Harland Sanders Why Colonel. Five steps to a million dollars or the history of KFC. Harland Sanders. Petrol station in Korbin

In the middle of winter I came to the city of Berlington, which is in Vermont. All the cases that had to be done on business were settled and finished in three days. I started preparing home, but suddenly thought: why not combine pleasant with useful and not spend a couple of days at the ski resort Kokran, what was just half an hour by car? So I did, I went to this resort, took a skiing and ride with pleasure two days. Each of these days in the morning I was harmful to the lifts, good, and returned to the city. Mountains in Vermont are rather low and good mostly for children and beginners, not as an example of Colorado or Utah, where my wife and I usually ride. But what is - that is, and Thank you.

By the end of the second day, when it was already felt and the lifts were supposed to stay after a quarter, for the last trip, I sat down in the chair adapted to the cable. Near the village of Mr. Seventy-five years old, we closed the damper and slowly floated to the top of the rolled snowy route. The face of the neighbor seemed to me familiar and soon I remembered it - it was no one else like the Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (Bernie Sanders), a unfortunate presidential candidate in past preliminary elections. I greeted, and he was delighted that he was recognized in ski clouds.

We rolled down together, and despite our age, he turned out to be a rather Lichy skier, and I barely became sophisticated. When we removed the skis, and I began to say goodbye, Bernie noticed that I had an accent and asked, where would I come from? When I replied that my roots in Russia, he smiled: "My too." What I said, in that case, in this case, we are almost countrymen with him, and asked whether he came here to skiing here? He replied that she was returning right now to Berlington, where he had a house, and he added that he would go to the bus station - from where Shtttl goes from. Then I suggested that I can pass it - I have an electric car, I also come back to Berlington, and it will be more fun to go together. Bernie gladly accepted my offer, I ran into the building, passed the rolling skis, and we went to the parking lot to my car.

On the way, he chose himself about me and my political views, but I, know that he was the official socialist (and in the soul, perhaps even a communist), as he could have merged away from questions, trying not to hook him with my conservatism. With the liberals, the Communists and Socialists, I do not enter the discussion, knowing that their ideas are not based on sober logic and a common sense, but in faith, it seems like a religion, but in matters of faith, a discussion is meaningless. Soon we drove into the city and after a few minutes we ringed to the snowy house. Bernie came out of the car, unloaded his skis from the trunk, and when I was going to leave, he told me:

Can you get to warm up? Where do you hurry? Today I am also alone, my wife went to her sister. Drink coffee, chat, and then go to your hotel.

I happily agreed, put the car from his garage, and we went inside. Bernie explained that he bought this house for a long time, even by the mayor of the city, and now stops in it only when he comes to Vermont from Washington. It was typical of New England a small two-storey cottage, furnished with beautiful old furniture, but without a windowless luxury. On the walls of the living room, a lot of family photos of the hosts of the house with children and grandchildren were hung, as well as everywhere smiling the physiognomy of Bernie Sanders, along with Democratic Senators and President Clinton and Obama. While he wondered the fireplace and slapped in the kitchen with a coffee maker, I went along the walls and considered pictures. Suddenly, one photo attracted my attention - it was a portrait of Trotsky. When Bernie went into a living room with cups and a coffee pot on a tray, I asked him, showing a picture of the tribune of the Russian revolution:

I thought you were a socialist, and you turn out to be a trocker.

Yes, the senator grinned, "I'm a Trotskyist, but not quite in the sense that you think." Now I will explain, "he continued, looking at my surprised face," this Mr. in a beard and mustache, whom everyone knows Lamon Trotsky, is my native ... Father. Yes, yes, not only spiritual, namely native.

Here I almost dropped with coffee:

That is like father? Wait, wait ... if my memory does not change me, you were born in 1941 ...

Yes, - answered the owner of the house, flattered, that I remember, in September, the eighth day.

Then does not converge! Trotsky, after all, killed in August 1940 ...

Do you always believe that they write in newspapers and books? The story is a flexible thing - one clutch will come up with some "fact", writes about him, and then everything from him is rewritten from him. After a while, such a notion becomes sort of as historical truth. And in fact, everything was completely different. This happens completely and next. That is, the story is not what was real, but what people think, as it was. Or want to think for some reason. For some reason, the story is called science, but for me it's just fiction. If you are interested in knowing the truth about Trotsky, sit down in the chair here by the fireplace, drink coffee with cookies, and I will tell you. Winter evenings in our edges long, and today I have a chatty mood today (remembering the election campaign of Senator Saders, I thought that not only today).

I sat down in a chair at the coffee table, which was standing by the fireplace, and Senator came to the bookcase and took a small photo album from the shelf. Turned over a few tight pages, found what I was looking for, and showed me an old photo of a young black-haired woman:

This is my mother of Dora Glassberg. Shot around at a time when she met Trotsky, that is, at the end of 1940. However, let's in order, otherwise you are confused.

Bernie pinched another chair closer to the fireplace, comfortably settled down in him with a cup of coffee in his hand and continued:

I am sure you know that in 1929 Stalin exiled Trotsky to Turkey, and then Leon, fearing for his life, went so far as possible - in Mexico. There he began writing the book "Stalin", where literally turned this tyrant inside out. By the way, this book is on my shelf. Rather, only the first Tom, since the second volume remained unfinished. In Mexico City Trotsky first lived in the house of the Communist-artist Diego Rivera and his wife artist Frida Kalo. It is inconvenient to talk about the Father, but the dad has always been a big walker, not a single interesting woman missed. It managed to even seduce Frido, although she moved in a wheelchair. However, this does not apply to my story.

In short, Stalin decided to get his father in Mexico. His work on its liquidation, he instructed the best Soviet specialist in wet deeds Naumi Eatingon, General NKVD. But here Trotsky is incredibly lucky. General secretly referred to him with a pitue, as to the organizer of the Red Army and a person close to Lenin. Therefore, he solved Trotsky to save, but to do everything in such a way as to create an illusion, as if he was fulfilled by Stalin.

It starts the most interesting. Eitingon had a female agent Sylvia Angelooff, which he introduced in Mexico to the environment of Trotsky, secretary. She was the only one who trusted General. He did not even inform himself about the plan of his salvation, was afraid that he told. Therefore, everything was preparing in the deepest secret. Trotsky lived in a fortified, like a fortress, house on the outskirts of the city, and it was not easy to get to him.

I read, "I said," that Trotsky first tried to kill a group of Mexican thugs headed by the famous Communist artist David Alfaro Sicairos.

Yes, it was. They decided at night from the street to fire Trotsky's bedroom at night, but Leon and his wife hid behind the oak bed, so the attempt was failed, and Sicairios with his gang hit the grille. After that, on the tip of Eating, Sylvia advised the Trotsky to choose a twin. They found one Mexican peasant, removedly similar to the Father, they painted him a beard and mustache, the hair painted, boosted, and when Trotsky worked in the office, the twin walked around the garden at home, sometimes he went out of the gateway to the neighboring shop for Tequila. He looked pretty similar. Even the security of them confused. Sometimes they did on the contrary, the father walked around the garden, and the twin sat in his office at the table.

And where do you know this, - I asked.

What does it matter where I know? First of course, I know from my father. But listen further. Since the time of the Civil War in Spain, Eatingon had a mistress Spaniard Karidad Merkander. Her son Ramona General Eighton sent to Mexico to imitate the murder of Trotsky. Of course, Ramon has no idea that it is imitation, was sure that he would really kill. Sylvia led him to his father and introduced as a Spanish Trotskyist and his groom. In August 1940, Eytingon himself came to Mexico to lead the operation and transferred to Ramon, the order of Stalin - Trotsky to kill the ax. Here is an interesting psychological nuance. Stalin was looked at the murders of the ax at the time when His friend of Kamo, at the request of the Koba Stalin, drove the ax of the hated Stalinist Father-drunk Vissarion. In addition, Stalin saw himself as a spiritual heir of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great - those their enemies struggled also with axes. However, in Mexico, the ax is not easy to find at all. First, decided to use the machete, but how imperceptibly carry it into the house past the guard? Then they stopped on a small ice ax for climbers - although not quite an ax, but close.

