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  Colonel Sanders - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
A native son of Kentuckistan, Colonel Sanders was born Jesus Harland Sanders in 1834.
Sanders rose into Heaven alive, and was reincarnated as a Confederate general who, according to His parents, was named by angels.
Sanders is considered one of the Tasty Trinity of gods, along with Allah Ackbar and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Colonel_Sanders   (1091 words)

  
  Colonel Sanders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colonel Sanders appears as a fictional character in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore.
Stuart McKenzie claims that Colonel Sanders was a member of the world-controlling organization, the Pentaverate, before he died.
Colonel Sanders' famous Popcorn Chicken are often used in the TV sitcom The Simpsons as a running gag
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Colonel Sanders
Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 - December 16, 1980), better known as Colonel Sanders, was the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
Harland Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 in Henryville, Indiana.
Sanders died at the age of 90 on December 16, 1980 of leukemia, and was buried in his famous white suit and bow tie in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Harland_Sanders   (568 words)

  
 Kentucky colonel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kentucky colonel is an honorary title bestowed upon individuals by approval of the governor of Kentucky.
Colonels in uniform attended functions at the Governor's mansion and stood as symbolic guards at state events.
The Kentucky Colonels were a team throughout the existence of the American Basketball Association.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kentucky_colonel   (543 words)

  
 Colonel Sanders
Colonel Sanders, and his apprentices Pizza Hut Girl and Taco Bell Dog, were sent by Chancellor Valorum to Naboo shortly before his forced resignation as a backup plan, in case the efforts of the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn failed.
Sanders was victorious in his attempts, and the three returned to Coruscant shortly before the victory celebration.
Colonel Sanders now sits patiently in the Galactic Capitol, waiting to be called back to active duty should the efforts of the Heroes of Naboo fail...
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 TV ACRES: Cooks & Cookbooks - Colonel Sanders
"Colonel Sanders") was a grandfatherly southern gentleman who opened what would be the first in a chain of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Corbin, Kentucky in 1932 in a lunchroom behind his gas station.
In 1975, Colonel Sanders was sued unsuccessfully for libel by Heublein Incorporated when he publicly referred to Kentucky Fried Chicken gravy as "sludge" and that it had a "wallpaper taste." He was being paid $250,000 a year to promote KFC chicken at the time.
That flavor is chicken sweat." The Colonel Harland Sanders museum at the KFC Headquarters, located west of Interstate 264 (exit 15A) in Louisville, Kentucky, traces the history of the Colonel's chicken empire.
www.tvacres.com /cooks_colonelsanders.htm   (464 words)

  
 Colonel Sanders: still a formidable presence - Colonel Harland D. Sanders - Kentucky Fried Chicken company profile - ...
Near the reception desk is the Colonel Sanders museum, with its life-sized sculpture of the Colonel.
Sanders, after all, was the one who had conceived the idea of franchising Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets around the nation--at an age when most food-service executives are cashing in their stock options.
Photo: The Colonel Sanders Museum at Kentucky Fried Chicken headquarters in Louisville features a life-sized statue of the Colonel in a small theater; his signature white linen suit, cane, shirt and tie along with one of his wife's dresses; and his original pressure cooker, used to test chicken recipes.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3190/is_v20/ai_4607734   (868 words)

  
 Col Harland Sanders
Harlan Sanders received the honorary title of Colonel from the governor of Kentucky in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine.
Years later I was honored by the governor of Kentucky with the title of Colonel for the work I had done on preserving the history of Kentucky and her people through research, writings and a book.
Sanders last days she revealed the "secret recipe" to Linda, but she did not write it down and forgot the ingredients.
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 KFC - Colonel Sanders Cafe & Museum - America's First Kentucky Fried Chicken
Sanders, who was born on Sept. 9, 1890 in Henryville, Indiana, lost his father at the age of six.
It was while experimenting in his Corbin kitchen, that Sanders found his famous and closely guarded combination of eleven herbs and spices which he claimed “stand on everybody’s shelf.” It wasn’t only Sanders’ recipe of herbs and spices that made his fried chicken unique.
Sanders was retained on salary as spokesman for Kentucky Fried Chicken®.
www.corbinkentucky.us /sanderscafe.htm   (764 words)

