56-456: (Redirected from Chickenman ) Chicken Man may refer to: "Chicken Man" (theme tune) , the original theme tune of the British TV series Grange Hill from 1978 to 1990 and also the theme tune of Give Us a Clue Chicken Man, the stage name of Fred Staten , nightclub performer, voodoo practitioner of New Orleans Chickenman (radio series) ,
112-562: A RoboCop version of Colonel Sanders. Later that year, Sean Astin played a Rudy Ruettiger version of the Colonel to commemorate the beginning of the NFL season. In 2019, a free video game was commissioned by the restaurant chain KFC and released for free called I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A parody of conventional dating sims, the primary objective of the player is to develop a romantic relationship with
168-582: A humid subtropical climate , abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,545 people, 583 households, and 434 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 535.6 inhabitants per square mile (206.8/km ). There were 609 housing units at an average density of 211.1 per square mile (81.5/km ). The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.16% White , 0.06% African American , 0.13% Native American , 0.26% Asian , and 0.39% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.26% of
224-672: A service station in Nicholasville . In 1930, the station closed as a result of the Great Depression . In 1930, the Shell Oil Company offered Sanders a service station in North Corbin, Kentucky , rent free, in return for paying the company a percentage of sales. Sanders began to serve chicken dishes and other meals such as country ham and steaks . Initially he served the customers in his adjacent living quarters before opening
280-528: A "wall-paper taste". Harland David Sanders was born on September 9, 1890, in a four-room house located 3 miles (5 km) east of Henryville, Indiana . He was the oldest of three children born to Wilbur David and Margaret Ann ( née Dunlevy) Sanders. His mother was of Irish and Dutch descent. The family attended the Advent Christian Church . His father was a mild and affectionate man who worked his 80-acre (32 ha) farm until he broke his leg in
336-479: A brief piece of footage of Hammond followed by Macdonald's Colonel declaring his predecessor an impostor. In February 2016, yet another portrayal was introduced with Jim Gaffigan as the Colonel, shown bolting awake in bed and telling his wife about his recurring nightmare of Macdonald's Colonel "pretending to be me". By July 2016, George Hamilton was playing Colonel Sanders, parlaying his famous tan into an advertisement for KFC's "extra crispy" chicken. During
392-477: A courtroom brawl with his own client destroyed his reputation. This period represented a low point for Sanders. As his biographer John Ed Pearce wrote, "[Sanders] had encountered repeated failure largely through bullheadedness, a lack of self-control, impatience, and a self-righteous lack of diplomacy." Following the incident, Sanders was forced to move back in with his mother in Henryville, where he went to work as
448-409: A fall. He then worked as a butcher in Henryville for two years. Sanders's mother was a devout Christian and strict parent, continually warning her children of "the evils of alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and whistling on Sundays". Sanders's father died in 1895. His mother got work in a tomato cannery, and the young Harland was left to look after and cook for his siblings. By the age of seven, in 1897, he
504-410: A fictionalized version of KFC's founder Colonel Sanders, portrayed as an attractive classmate at a cooking school. In December 2020, a fictionalized Colonel Sanders was portrayed by Mario Lopez in the 2020 short film A Recipe for Seduction . The Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball league developed an urban legend of the " Curse of the Colonel ". A statue of Colonel Sanders was thrown into
560-812: A fireman on the Illinois Central Railroad , and he and his family moved to Jackson, Tennessee . By night, Sanders studied law by correspondence through the La Salle Extension University . Sanders lost his job at Illinois after brawling with a colleague. While Sanders moved to work for the Rock Island Railroad , Josephine and the children went to live with her parents. After a while, Sanders began to practice law in Little Rock , which he did for three years, earning enough in fees for his family to move with him. His legal career ended after
616-472: A group of investors led by John Y. Brown Jr. and Jack C. Massey for $ 2 million ($ 19.6 million today). However, he retained control of operations in Canada, and he became a salaried brand ambassador for Kentucky Fried Chicken. In his later years, he became highly critical of the food served at KFC restaurants, and cost-cutting measures that he said reduced its quality, referring to the food as "God-damned slop" with
