Film Theory: This Movie Exposed KFC's BIGGEST Secret! (KFC)

listen up people here we go here's the plan okay we're gonna make a gaming console right a kentucky fried chicken console best part it's got a built-in chicken warmer and then i want to make a comic book with different versions of me populate the multiverse i want to be the voice of gps navigation and i want my own dating simulator and i want mario lopez to play me in a laughter movie yeah i think the colonel may have discovered a 12th secret herb do you know what i'm saying [Music] hello internet welcome to film theory yup it is film theory you did not accidentally click on a food theory episode i promise you're in the right place theorists today's episode is all about kentucky fried chicken heck all of today's episodes are about kentucky fried chicken game theory food theory film theory all about kfc yep the fast food restaurant and no absolutely none of it is hashtag spawn probably should have been probably should have tried to have gotten that but nope leave it on the winter crazies blaming on quarantine brain heck blaming on the curse of the colonel but for our first ever three-way collaboration across all the theorist channels heck it's actually a four-way collaboration because gt live's involved too what is this oh those games oh wow oh wow wow arrivals there are so many characters there's that was great right i'm very i'm satisfied already i'm satisfied for our first ever four-way collaboration across all the theorist channels i had the idea to make it about kfc yes what am i doing with myself it seems insane i get that but bear with me here as you probably know kfc is the keeper of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time colonel sanders's secret recipe blend of 11 herbs and spices today kfc keeps the recipe physically locked in a vault in their louisville headquarters they've hired two separate companies to produce separate halves of the recipe so that no one person not even kfc's own head chef is privy to the entire thing naturally this level of secrecy has piqued the curiosity of kfc fanatics across the globe and for decades people have been trying to do everything they can to figure it out people have run lab analyses on the chickens served in kfc restaurants they've attempted to recreate the exact flavor at home through meticulous trial and error they've latched onto recipes found in heirloom scrapbooks they've even picked apart the brains of the late colonel sanders's business partners but according to kfc no one has ever gotten it quite right which again is kind of ironic because the whole shtick is that no one person knows the true recipe so do you know it kfc do you not know it the suspicious matpat is suspicious my eyes narrow in your direction kfc so the tldr here is that plenty of people have approached this from a variety of different scientific and analytic angles but has anyone ever tried to solve it from a film angle i ask because in december kfc released a movie a lifetime mini movie to be more precise it's titled a recipe for seduction and yessiree that is mario lopez playing the colonel himself harland sanders a little adorable crouton wearing dollar store facial hair don't call me crouton now it would be easy to just write this thing off as some marketing stunt and yes it is most definitely that the script is at times indistinguishable from a kfc ad the chicken is delicious bunny oh please we both know i can't cook like this it's my new chef he's incredibly talented so i gotta admit not many chicken ads i've seen in the past feature a plot where a girl's mother is having an affair with her daughter's fiancee you remember our long weekend in the vineyard how could i forget it if you marry my daughter i promise there'll be more long weekends in your future what am i watching oh it's so gross what sort of post-apocalyptic capitalist dystopia do we live in it is a kfc soap opera and here i am sitting and writing an episode about this oh gosh i'm part of the problem aren't i anyway i'm here to tell you that a recipe for seduction might be more than just an ironic self-aware way to boost kfc sales much more you see theorists i believe that this mini movie is absolutely saturated with hints about the colonel's world famous secret recipe that's right a recipe for seduction may also be a recipe for kfc's original recipe and that my friends is a recipe for a film theory so hold on to your badly spirit gummed facial hair theorists cause this one is gonna be finger licking good now in order to properly enjoy this mini movie you're gonna have to take everything you might know about the real-life harland sanders the cantankerous senior citizen who launched the kentucky fried chicken franchise in 1952 and who one time punched a dude out cold in court and jettison it all out from your mind see kfc's been playing around with the whole colonel sanders character fast and loose in recent years from their famous commercials in which different actors portray the colonel to their dc comics collaboration in which different versions of the kernel exist across the