On August 20, 1940, Sylvia told Trotsky that another attempt was preparing for him and it was necessary to hide urgently. He was changed into a simple shrush and hacking his pants, put on a hat-sombrero, under the guise of the gardener left the house with a basket of garbage on his shoulders, on the next street the basket threw, sat in the car Eatingon, and they left. Meanwhile, Mercider went to Trotsky's office, where he sat down at the table and leafed the magazine, pulled the ice ax, came out behind and hit him on his head. The twin cries came running, Ramona grabbed, the imaginary Trotsky was taken to the hospital, where he died. And the real Trotsky Eighton transported to the United States.

And someone in the US knew about it? I mean officials.

What you, no one knew! In those years, it was easier to enter the USA from Mexico, no documents were not even asked. Eatingon said that for conspiracy, the Trotsky need to change the name and asked what he would choose? Leon thought and replied that he was before, before the revolution, more than once had to change the names. His real name was bronstein, which occurred from the German Braunstein, that is, a brown sandstone stone. Now, as he said, "his past life, like a stone under the blow of the hammer, crumbled in the sand (SAND)", so let his new surname be something like "sands", that is, in English Sanders (Sanders).

As far as I understand, Stalin and all his environments really believed that Trotsky was killed. So still write everywhere ...

Of course, "said Sanders," although after the death of Stalin, the Soviet leadership somehow learned the truth. Khrushchev, faithful Stalinist, was terribly angry and ordered Eighton to arrest and stubbid to prison. He died in prison there.

At first, Eitingon brought him to Brooklyn, which in New York, and settled at my future mother. She was a communist and happily stared at her house in the house of another communist Leon Sanders, although then did not have the idea that it was Trotsky. She lived for four months, but then he himself decided that it was necessary to hide away, somewhere in the outback. Still, New York is a bad shelter place. My mother by that time was pregnant from him and Leon knew about it. Then he was 60 years old, however, as a man he was at least where!

In early 1941, Sanders moved to Kentucky, to the city of Louisville, where she settled. The police said that he lost his driver's license, and he was given new ones. America was then a patriarchal country, and everyone believed on the floor. In memory of the fact that he was twenty years before the civil war in Russia, Sanders Trotsky even decided to take his military rank. But what? Not general - it would attract attention to him and could cause unwanted questions. Therefore, he stopped at the modest rank of "Colonel" and since then he has been represented by everything: "Colonel Sanders" (Colonel Sanders), and where he served and in what kind of births no one delicately asked.

And what did he do in Kentucky there? What lived? - I asked.

He decided that with the past cases, it was necessary to finish - no articles, no books, complete conspiracy, otherwise Stalin finds out the truth and before him will definitely get it. He had no money, and to make money on life he first settled in some restaurant washing dishes. Soon there he became a cook. Once he remembered how many years ago his mother wonderfully prepared roasted chickens on her own method, and he decided to try that an old recipe that he remembered since childhood. Immediately this dish has become very popular. People in the restaurant went a series. After some time, the father quit and opened his own restaurant, who called the "roasted chicken from Kentucky" (Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC). The case was successfully promoted, and after a year he was able to open a few of the same restaurants in Louisville and other cities. The organization and management were his passion, and the restaurant business gave him the opportunity to again show himself as a leader. He was always a successful supervisor - both in the revolution, and in war, and in business. The company "KFC" has grown throughout America, and it has become rather rich. For advertising the company, his father decided to use his own face, it is reasonably believed that no one comes to the head that Trotsky and Colonel Sunders are the same person. Moreover, everyone considered Trotsky Deck.

Now I remember, somewhere I read about it, "I said.

True revealed after his death, "said Sanders. - They wrote about it, but there were a lot of all kinds and nonsense. If you go on the Internet, you will find a bunch of half-trials there.

Well, what about you? Did he somehow support contacts with your mother, helped you?

Oh yes, "Senator replied," he often called her and when he began to earn money, she sent money until she got married, and her husband did not adopt me. But I left the surname to my father. He paid my education at the university. I remember when I was about five or seven, my father came to Brooklyn, we went to Koni-Aylend, there he catches me on the carousel. In subsequent years, he often came to New York, and when I grew up, I myself began to ride in Louisville to him. The father first hoped to bring me to the chicken business, I wanted to give me the whole company, but I was interested only in politics - see the genes showed themselves. Then he began to give me for reading his old articles and books that were in English. We often spoke about the working class, bourgeoisie and the theory of permanent revolution. I am proud that was not only his son, but also a student.

An interesting detail is fifty years ago, that is, at the end of 1967, a young man appeared on the threshold of his house, who introduced himself in Russian as the second secretary of the Soviet embassy in Washington. He said that in the Kremlin they know the truth about his fate and condemn Stalin's attempts to kill him. I added that they highly appreciate the enormous contribution of Trotsky to the Russian revolution and civil war, but they don't want to speak publicly about it for political reasons. The diplomat said that on the nose of the half-century anniversary of the creation of the Red Army and on behalf of the government invited Colonel Sanders to come to Moscow for the celebration. Father then turned 88 years old, and he was quite weak, but agreed, having reasonably believing that the times had changed and now he had nothing to fear. In the evening he called me and called to go to Soviet Russia together. I was very interested, and I gladly agreed.

We flew to Moscow in February, we were taken secretly, but with big honors. Set up in the Moscow Hotel, which is not far from Red Square. Leaded in Mausoleum to Lenin, they made a tour of the city, but the Father recognized little, because so many years have passed since his departure! Then the Military Parade was on the Red Square, we sat on the Guest Tribune of Mausoleum. With a big celebration in the Kremlin, Brezhnev presented the father of Lenin's order for his merits in the organization of the Red Army. On a closed banquet in his honor, all their government was present. They talked toasts and there was a lot of amazing food. So tasty, I neither before, nor after did not eat. There I first heard my father speaks Russian, and was completely amazed. No correspondents were allowed there, but I had a camera with me, and I was able to make a couple of pictures. Here to look.

Sanders revealed the album again and found a photo of his father with Brezhnev. With his permission, I copied this snapshot. Bernie me then said that Trotsky-Sanders lived a long life and died aged 94 years.

On May 7, 1931, an unbearable heat was in the mountain town of Corbin (Kentucky). Matt Stewart, the owner of the gas station, stood on the stairs and painted the concrete wall. He interrupted for a minute when he heard the sound of an approaching car, which, apparently, rushed at high speed.

Escape from the house

Garland Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 in the Henryville Farm community (Indiana), where men worked only twice in life - on their own wedding and funeral. In 1895, when Garland was only five years old, his father, the owner of the meat shop, was challenged with fever and died a few days later.

Garland brought up his mother, Margaret, a strict Christian who constantly told her children about the harm of alcohol, tobacco, gambling and whistle on Sundays. In his seven years, Garland was forced to look after his younger brothers and sisters while the mother was at work. When he was twelve years old, he threw school, because he was sick of one of the type of English alphabet and mathematical examples. Margaret married the second time; Her new husband disliked children and often beat them on any minor occasion. A year later, the thirteen year old Garland folded his scarce belongings in a small suitcase and left the house to live his life.

In 1906, the young Garland Sunders got a job by the conductor in New Albany (Indiana). In the tram, he heard the conversation of two passengers who discussed the military situation in Cuba. They were army recruiters. They managed to convince the Sanders interested in the fact that the military service is his vocation. So he decided to go to Cuba on the ship, crowded with people and donkeys.

He safely reached the destination, not counting the seaside disease. However, when the commander in Cuba learned that Sanders was only sixteen years old, he sent him back to the States. So ended the military career of the future colonel.

