Kentucky Fried Chicken 99% Original Recipe

Last night I had to throw together something to eat for the game. I had 3 chicken breasts and a pot of frying oil already on the stove, so I decide to make chicken nuggets. I also remembered I had a container of chicken seasoning that I bought a while back, but had never tried.



After cooking the nuggets, I was shocked to find they tasted like the old KFC Original Recipe spices. This is what the Original tasted like before the Colonel sold out - nothing like the present "original recipe" stuff hey put out now. I knew that a lot of people claimed as much, but I had no idea the claim was true.

Anyway, if you want to try this stuff, it's Marion Kay 99-X chicken seasoning. Colonel Sanders himself supposedly consulted with the guy who came up with it after Sanders sold KFC.

quote:

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Mr. Summers had the Colonels Original Recipe seasoning; or something very close. Actually, Mr. Summers had, what he felt, was a superior version. Mr. Summers thought that 99% of the recipe was the Colonels and a Mr. Summers secret change was the remaining 1% of the new blend. So he named his new commercial blend of chicken seasoning “99-X”.

In the years to come the Colonel was not happy with the new owners of Kentucky Fried Chicken. It is alleged the Colonel even told some KFC franchisees if they wanted their chicken to taste good again they need to buy 99-X from Marion Kay.

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If you order it, you're supposed to get a 3 lb bag of fine flake salt to mix with it.

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The quote comes from a thread on a KFC-obsessed forum here.