multiverse to a kfc themed dating simulator which we played on gt live that allows people to date the colonel and they're at it again in a recipe for seduction here harlan sanders is young contemporary and likes to show off his biceps and for as crazy as the real-life stories of harland are he to my knowledge did not launch his chicken restaurant after surviving a kidnapping and murder attempt by his rich employer just kill him already mom now the plot of a recipe for seduction feels very on brand for a lifetime movie a beautiful young woman named jessica is being pressured to marry rich we're weeks away from the bank repossessing our house but it's so unfair our family's livelihood shouldn't depend on who i choose to marry i'm sorry jessica marrying billy is the only thing that can save us but instead of falling for billy the wealthy jerk that her mother wants her to marry jessica instead falls in love with her family's newly hired private chef harlan sanders oh i'm sorry to interrupt harland doesn't have himself a penny to his name but he does have a secret recipe that could one day change the world tell me about you the harlan sanders story but with the author of it i'd have a chapter in there about my secret recipe changing the world oh a secret recipe how mysterious so it pretty much has everything you want in a feature-length lifetime rom-com campy romance over-the-top villains soap opera level violence fried chicken but a recipe for seduction is also super self-aware and condensed down into a speedy 16 minutes i'm happy to report that it's actually a really fun watch even for a guy like me who doesn't usually seek out lifetime movies in fact if you want to watch it right now the whole thing is available on youtube again hashtag not spawn but if you do end up going over there and watching it leave a comment telling them that they should sponsor us in the future you don't have to pay me for these videos but please just send me a giant statue of harlan sanders himself but the moment in the movie that really got my theory juices flowing was this billy intent on finding a way to get the hunky new chef out of the picture sneaks into harlan's kitchen and finds his secret recipe written on a piece of paper and they actually show it on screen for a split second secret's out chicken man rewind that one back pause it there folks this is it at long last the colonel secret recipe is gonna be revealed to us zoom in enhance enhance again okay so uh that's a bit of a letdown there is no new info on the paper it's just kfc teasing us but this is what i'm talking about when i say that the mini movie is self-aware they know that we were all gonna pause it in that moment they know that we're dying to find out the secret of this recipe and just because they didn't show us the handwritten recipe on screen doesn't mean that they didn't give us something to snack on as i kept watching i began to notice a recurring theme see if you can spot it for some reason there are citrus fruits littered throughout this entire mini movie remember its run time is only 16 minutes and yet lemons limes and oranges make dozens of on-screen appearances and look i get it the movie is about a chef so we're bound to see a number of ingredients throughout the movie but this very specific pairing of lemons limes and oranges appear across multiple scenes it was enough to get me suspicious sure maybe they're just there to add a splash of color on screen but how do you explain this harlan sanders the new cook harland was head chef at lipti problemos it's an incredibly random line that doesn't go anywhere and it's weirdly specific in the way that it gets me to start asking questions you see le petite pomp le mousse translates to the little grapefruit yet another citrus fruit i mean they could have picked any fancy-sounding restaurant name they wanted they could have tossed in a chicken reference or a kentucky reference but they went with grapefruit coincidence i think not it is so random that it can't be random friends this can be no oversight on the part of the filmmakers what's the deal with all of the citrus because surely there can be no citrus fruits in the colonel's secret recipe right the real life harlan sanders was an accomplished cook and proud southerner for him or anyone else to put fruit into a savory southern fried chicken recipe would be well it would be unusual to say the least sure i guess fruit technically meets the criteria to be considered a spice since it's part of a plant that's used to flavor food but there's no grapefruit on any spice rack i've ever seen so what's the deal kfc why'd you go out of your way to litter your own mini movie with all these citrus references unless there was a reason to do so so i did some research on the topic and i discovered that we can all rest easy there is absolutely no reason to believe that harlan sanders ever included citrus fruits in his fried chicken recipe however the kentucky fried chicken franchise is a different story in fact the fine print on their own website explicitly states that citrus is indeed involved more specifically