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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jess Molyneux

Liverpool's first KFC that sold chicken and chips for 47p

It's hard to believe it now - but decades ago fast food was an alien concept to what we now know of our Liverpool high streets.

It wasn't until the 1950s that British customers tried their first Wimpy burger and before McDonald's and Burger King chains followed in the 1970s, we got our first taste of American phenomenon KFC.

Predating the arrival of a number of fast food chains that are popular today, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the brainchild of Colonel Sanders, first arrived in the UK in 1965. The inaugural KFC restaurant opened in Preston in May 1965, with a cardboard cut-out of Colonel Sanders in the shop window, ready to welcome budding fried chicken fans, Lancs Live previously reported.

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