Railway

Six classes of education prevented Sanders to find a decent work, so he settled in the Southern Railroad railway company, where he was engaged in scraping ash from steam engines. Soon, watching the locomotive machines, he learned to throw coal and found out how to use fuel to achieve maximum efficiency of the steam engine. At the age of eighteen, he changed the generation of activities and began to replace the machinists who did not appear at work. He also adopted the extensive vocabulary from them, which often used in everyday speech. Whatever it was, Sanders was preserved for cleanliness. He loved to wear white overalls and the same color cotton gloves. According to him, he returned home without a single speck on clothes, despite the fact that the whole day worked with coal.

Pound meat

Sanders worked on the railway for several years. His driver's career came to an end when he came up with an engineer on the water tower. History silent the cause of the conflict, as well as the young Sanders spoiled his white-shaped enemy's blood or not.

When he was twenty-one, he decided to get an education and began to study the laws in the office of Little Rock Judges. In the end, he found work in the world court, where he dreamed of achieving justice for the poor and disadvantaged residents of the region. Sanders were especially proud of those cases when he managed to agree on providing the help of the darkening victims of the train and achieve the cessation of court practices to put pressure on the accused. However, his legal career came to an end when he had to rush with his client right in the courtroom due to unpaid court costs.

The following years of Sanders spent on independent entrepreneurship. He founded several enterprises that had variable success. He lost most of his money when he tried to sell internal lighting systems based on acetylene. Who knew that electricity in the countryside will appear earlier than expected?! Nevertheless, he managed to lend a good condition, founding a company that was engaged in so necessary ferry crossing in Jeffersonville (Indiana).

The profit of Sanders used to create young entrepreneurs in the city of the Club. One fine Saturday day, the club announced that all city enterprises would be closed due to a picnic in a local park. Its members put the signs that announced a picnic, the day before the event.

Client Jeffersonville hairdresser just enjoyed a hot shave procedure when a sullen Sanders appeared in the doorway. "Even food and grocery stores are closed," said Sanders, referring to the Owner of the Hairdresser. - So why do you work then? "

"If I want to close my hairdresser, I'll hang on the door the corresponding plate," the hairdresser replied. "I'm not going to do this just because you, damn it, wondered to close me."

"Well, come out of your chair, I'll show you now!" - Sanders started. Frightened men went outside. Garland hit his opponent in the face, smeared by shaving foam. Unfortunately, during a fight, a new straw hat of Sanders, which he bought specifically for a picnic was strongly injured. Nevertheless, according to reports, the public event was able to fame. Residents of Jeffersonville even threw off Sunders to a new straw hat.

Sanders at a time when he worked as a tire seller

Incident on the bridge

In the late 1920s, the Sanders family moved to Kemp-Nelson (Kentucky), where Garland got a seller in the tire production company ("Michelin Tire Company"). He has so good everything worked that he even became the proud owner of a new top car "Maxwell". It was a real handsome man who had a wheelchair coated with varnish, and a revolutionary six-cylinder engine under the hood.

One frost November 1926 in the morning of 1926, Sanders tried to tie a towing cable to his new "Maxwell" and the old "Ford Model T1", which also belonged to his family. "Ford Model T1" terribly led himself, especially during the cold season. The eighteen-year-old son of Sanders, Garland Jr., sat behind the wheel "Ford Model T1", and Sanders Sr. dragged him toward the bridge over the hikman stream. It was a "suspension bridge", designed for horse crews, but members of the Sanders family often crossed it on their cars without any problems. But not at this time. The bridge could not stand the weight of two cars, and when they were about halfway, it broke off.

The new "Maxwell" and the old "Ford Model T1" flew into a deep ravine. Junior Sanders got off only with insignificant cuts and bruises, the eldest received several bruises and torn wounds. They were safely reached at home, where Josephine washed the wounds of her husband with a chipidar and tied them. Sanders survived, but now he has no work, no car.

Corbin Stories: Part 1

Garland Sanders Some time later found the work of the Standard Oil gas station in the neighboring town of Nicholasville. He earned two cents from every gallon of gasoline. He also engaged in selling agricultural machinery for locals on credit. However, in the late 1920s, a strong drought fell on the region, which destroyed crops and ruined many farmers. The demand for gasoline decreased, and customers could not fulfill their obligations on loans.

Sanders contacted familiar from Shell Oil and used his reputation in order to lease a new place where the demand for fuel was higher. He was given a small plot in the city of Corbin (Kentucky). It was a disadvantaged area where there was no electricity, but he was near the revolving Highway Route 25. Local residents called him "half-acre hell". It was here that a shootout happened between Sanders and Matt Stuart, who, by the way, was sentenced to eighteen years of imprisonment for the murder of the Shell Oil Manager, Robert Gibson. Stewart died two years after it was in prison, on the sheriff's arms, who, if you believe rumors, was hired to take revenge for the death of Gibson.

One night, in the predestal clock, Sanders was awakened by the sounds of shots on the street. Two bootleggers arranged disassembly right in front of his house. He grabbed the gun and went outside in some shorts. "Hey, you, Sukina Children, throw a weapon to the ground!" - shouted Sanders. The phrase "Sukina Kids" sounded offensively, but the gun in the hands of the one who pronounced it was more convincing. Men obeyed.

When the sheriff arrived at the scene in order to pick up suspects, he asked Sanders to drive with him to give testimony. When the car drove off, the daughter of Sanders Margaret ran out of the house with shouts: "Father! You forgot my pants! "

Petrol station in Korbin

Secret city

Sanders was then fifty-two years old, he was unsuitable for service in the army, but he could still make his little benefit to his country. He left the restaurant on Claudia and went to the city of Oak Ridge (Tennessee). Here the government has hurriedly raised the state object on the place where far agricultural expensive were. Sanders met with his friend Joe Clemmons, the owner of a local cafeteria, and was appointed as an assistant manager.

Sanders worked in Oak Ridge to the end of the war, but he had no idea what thousands of men and women were engaged, who called the city with their native home. They never openly discussed their work, even with Sanders. Only some time after some time he learns that they were scientists and engineers who worked on the creation of uranium-235. They spent the whole years to turn the piles of metal in several kilograms of a special isotope. In 1945, with the help of it, a "Little Boy" bomb was created, which was loaded into the "ENOLA GAY" combat aircraft and dropped on Hiroshima. It was the first time to use nuclear weapons for military purposes.

Return of Colonel

In 1952, Garland Sanders decided to visit Australia. Much has changed in his life after the war. Garland was divorced with Josephine after 39 years of living and married Claudia. Governor Weserby restored him in the rank of Colonel Kentucky for culinary merit, and this time Sanders decided to fully take advantage of his title. He reflected a beard with a smarter, came up with a strange signature, began to appear as "Colonel Sunders" and wear black suits with a tie-bolo. He also thought that he would have nicely change his vocabulary to become a real gentleman. This meant that he needed to completely eliminate the abnormative vocabulary from his speech. That is why he went to Australia, where he hoped that a big religious conference would be able to rip it from swearing habits. However, at first he needed to go to Utah.

The sixty-year-old Colonel Sanders came down from a train in Salt Lake City and headed to "Do Droop Inn", a hamburger kiosk who belonged to Pete Harman. Sanders met Harman at a meeting of restaurateurs in Chicago. The young man immediately liked the Colonel, because he was the only one who was present who refused alcohol.

Sanders asked Harman to take him to a local grocer, from whom he bought several frozen chicken carcasters and a lot of seasonings. He wanted to make a chicken in his "secret recipe", which he improved before the war, in the hope that Harman wishes to sign a contract of franchise with him. Franksing at that time was a new phenomenon; Sanders wanted to convince famous restaurants to add a chicken and sauce prepared by his recipe in the menu of their institutions. However, they naturally had to pay a certain amount for accessing the method of preparing a crown dish of Sanders.

Colonel prepared chicken meat in Kharman's kitchen in a borrowed pressure cooker. Fried chicken in those days was not a common dish, so the cook "Do Drop" was wary of it. They looked at the chicken cooked by Sanders as a pile of the seasoned descendants of dinosaurs. They tried her, but did not experience much delight. Colonel Sunders sat on the train and returned to San Francisco, from where it flew out to Australia.

