pavane wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the history, I never knew that. The first time I tried KFC,
I was with my grandparents and it was 1970, so I never tasted the
original KFC recipe. I had chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, cole slaw
and a roll. The chicken and the cole slaw was fine, but everything else
was just terrible. Their mashed potatoes and gravy tasted worse than
you would get in a 1970's frozen TV dinner. Thankfully, KFC has
improved and so have frozen entrees.


Becca