That Time Colonel Sanders Tried to Kill the Competition by Trying to Literally Murder Its Manager
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In the video today, we're looking at the wild west early days of KFC's Colonel Sanders, the genuinely remarkable way he went from living in his car at retirement age to launching the KFC empire, as well as the amazing story of how Wendy's Dave Thomas saved KFC and his own remarkable rise from nothing to fast food franchise royalty.
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I was the 100th like lol
Is thumbnail (lol) guy already fired?
dude how do you even go to work when you never leave?
Can't fire me, I own the company. ;-) (And I did that on purpose: rb.gy/1ckfuf :-)) -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut I laughed, nice one, mate!
10%: actual comments
90%: "THE COLONEL HAS TWO LEFT HANDS!"
Our evil plan is working. ;-) -Daven
But --- today you found out the Colonel has two left hands !!
Hah awsome
"I'll take two left wing pieces, please."
@@MrOlgrumpy Now I wonder if his entire being is left handed? Can a spine even have handedness?
My old coworker actually met the Colonel, apparently he was a really good guy but hated seeing people mess up his chicken
My mother had the honor of meeting him. You should really try to visit Claudia Sander's. His chicken was like his baby and people were too cheap or too lazy to bother learning and respecting his legacy.
He was actually a mean bastard according to my mom and my family. Sanders was a family friend my gg was his main cook at kfc
@@cabanissmedia2751 GG?
@Adam Remaly He shot people for less
My uncles daughers friend actually knew Jesus, he was apparently a chicken.
“I’m too drunk to taste this chicken” - late great Col. Sanders
The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
Col. Sanders was once of the weekly comic show, Laugh In. His "joke" was to say that the second to cooking a good chicken is the first steal a chicken.
Beat me to it. One of my favorite comedies of all time.
"Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartarrrrrsuh!" 🤣
YES LOL!
The thumbnail has two left hands. It’s a bit unsettling.
But its hilarious
As a left handed man, I can tell you that the thumbnail is simply superior.
I too have an irrational fear of left hands
I noticed that too i like somebody point out stuff like that otherwise i have to
@@K_D_A lol 😂
"Damn it tastes good to be a gangsta"
- Col. Sanders
Plot twist: one of the 12 secret spices is gunpowder.
It’s 11
@@admiralversio Yeah, gunpowder is the extra-secret 12th.
@@admiralversio that's what they want you to think...
That explains the need for a bathroom 20 minutes after eating KFC
@@aceundead4750 They would call that a Blowout
*Today I Found Out :*
That it was Colonel Sanders, in the kitchen, with the revolver. 🤔
*"NUFF SAID"™*
That is not a revolver, and it appears the Col. has two left hands.
You win all the points.
Can I just say how awesome it is that the founder of Wendy's didn't want kids dropping out of high school like he did so he went back as an elderly man to finally graduate?
That really is a pretty cool move. A real "lead by example" play.
Billy Madison approved
Finding myself back in high school as a grown man is a recurring nightmare of mine. (And then I look down to discover I'm not wearing pants and then the bell rings and I remember that I have to take the final in the class I neglected to attend.)
He did it for PR. That's all. He doesn't give two shits about you me or anyone. Nobody making as much as he does would be inclined to. How do you think you get that rich?
Blows me away how many times companies we know to be corrupt can do some gimmicky ass shit and people eat it up. Glad you enjoy our founder showing how wholesome he is. Excuse me while I fucking starve because the food industry does not pay the crushing majority of its workers enough to live and dickbags like him are why.
Yup. Awesome.
@@MrRyumaru That’s just jealousy.
Fast food workers do deserve more than they make, but if you’re starving, you need to learn to budget. I lived for 4 years on less than you make now. It’s rough, but doable.
Also, rich people are rich because of savvy strategies, and innovation. Only so many actually stomp on others to get their money.
"... they nailed that one."
Hindsight is truly a gift.
In my childhood hometown the two ice cream trucks, Mr Whippy and Mr Gelato had a territory dispute, And Mr Gelato stabbed Mr Whippy to death. Which meant no more ice cream for anyone.
Which means there is an open market for ice cream trucks.
