Colonel Sanders—the man behind KFC's recipe— did not lose hope despite numerous rejections, and his perseverance eventually paid off. Today, KFC is not just a staple in the USA but also has a ...

A statue of Colonel Sanders, with its white beard and white suit badly stained and deteriorating, was laid to rest after a rather peculiar life. In Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox went ...

Sanders was initially reluctant ... Since he'd closed his restaurant, the Colonel decided to dedicate himself fully to the franchising side project he'd started four years earlier.

But this secret they had held on to for so long eventually leaked out into the world and by the most unlikely culprit - ...

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KFC's current ad campaign stars a cartoonish Colonel Sanders played by "Saturday Night Live" alumnus Darrell Hammond, but the fast-food icon was a real person who followed an unlikely path to ...

Probably the first flying elbow delivered by the iconic Colonel Sanders as portrayed by WWE Superstar Dolph Ziggler. KFC and WWE teamed for this promotion, where celebrities such as Jim Gaffigan ...