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Ron Douglas, a former finance director at J.P. Morgan, has been experimenting in the kitchen over the last few years in an attempt to crack KFC's world-famous Original Recipe, the New York Post reports. With his sixth attempt, Douglas thinks he's finally done it.
"Nobody knows what those 11 herbs and spices are, Douglas told the paper. "But if you taste my chicken, you would find the flavor very similar to KFC."
Douglas isn't alone in his quest to fake favorite fast-food and chain-restaurant recipes. He found a burgeoning community of copycat enthusiasts online, so he decided to create his own copycat recipe Web site, RecipeSecrets.net. Douglas left J.P. Morgan in 2007 to manage the site full-time.
He self-published a cookbook of recreated recipes, "America's Most Wanted Recipes," which Simon & Schuster republished earlier this month. The book includes the recipe for the "decoded" KFC blend.
But KFC isn't worried about Douglas' copycat recipe.
"Colonel Sanders' Secret Recipe of 11 herbs and spices is one of the most famous recipes in the world, and the precautions taken to safeguard the identity of the ingredients is second to none," Rick Maynard, a KFC spokesman, told Slashfood. "Plenty of people have tried to duplicate the recipe over the years, but there is still only one place to get authentic Original Recipe Chicken -- at a KFC restaurant."
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7-22-2009 @11:53AM kfc sucks said... who cares if i want my chicken to taste like kfc's I would stomp on the chicken so that you get those nice broken wings and legs that you always get when you go to eat there then cook it and let it set in a warmer for a hour and a half so that it will get nice and soggy just like there chicken is by the way if you really want to know the Recipe get a job at kfc and look at the ingredients on there flour bag mix it tells it all right there
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7-20-2009 @8:20PM FredM said... kfc sucks has some serious issues, not the least of which is spelling, followed closely by syntax. I guess with that competency he/she probably worked there at one time.
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7-20-2009 @9:03PM gary said... if his recipe works like alaxative then he got the ingriedients correct , ause we all know KFC is a sure fire laxative
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8-03-2009 @12:05AM Mark said... Just make the chicken as you always do and then let it set under a heatlamp for 3 hours.It may not taste like KFC,but it will sure look like it.
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7-20-2009 @8:34PM rm9847 said... Is this just another ruse to get me to bust my hump in th kitchen to try out his "fake," receipe? I want the real deal/receipe! I'll print it & give it a shot, & if it doesn't taste the same, then I'm heading down to the nearest KFC! Can't the folks who solve crime with all their forensic know how crack this mystery?
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7-20-2009 @8:40PM rm9847 said... Is this just another ruse to get me to bust my hump in th kitchen to try out his "fake," recipe? I want the real deal/recipe! I'll print it & give it a shot, & if it doesn't taste the same, then I'm heading down to the nearest KFC! Can't the folks who solve crime with all their forensic know how crack this mystery? Sorry about the typo's folks!
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7-20-2009 @8:52PM thenorthguy said... These comments are very funny; thanks for the laugh.
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7-20-2009 @8:55PM ibbecpec7 said... Does anyone remember when KFC had dinner rolls and not Biscuits? I really miss the dinner rolls, you would got 6 in a bundle and I think they were so much better. I hate biscuits.
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7-20-2009 @8:55PM Thetalker101 said... Okay i think it is a hoax and a way to get us off the computers and spend hours making it or trying then give up go to the closest KFC and stuff our faces and levew annoyed *-_-
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7-20-2009 @8:56PM Thetalker101 said... leave
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7-20-2009 @8:59PM wolfiechat said... I would think a simple chemical analysis would crack the recipe code.
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7-20-2009 @9:12PM mimi said... eww... I hate KFC chicken! Did he like it THAT MUCH to find out what they put in it? Eww...maybe he could make it better or something either way it tastes so DISGUSTING.
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7-20-2009 @9:17PM Nic said... If you look at the KFC site they list all the ingredients for everything on the menu. It lists the spices used just not the amounts. But since it's listed in order from greatest to least that has to help narrow it a little.
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7-20-2009 @9:19PM Mike said... KFC Sucks (comment #1 is nuts, man. He has me laughing out loud. But seriously dude, stop stomping chickens..."chickens don't fight back"
Yeah if I can find the darned recipe (over 50) I'll fry it up. Like Gary said, KFC IS a laxative.
Forget going to the KFC. Have you seen those teenagers habits in there lately. KFC is looking pretty slack these days.
MIke Out
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7-20-2009 @9:34PM dave said... KFC doesn't use the 11 herb and spices anymore. The difference to todays KFC and the KFC I ate growing up is miles wide. The KFC chicken today tastes like pepper ridden crap. The real original recipe was with out a doubt, the best chicken in the world.
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7-20-2009 @9:25PM MIKE said... I THINK DOUGLAS LEFT J.P.MORGAN FOR OTHER REASONS. THERE HAS BEEN COPYCAT RECIPES OUT FOR YEARS AND KFC WAS DUPLICATED. ANYWAY THATS ALOT OF MONEY FOR A PIECE OF FRIED SEA GULL. AND DOUGY MY BOY,THEY QUIT USING 11 HERBS AND SPICES OVER 30 YEARS AGO.
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7-21-2009 @5:36PM teltech54 said... Why would I want to make the colonels chicken? I like the way I make my chicken. The herbs and spices I use are tailored to my palate. I change the recipe slightly to give it different tastes depending on what I want at that particular dinner. Theirs has to appeal to millions. Mine only has to appeal to me.
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7-20-2009 @10:01PM rhymefr1 said... KFC Sucks Big Time!!!!!!!
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7-20-2009 @10:11PM MIM said... We used to like KFC. We had it the other night and WE WILL NEVER buy it again! It was awful! I don't know what they did, but they changed their recipe and it doesn't even come close to their chicken in the past. I will never pass through KFC doors again!
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7-20-2009 @10:12PM Ashlyn said... That stuff is toxic. One chicken breast has 1100g of salt GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY!! That is already half your daily intake. It isn't like it used to be. The coating is soooo salty it burns your tongue. KFC used to be tasty, but I think they just hide the fact that there are no 11 herbs and spices by loading the chicken with massive amounts of salt.
STAY AWAY FROM KFC!!!
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