Where do you live? This comment's a gem 💎
That's sounds like peanuts compared to the Ice Cream Wars that happened in Scotland.
Mr. Swirl was pulling all the strings behind the scenes and nobody was the wiser.
It's all sweet until the game gets sticky...
RIP Mr. Whippy. Even if Cherrie Poppin' Icecream was just a front for narcotics, it was a great part of our childhoods.
"What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz? Chicken?" - Dark Helmet
no no no go past this past this part in fact never play this again
"They went plaid!"
Comb this desert!!! "Man we ain't found shiiiit!!!"
And Pizza the Hutt ate himself to death.
Prepare ship! For ludicrous speed!
Sander's protecting those secret herbs and spices with lethal force.
The secret is white pepper 🤭🤫🤐
@@dixiewhiskey3273 HOL' UP
@@dixiewhiskey3273 HOL' UP
@@dixiewhiskey3273 HOL' UP
@@loneneotank.5687 yes?
Knowing how badass Sanders was, I just wish that KFC's food was as good as when he himself was making it so that I would buy anything there.
@@emmaisalone well, I heard Japanese booked KFC in advanced for year end holidays..
Yea I don't like it either...much better chicken out there
Years ago as a teen, I ate at that restaurant he started up in Kentucky after selling off the chain. It was GOOD. We even got to meet the Colonel.
Back then I didn't know why that one was good, and a real sit-down restaurant, while the rest were rather dives. Thanks, Simon, for the information.
For real!
A friend of mine an old hillbilly… his grandfather was the colonel’s cousin. He went to his house and funeral and stuff said he was a complete dick
He lured us in with a story about murder, by psyched us out by making it the shortest part of the video.
another thing about sanders, he thought owning stocks in a company was hokus pokus nonsense, and so while his secretary became a millionare by owning shares in KFC, sanders didnt have any shares, and so he missed out on making millions in that way.
I think a million is enough. Why would any normal sane person want more. (hell is full of people that have more) hahaha
@@joeblow5178 Why would you limit yourself to that certain amount (i.e. one million $)? I mean if you are passionate and really good at whatever you do, and you'll eventually pass that arbitrary "limit". Why stop at that point?
He died rich, he had enough money. He was more about the food.
It is interesting to learn that KFC’s “Original Recipe” is not the original recipe at all.
You say interesting.
I say depressing.
I assume that Claudia place has the OG, I mean I wouldn't know since im not American but maybe someone in the area can compare lol
More so "an" original recipe. You know, the board of investors original recipe, not the colonels.
After watching Simon’s videos across different channels, hearing him say “with that, well it was on!” is glorious.
I am surprised Simon didn't pause during that story of the shootout to say "America, what an amazing country." In the driest most Britishy voice he could muster.
He had to hurry to finish it to order some KFC 😂. You know how much he love it
Simon: “Alabamer”.
allybamee
Any area that flattens their R’s inevitably add some back where they didn’t exist before. Being from Rhode Island, we call that Tuesday.
It's calling Linking R. In many English language dialects where Rs are less not enunciated at the end of words you get this phenomenon when a word ends in a vowel and the next word begins in vowel.
Colonel Sanders. He literally had 2 left hands.
And reportedly could shoot left handed OR left handed.
There's something truly sinister about that, or maybe just gauche.
🏆
"Is that a original or extra crispy? Mind if I taste? Mmm now that's some tasty chicken.
Are you painting over my sign, boy?"
"What?"
"Say what again. I dare you."
"Leave the gun, take Kentucky"
- Col. Sanders
The old joke I made up in the 70’s. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the Colonel was on maneuvers.
Nice! Today I found out about Claudia Sanders Dinner House!
I spent my early childhood in Corbin, Kentucky.
The highway that goes by the town is I-75, and not I-70.
I-70 goes by the town where I currently live -- Denver, Colorado.
Word to the wise: In the United States, an interstate highway that ends in an even number runs (generally) east-west across the country.
I-70 runs from Baltimore, Maryland to Cove Fort, Utah.
