Col. Sanders

[Darkweaver]

"Yes, I'll have a bucket of chicken, a side of slaw and some biscuits and an ergo to go, please."

Col. Sanders, "The Architect" Of Eleven Herbs & Spices

[Penny Lane]

Huh?

[webuster]

In the insanity (everyone goes insane) after being locked behind school bars, having to walk past, catching tiny peaces of peoples conversations- assuming what they're talking about- and getting them all muddled together thinking a giant fishnet-wearing rhino is about to jump out a window, (abstract bits of converse are weird) I too finally went insane. Anyway- once I thought, apart from in The Waterboy- and the real man himself- there's never been a live action col. sanders,so I wanted to enter to play him in an ad, maybe have a whole race of sanders....................... I'm truly mad

[JACK The RIPPER]

Theres help for people like you... Be strong

[Tuesday Weld]

This thread does not make any sense.

[Montana Ponine]

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Huh?

My thoughts exactly.

[fr00ti]

eh?

[Brian]

It's Fran Fan under a new username. Why s/he posted this is beyond me. I haven't seen her post anything like this under his/her previous name.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/...233#post781233

[BrandonS]

http://www.kfc.com/about/colonel.htm

Colonel Harland Sanders

Colonel Harland Sanders, born September 9, 1890, actively began franchising his chicken business at the age of 65. Now, the KFC® business he started has grown to be one of the largest quick service food service systems in the world. And Colonel Sanders, a quick service restaurant pioneer, has become a symbol of entrepreneurial spirit.

More than a billion of the Colonel's "finger lickin' good" chicken dinners are served annually. And not just in North America. The Colonel's cooking is available in more than 80 countries and territories around the world.

When the Colonel was six, his father died. His mother was forced to go to work, and young Harland had to take care of his three-year-old brother and baby sister. This meant doing much of the family cooking. By the age of seven, he was a master of several regional dishes.

At age 10, he got his first job working on a nearby farm for $2 a month. When he was 12, his mother remarried and he left his home near Henryville, Ind., for a job on a farm in Greenwood, Ind. He held a series of jobs over the next few years, first as a 15-year-old streetcar conductor in New Albany, Ind., and then as a 16-year-old private, soldiering for six months in Cuba.

After that he was a railroad fireman, studied law by correspondence, practiced in justice of the peace courts, sold insurance, operated an Ohio River steamboat ferry, sold tires, and operated service stations. When he was 40, the Colonel began cooking for hungry travelers who stopped at his service station in Corbin, Ky. He didn't have a restaurant then, but served folks on his own dining table in the living quarters of his service station.

As more people started coming just for food, he moved across the street to a motel and restaurant that seated 142 people. Over the next nine years, he perfected his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices and the basic cooking technique that is still used today.

Sander's fame grew. Governor Ruby Laffoon made him a Kentucky Colonel in 1935 in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine. And in 1939, his establishment was first listed in Duncan Hines' "Adventures in Good Eating."

In the early 1950s a new interstate highway was planned to bypass the town of Corbin. Seeing an end to his business, the Colonel auctioned off his operations. After paying his bills, he was reduced to living on his $105 Social Security checks.

Confident of the quality of his fried chicken, the Colonel devoted himself to the chicken franchising business that he started in 1952. He traveled across the country by car from restaurant to restaurant, cooking batches of chicken for restaurant owners and their employees. If the reaction was favorable, he entered into a handshake agreement on a deal that stipulated a payment to him of a nickel for each chicken the restaurant sold. By 1964, Colonel Sanders had more than 600 franchised outlets for his chicken in the United States and Canada. That year, he sold his interest in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors including John Y. Brown Jr., who later was governor of Kentucky from 1980 to 1984. The Colonel remained a public spokesman for the company. In 1976, an independent survey ranked the Colonel as the world's second most recognizable celebrity.

Under the new owners, Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation grew rapidly. It went public on March 17, 1966, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 16, 1969. More than 3,500 franchised and company-owned restaurants were in worldwide operation when Heublein Inc. acquired KFC Corporation on July 8, 1971, for $285 million.

Kentucky Fried Chicken became a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. (now RJR Nabisco, Inc.), when Heublein Inc. was acquired by Reynolds in 1982. KFC was acquired in October 1986 from RJR Nabisco, Inc. by PepsiCo, Inc., for approximately $840 million.

In January 1997, PepsiCo, Inc. announced the spin-off of its quick service restaurants -- KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut -- into an independent restaurant company, Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. In May 2002, the company announced it received shareholders' approval to change it's corporation name to Yum! Brands, Inc. The company, which owns A&W All-American Food Restaurants, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system units with nearly 32,500 in more than 100 countries and territories.

Until he was fatally stricken with leukemia in 1980 at the age of 90, the Colonel traveled 250,000 miles a year visiting the KFC restaurants around the world.

And it all began with a 65-year-old gentleman who used his $105 Social Security check to start a business.

[TheHappyBurgerMeister]

Yeah, I know who Colonel Sander is! The thread still doesn't make any sense to me, either. I just had KFC the other night. Eww, i can't believe that place is still around. I'd rather just eat the biscuits....

[BrandonS]

Hi, Kristina. Don't see you around much anymore. Who's the girl in your siggie? She's cute.

And now, returning to the topic......

KFC has good food IMO.

[Janice]

Originally posted by BrandonS
And it all began with a 65-year-old gentleman who used his $105 Social Security check to start a business. [/B]

Thanks Brandon. That's a great success story. I knew the Colonel was a late bloomer, but I didn't know he had such a humble and sad start in life.
Seriously, I wonder what those 11 secret herbs and spices consist of. I wonder how many people know.
It seems that secret is more guarded than CIA Intelligence.

[BrandonS]

Originally posted by Janice
Thanks Brandon. That's a great success story. I knew the Colonel was a late bloomer, but I didn't know he had such a humble and sad start in life.
Seriously, I wonder what those 11 secrets herbs and spices consist of. I wonder how many people know.
It seems that secret is more guarded than CIA Intelligence.

It's one of those, "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" things.

[TheHappyBurgerMeister]

Originally posted by BrandonS
Hi, Kristina. Don't see you around much anymore. Who's the girl in your siggie? She's cute.

And now, returning to the topic......

KFC has good food IMO.

Hi, the girl in my siggy is Margo Harshman. She plays Tawny Dean on Even Stevens! That's the only good pic I can find of her that will work her. I want to find a good one of her and Shia Labeouf (who plays Louis on the show)..... it took me a long time to put together that siggy!

[JACK The RIPPER]

Nice story... But I'm in the south so I gotta say POPEYES AND CHURCH'S!!!