anyone else should benefit from his work?

Answer 4

What a conspiracy theory.

First off, tell me the country of origin of those spices and herbs. Then we might find out KFC was a formula created by american indians or mexicans.

And is kernel sanders even real? Is that fat kid outside of bigboys real? And does ronald mcdonald own mcdonalds.

You might want to g et off the KFC, and realise that Blacks not only invented the car, the airplane, and the personal computer... But peanut butter and paperclips.

Answer 5

Does this REALLY matter?

I'm not saying that this is right, but.... If you really think about it from the perspective of the slave owner -- the slave owner did own the recipe since they viewed the slaves as property. Any property created by their property, became their property.

Also, the white guy on the bucket was just the face of an ad campaign, you've gotta advertise to the larger audience in order to reach the mass required for commercial success.

Answer 6

The original recipe is looked away in a safe somewhere.. probably in KFC head office. no one will ever find out the recipe as it is mixed in 2 different factories. 1/2 the mix is in one factory, 1/2 in another. Then they are bought together and mixed to make the final product. I guess if you were desperate enough to find out you could bribe the workers at each factory to tell you. But they would all have had to sign confidentiality agreements. I have heard of a guy who made it his life ambition to find out the mix. he cooks and cooks different blends until he gets one that tastes just the same as KFC. He was on the Radio the other day, he rekons he has it perfected now. He is somewhere in Australia I think. google it, you might find something.

Answer 7

Hate to break this to you, but KFC and Col. Sanders was all a marketing gimmick. The "secret recipe" was actually created in a food lab!

Answer 8

I don't think the recipe is that old. Truth is, it isn't typical fried chicken. It's cooked in a special pressure cooker, which I doubt was found on the plantation.

Answer 9

Colonel Sanders invented the recipe. However, he probably had black slaves cook up the chicken, so you're right, blacks do deserve part of the money.

Answer 10

I hope you aren't really serious. It would distress me to think that there is somebody backward and ignorant enough to actually believe that kind of racist crap. If you are just trying to provoke a response I guess it worked. If you really believe that BS stay out of real estate or the stock market, you don't have the brainpower. Matter of fact, crawl back into whatever hole you escaped from so you don't drag the aggregate IQ of the rest of the country down. Jeez...I feel dumber just replying to your post.