Meaning:
Excellent - especially of food. Known primarily as the slogan of the KFC
food chain.
Background:
This advertising slogan of KFC (previously Kentucky Fried Chicken) has proved
highly successful and long-lasting. KFC was founded by Harland David Sanders,
better known as Colonel Sanders (and, to paraphrase The Simpsons, `not a real
colonel').
Clearly, the allusion in the slogan is to the fact that KFC products are
normally eaten without the aid of a knife and fork.
A friend told me that when he visited Quebec he saw a KFC sign claiming that
their products were `finger lickin bon'. I live in hope that this is true.
- www.phrases.org.uk [edited]
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It was a great turn-out on our gym's two-year anniversary open-mat, potluck, and
BBQ on Saturday. I left the kimonos at home and bypassed a huge mat full of
fighting jiuji-deiros and made straight for the food.
While two chefs were busy salting and sizzling slabs of beef on the grill,
home-made ethnic cuisines such as SPAM Onigiri and avacado-tuna gimbap shared
the table with the American party classics: club sandwiches, fried chicken,
pizzas, desserts, etc. Andreas brought empanadas, baked XL-sized potstickers
filled with ground beef, olive, and peppers, and Darren laid out the bowls for a
Hawaiian-Japanese dish with chunks of raw fish (tuna or salmon) in creamy sauce
over rice. All tasty and finger licking good.
