Submitted by OvidPerl t3_zfsf0j in todayilearned
That’s a long time at 16
I also worked at KFC in the late '70s. Being a cook (or a manager, like me) was hard work, especially at pot stores.
How is there not a movie about this guy? The more I learn about him, the crazier the story gets.
I’m ready for an HBO series, “Licking Fingers”
FLG
I prefer LXG.
The story of Ettore Boiardi (Chef Boyardee) is pretty interesting too. I grew up thinking it had always been a cheap processed canned food line, and the whole Chef thing was just a marketing shtick, which is not the case.
He is a cool dude. He started in canned food because people enjoyed the food at his restaurant so much that they wanted to buy his sauses to bring home. He studied the ideal place to grow totmatoes in America and chose it for his factory location. He was contracted by the US Army to provide food for the army because it was considered high quality but affordable. After the war he chose to sell the company rather then lay off workers. He sold it to a larger corporation on the condition nobody lost their jobs.
he catered Woodrow Wilson's Wedding.. and some other white house dinners. he was legit
> Ettore Boiardi
It is a cheap processed canned food line. 😀
I suspect you’d have a really hard time getting KFC or the Sanders estate to approve the movie everyone would want to see.
There is a KFC mini series featuring Mario Lopez as sexy Colonel Sanders.
Maybe we can learn the secret recipe! 😀🍗🍗
Serious Los Pollos Hermanos vibes.
if they made The Founder.... this one is way more interesting
The judge deferred to Colonel Sanders on what method of execution the condemned suffer, hanging or the electric chair. Sanders replied, "make 'em extra crispy," and the chair it was.
Dave Thomas' (founder of Wendy's) autobiography has a lot of good KFC stuff in it since he used to work for the Colonel. Sanders apparently swore a lot and frequently got into fistfights.
Lost his law license after getting into a fist fight with his client in the court room
he also was very vocal about how he hated what they did to his recipes after he sold the company.
After reading the article I’m shocked he didn’t beat up the board or shoot them
he would call the mashed potatoes wall paper paste and shit like that.
There's a spot in Limerick, Ireland that sells his original recipe. I'm pretty sure you can order it online.
spice X or something like that name is the pre made spice blend you can get it online
Graces famous chicken it's what it's called. There's a story to how he got it but I can't remember. It's all on wiki
i am pretty sure Sanders didnt give a fuck (or even sign) and NDA. I want to say he just told people
spice X or something like that name is the pre made spice blend you can get it online
Dave Thomas came up with the KFC bucket idea!
I said it before and I'll say it again, he got into exactly as many gunfights as you would figure a Kentucky chicken man would.
This was before he even sold chicken. He owned a gas station.
Some of you may die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take - Colonel Sanders probably
"All of you will die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take".
Colonel Sanders to his chickens before sprinkling 11 herbs and spices over them.
That's one way to get rid of the competition.
And that folks is how to get Employee of the Month at KFC. Get shot by a Popeye’s franchise owner, and you too can have your pic on the wall. Get out there, and make KFC proud.
Having 10 luck in fallout be like;
This could make for a good comedy movie with Will Ferrell and John C Reilly
Well, let me just quote the late great Colonel Sanders who said "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken".
Please not Ferrell!
Damn, today I learned... The movie "The Founder" about McDonald's was interesting and I liked it. I would be very interested in a movie about the Colonel.
They don’t call him the colonel for nothing
I don't think he was a real Colonel.
He was a real colonel, just not the kind you think
he had two types of suits as well.
Linen for warm weather, and wool for the cooler months.
Did he also have a drug lab under the place that washed his white suits?
Plot twist. The Colonel shot his own employee and framed Stewart for the murder.
Stewart eliminated himself. Murder is still illegal and the old 19th C. methods of competitions have been outlawed.
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make"
Where is the movie about this?
I come here for a fucking shoot out alright? Some proper shoot out with some proper man. Like a carnel deserves. Is that happening? No. Because you were to busy with a bloody courthouse
SHOOT OUT IS A FUCKING SHOOT OUT, like a western
Wankers, wasting my time
Sanders after hearing of the ruling probably
https://ew.com/tv/mario-lopez-colonel-sanders-lifetime-mini-movie/ If I gotta know about it
That's definitely one way of removing your competitor.
Challenge them to a potentially fatal duel.
Have somebody nearby.
Stage it up so your competitor kills that somebody.
Convict him of murder, thus costing him his business.
Profit.
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That's some reverse Wimp Lo shit there.
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proggieus t1_izemr5r wrote
I spent a day with the Colonel in the late '70s when I was in a KFC commercial. I don't remember much other than he was very grandfatherly towards me-
I got an envelope in the mail sometime later with a picture of me and my sister with him on the set(she was also in the commercial) and a personalized autographed photo of him saying
"To (my name), My little TV Star...."
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when I turned 16 I applied for a job at KFC as a cook- when I filled out the application it asked if I had ever worked for KFC, before-
being 16 and unsure what to answer I checked yes.
the manager knowing that you had to be 16 to work there and that I had just turned 16 was a little confused, when I explained he literally said"no fucking way". when I told him I had pictures to prove it he said "you're hired but you need to bring the pictures in and show them"
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I did but the job sucked so I was only there about 7 months or so.