Finger Lickin' Kentucky Fried Chicken - Life in America
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He did not make it big until he was 62 years old! Never stop your dreams.
Shigeru Miyamoto and others would be proud.
Back in the 1970s, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Colonel in one of his restaurants. He told me he thought the chicken was still pretty good but the mashed potatoes tasted like "paste" and he wouldn't touch it. He was a regular guy and a gentleman who loved meeting and talking with people and it's an experience I'll never forget.
One day, when I was about 7 years old, I was in a department store shopping with my mom on the east end of Louisville. I turned around, and there was Colonel Sanders walking my way---white suit, bolo tie, walking cane, and all! I was in awe; it was like meeting a legend. The Colonel loved kids, and he always carried KFC balloons in his suit pocket to hand out to youngsters. They were hourglass-shaped balloons, with a caricature of the Colonel himself printed on them; even had a flat piece of cardboard shaped like shoes, with a notch cut out to pull the balloon knot through so it'd stand upright. I don't know whatever happened to that balloon the Colonel gave me, but I sure wish I'd kept it now. He was an amazing man.
Awesome!😁
I would have loved to meet him myself! :)
The Colonel is a legend and icon to anyone that grew up in the 60's or 70's.
That was a time when many of the great American old school entrepreneurs were still alive and the faces of their companies, they were living people to us not just a face on a label.
Yup, and the chicken was very good. Not the greasy stuff they try to pass off these days. Loved that chicken back in the day.
You had to wait until the eighties to be affected in the same way in the uk..
@@chriskoop4888 it's still pretty damn good. Been going for 40 years
Was a was legend with a beating heart
I remember well. I haven't eaten at a KFC for over 15 years. The food quality and taste done gone down the crapper and plugged it up. They must have lost the combination to the safe and the secret formula. But back in the day (mid 60's), it was the best. only memories remain.......
They may not use the secret recipe, but it's secret so no one else can make it . Market domination is everything in really big business .
Well they say wben Sanders died he took the recipe with him to the grave
Yes sir!
I actually met the Colonel when I was 5 years old. We were eating breakfast at the now-defunct Drexel’s Truck Stop Restaurant in Stanton, Tennessee. He was there dressed in all his glory! I walked by his table on my way to the restroom, then on my way back he stopped me and said, “You sure are a pretty little girl!” (I was, no doubt, wearing one of the little frilly dresses my mom made.) I blushed and said “Thank you, sir”. I think it was around 1968 or 69.
Oh my wow! That's awesome!
Was sooooooo good many years ago.
So was another "YUM" company, Taco Bell, they used to be good and fresh, I used to work for them in 1980, and wow, pretty much everything was fresh!
@@SoapinTrucker That company is nothing but over processed foods to make money. Yes, Taco bell used to cook on site... long time ago
Back in the late 1960s I personally met Col. Sanders 2 times, He was a member of the Assembly of God Church. He would come to a town whenever they had a new opening of his restaurant and see it open its door. If there was an Assembly of God Church in that city he would attend it and give his testimony. not only did he give his testimony, after the service we had dinner in the Church where he would visit with the folks. I was around 12 years old and was able to talk with him, What we talked about, I have no idea. :) He had 2 openings in our city that year, so he made it to our church twice. Thanks for the memories of him and thank you for your channel.
@@lukezerefos8086 Sorry, I do not remember if he provided the food, our Church had Sunday dinner after service about every Sunday. Pot luck.
@@lukezerefos8086 I hear that. :)
Wow; lucky:::at a lady work at kfc in Southfield,Michigan took a photo with him it on the internet she was a cashier
So cool..
When I lived in Kentucky as a child in the late 60s I lived next door to one of his relatives. One day I saw him visit and yes, he was wearing the suit.
Epic. 😅
Awesome!
Was he soft spoken like on TV?
@@silvervalleystudios2486 I was about 4 years old and too nervous to go see him :) I remember my mom telling me it was ok to walk over.
A real prince among men he wss, I'm sure. That must have been something.
I'm 60, and I remember Kentucky Fried Chicken as tasting better back around 1970.
I’m more than 60 and I remember when EVERYTHING tasted better back in the 70s. I think now that it’s the taste buds becoming lazy as one gets old. I’ll just leave it at that. LOL!
I'm 67. I remember always getting honey butter for our biscuits.
