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Julie Van Rosendaal makes KFC's leaked fried chicken recipe

Julie Van Rosendaal makes KFC's leaked fried chicken recipe

There's been a rumour swirling around the fast-food world that Colonel Sanders' fried chicken recipe has been discovered.

A reporter from the Chicago Tribune claims he saw the original, handwritten recipe in a scrapbook at the Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum in Kentucky. Then he went ahead and published it.

So, is it as finger lickin' good as what you would get at the KFC drive-thru? The Calgary Eyeopener decided to put the leaked recipe to the test.

Well, Julie Van Rosendaal made it — and they ate it.

Not the real deal

Everyone on the Calgary Eyeopener agreed that the leaked recipe was not the real deal.

"I've had a lot of KFC and there's not enough salt in this. The recipe is still in the vault," said CBC Calgary traffic reporter, Angela Knight.

Van Rosendaal thought it was strange that the coating called for ground ginger and thought it was "unusually spicy" for a fried chicken recipe.

But maybe that's the way Colonel Sanders made it back in 1940.

"My guess is that it's gone through a few variations," said Van Rosendaal. "This could be the original recipe, but I'm not sure that it reflects what you'd buy if you walked into a KFC today."

KFC says it is fake and the original recipe is locked up in a digital safe encased in two feet of concrete and monitored 24 hours a day by a video and motion detection surveillance system.

Homemade KFC recipe