American fried chicken has its origins in slavery

But a white man took the credit

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Despite that perceived relationship, or perhaps because of it, it was a white man, Harland Sanders, who capitalised on fried chicken in the form of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (kfc) chain, which he made into a global business. In the 1930s, so the legend goes, Sanders took over a service station and began serving “weary travellers” the same fried chicken he had grown up eating. Pressure-frying the chicken allowed him rapidly to produce the stuff in vast quantities. Over time he honed his recipe and he franchised the first kfc in Salt Lake City in 1952.

Efforts by African-American-owned businesses to reclaim fried chicken have not been entirely successful. In the 1960s Mahalia Jackson, an American gospel singer, was the face of a national fried-chicken chain that hoped to challenge kfc. She marketed the products to black Americans but Minnie Pearl, a white comedian, sold the same chicken to white customers. In the end the colonel (an honorary title only) outgunned her, as he has most of his other competitors. There are now 25,000 kfc outlets in over 145 countries around the world. It would be hard to count his chickens.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4941347&forum_id=2#43265526)