Getting the flavor of...A Kentucky Fried detour, and more

Before Sanders donned a white suit and became the Colonel, he ran a small operation in Corbin.

A Kentucky Fried detour

Not far from Kentucky’s Cumberland Falls lies hallowed ground for fried-chicken lovers, said William Grimes in The New York Times. The town of Corbin will never be a major tourist draw, but the Harland Sanders Museum and Café (corbinkytourism.com/sanderskfc.htm) makes it a “modest must” for passers-through. Before Sanders donned a white suit and became the Colonel, he ran a “humble, seat-of-the-pants operation” in Corbin. Even today, the café evokes a time when traveling America’s highways was “a high-risk proposition with marvelous discoveries and ghastly disappointments at every turn.” Visitors can order a bucket of chicken to munch on in the old dining room while gazing at the barrel where Sanders stored his mix of 11 herbs and spices. Few can resist the photo ops offered by two all-white sculptures of the Colonel—or by the display that depicts the founder “holding a bucket of chicken and radiating joy.”

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