I wonder if this franchisee just put salt in the flour. I didn't
taste any other 'herbs and spices'. The seasoning mix that KFC sells
to its franchisees is expensive. Maybe, at the location that I
purchased chicken, the owner decided to cheapen the product?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_t..._Fried_Chicken

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Apparently, none of the five thousand Kentucky Fried Chicken
franchisees has ever been told the full recipe. New restaurant
operators attend "KFC University," a company-owned outlet in
Louisville. There they are initiated into the special cooking method.
They aren't told what is in the seasoning mix, however. Franchisees
must buy the seasonings premixed from the Kentucky Fried Chicken
Corporation. Some outlets buy ten-ounce packets of seasonings that are
to be mixed with twenty-five pounds of flour. Others buy a preseasoned
coating mix that contains the flour.

"No Platinum in There"

Ever since the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain mushroomed in the
mid-1960s, the secret recipe has been the object of speculation.
Examination of the chicken shows that the coating is a thin, almost
soggy layer (in the "original recipe"; there is also a "spicycrispy"
version) adhering to the skin. The meat is notably moist, allegedly
because of the special pressure-cooking process. There is little
popular conviction as to what seasonings figure in the "secret blend
of eleven herbs and spices." The chicken is flavorful,but no herb or
spice predominates. The New York Times quoted Sanders as maintaining
that the herbs and spices "stand on everybody's shelf ".

The presumption that the seasonings in Kentucky Fried Chicken are in
fact perfectly ordinary ones has long been a bone of contention
between franchisees and Kentucky Fried Chicken management.
Restaurateurs are charged a steep price for the seasonings-more than
any conceivable combination of herbs and spices ought to cost, say
franchisees. In a 1976 book on McDonald's (Big Mac: The Unauthorized
Story of McDonald's by Max Boas and Steven Chain), McDonald's founder
Ray Kroc observed:

"Kentucky Fried Chicken licensees claimed that they were paying three
to four to five times for the same herbs and for the same chicken, and
that they could get it from Durkee's or Kraft or any big company in
the United States. And Kentucky Fried Chicken said, no, you couldn't
because the formula was a secret. You know that was a lot of crap. Any
laboratory can tell you what's in it. There's no platinum in there.
There's no gold in there."

That there isn't platinum or eye of passenger pigeon in the mix is
supported by the fact that the colonel occasionally whipped up the
seasoning mixture impromptu. In Sanders' autobiography, Life as I Have
Known It Has Been Finger Lickin' Good, he tells of selling his first
franchisee, Leon "Pete" Harmon, on the chicken. Sanders concocted a
batch of the seasoning mix from the pantry of Harmon's Salt Lake City
restaurant.

Granting that all of the colonel's seasonings could be found at any
well-stocked A&P, the task of identifying them remains formidable.
There are approximately forty herbs, spices, and other seasonings
available in American supermarkets and gourmet stores. Of these,
perhaps twenty or thirty are common enough to "stand on everybody's
shelf," figuratively speaking, and to have been in use at Sanders'
roadside cafe. The use of eleven different seasonings is not
remarkable. The standard "poultry seasoning" of the food industry has
ten herbs and spices:


KFC Original Recipe Chicken



1 egg , beaten
1 cup buttermilk
One 3 pound chicken, cut into 6 pieces
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground oregano
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon dried sage
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon onion salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons Accent (MSG)
1 3 pound can of Crisco

Instructions:
1. Combine the egg and buttermilk in a large bowlin the mixture.
2. Add the flour to a separate bowl and fold in all the herbs & spices
3. Roll the chicken in the seasoned flour until completely covered.
4. Set deep-fryer to 170º Celsius
Cook chicken for 15 minutes each.
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