In Kentucky being called a "Kentucky Colonel" is like being a prince. There were many Kentucky Colonels, Dave Thomas of Wendy's was one too.
and Jim Varney
@@naughtydorf18
I heard that too. In my original comment I said Prince, A Lord would be more accurate.
My father was one too he was a A Hole Masonic !
I’m a Kentucky Colonel and have been since the 80’s and I’ve never been treated any differently by anyone. It’s an honorary title awarded by the governor and is typically given to people who have done something outstanding in their community. It’s also given to political friends. It used to mean more than it does now.
@@stratmaster5 Dave Thomas got his start with Col. Sanders
I read a fascinating article about his life, but the ending was sad, where they instantly dropped the quality of the dishes as soon as they bought him out. I would so love to be able to taste KFC the way it was meant to be.
Got my first in 1966 remarkable.... GREAT!!.
I grew up in the 1960s and believe me, KFC chicken tasted and smelled amazing! You could smell it cooking whenever you were near a KFC. The chicken today is nothing like it once was. They may still use 11 herbs and spices, but I doubt they use as much of them as they one had, as the cost of spices has been increasing for decades. I am sure Colonel Sanders would be furious with the product which is sold today.
Still remember it. Tasted great 😍!! Today, like chicken flavored cardboard ☹️!
Well done! Col. Harland Sanders, as I knew him, was a good man, a great neighbor, and in the latter years of his life a devout Christian. When he was converted he stopped all that cussin by the way. I highly recommend his autobiography "Finger Lickin' Good."
It's really crappy today. What a shame. We loved it in the 60s n 70s. Once corporate gets involved thats what happens.
I eat KFC every once in a while and I don't taste anything TOO wrong. But I bet Colonel Sanders WOULD.
"You got to like your work. You have got to like what you're doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it... because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see." - Colonel Harland Sanders.
Your Music score keeps me coming back...please don't change.
When I was young growing up in the 59s thru the 70s Kentucky Fried Chicken was the best when they sold it . it had never tasted the same since so sad
Once a big corporation gets their grubby hands on a wonderful restaurant like this it gets destroyed.
Yes our location was back to doing good for quite sometime but, now that cooperate took over, you constantly are hearing one bad thing after another and, how it no longer taste the same. Everyone’s very disappointed and, I am surprised they haven’t shutdown at this rate. No one wants to buy or eat horrible food. I also heard these people they have no working in there don’t cook up enough of this horrible food and people don’t always get what they order and the staff is very rude and dismissive of customers now.
@@sonyafox3271 yep! Exactly! Out west I have lived in 2 separate towns that both had the original franchise of KFC with the pointy red/white roof and both shut down, one building is now a pizza place. KFC mostly sucks now it’s just another crappy fast food place
The kfc chicken not as good as it used to be& biscuit too;;; I hear mash potatoes was real potatoes mashed
Yes, the Colonel Would not be happy to see what has happened to his product today! Dumb ads imitating him, all the other gimmicks they came up with! Would love to go back in time, to taste what Harland's original meal was meant to be.
@@sg2823 I remember the kfc 🍗chicken;; the greatest colonel days
Used to love Kentucky Fried Chicken decades ago as a kid, but now it’s god awful. Colonel Sanders would have a stroke if he knew what Yum Brands had done to his creation.
Yeah KFC has fallen from grace. I try to avoid KFC these days.
@@enterprisingcaptian875 Soft, greasy coating that lacks taste.
Hey fellow , Kentucky fried chicken lovers ,im from Western Australia 54 yrs and I remember in the 70s even 80s early 90s rather eating the chicken with slaw, but who remembered bean salad I used to love dipping the chicken breast portion in the vinaigrette juice. If they bought that back in Australia ,I'd be so happy.does anybody else miss it ...
The Colonel knew a LONG time ago (1964). It was well known that he was disgusted on what was happening in the US with KFC. To the point he sold ALL of the rights to it...under the condition he kept control of the Canadian market. One of my friends in school, his family owned one and the Colonel visited several times in the late 70's as his Canadian residence was only 30min away.
We quit going 15 or 20 yrs ago,Horrible slop!. Cold bad sides no flavor,kids working don't care about cleanliness,How the food is,the chicken is midget size grease rolling out of it...Yukko!.
The equipment the Colonel uses is actually called a "pressure fryer"...it is not the same as the pressure cooker you might have in your kitchen.
