How Snopes increased my already high esteem

March 30, 2016

Snopes is one of my go-to resources for fact checking. They do a good job, and even more important, they document the bases on which they form their conclusions.

I've used them for years to check things that need checking. Because of my own personal biases these may be "ridiculously false" things that I get from conservative friends, or "too good to be true" ones from liberals.

Yes, my perceptions are biased, but I try to be an equal opportunity fact checker.

The other day a post I saw on G+ led me to this Snopes article:

The article claims that the name change was to get a healthier, more modern image, without the word "fried." But the real reason was:

Rather than submit to extortion, TCFKAKFC changed its name.

They even posted an update:

Good work by Snopes.

But let's not take their word. Go to the KFC web site. Right at the top it says "Kentucky Fried Chicken." To true. Yay.

But way down at the bottom of the original Snopes post there's this unusual thing:

Additional information:

Last updated: 17 May 2008

And if you click on the icon on their page, or the red text on this one, or here, you're led to another page, and THAT'S THE PAGE that revised my opinion of Snopes further upward.

(BTW the other references on the page are to articles that say, that the name and logo was changed for a more healthy image).