An interstate that ends in an odd number runs north-south. I-75 runs from suburban Miami, Florida, past Corbin and up to Lexington, Kentucky (where I was born), and finally ends at the border with Canada, near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
As for Colonel Sanders, the herbs and spices he used comprised a variation on the sort of herbs and spices commonly used in southeastern Kentucky.
The word around Corbin was that he adopted the mixture used by one of his cooks, at the original restaurant.
This did, indeed, differ from the "original recipe" chicken the management at KFC claimed.
However, while the advertising focuses on the herbs and spices, that's not what made Sanders a rich man.
When starting fresh, fried chicken takes a long time to cook.
The meat is reasonably dense and must be cooked all the way through (*nobody* eats rare chicken), for all sorts of reasons.
Such thorough cooking would normally make it really easy to dry out the chicken, and leave it tough and tasteless, so all the really good Kentucky cooks (including most of the women in my family) learn from an early age what to do.
Take a cast-iron pan, grease it with Crisco or some other oil, and heat that up.
Then, take the chicken and roll it in flour with the herb and spice mixture desired.
Drop the chicken into the hot, oily pan and sear one side.
Flip it over, and sear the other side.
For an electric stove, pull the pan off the heat, cover it with a lid, and then turn the heat down to simmer.
Once the burner is low enough, put the iron pan with the seared chicken back on the heat and let it cook thoroughly.
(For gas stoves, just turn the flame down under the pan and put the lid on.)
This cooking method produces delightfully cooked chicken with a crisp crust on the outside, and tender and juicy meat on the inside.
It also takes about 15-20 minutes to finish.
Traditional Kentucky fried chicken is *not* "fast food."
What Sanders did -- and what you may have wanted to mention -- was to figure out how to make chicken a viable option for a fast food franchise.
You did touch upon it, when you mentioned the pressure-cooker.
Sanders figured out how to use the pressure-cooker to cook the chicken *almost* all the way through while keeping the meat tender and juicy.
He could then take the nearly-complete chicken out, and put it in a refrigerator.
When needed, he'd pull out the chicken, roll it in the batter, and drop it in the fryer for a few minutes.
Voila. Chicken becomes a fast food option.
The pressure-cooker made Col. Sanders rich; not the herbs and spices. :)
Every fast food chicken place either chops the chicken up into fine bits, or uses some variation of Sanders' method.
I worked at KFC in the 90s and the chicken was cooked from raw in pressure cookers. The earlier method of precooking would have been useful when turnover was lower. It was pretty quick though.
@@michaelfasher Yeah, I'd imagine you guys could keep the cookers going, full time.
@@thomashiggins9320 Came here to make the same Interstate correction. Greetings from Lexington.
@@ajhieb Back at you. I haven't been to Lexington in a very long time -- Colorado is my home, now -- but I still have some family, there, I think.
*Me, eating turkey, and listening about The Colonel shoot a man to death at a Gas Station* ... "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K..."
Every cricel k has odd things happening.
*"Totally, dude!"*
*three men running at a dude with guns* "he shot at us first it was self defence" 👀
That really is how the law works, sometimes. Certainly at that time. It may seem counterintuitive, but it does have some merit.
You see, the guilty party is declared to be whoever escalates the situation to active violence first. You and I could stand 2 inches apart, screaming at the top of our lungs about some disagreement. That's fine. But the second one of us puts a hand on the other, It is now violent, and that person is considered the violent aggressor, and the other person is within their rights to retaliate.
In this case, by law, the 3 men with guns drawn were not the ones who actually initiated the violence. Prior to the first gunshot, it was little more than a standoff. It was that one single trigger pull coming back at them, that changed the scenario into an active violent confrontation, and thus, made him the guilty party, and Sanders and the others legally defensive.
The law might be slightly different today, with merely producing a weapon in violent threat being a charge all its own. In today's world, they'd have ALL gone to prison. 1 for murder or manslaughter, and 2 for unlawful use of a firearm. But the latter is a lesser charge, and would have been a far lighter sentence.
Law is funny, that way.
@@Hero_of_Legend Also to whether or not the one party feels threatened, Castle law, and Communist States like California where the degree of self defense can not surpass the attackers. i.e. if a stranger is stabbing you, you can't use (by their theory of law) a gun to save yourself.