What's the difference? Judging from the pictures in the video, it certainly looked like a pressure cooker.
@@cactusjackNV They care about 1 thing $$$$$$$$$
I watched him on What’s My Line, and he struck me as a great guy, very conservative and level-headed.
I saw that episode,,,the part that I thought was so crazy,,was even without blind folds,,, no one was able to guess his line of work,,,,, that was before advertising had any effect
He was 73 years old in that episode and still sharp as a tool.
Colonel Sanders was an old school badass. 👍
Yup''''''
he was known for his "SUPRISE" visits to franchise "KFC's" and if the food being served was not up to his standards, he would start throwing equipment out into the parking lot!!!!
Now they use a lot less seasoning, it’s a weak blend compared to the 70s where it had more flavor
I actually think the Zinger tastes better than the original recipe these days. Hold its flavor better.
The chicken is garbage too now in America.
I from Canada and alot of the stores going out of business. Do you noticed the food is so bland no life to it.
You are 100% correct on that. They ride on the brand recognition are very little competition. If you have a craving for quick fried chicken, you will have to make due with the current level of quality. There is little reason for them to improve.
Totally agree. It is not the same flavor of the recipe in the 60s and 70s. So much better back then. I wish the Colonel could still give them a cooking lesson.
Note that his daughter Margaret Sanders (who was a friend many years ago) played a major role in supporting the Colonel to make his dream happen. She also had a "business head" and was at his side (if invisible) to support him through some difficult and great times. She had great stories about growing up as the daughter of a man who became more and more famous. She said he was the most personable, charismatic person and how he would personally make sure everyone was enjoying the food and company as he would make the rounds from table to table from the beginning. It was his love of people that made the whole enterprise such a success. Margaret was a patient of mine in Physical Therapy during 1993-94 and what stories she had to tell!
Since he passed, his chicken has gone down hill here in TX.
In Indiana to.
Farther south than that. It's gone to HELL.
May I say to the younger people, today's KFC is NOT Kentucky Fried Chicken. I wish I could make it at my house because if I could, I would!
@Johnathan Harris It is not even close. Trust me! I lived about a mile from a Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 60s-70s.m We could smell that chicken blocks away. It had a taste that is unmatched by anything today. Every piece was cooked to perfection.
My mom and dad didn't buy it for us. I would get it from other people at family gatherings - birthdays, picnics, etc.
@C Howard I agree with you. KFC chicken is definitely not the same as Kentucky Fried Chicken! 😕
Me 2
@@killersopinion1829 no ma'am. It's a fuckin. Disgrace now. I remember back In the 70s early 80s. Kentucky Fried Chicken was pretty much ALWAYS my first choice of where to eat at
@@choward5430 I’d rarely get Kentucky Fried Chicken back in the 70’s-80’s. My family was too cheap to buy it often and I lived about 3-4 blocks away from Kentucky Fried Chicken and when they wind blew towards my home boy oh boy my mouth was watering every time.
My Mom always called KFC "Kentucky Colnel".
When I was a kid, the mashed potatoes and gravy were made from scratch, not instant powder!
One of the Colonel's employees, a Mister Dave Thomas, went on to found Wendy's.
Dave Thomas first became franchise owner of 2 KFC's.
Wendy's Even sucks these days.
Really legendary Dave Thomas ( wendy)work for the colonel
Yes, Dave Thomas learned the restaurant business from Sanders. Decades ago, there was a restaurant in Fort Wayne, Indiana called Hobby Ranch House (or just Hobby House, I disremember exactly) Anyway, It's where Dave Thomas lived (Not in the restaurant of course) and first worked in the restaurant business. Hobby House is long gone, but in it's place stands a Wendy's with a wall of photos of the Hobby House and Dave Thomas.
Wow! I never knew this! Thanks for this lesson. It's always nice reading the comments because I learn new things🥰
Great video! I kiss the old Potato wedges!! They added French fries sure, however I can get fries at any fast food joint. Very few have potato wedges!
I forgot about the potato wedges until just now, those were good.
I agree. liked their potato wedges! I wish they would have kept them instead of trading them in for fries.
I forgot about the wedges too. They don't sell them anymore?
I remember getting the box that CA.e with the wedge and popcorn chicken about 15 years ago. Delicious
The chicken was so good years ago
Right. YEARS.
