Delhi Planet Weekends - Secret Recipes
February 10, 2007 by krisdhingra
Filed under Specials
Food and Drinks,what would life be without them. Fine Dining,fast food is multi billion dollar industry in itself with foods like pizzas and burgers being a staple diet in some places of the world. So what is so great about these foods that one keeps coming back to them and any attempts to recreate the magic fails most of the times. Well it’s the recipe,just like Microsoft would never release the source code of Windows similarly the fast food and cola giant’s guard their recipes with utmost care.
So how well are these recipes guarded and what are the magic ingredients. Delhi Planet takes a look at 2 of the most famous fast food giant’s, Coca- Cola and KFC.

The Coca Cola Formula : The Coca-Cola formula is the Coca-Cola Company’s top-secret recipe for Coca-Cola. The formula for ‘Coca-Cola’ is a closely guarded secret and it is stored in a bank vault in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. As per urban legends only 2 coca cola executives know the formula and that too half of it, but as per official reports this is incorrect. It’s true that only 2 officials know the formula but they know it completely. Special undisclosed measures are taken to ensure the safety of these individuals, as if they were royalty. They rarely travel together, and when one dies, the others must approve his successor.The security of the bank vault where the formula is stored is one of the highest in the world. The vault being owned by Trust Company of Georgia .
Published accounts say that the formula contains or once contained sugar, caramel, caffeine, phosphoric acid, coca leaf and kola nut extract, lime extract, flavoring mixture, vanilla and glycerin. Alleged syrup recipes vary greatly, and Coca-Cola reluctantly admits the formula has changed over the decades, but it is true that the early versions of coca-cola contained cocaine and this might be on the first receipe of coke. Amateur sleuths have tried to reverse engineer the production process and ingredients,the secret formula being the subject of books, speculation and marketing lore. The company consistently claims that all published recipes are incorrect. You can actually check out the various receipes that people have come out with here.
Well soft drinks never go alone do they, and what better than having a delicious mouth watering piece of chicken along side your coke, and this ain’t just any normal chicken it’s what the world calls Kentucky Fried Chicken better known as KFC.

The KFC Recipe - As mysterious as the secret formula for Coca-Cola are the eleven herbs and spices in KFC’s famous fried chicken coating. The former Kentucky Fried Chicken has shortened its name to KFC, but the company claims the recipe has stayed the same for 40 years. According to KFC Spokesperson Jean Litterst “less than a handful of people” know their multi-million dollar recipe.Like Coca-Cola, KFC secures its recipe in a bank vault,this one is somewhere in Louisville, Kentucky. To ensure that spice vendors don’t know the formula, the secret blend of eleven herbs and spices is mixed at two different locations and then combined elsewhere with the aid of an IBM processing system. All this technology, secrecy and security for a formula that used to be mixed by KFC’s founder, Colonel Harland Sanders, on the concrete floor of his own backyard porch.If you didn’t know then old man that you see on the KFC boards is Col. Harland Sanders.
Now the question that arises is that, is so much secrecy for these recipes required.Even if one would manage to lay their hands on these recipes they would be able to do anything else other than selling it to one of their competitors, cause these companies have spent decades of time and billions of dollars in making themselves known across the world, something that is gonna be very difficult to replicate just by knowing the recipes to their products.
So the next time you’re enjoying a combo meal at anyone of your favorite fast food joints,you might want to taste them a little better, who knows the recipe might just strike you .
Rate This Post
posted by krisdhingra in Specials |






Udai on Tue, 13th Feb 2007 1:53 am
Know what.. My dad used to tell me abt the Cocaine in coke part.
He said aspirin accentuated the effects..
Want to get a girl high.. drop an aspirin in her coke
Aldo Lance on Mon, 16th Jul 2007 4:32 am
When coke contained cocaine, it was in the early part of the 20th century - and it is removed from the product (yes, it’s a natural by product of the recipe). Caffeine was added in it’s place because consumers would have surely missed the stimulating (and addictive) cocaine ingredient.
Honestly, I highly doubt your father was around when this occured, unless he’s as old as the hills. You may want to double check your facts on that one.
The aspirin part is actually a combination of caffeine and aspirin. There were kids in my high school who used to do this for kicks. Funny thing is…. look at the current migraine headache medication at the stores, yep, you guessed it, they contain both caffeine and aspirin.
Just the facts, man.
A.L.
Fug on Fri, 28th Dec 2007 11:14 pm
They either don’t want ppl 2 make money off their recipe, or, it’s sumthin bad.
Ben on Sat, 8th Mar 2008 6:09 am
Cocaine, the by product of The world famous Coca-Cola brand was actually taken out of the recipe in 1906, for any of you that didn’t know that.
Chelsia-Mai on Thu, 5th Jun 2008 7:03 pm
hahah kfc!!:)
sumati on Mon, 13th Jul 2009 11:49 am
its very nice..thanks for sharing….please visit my blog too..