KFC’s secret recipe might not be so secret anymore
In what could be viewed as an act of high-stakes espionage, someone has revealed one of the world’s most classified pieces of information: Colonel Sanders’ secret KFC recipe. But in actuality, the Chicago Tribune just sort of stumbled upon it. Behold the power of Tronc!
The Tribune sent a reporter to visit Kentucky’s Harland Sanders Café And Museum for a simple fluffy travel piece, but they uncovered much more than they bargained for…11 spices and herbs more than they bargained for, to be exact. When the writer met with the colonel’s nephew Joe Ledington, who innocently flipped through an old family scrapbook without stopping to think “hm, could there be a coveted family secret hidden in these pages?” Ledington presented the last will and testament of Sanders’s second wife, and a handwritten recipe for a fried chicken recipe containing 11 herbs and spices was scrawled on the back.
When asked if it was legitimate, Ledington remarked: “That is the original 11 herbs and spices that were supposed to be so secretive.” Um, what? Is Ledington just saying fuck it? Does he want to burn the family chicken empire to the ground? Has the secret been weighing on him for far too long? Where is the Empire-like show about the KFC legacy?
The once-secret recipe reads as follows:
11 spices — Mix with 2 cups white fl
2/3 Ts salt
1/2 Ts thyme
1/2 Ts basil
1/3 Ts oregano