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A security firm run by former New York City police detective Bo Dietl has been hired by KFC to move the fast food chain's secret "Original Recipe" of 11 herbs and spices, which has been not been moved from its safe in corporate headquarters for 68 years. The single sheet of notebook paper, yellowed by age, lays out the entire formula, and was written in pencil and signed by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1940.
The recipe is considered so valuable that KFC has sent out a press release informing the whole world about the move, which executives say is part of a "security modernization project" to be overseen by Dietl, who will receive backup from the Louisville Metro Police Department as he carefully removes the recipe from the safe, locks it into a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, and transports it from KFC headquarters in a Brink's armored car to an undisclosed location for safekeeping.
Lest any of you cynics out there think this is just some shameless publicity stunt, KFC has gone one step further and offered to safeguard your secrets as well. Just type in a secret—say, "one secret ingredient is arsenic"—and the company will store it for you in their digital safe, free of charge.
Image via KFC Cruelty.
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locks into a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist
What an arm worth? I'd hate to be that guy!
if it wasn't a publicity stunt, why did they hire bo dietl?
Bo Dietl is a crackpot, a hilarious crackpot at that. The Colonel's secrets are safe.
What's in the case? Is it heavy, is it explosive, is it chained to some unlucky bloke's wrist? Are we gonna have to chop it off?
Are rats part of the recipe?
Propyl Gallate
BHA and BHT
Potassium Bromate
Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
Aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet)
Acesulfame-K
Olestra
Sodium Nitrite (Sodium Nitrate)
Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
Blue 1 and Blue 2
Red 3
Yellow 6
The secret is in the Potassium Bromate!
It has been a long time since I read it but William Poundstone revealed the Colonel's secret herbs and spices 20+ years ago in his book "Big Secrets": salt, pepper and MSG.
Seriously, nobody still knows the secret recipe at this point? We can't sit down Guy Fieri for 5 minutes and have him eat a bucket of chicken and tell us the ingredients?
Secret recipe ingredients also aid bowel movements!
Anybody notice that after they banned Transfats that fast food tastes like shit? Mcdonalds fries and Chicken Nuggets don't taste as good.
kfc tastes like shit
poppeyes is a whole lotta better than kfc crap, but more salty.
If it's gonna be amateur night, I want a hundred thousand dollars.
Fact: Harland Sanders was no more a colonel than the USA is a democracy.
IBS in a bucket... KFC is just rancid. I agree with #10 McDonald's fries and nuggets are so fucking bland without transfats..
#6, you forgot Polonium.
How about KFC Chickens are overweight, covered in ammonia burns and suffer on a daily basis.
#5 It has been a long time since I read it but William Poundstone revealed the Colonel's secret herbs and spices 20+ years ago in his book "Big Secrets": salt, pepper and MSG.
How the hell did the Dolans get involved in KFC?
"Fact: Harland Sanders was no more a colonel than the USA is a democracy."
fact: the ladies love Colonel Angus.
Who cares anymore? Are they trying to tell me that in today's world, a company which really wanted to know the recipe couldn't just buy a bucket and have a lab "CSI" its ingredients?
You can get some pretty intricate spice mixtures from family to family. My grandmother's family uses eight spices in varying amounts. While the spices are important, what is of the upmost importance is to mix part of your spice mixture into the buttermilk which you marinate your chicken in overnight so that flavors get drawn in. If you do that, man, that's good eatin'.
What color is the boathouse at Hereford?
...the secret recipe is...cough syrup. Simple, over the counter, children's cough syrup!
everyone knows the colonel puts an' addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass.
ah, i hated the colonel, with his wee beady eye, and that smug look on his face.."oh, you're gonna by mah chicken, oh."
- how has no one said this up to this point?
Anyone can reverse engineer the formula. FDA/USDA regulate what you can put in human food (GRAS), and the quality of what you put in it. If its not listed, you can't use it. Now just test for each ingredient until you have the formula. Be sure to do double blind tests.
KFC doesn't really need to care about the formula, since if anyone advertises their chicken tastes like KFC, lawsuit time.
The most secret that can exist would be in the cooking/assembly process of the chicken in the factory, such as layering ingredients or marinating, etc. Timings would be most secert. Employees will rat to you what the machines are, but the detailed operating specs and configurations of them are a secret.
...baking powder, cocaine...and I think I detected a hint of cinnamon!
Oops, wrong recipe.
@21
I just ambushed you with a fucking coffee mug.
"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society"
JFK.