KFC Phasing Out Taste From Its Chicken

One of my first jobs was at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Back then, we had Original Recipe, with its 11 Herbs and Spices. And we had Extra Crispy. The Extra Crispy got got extra crispy by being dredged in the flour containing the 11 Herbs and Spices an extra time.

Back then, we didn't worry about trans fats. We didn't worry about every other kid being morbidly obese. We ate our KFC, and we played hard. If you were lucky, like me, you could skate around on the greasy floor of the KFC kitchen. You knew that things would turn out all right. You knew that if the Original Recipe was good enough for Col. Sanders, then it was going to be good enough for us, too.

Fast forwarding 29 years, we find that KFC doesn't trust the original recipe that Col. Harland Sanders introduced to the world in 1939. The company recently announced that it is phasing out trans fats in cooking its Original Recipe and Extra Crispy fried chicken, Potato Wedges and other menu items.

Colonel Sanders died in 1980 at the age of 90. He survived the trans fats, and so can you. If you want to get your trans fats at KFC, just get the biscuits. They haven't figured out how to make decent biscuits without the trans fats. Let's hope they don't find a substitute. There's no need to have Col. Sanders rolling over in his grave.