Sayin' good bye to our old Kentucky home.........

[greybeard]

And another one's gone, and another one's gone.....

KFC moving from Ky to Texas, leaving some to cry fowl....

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is flying away from Kentucky, moving from its ancestral home state and heading to Texas.

The shake-up was announced Tuesday by KFC's parent company Yum! Brands, which is relocating the chain's U.S. corporate office to Plano, Texas.

About 100 KFC corporate employees will be relocated in the next six months, according to Yum! Brands, which owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Many political leaders in Kentucky spoke out about the relocation of KFC's corporate office from Louisville, Kentucky.

Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, said he was "disappointed" by the news.

"I am disappointed by this decision and believe the company's founder would be, too," Beshear said in a statement. "This company's name starts with Kentucky, and it has marketed our state's heritage and culture in the sale of its product. My hope is that the company will rethink moving Kentucky Fried Chicken employees out of Kentucky."

I suppose he can keep his 100 Ky employees there if it's that big of a deal to him as I suspect Plano is close enough to metro DFW that they can find a few dozen folks to do their job.

 

[Ky hills]

The original restaurant is in Corbin KY.
I went the dispersal sale of Bob Evans Charolais herd in Ohio, in the 90's. Met Bob Evans himself and he talked with us for quite a while. Found out we were from KY and he told us he helped Sanders out when he was getting started in the restaurant business.
Years ago Kentucky Fried Chicken was pretty good as far as fast food goes, to us it's declined significantly over the last couple decades. We don't eat there anymore. We like Bojangles chicken better, but our local one closed down.

 

[MurraysMutts]

Make KFC Great Again!

 

[greybeard]

Their mash potato n gravy used to be very good, as was their coleslaw. That was back around 1976 when my 1st wife worked at a Pcola KFC. According to my current wife, the chicken is still good but sides are not very good now.

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

KFC used to be pretty darn good chicken, not so much anymore. Here it's usually over cooked or missing one of their famous ingredient or something. Also the pieces are now cut whacky what's it a breast or thigh? That and half the time our location is out of chicken. I mean no sense to run out of chicken at a chicken joint. Stop standing around and cook some. We seldom order any anymore.

 

[GoWyo]

KFC used to be pretty darn good chicken, not so much anymore. Here it's usually over cooked or missing one of their famous ingredient or something. Also the pieces are now cut whacky what's it a breast or thigh? That and half the time our location is out of chicken. I mean no sense to run out of chicken at a chicken joint. Stop standing around and cook some. We seldom order any anymore.

Yah last time I ate some (been a long time ago) the chicken pieces looked like they turned a monkey loose with a meat cleaver to whack up chicken carcasses.

 

[Dave]

Sixty some years ago I thought it tasted great. Not so much any more. Maybe it is because it was just better than the chicken mom made. I remember going through Hoquim WA when I was working in the woods north of there in the 70's. Stop and buy a 8 piece "thrift box". Eat if by myself while driving down the road.

 

[sstterry]

I wonder how they are going to transport that recipe? As I understand it, the keep it locked in a vault at their headquarters.

A copy of the recipe, signed by Sanders, is stored within a vault at KFC's Louisville headquarters, along with 11 separate vials that each contain one of the ingredients. KFC employs two different firms, Griffith Laboratories and McCormick & Company, to formulate the blend; in order to maintain secrecy, each firm is given a different half of the recipe. Once the Griffith portion has been formulated, it is sent to McCormick and combined with the remaining ingredients there.

Fun fact: Sanders Secretary made more money than he did when he sold his business. He did not understand stock and wanted only cash. She took stock and cash and became very wealthy.

 

[Stonewall Joe]

KFC used to be pretty darn good chicken, not so much anymore. Here it's usually over cooked or missing one of their famous ingredient or something. Also the pieces are now cut whacky what's it a breast or thigh? That and half the time our location is out of chicken. I mean no sense to run out of chicken at a chicken joint. Stop standing around and cook some. We seldom order any anymore.

Long ago after my grandad "retired" he had a friend that had a little chicken processing plant that he was starting and asked my grandad to help him get it going. Grandad always talked about how they had to cut the chicken up back then (in the 70's) so they could get 4 breasts out of a chicken. I think they do it differently now but you are right about sometimes not being able to tell the pieces apart

 

[bird dog]

Last time I went the chicken was good but the pieces were tiny. I did like their chicken pot pies. Two of them were a pretty good meal.

