That top secret would be Colonel Harland Sander's handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices that he concocted back in 1940 at his small southeaster Kentucky restaurant and the one he used to launch the ubiquitous KFC chain in the early 1950s.
Tuesday, it was moved from KFC's corporate offices in Louisville for the first time in decades. This undertaking was accomplished with a high degree of security. Corporation President Roger Eaton let it be known that he "didn't want to be the president who lost the recipe." It was placed in a lockbox and then handcuffed to security expert Bo Dietl, who climbed aboard an armored car and driven away escorted by off-duty police.
Until now, it has been in a filing cabinet with two locks inside a vault behind a door with three more locks.
KFC has 14,892 locations worldwide at the end of 2007.
Sept. 10th Chicago Tribune "Chicken recipe's Security Beefed Up" by Associated Press.
The Colonel Would Have Been So Proud. And to Think, He Was Willing to Share with the Pig Hip's Ernie Edwards on Route 66. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
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