Food of the Seventies, Kentucky Fried Chicken's Ribs
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Perhaps they were only sold in the test market I was living in at the time (Pittsfield, MA), but back around 1975-76, Kentucky Fried Chicken sold beef ribs. They were huge, meaty, fatty hunks of beef with a barbeque sauce that has stayed in my taste memory for 30 years and counting. Required lots of wet-naps. They served the meals like their chicken: in white and red boxes with styrofoam cups of peppery mashed potatoes and gravy and cole slaw. And don't forget the spork! My mouth still waters when I think of those ribs.
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I remember KFC's ribs! They opened a couple of stores in Wichita Kansas (and maybe other places, who knows?) called Kentucky Beef. Yeah, good sauce, and really messy.
I LOVED the BBQ chicken you use to be able to get at Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 70's and 80's... What happened to the sauce? Why don't they use it anymore? The BBQ sauce they use on their wings now is not the same.
as far as I know they still make them in Fairbanks Alaska at the kentucky fried chicken there.The best ribs I have ever eaten!!!!
I remember them from the 80's in Bath, england. I'm still trying to recreate them. Sweet and sticky - fantastic.......!!
I worked for Kentucky Fried Chicken from 1973 into 1975 when I was in high school. During this time, we started selling pork ribs. After briefly using a brand of ribs I can't remember, we switched to Jimmy Dean and they were consistently good. The secret to the fantastic flavor was that the ribs were floured up with the original recipe Kentucky Fried Chicken flour and then fried under pressure. We would then saturate them with barbeque sauce and leave them in the warmer for a while to let the sauce properly soak in. They were great! I wish they would bring them back.
Oh, yeah! Those were the best ribs ever! I'd love to find any the tasted even remotely as good. I seem to rmember them coming standing vertically in a bucket swimming in that wonderful sauce
when I lived in London (80's) , my local Kentucky would make them for me specially as I was one of the few people that bought them. I can't imagine why. I could live on those ribs. I just had a craving for them after all these years and stumbled upon this website.
Hell Yea!! back in the 80`s im 28 now and still dream of them. Been chacing a good recipe, know of anymore?. why dont they bring them back, !!!!please!!!!!
We used to live in Harvey,IL. The KFC there had the best ribs!!! I have tried to tell people, but I have found a rare few that remeber them. They were wonderful!!!
these ribs were truly the best thing i have ever tasted they used to come in boxes of 6 or 8 they were sticky with plenty of meat on them why they stoped doing them well some say it was becuse pork didnt keep to well but im not sure ...and there isnt much information on them on the net its like they never had them
Well I sure do remember them! I was in the Army stationed in Virginia in 1974. I was there attending Army Band training. It was the biggest treat to go to KFC and order a box of those bad boys! Those ribs seemed to be as thick as a man's forearm, and they were moist, tender, and loaded with a thick sauce that rocked your world. I have to say they were as good as any ribs I've ever had and very different.
Yes, I remember those beef ribs (around (1975 and 76), you got a meal with three thick juicy ribs covered with lots of delicious sticky sauce. Please Colonel, forget that stupid "meat for buns sandwich" thing and bring the beef ribs back.
Harrow, London area in early eighties , a drunken friday night out with the lads always ended up with a KFC "combo meal" box ,of chicken n ribs, those ribs were fantastic!........why dont they bring them back!
Ramstein Germany, 1976 BEST RIBS EVER! We would go to the local KFC down the road off base and bring back as much as we could carry. They always ran out, sometimes to the point of brawls over the last rib. Those were great ribs. Bring them back PLEASE!
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