Object Details
- Description
- This is a Kentucky Fried Chicken family bucket used in KFC restaurants around 1969. The bucket bears the trademark image of Harland Sanders in his Colonel Sanders outfit—white suit and black string tie—as well as the copyrighted tagline “it’s finger lickin’ good.” The KFC Chicken bucket was first created in 1957 by Sanders and his first franchisee, Pete Harman. It contained 15 pieces of chicken, a pint of gravy, and biscuits. The idea was sold as a way for housewives to escape the kitchen dinner and still prepare a great dinner, merely needing to add a salad and a vegetable for a balanced meal.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Kentucky Fried Chicken
- 1969
- ID Number
- 2014.0120.02
- catalog number
- 2014.0120.02
- accession number
- 2014.0120
- Object Name
- food bucket
- Physical Description
- cardboard (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 8 3/4 in; 20.32 cm x 22.225 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Retail and Marketing
- Food
- Advertising
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1464275
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-24dd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
