The lab results are in: Colonel Sanders is a big fat liar.
Remember how the folks at Kentucky Fried Chicken used to throw it in your face as a kid that their chicken had 11 different herbs and spices in it? And you were so amazed by it because you couldn’t even count that high? Well, according to William Poundstone’s book “Big Secrets,” it turns out their coating mix contains only four ingredients: flour, salt, monosodium glutamate and black pepper. And, ahem, zero herbs.
Poundstone came to this conclusion thanks to advances in laboratory analysis and an increase in the amount of information companies have to disclose regarding their products. So don’t believe everything you hear about your favorite fast foods and junk food products.
Just about every major product in the food and beverage category seems to have some kind of mystery attached to their recipe. Hell, tons of people still believe Coca-Cola has actual cocaine in it. But don’t worry, the great white horse has never been a secret ingredient in the most popular soda in the world. Sure, it uses coca leaves and kola nuts for flavoring and stimulants, but that’s a pretty far cry from snorting a line off a Las Vegas hooker’s jugs.
(via LiveScience)
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