REVIEW

The COLONEL 

This guy was something else. He dabbled in many, many different jobs in his life time. It seems that food was always part of his life. As a seven year old he helped cook around his home. Over the years, between other jobs, he went back to cooking and kept on perfecting his recipe. Years later he started serving chicken dinners at his place. It quickly outgrew that small dining room and he started serving at a hotel across the street. Business kept growing and finally he sold it all when an interstate was going to bypass the location. A few years later he started peddling his recipe across the nation and started a franchise making five cents on every chicken sold using his recipes. 

It is noted that Colonel Sanders invented the "home meal replacement", that is, a complete meal to take home. Though the name didn't stick, as far as I am aware, he called it "Sunday Dinner, Seven Days a Week". 

I read that in 1935 Governor Ruby Laffoon gave Mr Sanders the title of Kentucky Colonel because of his culinary contributions to the state. So this guy is a Colonel or rather was. He is gone but his recipes live on and on and on and...... 

CHOICES

Not much else than chicken is offered, however, you may get it in many different ways.

Lets start with the Original Recipe. This is the one that the Colonel himself put together. It's noted as having 11 herbs and spices. This is his mainstay offering. You can order pieces or up to buckets of it. For some this original wasn't quite crispy enough so they came up with another recipe simply called , extra crispy. That's the one I really like.

KFC has chicken in pot pies, crispy strips, popcorn pieces, Twisters and other ways. Most can be purchased by piece counts small and large. The biggest counts come in the well known Buckets.

Along with these chicken choices there are also home style sides of mashed potatoes and gravy, cole slaw, macaroni and cheese, potato wedges, and baked beans. I have had the mashed and wedges. Both are good. The coleslaw is too. 

To be GREASY or not to be GREASY, that is the QUESTION

OK, lets start with "the chicken is fried". That alone means that the chicken will be "greasy", that is, in comparison to something cooked on a grill or broiled.

The fact is, I don't think the chicken is really greasy at all. The outside is crispy and very crispy. It is not greasy to the touch. When you bite into the chicken you get a very moist meat. It is well cooked, no red near the bones, and extremely flavorful. I love the stuff. For those who like very well cooked and dry chicken "Avoid KFC". Every piece I have ever had has the same consistent flavor and moister. The popcorn chicken is all white meat and has a thinner batter than the regular chicken. The same can be said for the strips.

THE END

All in all I say KFC is a very good value whether buying for one or two or for a crowd. The food is very fresh and the greasy chicken AIN'T.