KFC's Original Recipe Fried Chicken is bone-in chicken pressure-fried in the Colonel's signature blend of 11 herbs and spices, one of the most closely guarded recipes in fast food history. The item that built the entire chain and arguably the most iconic piece of fried chicken in America, it competes with Popeyes' bone-in chicken as the definitive fast food fried chicken debate. Nutrition based on individual chicken breast.