Last but not least: Finger licking good, and let it stay that way

A visit to friends in Germany is on the agenda. And as always, the Germans had made a few requests in advance: something sweet. So just before the train departs, a quick trip to Sprüngli. To get a box of Luxemburgerli. As we stand in front of the display case, looking at the different colored mini burgers and dictating our order to the nice waitress, we suddenly think: "What an incredibly great job this lady has. Playing around with these delicacies all day, that would be something!" - And then we tell her exactly the same thing. The answer is a rather distraught, suffering look. It seems as if her interest wanes with more intensive involvement with the matter. It can't be down to the quality of the product, we have to conclude after eating the goods produced according to a secret recipe. It is therefore understandable that companies such as Sprüngli, Coca Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) want to preserve this at all costs. As the Boston Herald reported this week, KFC's most closely guarded trade secret was moved to another location on Tuesday for the first time in decades. The recipe, handwritten by company founder Colonel Harland Sanders 68 years ago and containing eleven special herbs and spices, was moved from the company's headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, to an even more secure safe. "I don't want to be the president who loses this recipe," said KFC boss Roger Eaton, personally chaining the travel safe to the wrist of his head of security. Not all chicken wings are the same, and they are apparently only "fingerlicking good" at KFC.