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KFC Beefs Up Secret Recipe Security

Posted by samzenpus on from the is-that-a-chicken-wing-in-your-pocket dept.

For more than 20 years, the secret KFC recipe has been in a filing cabinet equipped with two combination locks in company headquarters. To reach the cabinet, you have to open up a vault and unlock three locks on a door. Only two executives at any time have access to it and the company refuses to release their name or title. The company uses multiple suppliers who produce and blend the ingredients but know only a part of the entire contents. All this was not enough for KFC, so Colonel Harland Sanders' handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices will be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC's corporate offices and security improvements for the recipe will be made at headquarters. KFC hired off-duty police officers and private security guards to bring the document to an undisclosed location in an armored car. The recipe will be slid into a briefcase and handcuffed to security expert and former New York City police detective, Bo Dietl. Isn't the secret ingredient love?

10 comments

  1. What's the matter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Chicken?

    1. Re:What's the matter? by paazin · · Score: 1

      Bah, just marketing hype. It's exactly the same as Coca-Cola's "secret" recipe - it's already been published several times (just that the company 'denied' that was the 'true' recipe)

  2. Flour, salt, pepper, MSG by goltz20707 · · Score: 1

    I always thought the "eleven herbs and spices" thing was just marketing hype. Didn't it used to be only seven? In any case, as far as I know, the real recipe is as given in the subject line.

  3. I think Heston misquoted it best by Missing_dc · · Score: 3, Funny

    They don't want you to know,

    KFC is people!!!

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    1. Re:I think Heston misquoted it best by mustafap · · Score: 1

      Yea, Solent Green!

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  4. Marketing by Hao+Wu · · Score: 1

    FDA? People have a right to know what they are eating.

    Like the supposedly secret Coca-cola formula, it's not as though they can manufacture millions of tons of a product and not have it public.

    Nor can you patent something and also keep it a secret, much to the frustration of some executives.

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  5. Kung Fu Chicken by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    there is no secret ingredient

  6. something we are not expecting by Coraon · · Score: 1

    You know perhaps all the secrecy is for our own good. I mean it could be one of those "secrets man was not meant to know" like I don't know, maby chopped up 'thullue or kingfish sight or something...

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  7. The secret is out by Shot_Noise · · Score: 1

    1. Chicken

    2. Grease

    3. Salt

  8. I used to work for KFC... by sleeponthemic · · Score: 1

    I remember the first day of work, the cook taking me around said "At first I thought I was going to discover the secret herbs and spices but..." *shows me the seasoning mix* "Ingredients: Herbs and Spices".

    Cut to a little while later and I'm working for a smaller operation and I recant what I knew about KFC chicken cooking. Not exactly very difficult: throw some flour and arbritrary seasoning in, dunk the chicken and deep fry.

    Anyway, my boss was intrigued and endeavoured to experiment.. with only a few test runs it was clear that you could get better tasting chicken than KFC pretty damn easily. Strangely his arbritrary experimentations.. albeit tasty were sold off with exotic sounding names that really had absolutely nothing to do what was in them.

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