Kentucky Fried Chicken Lawsuit

He used to say, "It's finger lickin' good," but after selling out to a large corporation, the colonel no longer liked the chicken or the fixins. Interviewed by a Kentucky newspaper, here's what he had to say about the mashed potatoes, "My God, that gravy is horrible. They buy tap water for 15 to 20 cents a thousand gallons and then they mix it with flour and starch and end up with pure wallpaper paste." Once they've got the wallpaper paste, the colonel said that they add some sludge, there's no nutrition in it and they ought not to be allowed to sell it. The colonel didn't even like the crispy chicken. He said, "The crispy recipe is nothing in the world, but a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken." Ouch! That's enough to ruffle your feathers if you run a KFC franchise. The parent company was too chicken to sue the colonel. But one store in Bowling Green, Kentucky cried foul. If untrue, would the colonel's grilling really amount to slander? That's debatable. But the colonel wasn't talking about the Bowling Green franchise in particular and with thousands of franchises all over the world, the Kentucky court didn't see why this one store got its feathers ruffled. This one flew the coupe, case dismissed. For the Legal Television Network, I am Irwin Kramer.


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