@@ajaxslamgoody9736
No, you can shoot if being stabbed.
You can't shoot a knife wielder at 15 feet however, unless he's in the motion of throwing a knife.
Shooting after the knife is thrown can get tricky sometimes.
@@lordgarion514 Dude they had a Burglar that fell through a widow plex of a house and landed on knives on the kitchen Island and sued the home owners and won. I lived out their and they are crazy....and that is their law... a guy got arrested for this very issue a year or so ago...I think it was finally dismissed
that description is straight out of GTA
I gotta admit, I love me some KFC. There's nothing like chowing on some delicious KFC whilst listening to your arteries harden. Ah, pure bliss.
That's a very odd way to put it but alright same here
Once upon a time, they had grilled chicken.
Imagine going to KFC to get some chicken and some guy dressed as the Colonel comes out with a gun
"You trying to steal muh secret recipe, boy?!"
- Crazy hobo who thinks he's Colonel Sanders.
I'd feel right at home
Nothing more sinister than a man with two left hands.
Groan
You answered many questions I have long seeked. Thanks!
You have a great skill Simon, a excellent story teller. As always thanks for posting
Uncle Nick's Greek Fried Chicken in Warren, Ohio has a tag line, "If the Colonel had our recipe, he'd be a General."
I love the McDonald's there.
So did Winkys in Pittsburgh
@@kennethbesselman5739 WHERE IS WINKEYS??
Thank you for the etymology lesson in "colonel". Now can you explain the "Lieutenant/Lieftenant" pronunciation issue. I know they are spelled the same on both sides of the pond, I just wrote it that way for illustrative purposes.
Pretty simple. The captain is in charge, and the guy below him is "left tenant" in his absence, i.e. holding his place. "Lieu" is just the French way of saying it; he is tenant in lieu of a captain. Quite a lot of military ranks and terminology are derived from French. As to when the lieu/lef split occurred, I don't really know, although the US was a great deal friendlier with Napoleon than the UK for obvious reasons, so that era is my personal best guess.
@@DragonTigerBoss "pretty simple" and yet you go on to say that you have no idea when the split occurred or why. As a French speaker, I was aware of the rest, thanks. Really just curious about the part you know nothing about!
@@DragonTigerBoss So it's just the british getting it wrong again, got it.
I know this was more about the Colonel, but Dave Thomas was absolutely brilliant.
Well done as always ty!
4:48 Interstate 75, not interstate 70.
I've lived here along the I-75 corridor In KY almost my whole life. Most of my childhood the next town North of the original store.
I would have gone with the margaritas and scantily clad ladies on the beach.
MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED! So brilliant! I play piano online into senior homes during the pandemic, and love factoids like that to liven up my programs of golden oldies plus 'info-tainment'.
Great to hear this on your channel, whatched a history channel thing about it way back. Sanders was ruthless
Ah, a KFC video just in time for Christmas!
KFC for Christmas is a major thing. :-) We here at TIFO also partake in this bizarre little Japanese tradition ever since we covered that many years ago. :-) -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut lol....i was going to say
*Japan has entered the chat*
Kurisumasu* 👌
Konichiwa!!
Henryville Indiana also of distinction for the March 2 2012 tornado that destroyed literally the whole of the town. Quite a few stories that came out of that of an inspirational nature Simon that maybe you could highlight.
As an 8-year-old boy, I quite literally ran into Colonel Sanders at the Harrisburg East Mall (Harrisburg, PA) in the Autumn of 1972. To this day, I vividly recall looking up at him in absolute wonder & awe. As an aside, in 1995 I randomly met Jerry Lewis at the Harrisburg East Mall, about 100 feet away from the spot where I met the Colonel. Life is funny, eh? 😃
I met Dave Thomas, he would give my school a visit and make speeches. he was just the nicest guy
“Proactive self defense” has quite the legacy, eh?
