The Colonel's Recipe

Colonel Sanders' recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken is now entirely safe. I thought it was entirely safe before, but it doesn't sound like it was. They had it in a file cabinet with a couple of locks.

Now they have some kind of new vault -- I read about it this morning -- sort of like Fort Knox, only really secure. Alligators, a moat, doors with knobs hooked to triggers, laser beaming gargoyles, etc.

All this is being done to protect one single yellowing sheet of paper that Colonel Harland Sanders wrote his recipe out on in pencil. What I'm seriously afraid of is that the paper will simply rot in there. You can't protect against that entirely, since the enemy is within -- the way of all flesh -- and it's insidious.

So what I would do if I were them ... photocopy about 40 copies, laminate them, put them in some kind of big time capsule, bury them where it is extremely cold, whatever. Like that place up north where they're keeping seeds against a worldwide plague or famine.

Then if we ever lose the original recipe -- however carefully it's being guarded -- we will still be able to eat Kentucky Fried Chicken throughout eternity.