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#1732884292344672-546: A laborer on the Pennsylvania Railroad . In 1916, the family moved to Jeffersonville , where Sanders got a job selling life insurance for the Prudential Life Insurance Company . Sanders was eventually fired for insubordination. He moved to Louisville and got a sales job with Mutual Benefit Life of New Jersey. In 1920, at age 30, Sanders established a ferry boat company, which operated a boat on
728-568: A partnership of Kentucky businessmen headed by John Y. Brown Jr. , a 29-year-old lawyer and future governor of Kentucky, and Jack C. Massey , a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Sanders became a salaried brand ambassador. The initial deal did not include the Canadian operations, which Sanders retained, nor the franchising rights in the UK, Florida, Utah, and Montana, which Sanders had already sold to others. In 1965, Sanders moved to Mississauga , Ontario ,
784-574: A radio series from the 1960s "Chickenman", a song by the Indigo Girls from the album Rites of Passage The Chicken Man, a recurring character in numerous Daniel Pinkwater books, such as Lizard Music Chicken Man, nickname of Philip Testa , boss of the Philadelphia mafia for a brief time "Chicken Man", a song by Evelyn Evelyn on their eponymous album "Chicken Man", a nickname of baseball player Wade Boggs "Chicken Man", nickname of
840-684: A restaurant. It was during this period that Sanders was involved in a shootout with Matt Stewart, a local competitor who had painted over a sign directing traffic to Sanders' station. Stewart killed a Shell employee who was with Sanders. and was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders's competition. Sanders was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel in 1935 by Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon . His local popularity grew, and, in 1939, food critic Duncan Hines visited Sanders's restaurant and included it in Adventures in Good Eating , his guide to restaurants throughout
896-513: A river and lost during a 1985 fan celebration, and (according to the legend) the "curse" has caused Japan's Hanshin Tigers to perform poorly since the incident. It was said that unless the statue was fully recovered, the Tigers would never win the Japan Series again. After a handful of losses in 2003 , 2005 , and 2014 , Hanshin finally prevailed in 2023 . Henryville, Indiana Henryville
952-573: A suburb of Toronto , to oversee his Canadian franchises and continued to collect franchise and appearance fees both in Canada and in the US. Sanders bought and lived in a bungalow at 1337 Melton Drive in the Lakeview area of Mississauga from 1965 until his death in 1980. In September 1970 he and his wife were baptized in the Jordan River . He also befriended Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell . Sanders remained
1008-718: A supervisor in Seattle until the latter part of 1942. He later ran cafeterias for the government at an ordnance works in Tennessee, followed by a job as assistant cafeteria manager in Oak Ridge, Tennessee . He left his mistress, Claudia Ledington-Price, as manager of the North Corbin restaurant and motel. In 1942, he sold the Asheville business. In 1947, he and Josephine divorced and Sanders married Claudia in 1949, as he had long desired. Sanders
1064-456: A tumultuous relationship with his stepfather. In 1903, at age 12, he dropped out of seventh grade (later stating that "algebra's what drove [him] off") and went to live and work on a nearby farm. At age 13, he left home and took a job painting horse carriages in Indianapolis . When he was 14, he moved to southern Indiana to work as a farmhand. In 1906, with his mother's approval, Sanders left
1120-557: Is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monroe Township , Clark County , in the U.S. state of Indiana . The population was 1,905 at the 2010 census. Henryville is home to Indiana's oldest state forest, Clark State Forest , and birthplace of entrepreneur Colonel Harland Sanders , whose iconic image appears in the Kentucky Fried Chicken logo and Grammy award-winning bluegrass fiddle player Michael Cleveland . In 1850,
1176-445: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Colonel Sanders Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of
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#17328842923441232-518: Is nothing in the world but a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken. After being recommissioned as a Kentucky colonel in 1950 by Governor Lawrence Wetherby , Sanders began to dress the part, growing a goatee and wearing a black frock coat (later switching to a white suit), a string tie , and referring to himself as "Colonel". His associates went along with the title change, "jokingly at first and then in earnest", according to biographer Josh Ozersky . He never wore anything else in public during
