‘A number of recent news stories have speculated that the “secret” to the flavor of KFC’s famous original fried chicken might now be out, after the Chicago Tribune published a recipe by Colonel Sanders’ nephew, Joe Ledington. Ledington claimed that the recipe for breaded chicken with 11 herbs and spices is the very recipe that he mixed up as a boy when working for the first KFC restaurant (then called the Harland Sanders Cafe, later renamed Kentucky Fried Chicken).
Lost in the media frenzy over whether or not Ledington’s recipe has actually outed what KFC calls “one of the biggest trade secrets in the world,” is the fact that the famous 11 herbs and spices are hardly the major factors giving a modern bucket of KFC “original recipe” chicken its flavor. Like many KFC products, “original recipe” chicken is packed with flavoring chemicals, including the brain-frying neurotoxin monosodium glutamate (MSG).’
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