  
 -Colonel Sanders-Kentucky Fried Chicken   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sanders franchised his image and his name and his unique pressure-cooker technique, but he kept his secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices secret -- he carried it with him in a jar.
The Colonel sold his franchise to Heublin Inc. in 1971, and they later sold to Pepsico, but he remained an active promoter of his flock of restaurants until his death in 1980 at the age of 90.
They are identical (with one exception), depicting the Colonel all in white and holding his trademark cane.
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 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Colonel Sanders and KKK Rumor
Colonel Sanders left instructions requiring KFC to donate money to the Ku Klux Klan or feed the homeless for free.
What rumors such as the claim that "Colonel Sanders' will devotes 10% of KFC's yearly profits to the Ku Klux Klan" reflect is the misperception that Harland David Sanders owned KFC until the day he died.
Sanders did continue to serve as KFC's spokesperson and appear in their advertising for many years after the 1964 sale, a participation that undoubtedly led many consumers to believe that he was active in the chain's ownership and management until he finally passed away in 1980.
www.snopes.com /business/alliance/sanders.asp   (931 words)

  
 Genealogy.com - Ancestry of Colonel Sanders
Harland Sanders was born in Henryville, Indiana in 1890.
He earned the honorary title of Colonel from the Governor of Kentucky in recognition of his contribution to the state's cuisine.
Sanders died of leukemia in 1980 at the age of 90.
www.genealogy.com /famousfolks/colonel-sanders   (189 words)

  
 Colonel Sanders- Kentucky Fried Chicken - Bobble   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Colonel Harland Sanders, born September 9, 1890, actively began franchising his chicken business at the age of 65.
And Colonel Sanders, a quick service restaurant pioneer, has become a symbol of entrepreneurial spirit.
When he was 40, the Colonel began cooking for hungry travelers who stopped at his service station in Corbin, Ky. He didn't have a restaurant then, but served folks on his own dining table in the living quarters of his service station.
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 Colonel Sanders Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Corbin, KY is home to Sanders Cafe, which was the first Kentucky Fried Chicken establishment, opened by Colonel Harlan Sanders in 1940.
It originally functioned as the built-in restaurant for Sanders' motel, which sadly no longer exists, but don't panic: the museum has a meticulously detailed scale model diarama of the entire block as it appeared back in the day.
The museum (which is registered as an official historic site) is filled with all manner of figurines and busts of Sanders and all variety of bric-a-brac with the Colonel's likeness, no matter how trivial and peripheral (even the original paraphenalia issued to advertise the museum's opening in 1990 is enshrined as if antique).
unusualkentucky.tripod.com /sanderscafe.html   (145 words)

  
 Sake-Drenched Postcards - Chicken with All the Trimmings
You see, in 1971 Colonel Sanders slew his first Japanese chicken and soon after Kentucky Fried Chicken started serving in Japan, a beginning that would eventually evolve into christening chicken take-out as the staple of the Japanese Christmas Eve dinner - a yearly pillage of the intestines continues to this day.
Colonel Sanders was obviously thinking about more than just cornbread and coleslaw as side dishes when he popped his first Japanese bird in the oven on that fateful day in 1971.
Junko kept marveling, and simultaneously squinting, at the "big round bright object in the sky slowly falling to the horizon in the west." I made a mental note to move her desk closer to a window.
www.bigempire.com /sake/christmas.html   (1489 words)

  
 Kentucky Tourist Attractions
Colonel Sanders is the most beloved gentleman in Kentucky, and the only fast food franchiser honored with a bust in the state capitol.
Sanders was a fascinating, authentic character, before the extra-crispy forced formulations of later fast food celebrities.
When Colonel Sanders died in 1980 -- still possessing the arteries of a much younger man -- his body lay in state in the Kentucky capitol rotunda.
www.roadsideamerica.com /map/ky.html   (568 words)

  
 KFC of Plainfield, Indiana - Colonel Sanders   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Colonel Harland Sanders, born September 9,1890, actively began franchising his chicken business at the age of 65.
When he was 40, the Colonel began cooking for hungry travelers who stopped at his service stat ion in Corbin, Ky. He didn't have a restaurant then, but served folks on his own dining table in the living quarters of his service station.
Until he was fatally stricken with leukemiain 1980 at the age of 90, the Colonel traveled 250,000 miles a year visiting the KFC empire he founded.
www.kfcplainfield.com /colonel.html   (703 words)

  
 A POSTHUMOUS FACE-LIFT FOR COLONEL SANDERS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Unlike many other corporate icons, the Colonel was a real person, Harland Sanders, and he actually founded the fast-food chain in 1953.
Sanders, who died in 1980 at 90, wasn't a military officer but got an honorary title from Kentucky's governor.
In his latter years, Sanders proved to be an ornery spokesperson for the chain he created.
www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/june/nf70625a.htm   (243 words)

