article_snippet.sent: He had become a personal friend of Harland 'the Colonel' Sanders after meeting during a conference in Chicago 50 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Sanders had started Mr Sanders in 1930 at a service station in Corbin, Kentucky, where Mr Sanders began cooking for hungry travellers who stopped there for fuel, using a secret recipe for the coating of the restaurant's fried chicken.
article_snippet.sent: the coating of the restaurant's fried chicken became so popular that by 1935 the Governor of Kentucky made Mr Sanders a Kentucky Colonel in recognition of Mr Sanders promotion of the American state.
highlights_snippet.sent: 87-year-old said company had strayed and should have 'stuck to chicken'
  Personal friend of 'the Colonel' Sanders who was 'kind' but 'forthright' 