Kentucky Fried Chicken
About Kentucky Fried Chicken
KFC Corporation, doing business as KFC, is an American multinational fast food restaurant chain specializing in Southern fried chicken and chicken sandwiches. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, it is the world's second-largest restaurant chain after McDonald's, with over 31,980 locations globally in 150 countries, as of September 2025. The chain is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains.
On the show — 7 mentions total
Kentucky Fried Chicken brought us moist towelettes. This is in 1958, and he invented it, and it was quite a big deal — the idea that you can have something that stays damp for so long, and that doesn't disintegrate when you're cleaning stuff.
from No Such Thing As The Turin Towelette, 2022-03-04 at 00:29:54 · read transcript
Other times Kentucky Fried Chicken came up
They said, what should we call it? It could have been Utah Fried Chicken. It's from Kentucky. If you call it UFC, people would just be fighting it all the time. Kentucky Fried Chicken, they said, let's call it Kentucky Fried Chicken because he's from Kentucky. Then when he came back, he realized how big it was. They opened up the first ever KFC there. Then it spread around America.
89: No Such Thing As Utah Fried Chicken, 2015-11-27 · listen
It's just like a tree whose branches go underground and then come back up again. Wow. It is. Very cool. It's so great. Utah, where it is, this forest, Utah is really amazing. I didn't realize how cool Utah is. Utah is where Kentucky Fried Chicken's from. Absolutely true. Are you sure? Absolutely true. Colonel Sanders was visiting Utah. There was an existing restaurant. He went inside the restaurant.
89: No Such Thing As Utah Fried Chicken, 2015-11-27 · listen
It could have been Utah Fried Chicken. He's from Kentucky. If you call it UFC, people will just be fighting here all the time. Kentucky Fried Chicken, they said, let's call it Kentucky Fried Chicken because he's from Kentucky. Then when he came back, he realized how big it was and they opened up the first ever KFC there and then it spread around America. Their Kentucky Fried Chicken is from Utah.
No Such Thing As Utah Fried Chicken, 2015-11-27 · listen
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