We all know that the food at KFC is finger lickin' good.
The super secret recipe used in making their chicken keeps people coming back again and
again.
Much like other famous food franchises, KFC also has its fair share of skeletons in the
closet.
Unlike those secret ingredients, let’s indulge ourselves with the top 10 disturbing secrets
KFC doesn’t want you to know.
The Da Vinci Code of the KFC recipe
Ever wondered why KFC products are lip smacking good?
Well keep wondering.
Everyone and anyone who has paid a visit to a KFC might have at least once thought of
what goes into the chicken that makes it delicious.
Yes it is bathed in tons of oil and deep fried but what makes it stand out are the secret
ingredients very few people in the company know.
The precise recipe has never been revealed because the company thinks that people might
try to duplicate its products, thus diminishing the franchise’s spotlight.
It has been passed on to the trustworthy in hushed tones and references and is going to
stay that way.
Believed to be a complex mixture of eleven herbs and spices, the actual handwritten recipe
is locked up and stored at the company headquarters in Kentucky, USA.
You might have heard about other popular food chains being imitated easily, but that’s
not the case with KFC, and this secrecy revolving around the recipe is proving to be working
in the company’s favor as it makes it more exclusive - as opposed to other fast food
restaurant chains.
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The unfaithful KFC Colonel
The recipe might have remained faithful to the core ideology of how the chicken should
taste and keep the integrity of the Colonel’s specific taste and preference intact.
The same cannot be said for the man with the glorious moustache who started it all.
The man sure made the KFC brand reach global recognition and the chain might have sprinkled
some positive information regarding the Colonel’s life, but it ‘forgot’ to mention his affinity
for infidelity.
Married to his first wife Josephine, her bearing his three children, Sanders later moved onto
other pastures when it came to having affairs with other women.
Claudia Ledington, a former waitress, was one of them.
Thanks to the help given by Claudia, both would transition KFC from a restaurant to
a brand.
Apparently it wasn’t just Ledington who caught the eye of the Colonel.
His biographer John Ed Pearce revealed information about a woman at the Chamber of Commerce,
who used to avoid Sanders as he couldn’t seem to keep his hands off her.
KFC Taste vs your health
Yes the taste succumbs us all and forces us to make multiple trips to the nearest KFC.
Yes the company markets the brand as finger lickin' good, complete with a smiling face
of Sanders, holding a KFC bucket.
But no there is not even a fine print detailing the health concerns of the fried chicken.
Its not like the public and the health department are unaware of the risk that comes with having
their food.
Throughout the years many eyebrows have been raised regarding the harm it does to the body.
According to many medical professionals, avoiding KFC is the best decision to make.
Now that proposition does seem understandable, but doctors have emphasized that meat and
oil are the least things to worry about.
Ingredients like maltodextrin can cause diabetes and increased blood sugar levels if you decide
to make it part of your lifestyle.
Knowing the health risks involved with having KFC products, healthier options are the best
route to avoid complications.
Well in case you want the blood pumping as it should, devoid of such substances and fat,
time has come to abandon that bucket and think of what benefits you can reap if you bury
it six feet under, not digging it out again.
In the wise words of Arnie himself, “if you want to turn a vision into reality, you
have to give 100 percent and never stop believing in your dream.”
Now lets hope you all take it that to heart and dethrone the Colonel, we mean, the bucket.
Sander’s secret KFC recipe for success
We have already talked about the supposed secret recipe that goes into the KFC items.
But did you know Sanders and the company always had friction between them when it came to
the business practices and the implementation of certain recipes?
While many people still believe that the famous 11 herbs and spices recipe is still used to
this day, according to the Colonel himself, the chain stopped using the secret formula
a long time ago.
Even though it’s safely locked up behind a billion embedded codes at the headquarters
now, some of us still want to hold onto the thought of tasting a chicken with the recipe
to this day and it would be hard to fact check, given the company’s protective nature regarding
the handwritten note by Sanders.
Whatever the case may be, Sander’s friction with the company was not that under wraps
as he despised the KFC menu during the latter part of his life.
According to him, the quality wasn’t up to par with the standards he had in mind,
but after his passing, things have changed and the chain decided to improve the food
quality for the better.
Chicken breeding at KFC
KFC has been accused of breeding its own chickens of a certain genetic form.
The animals are believed to be kept in inhumane conditions and are malnourished.
If you thought mutated chickens sounds like a far-fetched idea and your imagination was
going haywire, KFC has been accused on that front too, although it is a speculation.
Also the chickens are crammed into small spaces and are grown large to the point that they
can barely carry their own weight.
The abomination doesn’t end there as they are conscious while they are slaughtered.
It’s not just KFC but McDonalds as well who have come in the light when it comes to
animal cruelty.
In a leaked video, supply workers were seen punching, kicking and stamping the birds.
Animal cruelty is a big no no and those companies who endorse their products, while the animals
are being mistreated in unfathomable fashion, should be shut down at the least.
Recycle, rinse, repeat at KFC
KFC has had to bear the brunt of many things and on top of the list has been the unhealthy
price one has to pay for momentary happiness the crunchiness brings along.