They need to open that vault and get the original recipe, because it’s not the same as before.
I just said the same thing...AND the price has skyrocketed.
I know. Had some a couple weeks ago and will never go back
The coating I’m sure used to be crispier and stay on the meat better; now it sort of slides off by the time you get it home as if they use too much oil or something
I discovered that back in the late 1980’s. I had eaten it for the first time in years, and was very disappointed. I haven’t had it since.
@@hughstephenson2957 Hugh 2,things CHEAP Ingredients!,&These punks could care less if they are knocking
themselves out of a JOB!.
His story is really interesting, he had a lot of setbacks before making it big
Never Ever Give Up Always Move Forward
Lots of famous people did. Henry Ford, Walt Disney are two people that come to mind.
Try and try until you Die
If you fall, don’t fall backwards but fall forward.
Having a shootout with a business rival, didn't meet any success until he was around 60, challenging his formerly owned a now powerful company for changing recipes and even tried to start a new restaurant franchise...Colonel Sanders sure didn't seem to know the word "back out" or "retire" for sure.
Not sure about the 11 herbs and spices anymore. Growing in the 60s and 70s, KFC tasted incredible. It tastes nothing like it did back then anymore.
I read on Google that they are going back to the original recipe because sales have been streadily going down. I hope it will happen. Their chicken isn’t any good anymore, but back then it was delicious.
I believe they prepare the breading with a premixed batch of spices. There is no doubt that the amount of spice mix has been greatly reduced over the years, and some franchise owners may take liberties for further reduction, as a bag of spice mix must be worth at least $50. I doubt that we get more than one third of the spice mix today, barely a hint of the flavor.
I do know the most important ingredients are salt, black pepper and a dash of nutmeg using a pressure cooker to fry in.
The problem might not be with the restaurant but the makers of the ingredients. Many flour, cooking oil and spice based companies has gone out of business or changed the flavor of their ingredients. Restaurant chains should create corporations by incorporating these companies like flour, spices and cooking oil right there on the premises to ensure the ingredient stays the same.
Loved it as a kid... Don't taste the same... Haven't ate any in 10+ years
KFC chicken was good in the 60s tru the 80s , but today's KFC chicken just don't cut the mustard. It's like when you have been using Brasso metal polish in the metal can then one day when you need some and then you go out to buy it, but now it's packaged in a plastic container. Any person with brains will know what that means. They changed the formula for the product and it ain't for the better.
In the early 70s when my family would have a "fast food Friday" a couple of times a month and enjoy this. Although in those days they offered steak cut french fries that would leave you feeling overstuffed if you ate a lot! For a very brief time they came out with "Kentucky Roast Beef", but that seemed to bomb!
That sounds like it might have been in a different locality because, that’s common that different localities have different offerings that other localities don’t happened to have. Before, Long John’s Silver became a restaurant, they also sold there fish and, shrimp meals under that brand. They ended up rejoined in compound restaurants around the mid early 2000s. They must have fried the chicken and fish as well as the shrimp and livers in the same grease. I remember when it opened right before my birthday and, I got fried shrimp and livers and you could tell in the taste, which, went through the drive- thru, got home, had no- way to go back but, it was after that, I rarely went to Kentucky Fried Chicken after that.
oh man when it's fresh out of the pressure fryer you just can't beat it! :)
I recall him stating that the original extra crispy was like a " damn ball of dough on a stick." He hated it.
@@johnbockelie3899 I've heard that too. In fact I've heard that once KFC was no longer under his control, he pretty much decried what the new owners had done with his creation, and didn't mince words about it.
Original is the damn ball of dough on a stick.. blechh!
I’ve always thought KFC has the best coleslaw. It doesn’t seem to have changed over the years, which is a good thing!
✌🏻🙂✌🏻
Agree. I worked at KFC for 10 years, starting as a cook and then manager. A great job, I enjoyed it very much. FYI, not one copycat recipe on the web is correct. I still make KFC coleslaw at home with the original recipe.
I remember having Kentucky Fried Chicken in the late 1970's, 1980's, and the 1900's. Back in the day, Kentucky Fried Chicken was the best chicken. Now, it called KFC and the chicken is not like it used to be Back in the Day.
in the 1900's they just threw a live chicken in a bucket. 🐓
@@michaelearthling Ha! 😂🐔🐓🍗
'70s '80s then back (to the future) of the 1900s when you did it yourself
Or you just got older and your tastes have changed. That happens to everyone.
