"piedmont" > wrote in message ...
| On 3/5/2010 12:02 PM, Christopher Helms wrote:
| >.........
| > A guy named William Poundstone got hold of some of the breading with
| > the Colonials "Secret Spices" in it and did a chemical analysis. He
| > found exactly four ingredients: Salt, pepper, flour and MSG. Maybe old
| > Harlan was using eleven herbs and spices back in Kentucky in the 50s,
| > and it probably rocked, but nobody is using eleven of anything today
| > at KFC.

| That's what I read, on the Top Secret Recipe website they say the same
| things, I made it even to the point of pressure frying and its as close
| as anything, I assumed the 11 HS was pure marketing BS.

I think it's more probable that after the Good Colonel sold the US
business and moved himself to Ontario the original purchasers
of Kentucky Fried changed the recipes themselves to create lower food
costs. Colonel Sanders himself was quite convinced of this and very
angry, to the point of ultimately unsuccessful lawsuits:
(From Wikipedia's article on Harlan Sanders

"Sanders sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation in 1964 for $2 million
to a partnership of Kentucky businessmen headed by John Y. Brown, Jr. The
deal did not include the Canadian operations. Sanders moved to Ontario and
continued to collect franchise fees. Sanders continued on with Kentucky Fried
Chicken as its spokesperson and collected appearance fees for his visits to
franchises in the United States and Canada. In 1973, he sued Heublein Inc.
(the KFC parent company at the time) over alleged misuse of his image in
promoting products he had not helped develop. In 1975, Heublein Inc.
unsuccessfully sued Sanders for libel after he publicly referred to their gravy
as "sludge" with a "wallpaper taste"."

pavane