The Write Team Daily: "Finger Lickin' Good"

The Write Team Podcast · Sep 24, 2026 · 33m

September 24, 1952. South Salt Lake City, Utah.

Colonel Harland Sanders was already in his sixties. He had bounced from job to job, endured setbacks, watched a new highway bypass his restaurant, and found himself nearly broke at an age when most people were thinking about retirement.

But Sanders wasn't finished.

Armed with a fried-chicken recipe, a pressure cooker, and his famous blend of eleven herbs and spices, he took his idea on the road. Restaurant owner Pete Harman finally said yes—and on September 24, 1952, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opened.

What followed became one of…