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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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7-21-2009 @9:39PM Dwight said... I know a great web sight for people who want to meet a rich chicken. Its called, Date a rich chicken dot com. If you sign up now I`ll tell you how to clean your colon with a chicken, with the amazing chicken colon cleanser. In addition I can show you how you can make millions a week selling chickens on line from the comfort of your home.
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7-21-2009 @9:45PM noMOREtv4u said... Of course, no one who is too young to have eaten at KFC before the Pepsi/Yum Brands takeover really knows how good it used to be. Or remember how they used to hire people who actually wanted a job.
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7-21-2009 @9:46PM dave said... Them white people at KFC don't know nothing bout no chicken....... Come to big pappy's house and i'll show dem some damn fried chicken son......
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7-21-2009 @10:13PM Jan said... I guess I'm really dumb.....where IS the receipe? I can't even find it!
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7-21-2009 @10:17PM mike said... I remember almost 30yrs ago someone took a piece of the chicken, and had it annualize at a pharmacist. Come on people the only secret to the Recipe was there is no secret ingredents.
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7-21-2009 @10:22PM Linda Giffen said... It only took a few years of unemployment for him to simulate KFC? Paula Deen could do it in 22 minutes.
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7-21-2009 @10:34PM WILL said... I WILL JUST STICK TO MY OWN //ITS BETTER ANYWAYS .....KFC IS NOT WHAT IT WAS WHEN I GREW UP IN THE 50S AND 60S. IT IS OWNED BY BIG BUSINESS NOW AND NOT THE OLD MAN .SO THERE BOTTOM LINE IS WHAT THEY LOOK OUT FOR .. NOT WHAT THE COL. DID HE LOOKED OUT FOR THE CUSTOMER ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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7-21-2009 @10:35PM snarkybigbyte said... This is another yet another dog pile of manure. I imagine Ron Douglas is just trying to make a name for himself. If he had *really* cracked the "secret" recipe, then he would have discovered the following:
Excerpt from "The Truth Behind Secret Recipes in Coke, KFC, etc.": http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090702-secret-recipies.html
In his book "Big Secrets," William Poundstone revealed a laboratory analysis of Kentucky Fried Chicken: "The sample of coating mix was found to contain four and only four ingredients: flour, salt, monosodium glutamate, and black pepper. There were no eleven herbs and spices — no herbs at all in fact... Nothing was found in the sample that couldn't be identified." So much for the "secret." In fact, the chicken's ingredient statement is available on KFC's Web site.
Someone's got some splainin' to do....
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7-21-2009 @10:47PM Ike said... Google Yum Brands and KFC cruelty and you'll be in for a rude awakening. Chickens have their beaks cut off, live in their own filth in overcrowded cages and if you still want to eat there, good luck to your digestive system. If chickens could type, there'd be a support group on the internet.
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7-22-2009 @9:13AM jack said... KFC dosen't even follow the original recipe.They have changed it ,it is not even close to the original.
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7-21-2009 @11:08PM Heather said... I really do love the original recipe chicken but have always found that pressure cooking the fat through the meat, along with the abundance of MSG, does ALWAYS make me feel sick within an hour or so. Why do we keep going back? MSG is an excitotoxin. It kills neurons and keeps us just stupid enough to keep craving all those additives. Even the new grilled version had similar side effects. It is almost as if my body craves KFC whenever it wants to cleanse itself while experiencing the neurological trauma of processed free glutamic acid (MSG.) Stroke patients, toddlers, etc. are especially vulnerable to this neurotoxin. When the FDA asked the fast food establishments to voluntarily disclose the amount of MSG in their recipes, I was not suprised to find that KFC refused comment! Bon Appetite.
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7-21-2009 @11:32PM Dean said... Don`t like KFC? Then don`t go there.Now isn`t that simple?
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7-21-2009 @11:45PM cj said... Um just what we need a website telling us how to make all the worst food. I'm sure big macs secret sauce is next lol, or how to make your burgers square like wendys. I mean how about someone cracking the code on a cure for hiv or cancer lol America is like Mars to me now. Lets become productive my fellow Americans.I mean when AOL 's top 7 newsmakers is man crack kfc recipe we are all wasting are time ugh time for me to turn off the computer an DO something!
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7-21-2009 @11:51PM Beverly said... Its all in the Grease people!(L.o.L) Trust me I know. I work there 4 years back in high school hehe.But I still think my mother's chicken was finger looking good, way before KFC ever was wink. wink.
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7-22-2009 @12:08AM MIKE said... I love the KFC chicken but I always remove the skin "full of cholesterol), most of the salt is also gone. Now, I know Ron Douglas and bought his recipee book. He weekly sends me many original recipes from the major restaurants, such as Olive Garden's chicken Marsala, Wendy's chili and many more. I am an amateur cook and tried them all, they are the real thing. Tried them on friends and they agree they are the real taste. He travels extensively and brings recipees that are fantastic.
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7-22-2009 @12:20AM MIKE said... Sorry Linda giffen: Ron has never been unemployed, he is a self made millionare, I know him personally. As the article says he asssembled and published a fantastic cook book which I purchased several years ago. You can buy it by mail or download for 29.99 via the Net which I did. I keep it in my hardrive and cook up a recipee whenever I need one on my comp. All are masterpieces from chefs all over the world and most of the great restaurants.
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7-22-2009 @12:35AM SARAH said... yum PEPSI-COLA HASN'T USED THE SECRET RECIPE
IN YEARS , THEY DON'T EVEN MARINATE THE CHICKEN
OVERNITE ANYMORE . IT IS MOSTLY NASTY EVERYTIME
YOU BUY IT ! THE COLONEL WOULD CRY AND SUE !
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7-22-2009 @12:39AM felicia said... This is why I say Popeyes!...Their biscuits are actually good. Their chicken actually has some coating, the potatoes dont taste like water...Yumm....KFC SUCKS.
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7-22-2009 @12:49AM Wayne E said... Any one ever eat Churches Fried Chicken.. Killeen, TX 1971 with Jalapeno Peppers..
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7-22-2009 @1:06AM Melcalrrt said... I used to work for KFC. For the original recepie the chicken is dipped into a milky liquid then rolled in the floury mix of herbs and spices then deep fried under pressure. There is a lot more to it than finding out the actual herbs and spices. The milky liquid came in a mix as does the herbs and spices.
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