And this is my one consternation with the timeline in how much of pop culture is somehow the same as OTL (especially in sports). There would be a considerable domino effect in how culture shifts, especially in The Colonel being POTUS
Kentucky Fried Politics: A Colonel Sanders Timeline
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There are key differences: Hip Hop is considerably more light-hearted due to the Ioacca assassination, Terminator never comes into existence, Star Trek never goes into the movie business, there are at least 2 sequels to 2001: A Space Odessey, the list goes on.
Also among the list is that Back to the Future sat on the back burner for several years and got released in 1988, leading to the Ronald Reagan joke being replaced by Doc not believing Jack Kemp was President.
Now THAT is one big difference! Alongside John K. being called out earlier in the 1980s and hence never being able to get Ren and Stimpy off of the ground.
Toy Story was also different, as there were three main characters instead of two, with Buzz essentially being split into two people (Tinny and Jerrie Parsec).
And that’s what I love so much about it! I’m on my 6th or 7th read-through - so many times I’ve lost count!
So I was listening to an episode of the podcast, Terrible Book Club, where they discussed Tender Wings Of Desire. A romance novel put out by KFC on Mother's Day back in 2020, where the Colonel is depicted as the object of desire of a young woman and inexplicably made a sailor despite the fact that Colonel Sanders never was one. As hilarious as the whole thing is, one thought kept creeping into my head: this definitely doesn't exist in the world of this timeline.
Here's the cover just so no one thinks I went insane and made that all up.
Here's the cover just so no one thinks I went insane and made that all up.
Sounds about right for modern OTL KFC, they also released a gaming console and romance movie too.
Sometimes I wonder if KFC's marketing actually remembers that Harland Sanders was a real person and not an actor playing a character.
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As funny as that is, I bet my better half will now get her hands on one just so she can display it in my privat Library, now that she has seen it too .... you know what I might actually get a laugh out of it any time I walk by this thing, even if it just would be the cover
^^As funny as that is, I bet my better half will now get her hands on one just so she can display it in my privat Library, now that she has seen it too .... you know what I might actually get a laugh out of it any time I walk by this thing, even if it just would be the cover
If any of you are interested, tou can read the whole thing at the link above. It took me all of one hour to finish. What thoroughly shocked me was that by the time I was done, I could unequivocally conclude that I had read much, much worse.
As a work of literature, it certainly isn't terribly constructed. Some people, however, might be disappointed by the fact that it is most assuredly not a work of satire. It is played completely straight, with no tongues planted in cheek whatsoever. But its principal failing, really, is that the Colonel being the KFC founder is very peripheral to the plot, and only really comes up in the closing stages of the story. You could replace him with some completely fictional character and the story would work just as well.
I also saw a couple of days ago that Harley Brown died in the beginning of november
RIP to a true Idaho original.
I remember when Stephen Colbert did a hilarious bit on this absolute train wreck of a debate. That was my first introduction to Harley.