@@MemphisTiger I think they thinned out the spices more flour more oil and less 11 herbs. The balance is off. You used to be able to actually see the herbs in the fried chicken.
They're reopening a KFC near me with new franchise management team. I want to see if they get it fairly close to tasting correctly.
@@MemphisTiger I think they changed the oil the chicken was cooked in.
Used to get a bucket of chicken with slaw mashed potato’s and gravy it was a lot better in the 60s and 70s not as good now
Everything was better in the 60s and 70s
@@Daniel-ow2io I remember when people didn't stare into their phones. I remember when there were people outdoors shopping. I remember when there was BBQ smell in the air. We've lost our way. Come quickly Jesus.
The chicken seems way to overcooked these days.
Mashed potatoes are not homemade anymore:: love their 1960s/ 1970s kfc chicken better
@@Daniel-ow2io mashed potatoes were homemade 1960s/ 1970s
it actually tasted good in the 60's and 70's too!
I remember as a kid in the 70s my parents would take us there on Saturdays as a treat for dinner. Somehow I seem to remember it just tasting better back then not sure if it's just because it's a childhood memory 🤔🍗🍗
Same for me, it just doesn't taste as good now.
It seems much more oily, less crisp and the coating sides of easier these days
I sometimes wonder if food back then really was better or if my recollections are tinted with nostalgia, but I think it really was better before everything was industrialized and standardized. Plus, things are seldom the same once the original founders pass on. I had KFC a few years ago and it wasn't nearly good as I remember.
It DID taste better. They changed the original recipe. I haven't eaten there since.
@Damon Wadyko Probably because most chickens were farm raised or free range and tasted like chicken. Now chickens aren't even allowed to leave there one cubic foot cage. All they do is eat and sleep and then after that they are injected with water after they butcher them to give them more weight and then they are sold around the globe. It's watery meat is what you're eating. Couple that with the change in the oil in the late 80's and voila, gross chicken.
I do enjoy KFC but I have to say they have recently changed the gravy it's just not the same anymore
Is the gravy too sweet or no flavor?
Back in the day they use to use some of the chicken drippings to make the gravy that’s why it was good. I know because I worked there many years ago.
Watered down junk
Love the mashed potatoes and gravy.
@@paulht3251 Really
My fondest memories of Kentucky Fried Chicken is from family fishing trips to Canada back in the 70s and early 80s. There was one in a city we drove through around noon (North Bay, Ontario) and we’d get a bucket to eat at a scenic lookout a short drive later. Then we’d stop for the night in Timmins. Ontario, stop at a grocery store for perishable foods, then at a Kentucky Fried Chicken place in that city before driving another 75 miles to the cabin we’d rent and have our lunch there. At that time and being so far north from Toronto, food delivery wasn’t as good as now and just about anything else was virtually flavorless and tasted like it had been boiled with no salt or seasoning.
Back in my home area of northeast Ohio, there were no Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants until the 1980s. Before that, there was a chain called Kenny Kings that had the rights to sell it. That changed around the time KFC was sold to PepsiCo and was then spun off into Yum! Brands.
Great American Success Story!! Awesome!!
my favorite quote from Spaceballs is " What's the matter, Col Sanders...chicken?"
"Sanders defended himself by shooting his rival in the shoulder" *followed by cheery piano music*
I bet the colonel is rolling over in his grave knowing it's now called KFC and they are serving over priced miniature chicken crap !
The corporation changed the process for cooking the chicken and changed the gravy recipe as well, all in the name of making it cheaper and faster. It's a real shame because I remember what real Kentucky Fried Chicken tasted like.
@@BELCAN57 I worked at Colonial Sanders in the early 70s we use to use some of the chicken drippings to make the gravy mmmmmm and the recipe has also changed it just doesn’t taste the same.
Guessing the good Colonel is getting lots of exercise these days. :/
@@ambercrombie789 he's spinning like a top as his restaurant goes to Hell .......
It used to be the BEST chicken. I loved the little pies they used to have in the little pie tins...such a treat as a kid.
I met Colonel Sanders at a Grand Opening in Gainesville, FL in 1962.
I always remember looking for the Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket in the sky when my parents were trying to find one if were on a Saturday or Sunday outing. Ialso remember the Corn and Cluck for under a buck slogan.