1288-516: The Louisville Courier-Journal on October 8, 1975, he told journalist Dan Kauffman: 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. And I know wallpaper paste, by God, because I've seen my mother make it. ... There's no nutrition in it and they ought not to be allowed to sell it. ... [The] crispy [fried chicken] recipe
1344-617: The Ohio River between Jeffersonville and Louisville. He canvassed for funding, becoming a minority shareholder himself, and was appointed secretary of the company. The ferry was an instant success. Around 1922 he took a job as secretary at the Chamber of Commerce in Columbus, Indiana . He admitted that he was not very good at the job and resigned after less than a year. Sanders cashed in his ferry boat company shares for $ 22,000 ($ 393,000 today) and used
1400-601: The Southern Railway , and secured Sanders a job there as a blacksmith's helper in the workshops. After two months, Sanders moved to Jasper, Alabama , where he got a job cleaning out the ash pans of locomotives from the Northern Alabama Railroad (a division of the Southern Railway) when they had finished their runs. Sanders progressed to become a fireman (steam engine stoker) from the age of 16. He worked
1456-579: The "create-a-wrestler" feature) as part of a product placement deal with KFC. Ray Liotta then portrayed Sanders. Singer Reba McEntire was named as the newest Sanders in January 2018, and made her debut in a commercial promoting the fast food chain's new "Smoky Mountain BBQ" chicken. As of August 2018 , actor Jason Alexander and professional strongman and actor Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson both portray Colonel Sanders. In early 2019, Peter Weller portrayed
1512-513: The Colonel Sanders character back in new television advertisements, played by comedian Darrell Hammond . Some commentators felt the new portrayal was distasteful and disrespectful of the actual man's legacy. In August 2015, KFC launched a new campaign, this time with comedian Norm Macdonald portraying Sanders; the first ad of the campaign makes direct reference to the Hammond campaign, with
1568-485: The UK, Australia, Mexico and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Sanders obtained a patent protecting his method of pressure frying chicken in 1962, and trademarked the phrase "It's Finger Lickin' Good" in 1963. The company's rapid expansion to more than 600 locations became overwhelming for the aging Sanders. In 1964, then 73 years old, he sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation for $ 2 million ($ 19.6 million today) to
1624-571: The US. The entry read: Corbin, KY. Sanders Court and Café 41 — Jct. with 25, 25 E. ½ Mi. N. of Corbin. Open all year except Xmas. A very good place to stop en route to Cumberland Falls and the Great Smokies. Continuous 24-hour service. Sizzling steaks, fried chicken, country ham, hot biscuits. L. 50¢ to $ 1; D., 60¢ to $ 1 In July 1939, Sanders acquired a motel in Asheville , North Carolina . His North Corbin restaurant and motel
1680-601: The addition of fried chicken was a way of differentiating his restaurant from competitors; in Utah, a product hailing from Kentucky was unique and evoked imagery of Southern hospitality . Don Anderson, a sign painter hired by Harman, coined the name Kentucky Fried Chicken . After Harman's success, several other restaurant owners franchised the concept and paid Sanders $ 0.04 per chicken (equivalent to $ 0.46 in 2023). Sanders believed that his North Corbin restaurant would remain successful indefinitely; however, he sold it at age 65 after
1736-459: The airing of the 2016 SummerSlam , a commercial aired of WWE wrestler Dolph Ziggler dressed up as Colonel Sanders beating up a man in a chicken suit (played by fellow wrestler The Miz ) in a wrestling ring. In September 2016, comedian Rob Riggle played Sanders in an ad introducing a football team named "The Kentucky Buckets". In January 2017, to advertise their "Georgia Gold Honey Mustard BBQ" Chicken offerings, actor Billy Zane took over
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1792-478: The alleged misuse of his image in promoting products he had not helped develop. In 1975, Heublein Inc. unsuccessfully sued Sanders for libel after he publicly described their gravy as being "sludge" with a "wall-paper taste". Sanders and his wife reopened their Shelbyville restaurant as " Claudia Sanders, The Colonel's Lady " and served KFC-style chicken there as part of a full-service dinner menu, and talked about expanding
1848-927: The area to live with his uncle in New Albany, Indiana . His uncle worked for the streetcar company, and secured Sanders a job as a conductor. Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the United States Army in October 1906 (age 16), completing his service commitment as a wagoner (see teamster ) in Cuba being awarded the Cuban Pacification Medal (Army) . He was honorably discharged in February 1907 and moved to Sheffield, Alabama , where his uncle lived. There, he met his brother Clarence, who had also moved there in order to escape their stepfather. The uncle worked for