In 1951, Sanders decided to run for the post of Senator of the State of Kentucky, but he was defeated with a minimal advantage.

Two weeks later, Claudia met with her husband in San Francisco, and Sanders decided that she would certainly have to see the new Harman's institutions. They came from the train to Salt Lake City and headed for "Do Drop", where they saw a huge sign with the inscription "Kentucky Fried Chicken - Something New, Something Different" ("Roasted chick from Kentucky - something new, something Other).

"Damn it!" - Pronuncated Sanders. A trip to Australia did not help him.

In all likelihood, Pete Harman learned the eleventh ingredient, which Colonel Sanders acquired from a grocers, and thoroughly studied the process of frying chicken meat in a pressure cooker. The name "Roasted Chicken from Kentucky" came up with a person who drew a sign. He suggested him when Harman was thinking about how to call a dish of the colonel. After the unexpected return of Sappnders, Harman decided to officially negotiate him about the franchise. Colonel, in turn, presented the rights to the name "Fried Chicken from Kentucky." They crossed the deal with handshake. Soon, Harman invented the notorious "Vödryshko" and opened a few more institutions. After five years, his annual income increased five times.

Sanders with Pit Harman

In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhuer signed a law on the main location of the National Interstate Automobile Highway System (English. General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Act), highlighting $ 25 billion for the construction of 40 thousand miles. It was the largest project in the history of America associated with public works.

The Sanders Hotel and Restaurant tried to stay afloat, after the Key Crossroads of the Route 25 road moved to another place. However, the colonel realized the whole seriousness of the situation only after data on new roads were published in the local newspaper. According to this information, Route 25 had to replace the Interstate 75 highway, which was going to build in seven miles from the city. Sanders was forced to sell for a small amount what was built over the years. In his sixty-six years, he returned to the top of the way. In a month, he received 105 dollars of social assistance, as well as a small income from the franchise.

Once in this position, Sanders decided to seriously do franchises. He came to some city on his car "OldSmobile", parked him on the outskirts and spent the night in the rear seat. He took with him everything he was needed in order to demonstrate the process of cooking his corporate dish - fridge with chicken carcasses, flour, recently patented pressure cooker, seasonings, vegetable oil and fire extinguishers. At first he fried the chicken for employees of restaurants, and if they liked the dish, he offered him to try visitors. He walked around the hall of the restaurant in a snow-white costume, with a silver beard, a tie-bruh and a cane in his hands, and I was interested in guests, I liked me a meal or not.

One of the restaurants who decided to sign a franchise contract with Santrais was "The Hobby House" in Fort Wayne (Indiana). Colonel made friends with his chef, Dave Thomas. An experienced veteran took the young Thomas under his guardianship and shared with him wise advice. Subsequently, Thomas will be the managing several successful franchise institutions "Kentucky Fried Chicken", and even later will create a fast fast food restaurant network called "Wendy's".

Dave Thomas and Harland Sanders

He drove along the northern road, which led to the rural district, known among the locals as "Paul-Akra hell". He was named because the bootleggers often satisfied drunks and shootouts that ended very poorly. Stewart squinted, trying to consider the approaching car in dust. The right hand, which was wrapped in paint, he stirred from his forehead droplets. He suggested that the driver must be angry, armed and is going to stop somewhere nearby.

Just in case he prepared his gun. The car really slowed down nearby, but it was not alone in it, and three armed men. "Hey, you, Sukin Son! - shouted the driver. - Are you doing this again? " The dissatisfied driver of the car used this concrete wall for advertising its gas station, which was located in the city, and his competitor, Matt Stewart, once again painted it. Stewart jumped off the staircase, shot from the gun and dived into the shelter for the concrete wall.

One of the men fell to the ground was dead. The driver grabbed the weapon of his fallen comrade and opened a retaliatory fire. At Stuart, the bullets fell. Finally, he shouted: "Do not shoot, Sanders! You killed me". Shootout on dusty sideline raised. Stewart lay on Earth, bleeding. He was wounded in the shoulder and thigh. He is lucky, and he will survive - unlike the shell Oil manager, lying next to him with a bunch in his chest. This sad meeting could be considered unremarkable if it were not for the driver's identity. Sanders, who released bullets in Matt Stewart, was none other than Garland Sanders, a man who would be famous for the whole world as a colonel Sunders.

He had dark hair and a smooth shaved face. Then no one knew that his future image would one day appear on billboards, buildings and ends "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Unlike most other famous Icons of Fastfud, Colonel Sunders was a real person, and his life story is not so clean and calm, which is her world-famous corporation.

Escape from the house Garland Sanders was born on September 9, 1890 in the farm community Henryville (Indiana), where men put on the costume only twice in life - on their own wedding and funeral. In 1895, when Garland was only five years old, his father, the owner of the meat shop, was challenged with fever and died a few days later. Garland brought up his mother, Margaret, a strict Christian who constantly told her children about the harm of alcohol, tobacco, gambling and whistle on Sundays. In his seven years, Garland was forced to look after his younger brothers and sisters while the mother was at work.

When he was twelve years old, he threw school, because he was sick of one of the type of English alphabet and mathematical examples. Margaret married the second time; Her new husband disliked children and often beat them on any minor occasion. A year later, the thirteen year old Garland folded his scarce belongings in a small suitcase and left the house to live his life. War in 1906, the young Garland Sanders got a job by the conductor in New Albany (Indiana). In the tram, he heard the conversation of two passengers who discussed the military situation in Cuba. They were army recruiters.

They managed to convince the Sanders interested in the fact that the military service is his vocation. So he decided to go to Cuba on the ship, crowded with people and donkeys. He safely reached the destination, not counting the seaside disease. However, when the commander in Cuba learned that Sanders was only sixteen years old, he sent him back to the States. So ended the military career of the future colonel. Railway Six classes of education prevented Saders to find a decent work, so he settled in the Southern Railroad railway company, where he was engaged in scraping ash with steam engines.

Soon, watching the locomotive machines, he learned to throw coal and found out how to use fuel to achieve maximum efficiency of the steam engine. At the age of eighteen, he changed the generation of activities and began to replace the machinists who did not appear at work. He also adopted the extensive vocabulary from them, which often used in everyday speech. Whatever it was, Sanders was preserved for cleanliness. He loved to wear white overalls and the same color cotton gloves. According to him, he returned home without a single speck on clothes, despite the fact that the whole day worked with coal.

It was at that time that Sanders met his beloved Josephine King. I met a little, they decided to get married. As Margaret Sunders, Garland and Josephine daughter, said afterwards, her mother never wanted to have children. However, after forty-weeks after the first marriage night, she gave birth to a girl. The pound of Meat Sanders worked on the railway for several years. His driver's career came to an end when he came up with an engineer on the water tower. History silent the cause of the conflict, as well as the young Sanders spoiled his white-shaped enemy's blood or not. When he was twenty-one, he decided to get an education and began to study the laws in the office of Little Rock Judges. In the end, he found work in the world court, where he dreamed of achieving justice for the poor and disadvantaged residents of the region.

Sanders were especially proud of those cases when he managed to agree on providing the help of the darkening victims of the train and achieve the cessation of court practices to put pressure on the accused. However, his legal career came to an end when he had to rush with his client right in the courtroom due to unpaid court costs. The following years of Sanders spent on independent entrepreneurship.

He founded several enterprises that had variable success. He lost most of his money when he tried to sell internal lighting systems based on acetylene. Who knew that electricity in the countryside will appear earlier than expected?! Nevertheless, he managed to lend a good condition, founding a company that was engaged in so necessary ferry crossing in Jeffersonville (Indiana). The profit of Sanders used to create young entrepreneurs in the city of the Club. One fine Saturday day, the club announced that all city enterprises would be closed due to a picnic in a local park.