As it should
Col Sanders fired my dad once, he worked at the Big Chicken in Marietta Ga in the 60's, Sanders came in on Mother's Day (busiest day of the year for KFC) and my dad per his manager was cooking chicken before they opened so they would have enough to keep up with demand, the Col didn't like it (it was supposed to be as fresh as possible) and fired my dad on the spot, the manager told my dad to go to a place next door and watch for the Col to leave and then come back to work. My dad said every time he ever met the man he was a huge asshole to everyone around...
you should watch South Park version of Col.Sanders
To be fair though, he was a businessman, and that means having to be less than warm, sometimes. Especially when it's your name and face being represented. I would fully expect someone in that position to have very little patience.
@@Hero_of_Legend I dunno, I heard of a regional chicken joint in the Southwest USA that has a very pleasant and respectable owner who prefers the highest quality cooking in addition to being an upstanding citizen. Not every restaurateur is a bad guy...
@@RobotacularRoBob Of course. I'm not implying they're all assholes. Just that it's relatively understandable if one is, given the pressure they're under, their reputation being at stake, and so on.
Some people handle it well. Some people don't.
But I will say that there is a difference between the guy that owns a single unit that they can run directly first hand, and an owner of a chain that has to constantly travel between locations, all of which are ran by someone else.
@@peterjszerszen
And now without him doing that, their food has been cheapened to the point of meh.
Used to eat there all the time. Just kinda stopped around 20 or so years ago because the food wasn't what it used to be.
Simon I have been watching your vids for a long time mate and I sure do enjoy and appreciate the ones like this that don't include all the nonsense that you seem to have recently aquired .
Thanks Simon. I remember the Col tried to sell a Potato based food after he sold KFC. I guess it didn't catch on. LOL.. You hooked me with the Bonus Facts. yep.. it's wild out WEST. lol
It wasn't Interstate 70, it was Interstate 75 that was coming in outside of Corbin, KY.
Came here to say this
That makes much more sense
And it's not 7 miles away. More like 2 or 3. I live 5 minutes from Sanders Cafe
Anyone else bothered by the backwards hand in the thumbnail
mutant Gangsta cernal sanders can't hurt you:
mutant gangsta cernal sanders:
He had to two left hands.
I am
Yup!
Well played Simon, I was mid Google of the linguistic roots of the word colonel when you sold me on the bonus facts. Lol
Great information
New Simon channel: All Bonus Facts!
Don't give him ideas 😂. I guess it would be a business blaze like channel? 😇
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KFC was not known as such until 1991
Growing up it was always known as Kentucky Fried Chicken
This was a good episode my man.
Now this is the kind of content I subscribed for
Did you know that the name “Wendy” was basically invented as a name (vs. a nickname) in the book Peter Pan? Before that it was actually a man’s name.
I remember hearing that
I did not know that-thank you❤️
Wendell didn't like that
@@fallingpetunias9046 you got here first, with Wendell.
Did you know that Wendy from Peter Pan was inspired by the daughter (Margaret Henley) of the man who inspired the character of Long John Silver (William Henley)?
She never grew up as she died at the age of 5.
What's up with the Colonel's arm in the thumbnail? Dude has two left hands!
Haven't you heard the expression?
@@vengefulspirit99 I've heard the one about two left feet, and the one about being all thumbs, but two left hands? That sounds awful.
@@SkunkApe407 He's left handed? Booda boom boom chhhhhhssssssssssss!
@@garyoa1 oof. You got me there! 🤣
Small correction - the interstate that swings by Corbin, Kentucky is Interstate 75, not Interstate 70. I know this because I travel that route multiple times a year. 70 takes a much more northerly route through that part of the country, with the closest segment to Corbin traveling through south-central Ohio.
In the 1970s my Dad was negotiating the purchase of an airplane from a man who had been Colonel Sander's personal pilot. During their discussions he said the Colonel was always a gentleman, but he held great contempt for the people he had sold his company to, always referring to them as thieves. Your story appears to dovetail with his.
that one time colonial sanders beat the sh*t out of a cook for under-cooking an egg.
"Alabamar". Can't pronounce japanese names but has a perfect understanding of "southern" dialect.
Adding an -er to words that end in A is a very English thing, though. Considering that this is a video about food, I feel it’s not inappropriate to plug the character of Mrs. Crocombe from the English Heritage channel, if you want to hear spoken more examples of a Brit adding an R sound to soften vowels.
Its still English bozo
"Southern" dialect is still English... so really not the same as Japanese names...
