Numbers Wrote:
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> I know someone from Kentucky and they said the
> Colonel Sanders is like a hero and the first KFC
> is a huge landmark and tourist attraction. Schools
> actually go on field trips to it. I don't think he
> was actually a "colonel", but I could be wrong.
I have visited the "original" Col Sanders and it is a museum of sorts
with an old kitchen on display. Other than that, its a plain old KFC.
They do have an 8 ft. plastic statue of the Col himself. The Col
is a hero among some Kentuckians, not because of his recipe, but
his entrepreneurship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders