The history of KFC

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• YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,182

  January 2021

  I love KFC and I’m not afraid to admit it.

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• CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,031

  January 2021

  Quick side note, Mrs Nacho and I drive down to hike the Cumberland Gap and realized we were at the original location for KFC. Had to stop and take some photos, read the historical marker, etc. but didn’t have time to eat lunch there. It’s on my list next time I head that way.

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• DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 67,897

  January 2021

  How KFC Became a Christmas Tradition in Japan
  
  What began in 1974 as an impulse promotion by a KFC store manager in Nagoya, has turned into a national tradition in Japan.
  
  3.6 million families dine at KFC every December 25th.
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JaN2NZoks

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• RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,070

  January 2021

  My grand dad built the Evergreen Ballroom on the original 2 lane 99 a couple years before the glitzy 4 lane Martin Way opened up taking folks from Nisqually to downtown Olympia. It worked out though because being in the middle of nowhere close to Ft Lewis allowed the Black acts to play and the soldiers and townies to mix.
  
  What the Interstates did was move commerce to the outskirts of towns away from downtown. Interstates were the cure for traffic lights which we no longer had time for as the pace of the world picked up
  
  Sears and JC Penny moved to the South Sound Mall. Capital Mall would follow and be repeated across America. The national store won.
  
  Downtown Olympia became TESC grads selling trinkets.
  
  Things change

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• biak1 Member Posts: 4,237

  January 2021

  The people of the Czech Republic love them some KFC, too.

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• doogie Member Posts: 15,072

  January 2021

  DerekJohnson said:

  How KFC Became a Christmas Tradition in Japan
  
  What began in 1974 as an impulse promotion by a KFC store manager in Nagoya, has turned into a national tradition in Japan.
  
  3.6 million families dine at KFC every December 25th.
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JaN2NZoks

  Can confirm. KFC and Christmas Cake

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• DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 67,897

  January 2021

  biak1 said:

  The people of the Czech Republic love them some KFC, too.

  Link?

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• 89ute Member Posts: 2,477

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  My first job was cooking chicken at KFC. Hardest job I ever had. I was still 14 when I started. This could never happen in these tims. Put myself through high school working here. I still have restless dreams 40 years later from this job. You'd run 3 to 4 pressure cookers, the trick was to keep them going non stop, spacing them out so you had just enough time to take the chicken out, spread it on a tray, bread another round and get it back into the cooker after if finished heating back up. As soon as you did that, the next cooker would go off and repeat the process. 3 to 4 hour clean up when you were done cooking for the evening. Not only was it hard, it was a classic Mike Rowe dirty job. Go home covered in grease.

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• biak1 Member Posts: 4,237

  January 2021

  DerekJohnson said:

  biak1 said:

  The people of the Czech Republic love them some KFC, too.

  Link?

  I was like, there man.

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• FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823

  January 2021

  YellowSnow said:

  I love KFC and I’m not afraid to admit it.

  Don’t fucking no why but I love that mash and gravy

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• GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516

  January 2021

  CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

  I just read through the history photo porn thread and the posts about I-5 going through downtown reminded me of the story of Colonel Sanders and the start of the KFC empire.
  
  He originally owned a gas station along the Dixie Highway and the start of I-75 2 miles from town meant he would lose out on the traffic so he took his secret spices and started selling the franchise rights to what eventually became one of the largest, if not the largest franchise chains ever.
  
  https://youtu.be/pKa_u31EJwU
  
  
  

  Sounds like deeply racist origins.

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• PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 47,852

  January 2021

  doogie said:

  DerekJohnson said:

  How KFC Became a Christmas Tradition in Japan
  
  What began in 1974 as an impulse promotion by a KFC store manager in Nagoya, has turned into a national tradition in Japan.
  
  3.6 million families dine at KFC every December 25th.
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JaN2NZoks

  Can confirm. KFC and Christmas Cake

  MoraYummyCake?
  

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• RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123

  January 2021

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGUMA2LwskQ
  
  Anyone watch the Mario Lopez Lifetime movie about KFC?

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• DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 67,897

  January 2021

  DerekJohnson said:

  How KFC Became a Christmas Tradition in Japan
  
  What began in 1974 as an impulse promotion by a KFC store manager in Nagoya, has turned into a national tradition in Japan.
  
  3.6 million families dine at KFC every December 25th.
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JaN2NZoks

  
  But....
  
  
  
  

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• CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,031

  January 2021

  RoadDawg55 said:

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGUMA2LwskQ
  
  Anyone watch the Mario Lopez Lifetime movie about KFC?

  I did not but was it an actual movie? My kid said it was like 15 minutes and more like a commercial.

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• BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346

  January 2021

  Burger King closing shift, The rust colored corduroy pants were auce. Swamp ass nut huggers. Especially after hosing down the fry racks and disassembling the salad bar. Free meal every shift! I guess graduating from BKU was my first degree.
  
  7-11 graveyard shift. All the pop you could drink. Unlimited nachos too.
  
  Spent one summer measuring every street and road in Eugene OR. Also rated the road surface using a system developed at UW. CSB.

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• Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,109

  January 2021

  https://youtu.be/ihjaPfVhrbo

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• DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 67,897

  January 2021

  BennyBeaver said:

  Burger King closing shift, The rust colored corduroy pants were auce. Swamp ass nut huggers. Especially after hosing down the fry racks and disassembling the salad bar. Free meal every shift! I guess graduating from BKU was my first degree.
  
  7-11 graveyard shift. All the pop you could drink. Unlimited nachos too.
  
  Spent one summer measuring every street and road in Eugene OR. Also rated the road surface using a system developed at UW. CSB.

  What does this have to do with the history of KFC?

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• CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,031

  January 2021 edited January 2021

  DerekJohnson said:

  BennyBeaver said:

  Burger King closing shift, The rust colored corduroy pants were auce. Swamp ass nut huggers. Especially after hosing down the fry racks and disassembling the salad bar. Free meal every shift! I guess graduating from BKU was my first degree.
  
  7-11 graveyard shift. All the pop you could drink. Unlimited nachos too.
  
  Spent one summer measuring every street and road in Eugene OR. Also rated the road surface using a system developed at UW. CSB.

  What does this have to do with the history of KFC?

  
  Sounds like some poasters need to learn the difference between the history of KFC thread and the hardest/worst job you’ve ever had thread.

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• BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346

  January 2021

  CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

  DerekJohnson said:

  BennyBeaver said:

  Burger King closing shift, The rust colored corduroy pants were auce. Swamp ass nut huggers. Especially after hosing down the fry racks and disassembling the salad bar. Free meal every shift! I guess graduating from BKU was my first degree.
  
  7-11 graveyard shift. All the pop you could drink. Unlimited nachos too.
  
  Spent one summer measuring every street and road in Eugene OR. Also rated the road surface using a system developed at UW. CSB.

  What does this have to do with the history of KFC?

  
  Sounds like some poasters need to learn the difference between the history of KFC thread and the hardest/worst job you’ve ever had thread.

  Mods!?

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