I'm another who's never heard of Ron Douglas. I was reading in a secrets revealed book about KFC. They talked about the cookers. First you cut the chickens into 10 pieces instead of 8 to have consistent sizes. The oil starts hot and there's something like a 5# (or maybe more?) minimum batch that can be made to have it come out right. It is a combo pressure cooker and fryer, once the chicken hits the oil, it sears and then drops the temperature, then the pressure cooking and rying continues. They got a cup of the coating mix and had it analyzed. The "11 herbs and spices" in there were flour, salt, pepper and MSG. The recipes have probably changed. At least some. The gravy allegedly used to be a complicated recipe touted by Harlan as "pure ambrosia" and so good you can throw away the chicken and eat the gravy. After selling out, they went to a simpler recipe and Sanders called it "wallpaper paste". I will say, KFC got me to appreciate cole slaw. I used to really like the chicken too but it's expensive and I don't get it often. Haven't had it now for years. One of these days I'll have to get some again and see what I think.

I got mine with no problem. Printed off 3, didn't notice it said you could get 4. About the number ... mine are all 0012 3456 7890 1234. Is that the same number on everybody's? Sue

I love fried chicken, and I am surprised that so few restaurants serve it any more. One of our favorite family restaurants when I was a kid was Murphy's Original Restaurant, and they served family style fried chicken and corn fritters. YUM!!! Love KFC too. Also love honey mustard chicken.

Hi, Just in. My stand-in chooky keeper reports that we are getting two eggs a day again. So great to hear she is back doing the laying thing. Thanks for everything. Goldhills, I will look into this. I will endeavour to snap a better portrait. I just asked for a very large chook and a lady who knows a sister-in-law, who runs a mobile kids' farm, sourced the chook and said it was a RIR. It looks just like the RIR in my "Backyard Chickens" book, which has colour plates. But will check :) Cheers, Grub :)