

It acknowledges the oddness of dating a fast food icon and plays it up with over-the-top supporting characters. To the game’s credit, the writing is way better than a simple fan fiction about the Colonel hooking up with Ronald McDonald.

Forget old man Colonel Sanders, we've got a new "hot" Colonel who can't wait to show you his Original Recipe. It's not something you want to go searching for, though. It isn’t just KFC corporate throwing this idea around either, as you'll find plenty of fan fiction online about the Colonel that "ships" him with rivals like Ronald McDonald. Sex sells, but does it help sell chicken? I really want to know. I’d honestly love to meet with the marketing team and pick their brains on the decision to promote a "hot" Colonel. He's not my type, but he's far from unappealing. In the game, he’s serving up silver fox looks for days and I’m ashamed to say I don’t hate it. I wonder where KFC corporate got the idea to take Colonel Sanders – a little old man in a white suit and country bow tie – and turn him into a literal snack. In I Love You, Colonel Sanders, the main option is a fictional version of Colonel Harland Sanders, the man who founded KFC in the 1950s. Essentially, you need to pick the right responses in order to impress the character you want to hook up with. The concept of I Love You, Colonel Sanders is the same one you’ll find in every other indie dating sim from Dream Daddy to Hatoful Boyfriend. The food looks a hell of a lot better in the game than it does in real life. Trust me, I once ate 40 wings from Domino’s in a single sitting. It’ll never look as good as it does in the artistic renders featured in I Love You, Colonel Sanders, but it’s not the worst depression meal you could eat. To the company’s credit, most of the food is edible, and the chicken itself is actually pretty tasty thanks to that mystical blend of 11 herbs and spices. Rumor has it that it’s locked away in a vault somewhere in Kentucky.

In that time, I learned everything there was to know about serving fried chicken at one of two equally terrible KFC locations in Gilroy, California.Īlright, I didn’t learn everything, corporate was never going to tell us grunts what the secret recipe is. To put things in perspective, I worked at KFC for 2 years. kind of like I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator. After quitting KFC when I was 19, I never thought I’d be sitting at my computer nearly a decade later playing through a game where the main objective is to woo a young, “hot” version of Colonel Sanders.