  
 Pamela Anderson Goes Bust-to-Bust with Colonel Sanders
The bust of Colonel Sanders in the Kentucky capitol.
Colonel Sanders died in 1980 at the age of ninety, sixteen years after he had sold his entire interest in Kentucky Fried Chicken to a group of investors for $2 million.
A long-standing and never-proven urban legend has it that Colonel Sanders left 10 percent of his profit from the sale of Kentucky Fried Chicken to the KKK.
www.pugbus.net /artman/publish/printer_011406_22_pamcolonel.shtml   (581 words)

  
 Harland "Colonel" Sanders (1890 - 1980) - Find A Grave Memorial
Harland Sanders was born in Indiana on September 9, 1890 and over the course of his lifetime came to exemplify the true American entrepreneurial spirit.
Sanders’ father died when Harland was only 6 years old and he had to help his mother care for his younger brother and sister.
He got his first job when he was 10 and for the next 30 years, Sanders held a variety of jobs ranging from streetcar conductor, a railroad fireman, insurance salesman and service station operator.
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=926   (451 words)

  
 Colonel Sanders Deployed to Middle East
Sanders, 112, began his military service as a private in the Spanish-American War in 1896.
"Colonel Sanders is deeply passionate about the peace process and hopes to work closely with Middle East leaders to reach a suitable compromise.
The Colonel looks forward to adding his role as catalyst of peace to a storied history, which includes the sale of his multimillion-dollar franchise, his sponsorship of the NCAA basketball tournament, and his death in 1980.
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 The Story of Colonel Sanders
Over the next nine years, he perfected his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices and the basic cooking technique that is still used today.
Governor Ruby Laffoon made him a Kentucky Colonel in 1935 in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine.
Until he was fatally stricken with leukemia in 1980 at the age of 90, the Colonel traveled 250,000 miles a year visiting the KFC empire he founded.
www.ronford.net /ui/kfc3/Townsquare/colonel/colhistory1.htm   (709 words)

  
 Kentucky’s Colonel Sanders
Sanders didn’t come up with the concept for the business that made him rich and famous until he was 66 — an age when many men are retiring rather than getting started.
Sanders also is credited with developing the concept of “franchising” restaurants throughout the country and — along with McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc — with launching what’s now known as the fast-food industry.
Sanders once recalled the spices being mixed “like cement.” Once mixed, the Colonel’s wife, Claudia, packed the spices in little paper sacks with cellophane linings and shipped them by midnight train to their destinations.
www.courier-journal.com /foryourinfo/010305/010305.html   (2482 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Kentucky governor refuses Anderson's Colonel Sanders request   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Anderson has been involved in a public relations campaign with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to raise awareness of what she calls abuse of chickens in processing plants that supply poultry to the Louisville-based chicken chain.
Among her claims, she said workers in a slaughterhouse in West Virginia have been filmed tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco in their eyes and boiling the chickens alive in tanks of scalding water.
The white-bearded, bolo-tied Harland Sanders, who died in 1980 at age 90, began the Kentucky Fried Chicken empire more than six decades ago from his own kitchen in rural Corbin, serving a few hungry travelers who stopped in his service station.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-01-24-anderson-sanders-kentucky_x.htm   (378 words)

  
 Compass Health - The Story of Colonel Harland Sanders
The company the Colonel started nearly a half-century ago now serves nearly 6 billion pieces of the Colonel’s “finger lickin’ good” chicken annually in more than 84 countries around the world.
His mother was forced to go to work and young Sanders had to take care of his three-year-old brother and baby sister.
Until he was fatally stricken with leukemia in 1980 at the age of 90, Colonel Sanders traveled 250,000 miles a year visiting the KFC empire he founded.
www.compasshealth.org /sandersstory.html   (786 words)

  
 Listen To Me - Christmas With Colonel Sanders
I'm inclined to agree with him, but seeing as the last time I actually ate any of Colonel Sander's crispy chicken produce was over five or six months ago, my memory of the poultry experience I underwent is somewhat faded.
Sanders - sorry, now Colonel Sanders - deserved it for all he'd done to promote the state's cuisine.
As for Colonel Sanders, whilst sadly he died back in 1980, his spirit lives on in the chicken his employees make and the music his special album contains.
www.listentome.net /music7.php   (1671 words)

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