Sad what its become today. My last few attempts in dallas tx have been horrible. Bad and over priced tiny little pieces. Whats strange is lve been to 14 of 22 provinces in China and lived in the UK for 2 years and eaten KFC all over and l believe its much better overseas, especially in China. Its like you remember it still there. Big pieces and cheap, better sides.
Geez I wonder why it might be cheap in the worlds biggest dictatorship where people getting paid $2 a day.
@@xr6lad and better. So their poor people eat better than our middleclass. I worked as a teachers assistant. Lots of chinese live middle class lives. Their upward mobility stats blow the american dream away now.
When I was growing up one of my friends was Karen Sanders---She was his Granddaughter and suffice to say that she did move back to Kentucky when her Grandpa started to get out of the business......The last time I seen her she was 7 and I was 9 :) She lived with her cousin Anita Perry and they moved as well.....Small World !!!!
In it's day it was dam good, them days are sadly over
My first job was working for KFC. A little bit before my time, Colonel Sanders had paid a visit to our store. Wish I could have experienced that. My older co-workers spoke of his visit very fondly.
Today they must only use 5 of the 11 herbs and spices. Not like it was in the 70s. Was WAY better back then.
Kentucky Fried Chicken used to be delicious because it was REAL food back then. I could walk to one as a kid and get the best 99 cent lunch around. During a family vacation in the mid 70s to Las Vegas, I rode up in an elevator with him & his enormous body guard at the Hilton. He was impeccably dressed in his trademark white suit and we exchanged pleasantries. As an impressionable 15 year old at the time, I still hang onto that golden memory!
Loved KFC when I was a kid, but yeah quality went down over the years. Now, I like the fried chicken from the deli at Publix.
not to many people can say that Colonel sanders was there babysitter. he was my babysitter for an 2 hours when i was 3 yrs old in 1971 i still remember everything he said to me and his wonderful smile he had and his thick heavy white suit he wore when i sat in his lap and he held me a memory i will always remember
A serial killer named John Wayne Gacy used to be the manager at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
Women was found dead under a big pile of Captain Crunch. Police stated it was a cereal killing :)
That's scary.
Fun fact, my in laws live a few houses away from a house where Colonel Sanders stayed in Saskatoon Saskatchewan!! I hear he was overseeing new Canadian franchises. God damn now I want fried chicken real bad! Love this channel!
First time I ever had Kentucky fried chicken was in Hawaii! 1970 leaving Oahu for the mainland. I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven! Thee are the best fried chicken… finger licking good!
"The Colonel used salty language..." I heard an audio of the Colonel giving a lesson to someone in the company on how to properly cook chicken. "You don't know what the h--- you're doing, give me that G-----n skillet and I'll show you how to cook chicken." It was pretty funny contrast to the squeaky-clean grandpa image he had in commericals.
Welcome to the life of a professional cook/chef. Ha. Ask Gordon Ramsay.
If one didn't cook his chicken correctly he took his cookers outside and put his foot though the bottoms!
It seems like the ones like him, who were the best at what they did and at the top, got there by working diligently, stubbornly, painstakingly, for years on end. When they reach success, like the colonel did as well as so many others that we could name, they couldn't settle for nothing but the best from others, when it came to them and his business.
He also after PepsiCo took over his franchise The Potatoes are like Library Paste and the gravy tastes like Crap! That was in 1979 a year before He died.
When he became a Christian he tried very hard to overcome the bad language but he said it was extremely difficult as he had used that language for so many years. He was angry with himself when the words slipped out. It's like someone who has smoked for 50 years and gives it up but finds it extremely difficult to quit.
KFC cured me of ever liking coleslaw.
I miss the original unbreaded recipe -- Harlan himself lamented "crispy" as "so much bread" it after he sold the company off.
Lesson: Don't sell off your company to Wall Street suits, they will cheapen the product to maximize profits at ANY cost.
KFC cemented my dislike for mashed potatoes. I think the coleslaw is great.
@@PixelatedH2O I never ate their mashed potatoes and gravy. Horrible. I hate coleslaw tho
I have always loved KFC, but it doesn't taste the same anymore and the price for a bucket where we live is $49.00. I doubt I'll ever buy it again. That's way too expensive. And french fries have been part of the menu for decades. That's not a recent thing.
yeah i didn't understand that, i'm in Australia and in my 50's and can remember the fries being sold for decades.
