# Damn you, KFC, Damn you and your left-overs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197 "2006-06-10T11:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/1 "2006-06-10T11:51:25Z")
I sit here trying not to get grease on my keyboard as I chew on some leftover chicken. The Colonel found a human truism ensuring his world domination and financial success. You could sell Extra Crispy Chicken without Chicken and make a MINT. The parts that bring me (and secretly, you) the most pleasure are the mouthful parts along the edges that have no chicken in them. Would you eat french fries the next day? No. Would you eat a Sub sandwich? In a bind, I guess, faced with starvation. But Chicken (and I guess pizza) are sooo good the next day. It shouldn’t be legal how good it tastes. Course, the fact I don’t know the 11 herbs and spices and don’t have access to a pressure deep-fryer mean I will be forever indebted to the family of Colonel Harlan Saunders. So. whaddaya eat that’s as good or better the second day? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/2 "2006-06-10T12:49:39Z")
Turkey usually tastes way better the second day than fresh out of the oven as well. Must be like the chicken phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/3 "2006-06-10T12:50:33Z")
I have found that tomato-based foods always taste better the next day (or two). Spaghetti, lasagna, etc. They do have the disadvantage that you have to heat them up again versus eating them cold like pizza or fried chicken, but it’s a small price to pay. But dang, leftover KFC. Very hard to top that one, uh huh. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/4 "2006-06-10T12:52:54Z")
Gotta admit. When I get some KFC I tend to get too much so I can have some for breakfast the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/5 "2006-06-10T12:58:32Z")
Generally, leftovers give me the heebie jeebies for some reason…I hate how they look, all cold & stiff in the tupperware. I have to get my husband to heat them up so I don’t have to look at how yucky they look coming out of the fridge. The only 2 exceptions I have to this rule are fried chicken and pizza. I love both of them, straight out of the fridge and ice cold. Yum yum yum. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/6 "2006-06-10T13:00:55Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > Gotta admit. When I get some KFC I tend to get too much so I can have some for breakfast the next day. Ah good, I’m not the only one in the universe who does that, then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/7 "2006-06-10T15:02:14Z")
Popcorn. I make up a bag, dump it in a bowl, and set it next to my computer. I get a good four days of occasional snacking out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/8 "2006-06-10T15:37:38Z")
> [@Unintentionally Blank](#): > > The Colonel found a human truism ensuring his world domination and financial success. > > You could sell Extra Crispy Chicken without Chicken and make a MINT. See right there is where you will never have world domination and be our chicken eating overlord. If the colonel truely wanted to rule the world he would buy chicken skins from the guys that market skinless chicken breasts. He would then prepare these with original recipe style and sell them. I would sell my soul (and waistline) for a bucket of those. Ist day or 2nd day they would be great. The hard part would be putting the bucket down so you still had some on the 2nd day. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/9 "2006-06-10T15:44:45Z")
I like pizza more the next day. I’ve bought pies specifically to cool down and put in the fridge for tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![sleeping\_mud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sleeping\_mud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping_mud)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/10 "2006-06-10T16:05:51Z")
> [@Unintentionally Blank](#): > > Course, the fact I don’t know the 11 herbs and spices There aren’t. Someone got a sample and had it tested. All they found was salt, pepper, and msg. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/11 "2006-06-10T16:10:10Z")
> [@sleeping mud](#): > > There aren’t. Someone got a sample and had it tested. All they found was salt, pepper, and msg. Well, that’d just be false advertising. Something the Colonel could EASILY sweep under the rug of world domination. Cite? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![sleeping\_mud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sleeping\_mud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping_mud)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/12 "2006-06-10T16:14:27Z")
Its in a book-Big Secrets by a William Poundstone. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/13 "2006-06-10T17:08:58Z")
Pot Roast, in addition to being so simple even a confirmed bachelor can make it, has the quality of tasting better the second day. I further postulate that most dishes that are crockpot friendly share this quality. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/14 "2006-06-10T17:16:31Z")
Isn’t wine supposed to be better if it’s old? And cheese too. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/15 "2006-06-10T17:35:09Z")
