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Colonel Sanders did not have any military rank as a colonel, but was a "colonel" only as an honorific by the state of Kentucky. "Kentucky Colonel" is one of the higher honorifics the state provides to civilians. https://twitter.com/Dictionarycom/status/1336008162596544512
The real life Colonel Sanders is a fascinating dude. He lost two different jobs for the same reason: getting into fistfights! He beat up his own client IN COURT!
He was also fired from two other jobs, not for fighting, but for mouthing off to superiors, evidently itching for a fight.
Finally, he started to run a gas station where he sold meals on the side. But a competitor tried to shut him down. They had a fight (duh), and then the competitor and he kept painting over each others' signs.
In the last round of this Sanders was IN A MEETING when he got word, and he and his two bosses strapped on guns and went to go MURDER THE DUDE.
Well, the guy was himself armed. He saw them coming and killed Colonel Sanders' boss. So Sanders stepped out, picked up his boss' gun, and returned fire, wounding his rival. Ultimately his rival was convicted of murder, which meant his business went under.
A highway project destroyed his gas station business, so he briefly went on the road visiting other restaurants and licensing his fried chicken recipe. He was charismatic and the chicken was good so he made bank doing this.
But he was a terrible manager so couldn't keep it up and had to sell the business, with basically an annuity. Over time he became hostile to the KFC business, ultimately being one of the foremost public critics of KFC, calling its chicken "wallpaper paste."
Today's KFC chicken is probably not Colonel Sanders' recipe at all. He went to his grave swearing it wasn't his recipe.
So who was the Colonel?
An irascible, charismatic railroad conductor, country lawyer, farmhand, ferryboat operator, military wagoneer, gas station operator, bar-room-brawler, fried chicken chef. In a word: A KENTUCKIAN.
An irascible, charismatic railroad conductor, country lawyer, farmhand, ferryboat operator, military wagoneer, gas station operator, bar-room-brawler, fried chicken chef. In a word: A KENTUCKIAN.