 

[greybeard]

Back in the day, when wife#1 worked at KFC Pensacola Fla, , they would throw out the leftover (cooked) chicken right before they closed each night. About 3 nights/week, she would bring some home for me. (I was still in the military at the time) Most of the time, the pieces were what KFC workers called a 'keel' and they were huge white meat breast pieces. Pretty much a whole breast and I ate like a pig. That ended when that particular franchise started making Chicken Tacos..they used the previous night's leftovers. I don't know if KFC here makes chicken tacos or not but the ones way back then were nasty.

 

[Travlr]

Another victim of "beancounter syndrome"... a company that cuts their expenses by making their product less expensive to manufacture and thereby delivering a product that has changed for the worse... and they end up alienating their loyal customer base.

My wife's mother was a Sanders, so we have always patronized them. But we've seen chicken bits in their beans as though scraped off a plate that was returned to be washed, seasoning that was so dry it might as well have been sand, and missing contents in orders. Some locations maintain standards and some have no standards.

 

[Ky hills]

Growing up, my grandmother born in 1903 was the best chicken fryer I knew of. My mother was a very close second and she became as good at it. We didn't eat Kentucky Fried Chicken very often, but when we did back then, 40 some years ago, I thought it was good in a different way. It had a different seasoning and flavor, but I preferred what my family fixed. The potatoes and gravy were really good, but then again, my mother and both grandmothers could fix better potatoes but there again the gravy was seasoned differently giving it a different taste that was good. Used to really like the Kentucky Fried Chicken biscuits too.
In more recent decades it just seems that their chicken is not nearly cooked as good, it's always been greasy, but now it's just sopping in grease and soggy and doesn't have the seasoning that it used too.
Several years ago after we got back in town from our Oklahoma trip, we stopped by the local Kentucky Fried here in KY and ate from the buffet. I got sick probably some kind of food poisoning.
After that we haven't eaten the buffet anymore.
Like has been said by others the chicken pieces are small, sometimes odd cut dripping in grease, less flavorful, the biscuits aren't the same quality either.
@Travlr is right, in the name of corporate profits quality is decreased by cheapening the products.
It's really one of the worst restaurants in town now along with Pizza Hut. The quality of both has went down hill significantly. At one time both were pretty good.

 

[A.J.]

Growing up, my grandmother born in 1903 was the best chicken fryer I knew of. My mother was a very close second and she became as good at it. We didn't eat Kentucky Fried Chicken very often, but when we did back then, 40 some years ago, I thought it was good in a different way. It had a different seasoning and flavor, but I preferred what my family fixed. The potatoes and gravy were really good, but then again, my mother and both grandmothers could fix better potatoes but there again the gravy was seasoned differently giving it a different taste that was good. Used to really like the Kentucky Fried Chicken biscuits too.
In more recent decades it just seems that their chicken is not nearly cooked as good, it's always been greasy, but now it's just sopping in grease and soggy and doesn't have the seasoning that it used too.
Several years ago after we got back in town from our Oklahoma trip, we stopped by the local Kentucky Fried here in KY and ate from the buffet. I got sick probably some kind of food poisoning.
After that we haven't eaten the buffet anymore.
Like has been said by others the chicken pieces are small, sometimes odd cut dripping in grease, less flavorful, the biscuits aren't the same quality either.
@Travlr is right, in the name of corporate profits quality is decreased by cheapening the products.
It's really one of the worst restaurants in town now along with Pizza Hut. The quality of both has went down hill significantly. At one time both were pretty good.

KFC has definitely gone downhill. Our Pizza Hut closed a few years ago. KFC and Pizza Hut are owned by the same parent company, so it seems like they have let both brands fall from what they used to be.

 

[Silver]

• 2/3 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon basil
• 1/3 teaspoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon celery salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon dried mustard
• 4 teaspoons paprika
• 2 teaspoons garlic salt
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3 teaspoons white pepper

These spices are mixed with flour to create the breading. The chicken is then marinated in buttermilk and coated with the seasoned flour before being fried.

 

[Little Joe]

We ate KFC quite a bit when I was younger and it was good then, not so much now. Our local kfc did a remodel a few years ago but recently had to close. I think instead of a remodel paying better help would've helped them more. My wife can fry some good chicken but rarely does, when we get a hankering for fried chicken we'll usually stop by our local grocery store after church and get a fried chicken plate lunch. I'm a thigh and leg man myself, wife likes a breast, white meat on a chicken usually doesn't have enough juiciness or flavor to me.