I must be the only person on the planet that hates cold leftover pizza. I can’t stand coagulated cheese. It just tastes … _old_ to me. KFC, on the other hand … I almost like KFC better as cold leftovers than hot and fresh chicken. The flavours of that awesome crispy coating melding with the chicken – it almost should be a controlled substance. Even just the coating, dipped in their gravy … damn. Good eats. Turkey is awesome cold, too – I love cold turkey sandwiches with just a bit of salt and butter. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/16 "2006-06-10T20:51:49Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > I must be the only person on the planet that hates cold leftover pizza. I can’t stand coagulated cheese. It just tastes … _old_ to me. > > KFC, on the other hand … I almost like KFC better as cold leftovers than hot and fresh chicken. The flavours of that awesome crispy coating melding with the chicken – it almost should be a controlled substance. Even just the coating, dipped in their gravy … damn. Good eats. > > Turkey is awesome cold, too – I love cold turkey sandwiches with just a bit of salt and butter. Cold pizza is nasty. Cold KFC grosses me out (the grease, great Og the grease). And I really don’t like leftover turkey either. I may be a little strange. Cold real _homemade_ fried chicken? Oh yeah baby! Cold steak, cold ribs, cold hotwings… these are a few of my favorite things. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/17 "2006-06-11T05:57:06Z")
> [@sleeping mud](#): > > There aren’t. Someone got a sample and had it tested. All they found was salt, pepper, and msg. Wrong. I used to own that book. Re-read it. > [@](#): > > In 1974 Esquire magazine asked four food writers to try Kentucky Fried Chicken and offer their analyses. There was little consensus. > > James Beard found the chicken “well seasoned with salt”; with less assurance, he thought he detected monosodium glutamate, cayenne pepper, and cinnamon. Roy Andries de Groot was “reasonably sure of minuscule amounts” of rosemary, savory, tarragon, thyme, pepper, turmeric, and cinnamon. He also noted salt, monosodium glutamate, “tiny globules of what might be honey or brown sugar,” and “the faintest touch of both almond and mint.” Waverly Root concluded that the chicken was “dunked in some sort of batter” containing flour, milk, and perhaps egg. Root was certain only of salt and pepper in the seasoning; he guessed that celery salt, caraway, chili powder, and/or horseradish might be present. James Villas doubted that any milk or egg was used in the coating and further doubted that there were eleven herbs and spices. He detected only cinnamon and cloves. Villas argued that the secret of Kentucky Fried Chicken is sugar: “Real fried chicken is not sweet; this is.” The sugar, he suspected, was added to the “very light and very safe and very healthy cooking oil.” > > Another analysis comes from Gloria Pitzer, a St. Clair, Michigan, homemaker and newsletter publisher. Pitzer’s Secret Recipe Report attempts to duplicate the recipes of popular processed foods for home use. In the late 1970s, Pitzer devised three recipes for facsimile Kentucky Fried Chicken. > > The recipes call for the chicken pieces to be fried in a pan or deep fryer until brown and then transferred to an oven for thirty to thirty-five minutes’ additional cooking. One-fourth to one-half inch of water in the baking pan keeps the chicken moist in the oven. In Pitzer’s first recipe, the chicken is seasoned with a marinade made from commercial Italian salad dressing mix, flour, salt, lemon juice, and oil. > > Pitzer’s second and third recipes use eleven herbs and spices each. The second, said to simulate spicy-crispy Kentucky Fried Chicken,. requires garlic salt, onion powder, paprika, black pepper, allspice, sweet basil, oregano, sage, summer savory (substitution: parsley flakes), ginger, and rosemary. All are mixed with flour and salt. Chicken pieces are dampened with beer or club soda, dredged in the flour/seasoning mix, and fried. > > The third recipe uses a modified list of herbs and spices: rosemary, oregano, sage, ginger, marjoram, thyme, parsley, pepper, paprika, garlic salt, and onion salt. Three additional flavoringsbrown sugar, powdered chicken bouillon, and Lipton Tomato Cup-a-Soup mix-supplement the herbs and spices. From [here.](http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0688048307&tc=cx) ---
**Author:** ![sleeping\_mud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sleeping\_mud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping_mud)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/18 "2006-06-11T06:02:53Z")
They got samples and had them tested. All they found was salt, pepper and msg. ---
**Author:** ![sleeping\_mud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sleeping\_mud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping_mud)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/19 "2006-06-11T06:04:30Z")
I will get the book and quote to you from the page. ---
**Author:** ![sleeping\_mud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@sleeping\_mud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping_mud)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197/20 "2006-06-11T06:08:20Z")
I won’t be able to post by the time I find it (and it does say that) but I will e mail you and then you can post that I was right. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-kfc-damn-you-and-your-left-overs/360197.md?page=2)