Colonel Sanders Research Paper

Harland Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders was certainly not the most qualified person to start an ultra-famous food brand that would be known across the Earth. Harland Sanders was born on Sept. 9 1890 in Henryville Indiana. His mother Margaret Ann was widowed when Harland was 7. His father, Wilbur David, came home one day after work with a fever. He died before the morning. When he was 10, Harland’s mother remarried to William Broaddus. Broaddus and Harland didn’t have a great relationship, and at age 13, Sanders dropped out of the seventh grade and ran away from home to be a local farmhand. Once 16 Harland altered his birth certificate and enrolled into the United States army. He served in cuba until he was 17, when he returned to

Before his death, he and his wife had tried to start their own restaurant to sell his actual original recipe. The executives at KFC sued, and shut the place down, leaving a sour taste in the mouth of the colonel’s mouth. He quickly went out in public and using his freedom of speech, completely roasted the modern KFC way of cooking. “Their gravy tastes like flour, cornstarch and about a gallon of dirty dish water put into a disgusting grimy cup. The chicken recipe tastes like wallpaper paste. I know what wallpaper paste tastes like, my mother used to make it”. KFC experienced a considerable drop in sales, and made a deal of secrecy to keep the colonel’s mouth shut. From then on, the colonel said nothing against KFC, and just went along his own private business until death. Knowing he only had hours to live, Sanders said that he didn’t want to be the wealthiest man in the graveyard, and donated a considerable portion of his wealth to charity, thinking that he should give back to from where he came. His legacy will live on, whether it be through his face on signs, his money funding the charities, or even through the corny impressions that are routinely done of him on the KFC commercials by comedians. Colonel Sanders will be