Its members put the signs that announced a picnic, the day before the event. Client Jeffersonville hairdresser just enjoyed a hot shave procedure when a sullen Sanders appeared in the doorway. "Even food and grocery stores are closed," said Sanders, referring to the Owner of the Hairdresser. - So why do you work then? " "If I want to close my hairdresser, I'll hang on the door the corresponding plate," the hairdresser replied.

Incident on the bridge

But not at this time. The bridge could not stand the weight of two cars, and when they were about halfway, it broke off. The new "Maxwell" and the old "Ford Model T1" flew into a deep ravine. Junior Sanders got off only with insignificant cuts and bruises, the eldest received several bruises and torn wounds. They were safely reached at home, where Josephine washed the wounds of her husband with a chipidar and tied them. Sanders survived, but now he has no work, no car.

Corbin Stories: Part 1

He was given a small plot in the city of Corbin (Kentucky). It was a disadvantaged area where there was no electricity, but he was near the revolving Highway Route 25. Local residents called him "half-acre hell". It was here that a shootout happened between Sanders and Matt Stuart, who, by the way, was sentenced to eighteen years of imprisonment for the murder of the Shell Oil Manager, Robert Gibson. Stewart died two years after it was in prison, on the sheriff's arms, who, if you believe rumors, was hired to take revenge for the death of Gibson. One night, in the predestal clock, Sanders was awakened by the sounds of shots on the street.

Two bootleggers arranged disassembly right in front of his house. He grabbed the gun and went outside in some shorts. "Hey, you, Sukina Children, throw a weapon to the ground!" - shouted Sanders. The phrase "Sukina Kids" sounded offensively, but the gun in the hands of the one who pronounced it was more convincing. Men obeyed. When the sheriff arrived at the scene in order to pick up suspects, he asked Sanders to drive with him to give testimony. When the car drove off, the daughter of Sanders Margaret ran out of the house with shouts: "Father! You forgot my pants! " .

Petrol station in Korbin

Corbin Stories: Part 2

In the early 1930s, Sanders began to disappear from the house. Josephine and Margaret reacted to this with suspicion. The last time they saw him, he climbed the mountain on the downturn under the torrential rain. In his hands he had an old bucket from under the smob, filled with scissors, bandages, antiseptic and rubber gloves. It was heading to the neighboring settlement of Appalachi, where there were no roads, no electricity, no water supply, in general, no modern amenities.

From time to time Sanders brought families living there, food, but most of all these people needed medical care. On that day he was called, because one of the residents of the settlement began to fight. Sanders had three children, so he had some experience of making birth. However, this case was special. Garland, not explaining anything, burst into the house and grabbed his faithful rifle, saying that it would need him as a "means of belief". The child was in the womb in the wrong position. So that he was born, I needed an experienced doctor. However, the person who gave the oath of the Hippocrata was that day very drunk and refused to help.

The gun again turned out to be convincing words, so after a few minutes the dispersion of the doctor was already driving on the donkey in the settlement of Appalachi. He managed to manually change the position of the fetus, thanks to which the childhood went smoothly. Parents of the newborn baby called him Garland. In 1936, Kentucky's governor Rabbi Laffun gave Sunders for his merits honorary title "Colonel Kentucky".

Corbin Stories: Part 3

According to Garland Sanders, fights and shootouts between the bootlegers were commonplace for Corbin. However, it was here that Sanders began to gradually turn into a future celebrity of the world of fast food. Most of all in the world he loved swear and experimenting with cooking. For this reason, he decided to put in the middle of the former warehouse a large oak table and open a cafe near his gas station called "Sanders' Serviatation and Café".

Hungry travelers attracted a large advertisement, which Sanders painted on the wall of roadside sheds to the north and south of the city. Sanders hired attendants. He paid them the cost of living and strictly forbidden to take tips. At the kitchen, Garland and Josephine prepared such dishes like meat steak, homemade ham, potatoes with filling, cereal and cookies. The chicken dishes in the menu were not so much, because they needed to cook for a long time. However, Sanders constantly experimented with them. It was at that time that Sanders met Claudia Price, a young divorced woman who lived in Korbin.

At the insistence of Garland Josephine hired Claudia as his assistant. The woman was simultaneously a waitress and mistress of the cafe owner, but this quiet scandal did not affect the growing success of the institution. In 1937, Sanders opened a small, but luxury hotel. He also made friends with the famous restaurant critic of Duncan Heins, who wrote about the establishments of Sanders enthusiastic review. For the sake of fun, Sanders sometimes allowed visitors to listen to the Röv Donkey. They liked it, because during the time of the Great Depression entertainment there were few. Sanders also held a manual crow, whose name was Jim Crow.

Jim loved to pester the hotel's guests who walked around the yard. He pursued and slander them until he received a coin from them. Other people watched this spectacle with great pleasure. No one knew where the raven was the money received. A few years later, this mystery was revealed. When Sanders did repairs at the hotel, he discovered the whole mountain of coins behind the old staircase. It was at that time that he met his new love, Berth. Berta was his first pressure cooker, which instantly prepared delicious vegetables dishes. Sunders was wondering if it was possible to improve the technique in such a way that she quickly fry chicken meat without prejudice to quality.

He added the reset of pressure relief valves so that during the frying nothing happened, and spent the next few years, experimented with various types of marinades, vegetable oils, flour, seasonings and temperatures. By July 1940, Sanders developed a chicken roasting system to golden brown in just eight minutes, and also improved seasoning to the dish by adding to the traditional new one, the eleventh component. He also invented an incredibly tasty sauce, which included pieces of breading remaining in oil after frying chicken meat.

Secret city

One December evening in 1941, the Sanders family sat in the House of Margaret, enjoying the music that played on the radio. Suddenly the concert was interrupted by a special news release. The announcer told the listeners that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and therefore the states were announced. Sanders was then fifty-two years old, he was unsuitable for service in the army, but he could still make his little benefit to his country.

He left the restaurant on Claudia and went to the city of Oak Ridge (Tennessee). Here the government has hurriedly raised the state object on the place where far agricultural expensive were. Sanders met with his friend Joe Clemmons, the owner of a local cafeteria, and was appointed as an assistant manager. Sanders worked in Oak Ridge to the end of the war, but he had no idea what thousands of men and women were engaged, who called the city with their native home. They never openly discussed their work, even with Sanders. Only some time after some time he learns that they were scientists and engineers who worked on the creation of uranium-235.

They spent the whole years to turn the piles of metal in several kilograms of a special isotope. In 1945, with the help of it, a "Little Boy" bomb was created, which was loaded into the "ENOLA GAY" combat aircraft and dropped on Hiroshima. It was the first time to use nuclear weapons for military purposes.

Return of Colonel

This meant that he needed to completely eliminate the abnormative vocabulary from his speech. That is why he went to Australia, where he hoped that a big religious conference would be able to rip it from swearing habits. However, at first he needed to go to Utah. The sixty-year-old Colonel Sanders came down from a train in Salt Lake City and headed to "Do Droop Inn", a hamburger kiosk who belonged to Pete Harman. Sanders met Harman at a meeting of restaurateurs in Chicago. The young man immediately liked the Colonel, because he was the only one who was present who refused alcohol.

They crossed the deal with handshake. Soon, Harman invented the notorious "Vödryshko" and opened a few more institutions. After five years, his annual income increased five times.

Road

However, the colonel realized the whole seriousness of the situation only after data on new roads were published in the local newspaper. According to this information, Route 25 had to replace the Interstate 75 highway, which was going to build in seven miles from the city. Sanders was forced to sell for a small amount what was built over the years. In his sixty-six years, he returned to the top of the way. In a month, he received 105 dollars of social assistance, as well as a small income from the franchise.

Snacking

One day, Sunders and Claudia decided to have breakfast in one diner. When the waitress brought them a poorly fried fried egg, the colonel said: "Miss, I'm not so drunk so that there are raw eggs. I ask you to bring me a normal dish. " "Hmm, you are right," the institution worker answered, "I will take them back into the kitchen." A few minutes later she returned with a plate in his hands. The scrambled eggs looked more worthily, however, according to the colonel, bring the eggs to readiness, taking into account the last time it was physically impossible.

He turned the scrambled eggs, and his suspicions were confirmed: no one was adagging. The cook was sitting in the kitchen and smoked a cigarette when the double doors swung open, and a man appeared before him, dressed very strangely. He had a breakfast plate in his hands. "Sukin You are son," said an uninvited guest. - Did you decide that you are here the smartest? " "First, I'm not a suckin son," said an insulted cook, getting up because of the table. - Secondly, get out of my kitchen. " "Of course, I will leave, but before that I will do something," answered Sanders.

He took the scrambled eggs from his plate and threw it into the object of his contempt with the words: "Keep your eggs!" The cook in shape, blurred egg yolk, rushed to Sanders with a knife. Colonel was forced to run into the dining room and grab a stool for self-defense. He poured a whole bunch of vulgarity concerning supernatural deities, bodily discharge, breeding, temperament and family position of the parents of the attacker, after which he apologized to the frightened visitors.

The chef, ultimately, surrendered and returned to the kitchen. Sanders approached the table where Claudia was waiting for him. They decided that they apparently cost fire in another place.

Rygin

In the late 1950s - early 1960s, the income of Sanders from the contracts of the franchise began to increase. Pete Harman became a successful entrepreneur who by then managed to open a few more institutions in various cities. Colonel Sanders also launched a number of innovative cafes in which there was no traditional dining area. Food was packaged in boxes and eats, so customers could have lunch at home as desired. This concept has become very popular with time.

The colonel itself began to attend local radio stations to talk about his story, and from time to time starred in television shows. His face and tie-bolo appeared on packaging with food, and people became increasingly recognizing him on the streets. "I was against using my photos," Sanders said. - I always called my face of rye. I asked to make a drawing for advertising, and when I saw him on the boxes with my meal, I almost fell into fainting. " By 1962, there were hundreds of restaurants throughout North America, who paid money to the seventieth-year-old Sanders, according to the franchise agreement. Most of these transactions were bonded by handshake and honest words.

Franchise's applicants, ultimately, has become so much that Sanders could no longer meet them personally. Instead, he invited them to his estate in Shelbyville (Kentucky).

Urban passage

In October 1963, a twenty-one-year-old lawyer named John Brown Jr. decided that Colonel Sunders should sell him his profitable corporation "Kentucky Fried Chicken, Incorporated". Brown began working with Sanders since the founding of the company, which at first brought only 300 thousand dollars a year and had seventeen employees in the state. Colonel was not a fan of paid advertising, but Brown performed for aggressive sales policies.

He convinced Sanders to meet him during dinner with Jack Massei, a businessman from Nashville. "Colonel," said Massey, "you are already seventy-four years old." You came up with a wonderful product in Kentucky Fried Chicken. You worked not to twist the hands, but now it's time to relax. " Rest, the Colonel did not know how to rest and did not love. According to him, he rejected the proposal of the "urban passage", probably using a huge amount of abnormative vocabulary for this purpose.

But the couple was restless. Brown and Massey have stumbled upon the refusal every time, however, apparently, they decided to take Sanders Emory and all sorts of horns. They told him that the amount of taxes would be astronomical if he would die, being the only owner of the company. Thus, he will deprive his daughters inheritance. Moreover, they convinced Sanders that if he decides to sell the franchise as he planned, his company will certainly go broke.

In general, they told him a lot of things. Brown and Massei convinced Sanders to meet with Pit Harmann and other franchise recipients to discuss with them the opportunity to sell the company. To the surprise of Sanders, they recommended him to sell "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Most likely, it was due to the fact that each of them Brown and Massi offered 25 thousand shares of the company, as well as a chair on the board of directors. At a meeting, which lasted until two o'clock at night, Sanders finally decided to sell his brainchild two million dollars, but provided that he, as a goodwill ambassador, will remain working in the company's quality controller and will receive an annual salary in the amount of 40 thousand.

The agreement did not apply to several regions that Sanders have already promised to their friends and relatives, including Canada, he wanted to leave it for himself. Later, he wanted to acquire a part of the company's shares in the framework of the transaction, but buyers refused it in this because of high taxes. He decided to trust them. In the end, Sanders signed a purchase and sale agreement, received from Massey the first part of money in the amount of 500 thousand dollars and entrusted the cause of his life to urban passes.

Shares of the company Sanders did not pass until all two million in his arms were in hand. However, he completely calmed down only after the new owners of the company assured him that they would not compromise, if the case would concern the quality of business or products.

Ambassador Sunders

And on compromises in "Kentucky Fried Chicken, Inc." Began to go almost immediately. Massey and Brown bought most of the existing franchises and delivered the remaining owners to remove their own dishes from the menu, renamed their restaurants in the "Kentucky Fried Chicken", updated the decor by adding branded symbolism, and used signs and packaging with the "Rain Colonel". The new advertising campaign was really aggressive and financially successful.

Colonel took part in the shooting of several commercials and a talk show. "If you see a picture somewhere with my face, then know that you will be tasty here," Sanders said. - At least the chicken will definitely be good! " Colonel did not like the changes that took place inside the company, but he was just a goodwill ambassador, so he could not do anything. And although, according to the contract of sale, Canada remained the territory of Sanders, the new corporation lawyers soon discovered one loophole, according to which they could legally sell chicken on the Canadian market. When the leaders are "Kentucky Fried Chicken, Inc." Later came to Sunders and asked him to convey them the laid shares so that the company would become public, he refused. However, when they revised the purchase and sale agreement to close the loophole associated with Canada, he had to agree.

Sanders continued to spread the goodwill on television, but did it through his teeth. Jack Massie, an investor who controlled 60% of the company's shares ordered to postpone headquarters from the huge estate of Colonel Sanders in Shelbille to a new building in Tennessee. "What hell, because it is not" Tennessee Fried Chicken "?! - dismantled the displeased Sanders, when he learned about the decision of Massey. - Here is a slippery, nasty sukin son! "

Drunchugs and scoundrels

In the early 1970s, Colonel Sanders learned that "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and her 3500+ franchises were acquired for $ 285 million "Heulein Inc.", the company that became known thanks to the sale of Vodka "Smirnoff".

As a person who performed his whole life against alcohol, the colonel considered it a terrible insult. After the sale transaction was completed, the corporation was divided between new millionaires. Colonel Sanders among them was not. When the huge unsaturated belly of the owners began to be buried, cooks and chemists who worked for the company were instructed to look for ways to reduce the costs associated with the secret recipe of Sanders. Cheaper ingredients taken in smaller quantities would help save millions of dollars. Cooking sauce to the chicken required a lot of effort and money, so it was decided to replace the powder alternative.

Colonel Sanders was not aware of these changes, but he received a lot of letters from fans who fell asleep with questions about why he constantly changes his recipes. Meanwhile, among the leaders of "Heblein" grew concerns associated with the new "delicious" proposal from the competing company "Church's Chicken". Its owners decided to add chicken meat in the menu with a crispy crust and position it as a dish cooked according to the original recipe of Sanders.

Colonel this idea, of course, did not like. However, the new owners of his "name and appearance" adhered to other opinions. They decided to give good to place the image of the face of the colonel on the boxes titled "Superchruly Chicken Colonel Sanders". In an attempt to restore his reputation as a cook, Garland decided to open at home the restaurant "The Colonel's Lady". Among other things, there was a fried chicken in his menu, but it was unclear whether it was cooked according to the most "secret recipe" or not. According to the daughter of Sanders, Margaret, after her father opened a new business, legal proceedings began.

Colonel decided to sue the "drunks and scoundrels" for using his image to promote products to which he did not have the slightest relationship. "I am not particularly proud that my name is associated with some of my restaurants," he said during an interview for Milwaukee Journal magazine. Everyone thinks that I am the face of "Kentucky Fried Chicken". But they do not know that the company now stands completely different people [...] I just want to understand what part of my body and the soul they own. " Ultimately, Sanders and Heblein decided the dispute in extrajudicially. "Heulein" paid one million dollars to the Colonel and pledged to not interfere in his new undertaking. Sanders, in turn, agreed to change the name of his restaurant on Claudia Sanders Dinner House. He, by the way, works so far.

