TIL Colonel Sanders was never in the military
2026-05-03 06:37 UTC
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@darklamer@feddit.org 2026-05-03 06:55
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Colonel
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@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-03 06:56
Disclaimer: I knew nothing about him until this moment other than his image at KFC restaurants. A short wiki search comes up with Kentucky Colonel which is an order of merit given by the state of Kentucky. This is a real award given by Kentucky, and Sanders legitimately received it.
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@FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2026-05-03 07:07
You didn’t learn anything today.
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@finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 08:05
From Wikipedia In 1930, the Shell Oil Company offered Sanders a service station in North Corbin, Kentucky, rent-free, in return for paying the company a percentage of sales. Sanders began to serve chicken dishes and other meals such as country ham and steaks. Initially he served the customers in his adjacent living quarters before opening a restaurant. It was during this period that Sanders was involved in a shootout with Matt Stewart, a local competitor who had painted over a sign directing traffic to Sanders’s station. Stewart killed a Shell employee who was with Sanders, and was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders’s competition.
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@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-03 09:14
Huh? Where’s the conspiracy theory? A Kentucky colonel is a thing, and it’s been around much longer than Sanders. Nor has it ever been a secret that’s what he was, rather than a military officer. Or is this a joke post? If not, I’m really interested in the conspiracy theory because I’ve never run across it at all, despite having seen a lot, including a couple of documentaries and short form videos, about Sanders over the years.