Children have been prone to obesity and many mothers and health groups have coined the
franchise as a ‘Kid Fattening Centre.’
It looks like having KFC and getting fat is the least of the worries as in 2013, a video
popped up, showing an employee reusing old food and eventually repackaging to sell it
off.
Mac and cheese, green beans, and fried chicken were apparently the food items that were being
recycled again.
This turned heads and in order to extinguish the fire, a KFC spokesperson came out, claiming
it was an isolated incident and that the actions in the video were not what the company represents
when it comes to their food handling procedures.
Whatever the case, knowing the history of the food involved in the chain, one has to
remain cautious as to where the food comes from and how long it has seen the light of
day.
Knowing how the food is handled sometimes, the thought of it being ‘finger lickin'
good’ does not exactly come to mind.
The KFC shootout showdown
The last thing you would expect from Colonel Sanders is a fiery temper, especially with
the way he has been advertised with the KFC brand.
Having been part of popular culture, the ever smiling bucket grabbing Colonel actually did
have one according to this interesting story.
Back in the 1920s, Sanders managed a Shell gas station and in order to attract customers
from the highway, he painted a large sign.
This did not go down well with a man named Matt Stewart, who owned a competing Standard
Oil Station.
Both hot headed, and both having a thirst to be on top of their game, there was a lot
of friction going on there.
Stewart on multiple occasions tested Sander’s patience by messing with his signs, despite
multiple warnings.
During one of Stewart’s escapades, Sanders and the district managers he was meeting at
the time, spotted Stewart destroying his sign again.
As the men approached Stewart, the guy took out his gun and started shooting frantically.
In the heat of the moment, one of the managers, Robert Gibson got killed and Sanders grabbed
his gun, returning fire.
The aftermath of the showdown led to Stewart serving 18 years in jail for murder.
What’s in a KFC name change?
Everything!
Before it was called KFC, the franchise used to call itself by the name ‘Kentucky Fried
Chicken,’ after which it decided to shelve that name and go by the acronym we all now
know.
After the change in 1991, a lot of speculation started floating among the people as to why
the move was made.
Because of such widespread curiosity, KFC officially came out and elaborated on it on
their website.
According to the ‘official’ info, the chain wanted to showcase their diverse menu
and it wasn’t just solely about fried chicken.
According to the website, the PR move would help encapsulate what they were trying to
sell to the consumer.
During the time when Craig Kyle was the President of KFC, he let it slip that the move was made
because the word ‘fried’ was synonymous to all things unhealthy.
Knowing what kinds of products KFC has been endorsing all these years, this version of
the story seems more plausible in our opinion.
However, the official reason seems to actually be that the state of Kentucky trademarked
the word in 1990, and KFC didn’t want to have to pay licensing fees forever - so they
made the acronym official.
A change in name does not steer away from the fact that the food being sold and marketed
by the company has been and always will cause harm if eaten regularly.
What we now need is for the franchise to shake things up a bit on that menu for healthy options.
After all, if we don’t change, we don’t grow.
A case of ‘unjustified’ KFC identities
Marketing is part and parcel of every company out there so as to reach out to the masses
and attract more customers, keeping them aware of their presence.
KFC’s intention was just the same when they recently started a new series of commercials,
starring Darrell Hammond, playing the famous Colonel Sanders.
It seems like the new commercials haven’t been in the good books of people and Mashable
noted a bunch of reactions to gauge the general perception towards it.
Former KY Governor John Y.
Brown Jr. found the advertisements as ‘tarnishing’ the Colonel’s reputation and that they were
making fun of him.
Others followed suit as well and also thought of them as not giving justice to what Sanders
actually was.
But KFC on the other hand doesn’t actually care about the hatred spewed towards their
marketing gig, as for them any publicity is good publicity.
This doesn’t seem like a surprise because of the friction Sanders had with the vision
of the company.
Both of them didn’t see eye to eye on food choices and recipes.
The iconography of the man behind what KFC is today is so popular that certain layers
of ‘creative’ narrative have been cooked up by the chain to sell their product.
The KFC drug racket
KFC might be all things crispy and delicious, but the one thing anyone can’t associate
it with is a portal to smuggle drugs.
That sounds more like a Hollywood script.
But unlike all fictional stories, this one is actually true.
Yes we do live in a world where all impossibilities are on the brink of becoming a reality or
have already become one.
But that doesn’t mean there are alligators living underneath the sewers of Manhattan
or Ninja Turtles for that matter.
An abandoned KFC in San Luis, Arizona consisted of a 590 foot tunnel.
It ended at a residence in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico.
Ivan Lopez, the owner of the place was nabbed by the authorities as he was found guilty
of holding 168 kilograms of hard narcotics.
The revelation didn’t just end there as the tunnel was used to smuggle the drugs between
the US and Mexico.
Looks like you never know what you might come across in abandoned places nowadays.
So what’s next?
A hidden UFO underneath trap doors and secret tunnels?
All conspiracy buffs, take note.
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