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| Where they started lickin' fingers. |
It’s Good Friday, and only a slight detour.
The pumps haven’t worked in years and the café is, of course, not just another forgotten roadside restaurant now. It’s ground zero of a restaurant chain that has grown to offer more than 55,000 locations in 55 countries and territories around the world.
Now, it slings the origin story of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The once-noble building’s windows are etched with the name “Harland Sanders.” Ever the marketer, Sanders ensured the etchings faced inward, so you’d learn his name as you ate.
The attraction is now predominantly a museum focused on myth-making and brand-building, and it provides models of the Colonel’s hotel rooms, his customary white suit and other memorabilia, including a Harlequin novel where he rescues a damsel in distress, and Crocs pinned with fried drumsticks.
Even the stick figure for the bathroom wears his customary string tie.
But it still sells chicken.
And fries.
Vitals:
- Time: 7.5 hours
- Distance: 470 kms
- States: Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina
- Weather: Rain, cold
- Wildlife: None
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