The story behind the iconic image of Earl Abel and KFC’s colonel eating chicken in San...
asking diners to use his recipe and give him a nickel commission on each chicken. He slept in the back of his car and made handshake deals.“We shall use freshly cut broilers dipped in milk and egg and rolled in flour seasoned with 11 different spices and herbs,” Abel told the San Antonio Light in 1959. He was referring to Sanders’ original fried chicken recipe.
Abel bought a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in 1959. Abel quit selling Kentucky Fried Chicken 10 years later and developed his own recipe after Sanders sold his company and the new owners turned the chicken concept into more of a fast-food item.“He’s just as distinguished looking in person as in his pictures,” Abel said of Sanders."He has white hair and a neat white mustache and goatee.”
Sanders then operated a steamboat, sold tires and even delivered babies. In his spare time, he studied to be a lawyer. But his temper never improved and he was fired from being a lawyer for getting into a fight with his client in a Nashville courtroom.Leila Grossman/Getty ImagesJosh Ozersky describes Sanders as an ambitious but deeply flawed man.
He was at war with a competing Standard Oil station down the road. Sanders shot his competitor, injuring him, after the man shot and killed a business associate of Sanders.' He was never charged because Sanders was defending himself.
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