$49 for a bucket. How many pieces? Here in Australia the largest bucket has 21 pieces and costs $34.95.
@@silvervalleystudios2486 I think it was 21 pieces.
My folks took me to our 1st. KFC dinner in Toledo, I still remember the taste which was obviously more memorable than it is today, the flavor seemed far more pronounced. The KFC at Eastern Shopping Center on Woodville Rd. served the dinners on cafeteria trays with metal flatware. it was great.
There is still a KFC on Woodville Road near Great Eastern Shopping Center in Toledo. Quality has gone up and down over the years, but it's still hanging in there in a changing neighborhood.
The last time my husband and I ate anything from KFC, he had gotten a Spicy Chicken Sandwich and according to him it was not good. Ever since then, we have not ever gone back.
I stopped 20 years ago. I can make better at home.
I am mighty afraid if Colonel Sanders was alive today, he’d be highly disappointed in the quality of the chicken! For sure it’s not Kentucky Fried Chicken, just KFC.
I think a CEO would be in danger!... Better pay up insurance policy!.
Back in the early 70's a Kentucky Fried Chicken was built in our downtown area, complete with a rotating bucket on top. It was so much better back then, no crispy chicken was available then just Original, I do remember Kentucky Beef and Ham sandwiches offered for a while, I loved the Beef with their horseradish sauce.
I remember a time when he was on a talk show and was showing how to make the gravy , He was very particular how it was made and was scolding people who did short cuts and didn't do it his way.
Imagine if he saw what they are doing now, using cheap "Just add water " mixes (actually when He died everything changed ) and I just celebrated my Dad's birthday and got 2 buckets of Chicken with fixings for $ 75.00 (! ?) Goodbye Colonel .
When the Colonel died, so did KFC. Quality dropped from great to terrible over night after his death.
Kinda like when Sam Walton died Wal Mart went to big corporate $$$$ when He was alive they had great costumer service there was never a check stand not open the customer service desk had at least six or more employees working there the stores were always stocked.
@@paulht3251 Agree 100%. In every case in US when a company founder retires the inheritors send everything to China. No exceptions.
Well, it did say in the video that he sued KFC for crap food and won $1M in the suit, that was way before he died, so.....
My family got to meet with the Col at an airport in Arkansas in the 60s ,he even gave myself and little brother Col balloons with the little feet . Will never forget that day .
When I was a kid in the 60s the nearest Kentucky Fried chicken was about 30 miles away from my small hometown. It was a big deal to drive there. It was a sit down restaurant with waitresses and menus.
Love the stuff. Had it just last nite. Their coleslaw is the bomb.
Shotgun Red on the tube has a recipe you'd like.
If you think it's good now you're apparently pretty young. It was much better in days gone by.
As a kid in the early 70s I loved when my dad came home with a big bucket of chicken. It seemed like there was a million pieces in a bucket.
No biscuits in 60s,dinner rolls.
My first job was at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Whittier CA, in 1973. I was 16 years old. I cooked chicken, washed dishes, pots and pans, and cleaned the whole kitchen, floors, walls, and bathrooms. We had a great manager, our place was always the best maintained, and cleanest possible. In 1974 I joined the US Air Force and in 1976 was transferred to Germany. There was a Kentucky Friend Chicken right outside the base. Surprise... We did pressure cook the chicken, making it fall off the bone tender. Today the chicken is cooked somewhere else, probably Mexico and shipped to restaurants frozen, then heated in microwave ovens. Not the same at all.
I read one of the biographies, that claims that Sanders' favorite meal was ham, not chicken.
well I guess we can cross Jewish off the list :)
@@onefatstratcat I think one look at the guy and you can tell he's your typical southerner descended from English stock.
So I have sev favs doesn't mean I don't like other items😊
The biscuits with honey & butter is🔥
LIFE BEGINS AFTER 60 ! IT'S FINGER LICKIN' GOOD !
My late Grandmother took me to the local KFC when I was about 8-10 (1961-62) years old...absolutely the most amazing food I had ever tasted...