Its cus its ez
They are legitimately responsible for American accents so no surprise. Can you say every Japanese word without sounding it out phonetically.. most likely not. You understand the origins of our accent and theirs right..............naw.. you do t
I grew up in Orem, Utah in the 50’s and 60’s about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. Almost always included in the trip to the “ big “ city was a stop at Harmon Kentucky Fried Chicken. A good memory.
I remember seeing Dave Thomas on the Wendys Commercials when I was a kid. I remember thinking that he looked like a nice guy, later I liked how happy and proud of his business he seemed. I remember when he passed away and thinking that I would miss him.
The real reason why English is so messed up is it is really 3 languages walking around in a trench coat pretending to be a language.
It's a pudgin language. Extremely flexible, impossible to kill.
Three? Lmao It's a lot more than three. They had to go to the Big and Tall store for that trench coat......
*pidgin
English can be run over by a dump truck and still be used to communicate effectively as you can see In the mangled south African dialect, the call center accented Indian usage, and the crime against humanity that is allowed to call itself the Scottish "accent".
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll
Anyone notice he plain and simply never gave up and worked his ass off only to have big business rip him off in the end.
As someone from Kentucky although not a Kentucky company we completely agree with this discussion!
Keep up the good work !
At the beginning when he say first 100 people to go, I thought I had accidentally changed the playback speed to 2.0 😂🤣
I wasnt aware the Colonel had 2 left hands.
Simon, THIS is a perfect example of the type of content to put on your Highlight History channel.
Excellent and fun video
Yes, the person to raise the argument to the level of a gunfight is the one who instigated the gunfight, which is illegal. Shooting back to defend yourself is not a crime
I'm sure you won't be the only one to do it, but I think you missed the point that was being made. Besides, the laws on self defence aren't that simple... simply being the first to fire a weapon does not immediately make you guilty of a crime. Perhaps studying the general principals of law might help.
@@another3997 based on tone and inflection the point I heard was that Sanders was somehow in the wrong, at least partially. And, yes more is involved, but based on all presented evidence, my statement was valid and accurate
The first one to shoot isn't necessarily the one who instigated.
Imagine it from his perspective: three people who are clearly very upset with him and ready for a fight. Can he be certain that retreat is a valid option? It might be, might not. Is he willing to risk it? Would mean giving up his cover and with it any chance of winning the fight. No, he'll stand his ground so he can live. But there's three of them, he still needs an advantage in order to survive. It's decided, if a fight becomes clearly inevitable he has to get the first shot or he's dead.
So he was kind of backed into a corner. But then look at the other perspective, if they don't want a gunfight they have many options: they could call the police, they can retreat, they can work to make sure he doesn't feel backed into a corner. They're on their home turf, they came when they were prepared, they had greater numbers. They had so many advantages and with it so many more options (and because of their advantages the lone guy had so few safe options)
Like, I'm not saying that the colonel was in the wrong or that the guy who shot first was in the right. But i am saying is it's not that clear cut
@@the1exnay he was committing property destruction. He was in the wrong. He brought it to physical violence with a deadly weapon. He brought a weapon to commit property destruction. The police at the time weren't nearly as reliable or quick to respond. There were much more clear cut rules on defending ones property and home back in the day
Don't mess with others stuff. Armed criminal got shot while committing crime....
Colonel Sanders knew Dave Thomas? And people say Avengers Infinity War was the most ambitious crossover of our time.
I worked at this original restaurant growing up. They have a museum with the old rooms they used to offer when it was opened... BTW, it was I-75, not 70.
My gg was his main cook there . my whole family lives in corbin . i have 1 of the few original kfc hotel gas station photos in my family photo album. Sanders was a family friend
4:28 I've been in that restaurant. Still has the old school dining hall.
it was interstate 75, not 70 :) I actually live about 3 miles from the original KFC :D
Howdy fellow corbinite. Boy if they knew half of how bad the colonel was they'd take him off as a mascot.
@@patrickbrinker3845 Didnt stop London / Laurel C from starting up a Chicken fest
I was looking to see if someone else caught the I 75 mistake. Got US 25 right though.
