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by erbo 3733 days ago
I'm reminded of the description of KFC in China in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, where the restaurant was referred to as "The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel." "Venerable" because of the age of the face on the bucket, and "inscrutable" because he apparently went to his grave without ever divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices.