ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Colonel Sanders

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard of Kentucky Fried Chicken? Colonel Sanders was the guy who started it all a long time ago. He was a man with white hair and a mustache, and he always wore a white suit and a little black bow tie.

He had a secret recipe for fried chicken that he came up with in his own kitchen, and people loved it so much that he started selling it to restaurants. His chicken was so finger-lickin' good that soon he had his own restaurant where people could come and eat as much of it as they wanted.

Colonel Sanders became very famous for his delicious chicken, and he even appeared in TV commercials and on billboards. People would recognize him everywhere he went, and he became a sort of celebrity.

Even though he passed away a long time ago, his recipe for fried chicken is still used today by Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants all around the world. So the next time you have a piece of KFC chicken, you can think of Colonel Sanders and how he started it all!