The Quiz: Before KFC, where did Colonel Sanders cook food?
A gas station
The Texas state fair
The Kentucky Derby
A school cafeteria
In the 1930s, Colonel Harland Sanders started serving food to truck drivers at a service station in Corbin, Kentucky. In 1935, Duncan Hines — a food critic who later founded the well-known brand — stopped by Sanders’ restaurant and included the restaurant in his 1939 roadside food guide. That same year, Sanders discovered that cooking fried chicken with a pressure cooker allowed him to mass-produce the product with “11 herbs and spices.” Sanders eventually licensed his signature recipe, and by 1960, approximately 200 restaurants were selling Kentucky Fried Chicken across the United States and Canada.
The correct answer to this quiz is A gas station.