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KFC Original Recipe Re-locates...What ARE the 11 herbs/spices?

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Pssst. The secret's out at KFC. Well, sort of.

Colonel Harland Sanders' handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC's corporate offices for the first time in decades. The temporary relocation is allowing KFC to revamp security around a yellowing sheet of paper that contains one of the country's most famous corporate secrets.

The brand's top executive admitted his nerves were aflutter despite the tight security he lined up for the operation.

"I don't want to be the president who loses the recipe," KFC President Roger Eaton said. "Imagine how terrifying that would be."

So important is the 68-year-old concoction that coats the chain's Original Recipe chicken that only two company executives at any time have access to it. The company refuses to release their name or title, and it uses multiple suppliers who produce and blend the ingredients but know only a part of the entire contents.
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Excerpted from http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i93kT0nd02EyaFhMjfsBYT-ZQw1QD93354TG0


So what ARE the eleven herbs and spices? I figure they're all fairly commonplace considering Sanders put them together in rural Kentucky nearly 70 years ago (not a lot of Whole Foods or other specialty stores).


So I'll toss out salt, pepper, thyme, and some sage.


What else you taste in there? I know there are supposed duplicates of the recipe people have posted online...ever tried one that nailed it?
 
My grandmother lived right up the road from Harlan Sanders. When she knew him, he still had jet black hair and wasn't a Kentucky Colonel yet. She said he used to fry up chicken and let the kids who lived around that area come by and eat whatever he couldn't get to fry up right.

J.
 
Herb Alpert
Herb Kohl
Herb Petersen
Herbie Hancock
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Ginger Spice
Sporty Spice
Posh Spice
Baby Spice
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According to Big Secrets, which chemically analyzed a KFC sample, it contains salt, pepper and MSG. That's it. If there were 11 herbs and spices originally, they've stopped using them. Hey save a buck, the customers don't notice while their stuffing their faces, right?

(They also chemically analyzed Coke and Pepsi and found all sorts of shit, including oil of bergamot.)

Mythbusters should tackle this. I guess there aren't enough explosions involved, huh?
 
Nedersong said:
There never has been. It's just a marketing ploy.
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Yes, there has.

My grandmother had a photo or two of Harlan Sanders laying around, and she used to tell us about what kind of man he was, and that he really did try to make the perfect fried chicken. I mentioned it upthread, and I'm not talking about telling us when we're 5 or 6 years old, I mean 15, 16 years old. My grandmother got to see a lot of history made, and it may sound a bit silly, but the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices were the real deal.


J.
 
A "copycat" recipe I have of KFC chicken simply has salt, pepper, and MSG in it. Other copycats I've seen has far more herbs and spices in it -not 11 though.
 
JonathonWally said:
Popeyes chicken is far superior.
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I agree.

However, even Popeyes doesn't top the chicken my grandmother used to fry up when we'd come down to Kentucky to visit. She used lard, we know that, but she told us she fried up the chicken from watching how Mr. Sanders would fry his own, and then she'd add her own spices. I always thought it was neat. :D

J.
 
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