1904-401: The average family size was 3.07. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 26.1% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.4 males. The median income for a household in the CDP
1960-476: The back of his car, Sanders visited restaurants, offered to cook his chicken, and if workers liked it negotiated franchise rights. Although such visits required much time, eventually potential franchisees began visiting Sanders instead. He ran the company while Claudia mixed and shipped the spices to restaurants. The franchise approach became highly successful; KFC was one of the first fast food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in Canada and later in
2016-481: The company made was to the gravy, which Sanders had bragged was so good that "it'll make you throw away the durn chicken and just eat the gravy" but which the company simplified to reduce time and cost. As late as 1979 Sanders made surprise visits to KFC restaurants, and if the food disappointed him, he denounced it to the franchisee as "God-damned slop" or pushed it onto the floor. In 1973, Sanders sued Heublein Inc. —the then parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken—over
2072-506: The company's symbol after selling it, traveling 200,000 miles (320,000 km) a year on the company's behalf and filming many TV commercials and appearances. He retained much influence over executives and franchisees, who respected his culinary expertise and feared what The New Yorker described as "the force and variety of his swearing" when a restaurant or the company varied from what executives described as "the Colonel's chicken". One change
2128-411: The company. Sanders held a number of jobs in his early life, such as steam engine stoker , insurance salesman, and filling station operator. He began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in North Corbin, Kentucky , during the Great Depression . During that time, Sanders developed his "secret recipe" and his patented method of cooking chicken in a pressure fryer . Sanders recognized
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2240-1225: The job for nearly three years until he was fired for "insubordination" after he got sick. Sanders found laboring work with the Norfolk and Western Railway from 1909. While working on the railroad, he met Josephine King of Jasper, Alabama , and they were married shortly afterwards on June 15, 1909, in Jasper. They would go on to have three children, Margaret Josephine Sanders, born March 29, 1910, in Jasper, Alabama , and died October 19, 2001, in West Palm Beach, Florida , Harland David Sanders Jr. on April 23, 1912, in Tuscumbia, Alabama , who died on September 15, 1932, in Martinsville, Indiana , from infected tonsils , and Mildred Marie Sanders Ruggles, born October 15, 1919, in Jeffersonville, Indiana , and died September 21, 2010, in Lexington, Kentucky . He then found work as
2296-407: The last 20 years of his life, using a heavy wool suit in the winter and a light cotton suit in the summer. He bleached his mustache and goatee to match his white hair. John Y. Brown Jr. remembered Sanders as "a brilliant man with a gourmet flair for food, a visionary and a great motivator, with the style of a showman and the discipline of a Vince Lombardi ." Sanders was a Freemason . Sanders
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2352-494: The money to establish a company manufacturing acetylene lamps. The venture failed after Delco introduced an electric lamp that it sold on credit. Sanders moved to Winchester, Kentucky , to work as a salesman for the Michelin Tire Company . He lost his job in 1924 when Michelin closed its New Jersey manufacturing plant. In 1924, by chance, he met the general manager of Standard Oil of Kentucky , who asked him to run
2408-486: The new Interstate 75 reduced customer traffic. Left only with his savings and US$ 105 a month from Social Security (equivalent to $ 1,194 in 2023), Sanders decided to begin to franchise his chicken concept in earnest, and traveled the US looking for suitable restaurants. After closing the North Corbin site, Sanders and Claudia opened a new restaurant and company headquarters in Shelbyville in 1959. Often sleeping in
2464-406: The population. There were 583 households, out of which 38.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.8% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.4% were non-families. 21.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and
2520-516: The potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first KFC franchise opened in South Salt Lake, Utah , in 1952. When his original restaurant closed, he devoted himself full-time to franchising his fried chicken throughout the country. The company's rapid expansion across the United States and overseas became overwhelming for Sanders. In 1964, then 73 years old, he sold the company to
