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Colonel Sanders Wasn’t Exactly A Jolly Man

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The real Colonel Sanders liked to make surprise visits to his restaurants. If he was dissatisfied with the food, he would throw it on the ground while cursing at the employees.

In 1975, Heublein Inc., the company that acquired KFC, unsuccessfully sued Sanders for libel after he publicly described their gravy as being “sludge” with a “wall-paper taste”.