Show Notes
Kentucky Fried Chicken is the most popular chicken chain of all time, with 25,000 locations in 145 countries. But before the world tasted Colonel Sanders’ secret recipe of 11 different herbs and spices, the Colonel was broke. At 65. Driving around the South pitching his recipe to restaurant owners and weathering over 1000 rejections.
Then he got some unbelievable news.
Major sources for this episode include:
1) Colonel Sanders and the American Dream by Josh Ozersky
2) New Yorker – “Kentucky Fried”
3) Washington Post – “Col. Sanders, the Fried-Chicken Gentleman, Dies”
From the creators of Under the Influence:
Writer & Host: Sidney O’Reilly
Executive Producer & Co-Host: Terry O’Reilly
Research: Allison Pinches
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Supervising Producer: Debbie O’Reilly
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Theme music: Ian Lefeuvre & Ari Posner
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