KFC recipe moved to a new secure location

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On Tuesday, reports the Associated Press, Col. Sanders’ handwritten original KFC recipe was moved, under heavy security, from KFC’s corporate offices "for the first time in decades." It "was placed in a lockbox that was handcuffed to security expert Bo Dietl, who climbed aboard an armored car that whisked away with an escort from off-duty police officers." There’s more: "So important is the 68-year-old concoction that coats the chain’s Original Recipe chicken that only two company executives at any time have access to it.

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