Colonel Sanders and Alice Cooper

Colonel Sanders-San

When Western emigrants began to search in Japan to replace the traditional festive turkey, they were able to find only chicken. Having learned about this, the Marketing Department "Kentucky Fried Chicken" launched an advertising campaign in the country called "Kentucky for Christmas" ("Kentucky for Christmas"). The offer was interested in not only foreigners, but also the Japanese themselves. The tradition comes to Christmas in "Kentucky" saves to this day.

In the 1970s, Colonel Sanders went to Japan several times to advertise hundreds of franchises "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Wherever he was, he stumbled everywhere on his plastic twin, which stretched his hands in a welcoming pose. One of these statues was famously thrown into the River Dotonbori with buoy fans when the Baseball team "Hanshin Tigers" won the Japanese championship in 1985. In subsequent years, she was smaller. According to the local legend, the whole wine was "Curse of Colonel", punishment for desecuring the image of Sanders. It was believed that "Hanshin Tigers" will lose until the statue of Sanders get from the river and do not put on the previous place.

Claim for slandu

When the franchise "Kentucky Fried Chicken" spread around the world, the eighty-sest colonel Sunders was forced to fly to various corners of the globe for solemn discoveries and other events. He liked to make unexpected visits to the web restaurants in order to verify the quality. If the chicken was prepared in the most common way, and the sauce was bad, or the cleanliness of the premises did not meet the requirements, the tast criticism was filled with local leadership.

Once in 1976, the staff of one of the franchises in Bowling Green (Kentucky) was anxiously expected when the colonel tries to the sauce and will lead his verdict. "How can you serve these damasters with straw?!" He shouted. Subsequently, he explained the journalist "Courier-Journal": "God, yes this sauce is just awful. They prepare it from tap water, which add flour and starch. Yes, it's pure wallpaper glue! " Franchise in Bowling Green was submitted to Sanders, a man whose face decorated the sign of their institution, to the court for slander.

The court, in turn, ruled that the Colonel condemned the "Kentucky Fried Chicken" in general, and not their restaurant in particular. HEUBLEIN owners could sue Sanders or even dismiss him, but visitors still have a positively responded to his advertisement and appearance, so they decided not to touch him.

Limited time

In April 1979, Colonel Sunders went to Japan in order to take part in the next advertising tour. He visited hundred restaurants, where I posed for photos with thousands of my fans. Returning home, he felt unprecedented fatigue. We walked the weeks, and his condition was not improved.

After a while he was diagnosed with acute leukemia. The next few months of Sanders spent in the hospital. He knew that he would soon die, so he asked that a day when it would happen, all the franchise institutions were open. People could not be deprived of chicken. In the last years of his life, the Colonel Sanders was inserted with religion, and once he asked the Reverend, whether God could help him get rid of foul language. "All you will ask in prayer, believe that you will get," and will be you, "the priest answered him with the words from the Bible. And the colonel prayed. He said that then felt like a heavy stone fell from his shoulders. Garland Sanders died on December 16, 1980 at the age of 90.

His coffin was exhibited in the Kentucky Capitol's Rotunde, where everyone could say goodbye. The daughter of Sanders, Margaret, wrote a book about her upbringing called "Secret of the Colonel: Eleven Herbs and Spicy Daughter." She told her about the fact that his father had a favorite. Margaret also attributes to itself key innovations, which led to the success of "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Moreover, the book includes curious details about the sex life of the colonel, including a funny story that occurred on Margaret's conception day.

Today, "Kentucky Fried Chicken" (abbreviated before "KFC") is a subsidiary of the Yum! Brands corporation, whose headquarters was moved back to Kentucky. "KFC" today is considered the second largest network of fast food restaurants in the world. The results of an independent laboratory study showed that in modern restaurants "KFC", salt, pepper, sugar and glutamate sodium are used as seasonings, but the owners of the corporation claim the opposite.

Sanders always insisted that the chicken was fried in vegetable oil, but in the 1990s the company moved to cheaper analogues - soy and palm oil. One can only imagine how Garland Sanders would respond to the further use of its name and image owners of modern restaurants of the network "KFC". Surely he would say something about supernatural deities, bodily discharges, reproduction, temperaments and the family position of the parents of the current company executives, filed on them to court or attacked his fists to decide whether and for all the question of which part of his body and soul They own.

On March 10, 2009, workers who were engaged in the construction of the embankment near the Dotonbori River in Osaka (Japan) stumbled into wet soil on a strange subject. It was a statue of Colonel Sanders without his right hand. The missing part was subsequently found not far from the place where the statue itself was lying. The Japanese authorities decided to restore it and return to a rightful place, thereby removing the great "Curse of Colonel".

This person is a real embodiment of the "American Dream", dreams about the beautiful life, wealth and power, which everyone can achieve. The name Colonel Sanders says not as loud as his portrait - his face saw almost every person anywhere in the world. Because Colonel Garland David Sanders (or "Fried Chicken from Kentucky") is the founder of a network of fast food restaurants KFC.

Garsel Sanders was born in 1890 in the city of Henryville, Indiana. He was not 6 years old when he lost his father. Mother had to work day and night to at least somehow feed themselves and son, and on Sanders was entrusted with all the work on the housework. Including, it was cooking, which the boy was very loved. Soon his mother started a new novel, and then married. The boy's relationship with stepfather did not work out, it came to beatings and humiliations. Then Sanders decided to leave the native home and moved to his uncle to the city of New Olban. Fortunately, Uncle took the boy with all the sincere warmth.

In the seventh grade, Sanders were kicked out of school for unsuitability. He was never ditched to study, often strolled, preferring to work out instead of lessons. He soap cars, worked as a loader and even sold her own preparation pies in the local market. So the guy was not very upset when he was excluded. He decided that it was time to start adulthood. At that time he was 12 years ...

In 1906, Sanders decided to enter into the ranks of the US National Army. At that time, the Cuba had an excitement - the Cuban people were against the American occupation, and the US began a set in a voluntary army, which was moved to Cuba to ensure control over the occupied state. Sanders at that time was only 15 years old, so he had to fake documents in which he changed the date of birth. He was determined in the division of military logistics, it was assumed that he would lead warehouse records. But the young fighter did not charge this favorable position, and until the end of the Sunders service was pressed to the stable. His duties included care for horses and cleaning in stalls. It was necessary to strain the horse manure to him - toli due to a lack of tool, because of the bullying of colleagues. In the Army, Sanders picked up some tropical infection, lost 20 kg (third of his weight), got into the hospital, but recovered and served the period.

By the way, the title of Colonel Sunders got not in the army - there he was never even a junior officer. The title "Colonel Kentucky" Sanders got from the hands of Governor Ruby Lafon for outstanding services in the public life of the state.

Demobilized, Sanders returned to his homeland. He roamed over the cities and states of the United States, as if a ride-field, was nowhere to stay for a long time and tried a bunch of professions that met on his way. He worked as an assistant to the blacksmith, soap train at the railway station, worked as a conductor of a long-distance tram, a loader at a furniture factory, a mechanic in the car operator, the captain of the ferry, the director's director and even a trainee for legal courses in the local court. It was such an American Ostap Bender, who was taken on everything, which could reach, and was not afraid of anything. But luck was not favorably ...

When Sanders was 18 years old, he married. He had a son who died in infancy, and two daughters - Margaret and Mildred. But when Sanders fired from the next work, the wife threw it, picking up children. Later, Shurin wrote a letter to the future millionth in which he said that his sister should not marry such a loser who could not resist at any work.

