Some Colonel Sanders fans find new KFC ads distasteful - USA TODAY
Former Saturday Night Live comedian Darrell Hammond plays the legend in new commercials KFC debuted last week. , who bought the secret recipe in 1964 and opened 3,500 stores before selling the company in 1971, said the Colonel wouldn't take too kindly to how KFC is spinning him as a caricature of himself. For one, he didn't cackle like the animated version on KFC's new "Internet encyclopedia of fascinating facts about the man behind the bucket," Brown said. "I don't think you make a gimmick out of somebody," Brown said in a phone interview from his home in Lexington. It is such a fascinating story, I hate to see them tarnish it. ". Fifty-one years after Brown scribbled a two-page contract on a yellow legal pad to buy the Colonel's recipe, likeness and rights to take Kentucky Fried Chicken from a menu item at... The real Colonel "cussed like a sailor," Brown remembered. He ate fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and biscuits every single day, Brown said, and had an "extra 50 pounds" on his 5-foot, 11-inch frame to roughly match the bulky version played by the 59-year-old Hammond. But the real Colonel was never scripted. "We never coached him," Brown said of a publicity campaign that began with Sanders telling panelists from the 1963 TV show What's My Line that his chicken was "finger licking good. Source: www.usatoday.com