The best flavorful fried goodness to come outta the bluegrass state!! I definitely enjoy it's flavor no matter where you go even internationally 😉
The man behind the chicken, Col. Harland Sanders. 🍗
In Japan, it is customary to eat KFC at Christmas. This is due to KFC's increased TV advertising during the Christmas season. KFC's performance in Japan seems to be strong due to the increased opportunities to eat at home due to this pandemic.
Yeah in Japan you gotta order your Christmas chicken weeks in advance because its so popular. They love fried chicken over there in general, and KFC has capitalized on that.
KFC Japan has also had some weird menu items over the years.
Hey I met the Colonel in 1957 0r 8. He was opening his first restaurant in Canada in Winnipeg. I was playing in the dirt of the construction site with a tin truck. The Colonel was being given a tour of the site by the Manitoba franchise owner. When he spotted me he stopped and said to me "What are you doing boy?" "Just playing" I said. That's it. Then he was hustled into a convertible. So sit down service in a restaurant with table and chairs and red and white chequered table cloths. What a concept. The corner stone was a good tasting product with quality ingredients. That cant be said today. And yes, he looked identical to the plastic piggy bank figure that they later flogged for half a dollar to Kentucky Fried Chicken fans. No KFC crap
sunday afternoons parents brought home the bucket and sides and half a dozen biscuits great stuff old family tradition lol
Hi. Dave Thomas didn't work for the Colonel as someone stated, however he had a big influence on KFC. Dave met the Colonel when he came to the restaurant where Dave was working. He was trying to pitch his recipe and cooking method for frying chicken, which was such a chore back then that if a restaurant sold chicken, it was usually just once a week. The payback was a royalty. There's much more history about Dave Thomas and the Colonel. I recommend listening to the audio book Dave's Way. Dave Thomas' daughter went to my high school...and her named wasn't Wendy ;)
Here in Australia most KFCs had a large photo portrait of the Colonel. I always thought it was a cool way to pay tribute to such a pioneer. Such a shame they took them down when modernizing the stores.
During the 60's you could buy a bucket of good size pieces and all the extra sides you associate with the place for around $7. The last time and I mean the last time I had some KFC over 15 years ago, it was like they fried up a pigeon.
We think alike. I call them Quail. lol
Everything getting more expensive and the portions get smaller ,& smaller. Makes me want to puke
No one has mentioned this yet ... but does anyone else remember when Col Sanders himself announced on a TV commercial that there was a "mighty big surprise" now awaiting you at your Kentucky Fried Chicken store ... "my country-style ribs"! I never had a chance to taste them ... they didn't last very long!
I remember the first time that I heard about KFC was in the 60s when I was a kid..my uncle told us about eating in the Atlanta area with fellow employees and they would share a bucket of chicken. He thought that was so cool...😊😊😊
i heard "the bucket" was an invention of former KFC franchisee Dave Thomas who went on to open Wendy's.
Not many inspirational people like the Colonel in AMERICA anymore!!!
There was a time back in the late 1960's when Kentucky Fried Chicken opened their first El Paso restaurant.
And Colonel Sanders was at the grand opening! And while there he asked some local about where to get good Mexican food. The person told the Colonel, Right up the street, there's a lady that sells great Mexican Food. That lady was my mother! her restaurant was inside a drug store. So the Colonel had his shofer driver
drive him to the place. The Colonel was dressed in his usual white attire outfit like in the Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials we would see on TV. When he walked into the drug store, everybody was startled and surprise. My mom made him some tacos and the Colonel ate and was very delighted.
Not the same as it was. I do remember in the early 1970's it was AWESOME.....Rest in peace my friend.❤️
They used to be so good, with decent size chicken pieces, mashed potatoes, the whole “deal”. Unfortunately, due to greed, the Harmon owners have killed the Colonel’s dream. Nowadays, I wouldn’t get KFC if it were the only place around. Too bad, they used to be so good.
It was called Speck when we would get chicken there in the early 60s. It was SOOOOOO good! The chicken, mashed potatoes, the biscuits..
I like how you show a picture of Norm McDonald as the colonel at 6:57...great tribute to the Colonel and Norm as well
Its finger lickin good !! I remember that saying from the commercial back in the day we still eat Kentucky Fried Chicken lol thanks for sharing this video.😘😊
I got the opportunity to meet Mrs. K. Kerr whom invented the KFC gravy. She was a good friend of the Col. I got a tour of her house in around 2006. She lived in Blairmore AB. There were KFC buckets everywhere. She was a sweet heart.