VERY INTERESTING: KFC

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Kentucky Fried Chicken

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KFC is one of the most iconic fast food brands known to man. Its finger lickin' good Kentucky Fried Chicken is the stuff that breaded chicken dreams are made of. But do you know the story behind the first KFC? Or how Colonel Sanders started his fried chicken empire in the first place?

1. KFC was founded by a man called Harland Sanders aka Colonel Sanders. 

He started serving his trademark fried chicken when he owned a petrol station just outside North Corbin, Kentucky, back in 1930. After impressing the locals, he was given the title of honorary colonel from the Kentucky governor in 1936 and a mention in Duncan Hines’ 1939 book Adventures In Good Eating.

2. The first restaurant going by the name Kentucky Fried Chicken opened in 1952 in Salt Lake City after The Colonel met restaurant owner Peter Harman at a food seminar.

3. In 1991, the KFC name was officially adopted, 

Although it was already widely known as this as opposed to Kentucky Fried Chicken. Kyle Craig, president of KFC US, admitted the change was an attempt to distance the chain from the unhealthy connotations of "fried".

4. The KFC recipe is super-secret. 

During his lifetime, Colonel Sanders always kept the blend of 11 herbs and spices for his trademark chicken in his own head, before writing it on a scrap of paper, which he kept in his wallet. These days, the recipe is kept under literal lock and key at the KFC headquarters; with just a few select members of the company privy to the information. Although, this guy thinks he's figured it out.

5. KFC is traditionally eaten on Christmas Day in Japan. 

Buckets of fried chicken are enjoyed by millions of Japanese families from November through to Christmas Day every year. It's so popular that orders are made weeks in advance and massive queues form first thing on Christmas Day. But why? Well, it's all to do with a hugely succesful marketing campaign from 1974 called "Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii", which roughly translates into "Kentucky for Christmas!"

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