are there KFC’s in Kentucky? wouldn’t it defeat the purpose? if they are there, are they called the same thing? [did they change the name there too? 
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Of course there are. Look a the James Bond movie “Goldfinger”.
Incidentally, the first “Kentucky Fried Chicken” franchises were in Utah. They were called “Harmon’s”, because Pete Harmon incorporated them into his restaurants. The very fuirst KFC is marked with bronze letters in Salt Lake City.
When I lived in SLC you could get carrots and other side dishes at some KFCs. I don’t know if thats still the case.
It’s nice to know somebody knows the truth! Pete Harmon is my great uncle. He is my grandmother’s mother’s brother. His real name is Leon Weston Harmon, nobody is really sure why he is known as “Pete”.
My grandmother used to work at the first KFC. She would have to get up at 3:30 AM, in order to kill, pluck, and prepare the chickens for the day. =) You don’t get service like that anymore.
I’m not killing anything for 5 bucks an hour. Make it 7.50 and we’ll talk.
The first KFC’s were in Utah? What?
Pull up a chair and listen to the straight dope from a Kentuckian!
Kentucky Friend Chicken was started by Col. Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky, where there is still a restaurant. KFC is headquartered in Louisville. Sanders was a “Kentucky Colonel” not a real colonel, by the way … it’s an honorary thing that I can go WAY into if anyone’s interested. But Gov. Ruby Laffoon made him a
Kentucky Colonel in 1935 in recognition of his contributions
to the state’s cuisine. Isn’t that a great name? (Yes, he was a man, but we’ve had exactly one female governor.) And KFC used to be headed by John Y. Brown Jr., who later become governor of Kentucky.
And, I can ascertain the woods are thick with KFC restaurants here!
How dare you throw the Teeming Millions a bone like that and then pull it away! :mad:
I want to know now.
pepperlandgirl, from your desciption, I would say Pete Harmon is your great-great-uncle. Could you please tell him to bring back BBQ-style chicken?
Ellen, I think the key word was Franchise. I have been to the one in Utah and it was the first franchise not owned by the company.
Sorry Arnold!
To be a Kentucky Colonel is one of those mythical things everyone aspires to be, especially the redneck and out-of-stater. You pay yer money and you get yer certificate and you get to go around calling yourself a colonel for the rest of your life.
No, no that’s no doing it justice. Button your lip against the smirk that will no doubt grow and read this: http://www.sos.state.ky.us/sosdev/ADMIN/KYCOL.HTM
They are a loosely organized group that gives away a LOT of money to charity. A lot of blue-hairs are involved in the official side of it.
As for your average run-of-the-mill Kentuckian, if you know some two-bit politician, he can send your name into the governor and you’ll get your official Kentucky Colonel certificate, along with a catalog of all the Official Kentucky Colonel Merchandise you can buy.
It’s silly but some people dearly love it. I used to work at a small daily paper and we were often asked to print the glad tidings that Billy Bob was made a Kentucky Colonel “…on the staff of Gov. Wallace Wilkinson.” (or whoever the current guv might be) We all hooted at the pretentiousness of it.
And …
I didn’t quite pick up on the franchise bit; quite sorry for that.
One of my favorite Simpsons quotes is from the episode where Homer manages country singer Lurleen Lumpkin. “They don’t call me Colonel Homer because I’m some dumbass army guy.”
I should point out that I am actually a Kentucky Colonel. They made me one when I worked for the Governor’s Scholars Program a few years ago.
All the other R.A.'s just blew the whole thing off. I, on the other hand, made the head R.A. present my certificate to me ceremoniously in front of my residents and insisted that everyone refer to me as “Colonel” for the rest of the summer.
If they’re going to give me an “honor”, I’m going to milk it for all it’s worth, dammit. I think I threw the certificate away shortly thereafter.
Oh, and yes, there certainly are KFCs in Kentucky. I remember when I was very young and made my first trip out of state to Ohio, I was very surprised to see one there. Of course, that was back when the sign proudly read “Kentucky Fried Chicken”. I wonder if people under the age of, say, 16 know that the “K” is for “Kentucky”?
Dr. J
PS: The capus newspaper at UK is known as the Kentucky Kernel.
Not to mention the episode where Marge gets caught shoplifting a bottle of “Col. Kwik-E-Mart’s Kentucky Bourbon”. Or the Kentucky Colonels at the bar in “Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment”, who perk up when Moe asks “Who wants a bathtub mint julep?”
Then again, the Simpsons are from Kentucky, so what do you expect?
Dr. J