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Has KFC's secret and highly-guarded original chicken recipe finally been revealed?
The secret Original Recipe has been classified more highly than most state secrets since the 1940s and is the underpinning of the fast food chain's success.
But in 2016, the Chicago Tribune published what one relative of KFC Colonel Harland Sanders believes is the recipe, which has been safely tucked away in a family scrapbook for years.
The blend of 11 herbs and spices is kept in a vault, says the company, and no one - except the company, of course - knows what it is.
In fact, Sanders came up with the idea to have two different companies make part of the recipe, so no one company would ever have the entire thing.
But Joe Ledington, a nephew of the colonel by marriage, has a scrapbook that was once owned by Claudia Sanders, second wife of the colonel. And inside that scrapbook might be the chicken world's biggest secret.
One of Colonel Sanders' distant relatives by marriage, Joe Ledington, thinks he may have found the original finger lickin' recipe for KFC chicken, hidden inside of a family scrapbook
Above, a commemorative representation of the 11 secret herbs and spices Colonel Harland Sanders made famous in his recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken
Inside the scrapbook is a handwritten recipe stuck inside of an envelope that also contained Claudia's will. Claudia passed away in 1997.
Ledington said he has had the scrapbook for about four years, as it was passed down through family members.
Does he think it's the real Original Recipe?
'Yeah, I do,' he told the outlet. 'I don't want to get in an argument with [parent company]