Chicago Sanders entered the correspondence department to the University of La Sall - the largest educational institution for business representatives. He studied, oddly enough, good. Despite moving and life peripetics, Sanders returned and received a diploma. During his studies, he continued to work - first by fireman in the state of Tennessee, and when he was kicked out of work for a fight, moved to Arkansas. He worked as a farmer, a peddler, miner, a stapler of the locomotive, the insurance agent - for which he did not take. At the same time, Sunders noted that none of the professions that he tried did not bring him pleasure. Only about the work of the Kochghar Sanders recalled with warmth. At this work, fate collided him with the main woman of his life - Claudia Price, which became his wife and met with him old age.

And so, when Sanders turned 40 years old, and he had a lot of capital, he decides to open his own business - auto repair shop. Not a young age (even for the current standards of Sanders was already far from the boy) did not confuse the newly-made entrepreneur. The place for his workshop he chose a very successful - the workshop was on the side of the 25th federal highway, on this road, people traveled to Florida from the Northern States. Customer stream was consistently large. To increase the income, the entrepreneur decided to open the workshop dining room in one of the rooms for customers. There was only one table for 6 seats, and food for visitors was preparing right at home kitchen. Soon, the car service Sanders became famous for the whole state of Kentucky ... with his roasted chicken!

The owner of the café himself has developed a unique recipe for the preparation of chicken under pressure with eleven spices and seasonings. The pressure coins were then only entered into fashion, and Sanders was one of the first to appreciate this innovation. If the chicken came to fry in the pan about half an hour, then in the pressure cooker, this period was halved - and therefore twice the most satisfied customers!

The popularity of his fried chicken has so increased that this dish began to call the "National Kentykky dish", a staff card. In 1935, Sanders received the title of "Colonel Kentucky", which was still depressed by vanity. And so he opens the Motel "Sanders Court and Café" with a restaurant for 142 seats.

The affairs of the entrepreneur walked to the mountain. People liked how he was preparing a chicken. The recipe of his corporate dish Sanders kept in the strictest secrecy. People did not leave attempts to solve the composition of his corporate sauce from 11 spices and crispy breading, which did the taste of Churyatin so unusual. In those times, when the colonel created his recipe, the standard set of seasoning for the bird included black pepper, fragrant pepper, mayoran, ginger, nutmeg, thyme, carnation, chamber and sage. Perhaps the colonel also used these spices. True, the exact composition of the mixture of the seasoning is still no one else knows. Even the KFC leadership claims that the original recipe is known only to several members of the company's management and is stored in the cache. In the establishment of KFC, spices are supplied in the form of a finished mixture, so that even employees do not know its accurate composition.

And again hit! In 1952, the government opens the new Federal Mainer I-75, and the client flow drops sharply. At that time, Sunders were 62 years old. He decides to sell a restaurant, but now his location has become completely unsuccessful, and no one wanted to buy it. I had to put a restaurant with a hammer to pay off creditors. The colonel again lost everything that he had so long - his wealth, his business, even his home. The only thing that he shouted is a ridiculous pension of $ 105 ...

But Sanders did not give up. He began to ride around the country, trying to sell his recipe for fried chicken to the owners of restaurants, but they just laughed at the old man's survival. " Sanders traveled 1006 restaurants and received 1006 failures, until he was met by Herman, a restaurant from Salt Lake City. He saw the potential in the idea of \u200b\u200bthe colonel and opened a new restaurant - "Kentucky Fried Chicken", the first establishment of the KFC network. At the same time, the famous Logo "KFC" appeared - the smiling face of the colonel in glasses and with a tie-ribbon. For the next 50 years, the logo did not change its essence and has undergone only minor changes - for example, the face of the colonel over time a little "thin".

The restaurant was doomed to success. Only in the first year, 75% of the restaurant's profits were the branded fried chicken Colonel Sanders. After 8 years, Colonel sold "KFC" for $ 2 million. The transaction was distributed only to the United States - in other countries, the Colonel could open his restaurants. And next year, Sanders opens a new "KFC" in Canada, where he moved along with his family. In the same year, the first "KFC" was opened in the UK.

The portrait of the Sanders Colonel is part of KFC's corporate identity - it is printed on the company's logo and on each packaging with a chicken prepared by his recipe. This portrait has been made after the colonel began to walk money. Rake, Sanders began to sculpt the aristocratic image. He reflected the salary beard and mustache. In public places, he began to appear only in white shirts, with a black tie-ribbon, with a cane and a binding white suit: Winter - woolen, and in summer - flax or cotton. Remember, still Ostap Bender in the "golden calf" considered the symbol of wealth - to walk along the Rio de Janeiro promenade in white pants and a white shirt? Apparently, Colonel Sunders was agreed with Bender. The difference is that the Colonel also managed to implement it.

Raughtyev, Sanders joined the Masonic Life and even reached the 33 degree of the ancient and adopted Scottish Charter. On the tombstone stone of the colonel depicted a Masonic square and circular.

Garland Sanders died at the age of 90 from leukemia. And after a few years, "KFC" launched a commercial, in which the actor played, so similar on the colonel that his relatives experienced a superstitious horror. Looking at this advertisement, the relatives could not take away from the thought that the colonel was resurrected.

Colonel Sanders was an incredible adventurer who did not publish in front of the blows of fate, the teeth broke his happiness. Without graduating from school, he was able to finish the university - because he believed that he needed it. Not being adults, he entered the service in the army - because he wanted so much. Without the special experience of leadership and skills in business, he opened his business in 40 years and succeeded. And then, having lost everything in her 62 years, "the hands lowered and continued to fight, and in the end I received even more than I expected when I was successful. His story teaches persistence and ability to give up under any circumstances. After all, success is not somewhere around the corner, he is in your head!

American network of fast food restaurants (fast food). Specializes in chicken meat, as reported by her name - Kentucky Fried Chicken. (Roasted chickens from Kentucky). From the name you can immediately understand where this brand comes from. The company's headquarters is located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA (Louisville, Kentucky, United States).

Talking about brand history Kfc.You can not at least briefly not tell the biography of its founder, most of all known as Colonel Sanders (Colonel Sanders). David Sanders (David Sanders) was born on September 9, 1890. His childhood was difficult, and the furnishings in the family made David completely left the boy from home. He faked documents and went to the US Army for 16 years. After the deadline for the service life, he threw a lot through the country and during these wanders learned very much, including to prepare a wide variety of dishes. At the age of 40, he opened in the town of Corbin (Kentucky) a refueling station, which treated clients with fried chicken cooked according to his own recipe, with a certain set of herbs and spices. It was this dish that was destined to play a decisive role in the fate of Sanders. Visitors refueling the dish accounted for to taste and they increasingly began to go exactly to eat, and not just to fix the car.

Sanders realized that she attacked the golden custody. He improved the recipe (the chicken began to roast under pressure) and moved to a larger room; And then even in the larger. It is noteworthy that in those years a great depression was rampant in the states. By 1950, he was already so popular in Kentucky, which was even awarded the title of Colonel Kentucky, handed over to him personally by the state governor. It was then that the image was crystallized, which today is depicted on the logo Kfc..

In 1955, the first problems began - the popularity of Colonel's restaurants began to fall. But Sunders was not confused, and finding money, began to expand their number, actively introducing a franchise. The effect was not forced to wait long. In 1964, at the age of 74, David Sanders sold his enterprise to businessmen from Kentucky, for almost $ 2 million (by that time the number of restaurants had already exceeded 600). Interestingly, at the same time, he retained the right to Canadian franchises and did not come out of cases for a long time.

Colonel died in 1980, having lived 90 years. I wonder what they buried him in the famous white suit, which for so many years personified the image of the founder Kfc.. By the way, the image of the colonel of Sanders became so noteworthy that it was already played many times in mass culture. He almost also recognizes how Clown Ronald McDonald

After the death of the founder, the company was resold several times. Owners Kfc. there were companies such as R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY and PepsiCo. .

In 1991, it was decided to reduce the name to the abbreviation of three letters. And since 1997 Kfc. belongs to American corporation Yum! Brands.specializing in food (owns also brands Taco Bell. and Pizza Hut.). Menu in restaurants Kfc. Now includes a wide variety of dishes that combine only one thing - they are based on chicken.