citric acid now let's hit the pause button for a moment because this is an important distinction to make kfc may call it their original recipe but the fried chicken you served at kfc today is not identical to the fried chicken you would have been served at kfc in say the 1960s see in order to keep the food quality consistent across their growing number of franchises kentucky fried chicken which harlan sanders sold in 1964 elected to streamline the processes by which kfc's menu items were prepared after all not every kfc employee can be as gifted in the kitchen as the great colonel sanders so the simpler they could make it the better it should also be noted that harlan sanders was quite unhappy and quite vocal about what he perceived to be a slippage in quality after the kfc franchise was sold to the new ownership so yeah over the decades there have been some tweaks to the colonel's original recipe for business related reasons kfc claims the original 11 herbs and spices remain unchanged to this very day although they've admitted other aspects of the recipe and preparation methods have received face lifts such as the adoption of soybean oil as their frying oil of choice especially in the u.s you see in the 20th century soybean oil wasn't yet cost effective enough to be used by huge franchises like kfc but in recent years soybean oil has grown in popularity and availability thanks to the fact that it's low in saturated fats and contains no trans fats however while healthier soybean oil does have a downside soybeans in their natural state have a high concentration of linolenic acid which causes the oil to spoil much more quickly than traditional frying oils fortunately there are certain additives including citric acid that can improve soybean oil's performance as a frying oil so that's why kfc now adds citric acid to its frying oil it allows them to use a healthier oil now most of the additives listed in the fine print of kfc's site like tbhq don't affect the taste of the food in any detectable way citric acid however has an extremely strong taste and it's possible that the sour citrusy taste is at least mildly detectable in the fried chicken care to guess what citrus fruits contain the highest concentration of citric acid they would be lemons and limes followed by grapefruits and oranges that's right the exact same four seemingly out of place citrus fruits that are featured throughout a recipe for seduction this is the real reason kfc made a mini movie centering around the colonel's secret recipe they wanted to point us recipe seekers in the right direction many many people have attempted to recreate kfc's original recipe over the course of many many years but their so-called original recipe is ever evolving so anyone who wants to recreate the exact taste of the fried chicken at kfc needs to keep up with the times citric acid is a contemporary tweak to the recipe which is why kfc decided to draw our attention to it using a contemporary reimagining of the kernel in a recipe for seduction but hey that's just a theory is what i would normally say at this point see we don't run into this kind of situation every day here on film theory but today we don't have to speculate about this and wait to see if it's true we can actually run an experiment and find out today if this was just a theory after all and that's exactly what steph and i are doing over on the food theory channel in a video uploaded at the same time as this one we've taken this theory along with some of the most legit kfc original recipe recreation attempts out there and we're answering the question once and for all what is kfc's secret recipe what's the blend of spices is the inclusion of citric acid the missing puzzle piece that's kept us from matching the taste of kfc's fried chicken exactly spoiler alert i think we found ourself a solution it didn't make sense to do it over here so head on over to food theory right now to see what it takes to crack the code that episode is up right now so click the video that you see on screen or the link in the top line in the description to check it out and once you've done that head on over to game theory where we are also talking about kfc and their next generation gaming system no joke that has itself a chamber to keep your chicken warm which the biggest shocker of all is not as dumb as you think so if you want to follow the natural viewing loop i'd suggest heading over to food theory next where we have part two to this episode that you just watched then continue over to game theory where we just posted the episode about how kfc just won the console wars oh yeah and also before you go just consider subscribing help make this the year when film theory crosses the 10 million subscriber mark so get on it guys you've got yourself a ton of kfc content to fill up on but as always remember they're all just theories and this one was a film theory and don't call me crouton

Channel: The Film Theorists

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Id: 33eiDEo834E

Length: 14min 35sec (875 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021