New thoughts and new recipe

I've always believed there is a subtle anise element to the O.R and fennel provides this flavour beautifully, kind of adds a caramel smooth kind of flavour too. Normally i've been disappointed in fennel because i expected it to add an intense anise note like star anise does. Fennel doesn't do this, it instead adds a very subtle anise note with sweetness/caramel like flavour that blends perfectly into the mixture. You might think i use caraway for anise but that is incorrect, i never used caraway with the hope of it adding any anise because it doesn't, it instead adds a very unique sweetness. I am sold on the fennel. 100% is in the recipe imo.

I had my sister who is not well versed in spices at all, smell the bay leaves/cardamom and she said she thinks the cardamom is "too cinnamony" and the bay leaves is more "lemony" and she said she would choose the bay over the cardamom. But when i heard her say "the cardamom is too cinnamony" it really peaked my interest because i also think a cinnamon like flavour can work well in the recipe but actual cinnamon is just too strong. I am sold on cardamom. Cardamom is adding both the cinnamon and the eucalyptus flavour which bay leaves cannot do. Also, i find cardamom/caraway do something magical together.

Some people think he wouldn't have used cardamom because it was too expensive, but a man like Colonel Sanders who put quality above all else 100% would use cardamom if he believed it was a crucial element in his recipe. Also, even those cheap two minute noodles contain cardamom, not too expensive to be put in cheap noodles but too expensive to be used in the 11 h/s?

I also believe cardamom was the 11th ingredient, it makes perfect sense, there is no other spice that does what it can do. And it makes perfect sense that it was the 11th because initially he wouldn't have used it due to the cost factor, then maybe one day he decided to use it just to see what it does. 10000% cardamom is the 11th.

I agree many people turned away from Cardamom because they Cost.

I Don't grasp there though as Cardamom was NOT the Highest price Spice or Herb in 1930 - 1940's the price started to Jump in the years after CHS sold out to Brown and Massey.

If you view many old Spice Tins of Cardamom from 1930/1940 it has similar pricing on the Tins ?

If you watch CHS old Video and even old New Paper articles He never Blames NEW AGE KFC and Massey or Brown about Cost cutting as much as says they are Just changing the recipes.

CHS sued Brown & Massey Over contract Breach for changing the Recipe, He Did NOT make reference to Cost Cutting He stood on the Breach of Contract they Agreed to NOT change his Original Recipe, Bill S Marion Kay Proved they Changed it.

That's why NEW AGE KFC settled out of court with CHS to drop the Lawsuit.