@@arick_mnc isn't it funny that the chicken fest is in London ky and not corbin? 15 miles away from the city that the original was in. Corbin wasn't interested in hosting it.
@@patrickbrinker3845 I have been away for nearly 30 years so wasn't around as it was started. I always assumed that London had just taken it because they are the county seat and the restaurant was in Laurel's part of Corbin. ;)
That could also have been why Corbin didn't want to die to their 3- country divide, resources may have been too complicated.
As said above... my thoughts are purely supposition. :)
He probably sent Eric Cartman
I have incredible respect for Dave Thomas for setting that example to future generations: that education is the key to escaping poverty, if there was one.
Having started watching SW on biz blaze and migrating to the “real channels “ is funny as hell along with extremely informative. Americana through a Brit/Hungarian prism is fascinating
This is going to be a great story.
It really is. :-) As is Dave Thomas' of Wendy's in the Bonus Fact
@@TodayIFoundOut simon plz don't ever change
Am I the only one tripping over the thumbnail 🤯
"you had to be a Rhodes scholar to cook it" I'm ded lmaooooo
I liked this one Simon!
Wendy's food is pretty gross but I've always admired Dave Thomas. He seemed like a genuinely good guy that went out of his way to advocate for kids, adoptees, etc.
In the 80s Wendy's had the best chicken sandwich on the planet.
Tbh the new Classic Chicken sandwich is pretty darn good
In Australia there's a Wendys chain which mostly sells ice creams, milk shakes and hot dogs. They were more popular and common in the 90s, as far as I know not associated with the USA Wendys.
I am from KY and met the Colonel in my youth. By then he was so deaf he couldn't get my name right for an autograph. He was evidently a volatile man and if he came upon a franchise not cooking his chicken properly, was known to throw all their equipment out into the parking lot.
Sanders' innovation was the use of a pressure cooker. People travelling on the new Interstates wouldn't have to stop for 1+ hours to have chicken cooked for a decent meal. Instead, a few minutes in the pressure cooker did the trick and the travelers would be back on the road.
Hey Simon, coming off the back of many Business Blaze videos could you do a TIDO on who invented the Da Dum Tssh?
The thumbnail for this video has the wrong hand used to hold his gun. The guy has two left hands...
No, it’s an inverted right hand. The 1911 is also mirrored
I just figured out that you and Vsause are not the same person.
I met Colonel Sanders at a "Grand Opening" in Durango, Colorado @67-68. I and friends ate lunch with him at our table. He told us not to eat the mashed potatoes - that the styrofoam cup they were in would taste better. I really liked him.
6:31 I thought it was the “extra crispy recipe” he didn’t like. Excellent video however!
WHY DOES THE THUMBNAIL HAVE 2 LEFT HANDS!?!? THIS IS DISTURBING!!!
I hope someone in the production team or the digital team answers this question? Geeezz, because people seem to be so focused on it, not that Colonel Sanders killed the man?! YIKES!😳😬
@@Zeldarw104 Sorry, I grew up in Kentucky. That part just seemed a bit mundane to me. It's an every day thing there. Not really, but also out in Eastern Kentucky, Kinda really... Out there, you have the lots of feuding Hillbillies. The Hatfields and the McCoys, The lesser known Tollivers vs. the Falins... Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a movie about that one... I grew up on the far more civilized Western side, but Eastern Kentucky is where your stereotypes about Kentuckians come from.
There needs to be a Colonel Sanders biopic.
Norm Macdonald can play him!
Edit: Again!
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Older version can be played by John Goodman. Younger is Billy Zane, and younger still could be Cole Sprouse. No matter what, this should be made.
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The fact that the boy with the blaze absolutely LOVES KFC I find this video late coming, but inevitable.
6:30 It was the new "extra crispy" he called a "fried doughball", not "original recipe", which was just that - his original recipe.
Thank you for clarifying that. And Colonel Sanders wasn’t wrong.
Never knew the Colonel had a dark side 😮
My great-grand father actually knew mr sanders
Well it looks like this summer I’m planning a trip to Shelbyville Kentucky.
I live just a few minutes from Henryville where the Colonel was born. I had no idea and I've lived here for 6 years!