2576-581: The restaurant into a chain. He was sued by the company for it. After reaching a settlement with Heublein, he sold the Colonel's Lady restaurant, and it has continued to operate, currently as the Claudia Sanders Dinner House. It serves his "original recipe" fried chicken as part of its non-fast-food dinner menu, and it is the only non-KFC restaurant that serves an authorized version of the fried chicken recipe. Sanders remained critical of Kentucky Fried Chicken's food. In an article published by
2632-493: The role as the "Solid Gold Colonel". In April 2017, actor Rob Lowe was announced as the newest actor in the role of Colonel Sanders. Lowe said that as a child, he actually got to meet Harland Sanders. WWE would return to using Colonel Sanders during 2017, showing ads of Shawn Michaels and Kurt Angle playing him, as well as announcing that Colonel Sanders would be available as a playable character in WWE 2K18 (accessible through
2688-431: The time of Sanders's death, there were an estimated 6,000 KFC outlets in 48 countries worldwide, with $ 2 billion in sales annually. A fictionalized Colonel Sanders has repeatedly appeared as a mascot in KFC's advertising and branding. Sanders has been voiced by impressionists in radio ads, and from 1998 to 2001 an animated version of him voiced by Randy Quaid appeared in television commercials. In May 2015, KFC brought
2744-564: The village of Morristown was established. It was renamed Henryville in 1853 to honor Colonel Henry Ferguson, who was once a colonel in the Pennsylvania militia . He purchased the land on which Henryville was established, and helped persuade Pennsylvania Railroad officials to run the line through Clark County. The Henryville post office was established in 1865. At approximately 3:15 p.m. (EST) on March 2, 2012, an EF4 tornado caused extensive damage to Henryville, killing one person. It
2800-444: Was "re-commissioned" as a Kentucky Colonel in 1950 by his friend, Governor Lawrence Wetherby . In 1952, Sanders franchised his secret recipe "Kentucky Fried Chicken" for the first time, to Pete Harman of South Salt Lake, Utah , the operator of one of that city's largest restaurants. In the first year of selling the product, restaurant sales more than tripled, with 75% of the increase coming from sales of fried chicken. For Harman,
2856-409: Was $ 49,405, and the median income for a family was $ 55,000. Males had a median income of $ 38,938 versus $ 22,043 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $ 17,745. About 6.2% of families and 4.9% of the population were below the poverty line , including none of those under age 18 and 27.0% of those age 65 or over. Henryville has an elementary, and junior/senior high school. Henryville has
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#17328842923442912-522: Was attended by more than 500 people. His body was also displayed in an open casket during a memorial service that was held at KFC's headquarters in Louisville; about 1,000 to 1,200 people attended the service. Sanders was buried in his characteristic white suit and black western string tie in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. His wife, Claudia, died on December 31, 1996, at the age of 94. By
2968-545: Was destroyed in a fire in November 1939, and Sanders had it rebuilt as a motel with a 140-seat restaurant. By July 1940 (age 50), Sanders had finalized his " Secret Recipe " for frying chicken in a pressure fryer that cooked the chicken faster than pan frying . As the United States entered World War II in December 1941, gas was rationed, and as the tourism dried up, Sanders was forced to close his Asheville motel. He went to work as
3024-744: Was diagnosed with acute leukemia in June 1980. He died at Jewish Hospital in Louisville of pneumonia six months later, on December 16, at the age of 90. Sanders had remained active until the month before his death, appearing in his white suit to crowds. His body was laid in state in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort after a funeral service at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Chapel, which
3080-562: Was on the ground for more than 50 miles. The storm destroyed Henryville Elementary School and Henryville Jr/Sr High School . According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has an area of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km ), all land. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Henryville has
3136-442: Was reportedly skilled with bread and vegetables, and improving with meat; the children foraged for food while their mother was away at work for days at a time. In 1899, his mother married Edward Park, but according to the 1900 census, his mother was widowed again. When he was 10, in 1900, Sanders began to work as a farmhand. In 1902, Sanders's mother married William Broaddus and the family moved to Greenwood, Indiana . Sanders had
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