Jake Ball can muse with the best of them.
As I sit here, just getting home from going to the Richland/Abingdon football game, which Richlands won 27 to 16, thanks for asking, and going to Wal-Mart at midnight-ish and buying the “Death Magnetic” by Metallica. I feel like it is time for some random thoughts by the Jakester. So in true, Troy “T.J.” Sparks style, we will go ahead and write in a few musings.
1)Death Magnetic is probably one of the better Metallica albums I have ever heard just for the fact that Rick Ruben is making this one.
2)Also, about a week or two ago, I finished the book “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, by Tucker Max, I have to say, it is one of the most foulest and greatest books of all time. Schools should make things like this the normal stuff in libraries.
3)I was reading a blog on ESPN.com where a guy counted down the things that annoy him sports. What annoys me in sports is people like this? People who think their team is the greatest team ever in the history of organized team sports, perfect example of this is anyone from the Boston/New England area. These people’s team has no imperfections. I put it like it is, I know my team will end up being horrible and I don’t play it up like they are the greatest.
4)I know some of this will sound horrible, but it is currently (meaning as I just type this message) 12:40, and I have been awake since 8 Wednesday, so fuck you and your writing racism. Again, like with any of my posts once, I type something down. It will not be edited in the end.
5)Chad Ohco Cinco, need I say more.
6)What I don’t get about black people, yes I said black people, baw gawd, Jake Ball has to be a racist for saying it but, is black people think they deserve more than any other person in this world. I get it, slavery was bad, 200 years, blah, blah, blah. IT looks like you and your family has recovered from slavery so, fuck off with this, “BLACKS ARE BEING TREATED WITH INJUSTICE” to me, because I will laugh right in your fucking face. I believe, after kissing your ass forever has spoiled ya a little. So call me a fucking racist, I don’t care. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.
7)So, my ex hits me up on MySpace, then texts me, and is dropping hints about wanting to hang out and shit, asking if I’m dating anyone, then says she’s ‘pretty serious’ with someone, yet continues to act… strangely. Says she’s gonna call me. I say I am at football game, she goes nuts on me for my love of football and accuses me of cheating on her and then starts saying sorry for going nuts before jumping all over me because I didn’t check my phone when talking to friends. Fuckin’ women. Need to make up their minds and quite being crazier than shit.
8)http://fatchicksinpartyhats.com/ WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!
9)So, after the football game, I go out to my car and start to head toward the house. I get in, and I realize, my car is fucking unlocked. I open the door, and to my horror, all of my change is stolen. After this settles, I realize….my cell phone, CD’s, and a few Xbox 360 games are on the passenger seat, completely untouched. Stupid fucking drunks/crack heads.
10)And finally I was snooping around the articles on a local forum I go to and found this article about KFC and the secret chicken recipe.
KFC shoring up security for secret recipe By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press Writer
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Pssst. The secret’s out at KFC. Well, sort of. Colonel Harland Sanders’ handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC’s corporate offices for the first time in decades. The temporary relocation is allowing KFC to revamp security around a yellowing sheet of paper that contains one of the country’s most famous corporate secrets.ADVERTISEMENT
The brand’s top executive admitted his nerves were aflutter despite the tight security he lined up for the operation.
“I don’t want to be the president who loses the recipe,” KFC President Roger Eaton said. “Imagine how terrifying that would be.”
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. The company refuses to release their name or title, and it uses multiple suppliers who produce and blend the ingredients but know only a part of the entire contents.
Louisville-based KFC, part of the fast-food company Yum Brands Inc., hired off-duty police officers and private security guards to whisk the document away to an undisclosed location in an armored car. The recipe will be slid into a briefcase and handcuffed to security expert Bo Dietl for the ride.
“There’s no way anybody could get this recipe,” said Dietl, a former New York City police detective. His security firm is also handling the security improvements for the recipe at headquarters, but he wouldn’t say what changes they’re making.
For more than 20 years, the recipe has been tucked away in a filing cabinet equipped with two combination locks in company headquarters. To reach the cabinet, the keepers of the recipe would first open up a vault and unlock three locks on a door that stood in front of the cabinet.
Vials of the herbs and spices are also stored in the secret filing cabinet.
“The smell is overwhelming when you open it,” said one of two keepers of the recipe in an interview at company headquarters.
The biggest prize, though, is a single sheet of notebook paper, yellowed by age, that lays out the entire formula – including exact amounts for each ingredient – written in pencil and signed by Sanders.
Others have tried to replicate the recipe, and occasionally someone claims to have found a copy of Sanders’ creation. The executive said none have come close, adding the actual recipe would include some surprises.
Sanders developed the formula in 1940 at his tiny restaurant in southeastern Kentucky and used it to launch the KFC chain in the early 1950s.
Sanders died in 1980, but his likeness is still central to KFC’s marketing.
“The recipe to him, in later years, was everything he stood for,” said Shirley Topmiller, his personal secretary for about 12 years.
Larry Miller, a restaurant analyst with RBC Capital Markets, said the recipe’s value is “almost an immeasurable thing. It’s part of that important brand image that helps differentiate the KFC product.”
KFC had a total of 14,892 locations worldwide at the end of 2007. The chain has had strong sales overseas, especially in its fast-growing China market, but has struggled in the U.S. amid a more health-conscious public. KFC posted U.S. sales of $5.3 billion at company-owned and franchised stores in 2007.
Well, that is it for the Oreo Jakester tonight, he is off to bed and then working till 5.
