The Colonel — aka Harland Sanders — was born Sept. 9, 1890, on a farm near Henryville, Indiana, and learned to cook at an early age. After serving in the U.S. Army and trying his hand at more than couple careers — firefighter, streetcar operator and insurance salesperson, to name a few. He then began running service stations in Nicholasville and Corbin, Kentucky. There, he started serving his delicious fried chicken to interstate travelers, eventually perfecting the pressure cooker method and his secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices.

Today, KFC has the widest global footprint of any quick-service restaurant brand with 30,000+ restaurants in 150 countries and is one of the world’s fastest-growing retail brands.

Suffice to say, our fried chicken has been and will always be Finger Lickin' Good.