Can you keep a Secret?

[TotallyOz]

One of the things the boyfriend loves is KFC. When I ask where he wants to go, often he says KFC. I have noticed even more KFC's in Thailand than McDonalds. I also notice that the taste here is MUCH spicier than in the USA and always wondered if that was an addition to the recipe or another recipe. Well, reading my morning paper, I found out the secret recipe is kept secretly hidden from all. I wonder if the owners of Oud's Place keep their recipe for BBQ sandwiches as secretly hidden?

 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The secret's out at KFC.

 

Colonel Harland Sanders' handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC's corporate offices for the first time in decades.

 

The temporary relocation is allowing KFC to revamp security around a yellowing sheet of paper that contains one of the country's most famous corporate secrets.

 

KFC hired off-duty police officers and private security guards to whisk the document away to an undisclosed location in an armored car.

 

The recipe will be slid into a briefcase and handcuffed to a security expert.

 

For more than 20 years, the recipe has been tucked away in a filing cabinet equipped with two combination locks in company headquarters.

 

So important is the 68-year-old concoction that coats the chain's Original Recipe chicken that only two company executives at any time have access to it. The company refuses to release their names or titles, and it uses multiple suppliers who produce and blend the ingredients but know only a part of the entire contents.

 

Sanders developed the formula in 1940 at his tiny restaurant in southeastern Kentucky and used it to launch the KFC chain in the early 1950s.

 

Sanders died in 1980, but his likeness is still central to KFC's marketing.

 

"The recipe to him, in later years, was everything he stood for," said Shirley Topmiller, his personal secretary for about 12 years.

 

Larry Miller, a restaurant analyst with RBC Capital Markets, said the recipe's value is "almost an immeasurable thing. It's part of that important brand image that helps differentiate the KFC product."

 

KFC had a total of 14,892 locations worldwide at the end of 2007. The chain has had strong sales overseas, especially in its fast-growing China market, but has struggled in the U.S. amid a more health-conscious public. KFC posted U.S. sales of $5.3 billion at company-owned and franchised stores in 2007.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/080909/K090902AU.html

[Guest jtrack33]

KFC in Thailand have offered two options for a long time now...Spicy or Classic(or is it standard or just plain old non-spicy). If a Thai orders, they generaly don't ask and they serve Spicy, but generaly ask a farang if he wants Spicy or "non-spicy".